Last month, I did a blog entry looking at how the US Chamber of Commerce was going into contortions over climate change. Its members were leaving, claiming the chamber had become irrelevant.
Now the Chamber is discovering there is nowhere to hide. It’s Facebook site is getting hammered by critics. For instance, check these comments.
“Does the “new coalition of leading employer associations representing hundreds of thousands of businesses of all sizes” in reality represent only Thousands? How can you expect to have any credibility when you lie, inflating the number of members you have tenfold?”
“How can you expect to have any credibilty when you say you have 3 million members when you only have about 300,000?”
“You lie about your membership = I don’t believe anything you say!”br />
“Stop lying about your members. The Chamber doesn’t represent anywhere near 3 million businesses…. and STOP deleting our wall messages and comments. Do you really think deleting these comments are going to make the issues magically disappear, as contepts disappear in Orvell’s (sic) “1984″ by just eliminating words and phrases from books, articles, dictionaries etc? You really do look like spoiled kids, desperate to see their toys taken away and shared with the others.”
“The spirit of taking advantage of others! The spirit of denying others the ability to see a doctor. The spirit of greed. And the spirit of lying: the “Chamber” doesn’t represent anywhere near 3 million businesses. And keep that head in that ever-warming sand!”
In this socially networked world, the Chamber is running out of places to hide.
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