Did Obama Plan to Replace Thanksgiving With ‘Celebrate Immigrants Day’? Right-wing radio provided the platform for a spurious claim.
It’s Time to Stop Sending Mail to ‘Any Wounded Soldier’ Seriously, even the Army says you need to be specific.
Were Millions of Turkeys Recalled in 2014 Because of an Avian Flu Outbreak? A "satirical" blog's post about a risk to Thanksgiving seemed less funny just a year later.
Did Hillary Clinton ‘Cut in Line’ for Thanksgiving Dinner with Troops in Afghanistan? Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s November 2003 visit to U.S. troops in Afghanistan was spun into a fanciful tale of liberal pique online, framed in some iterations as a concerned email from an actual veteran. Clinton, who was a senator representing New York state at the time, did indeed visit Bagram Air Base on […]
Were Butterball Turkeys Sold in the United States ‘Blessed by Allah’? An anti-Muslim blogger used Thanksgiving to spin a tale about "Islamic slaughter," which now reappears in myriad forms almost annually.
Did Best Buy Release a Holiday Shopping Ad With a Greeting for Muslim Shoppers? A November 2009 ad led to right-wing complaints that the tech store chain was "ignoring" Christmas.
