Washington, DC
Due to the need not to upset the turkey vote for upcoming legislation, White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel today announced that Thanksgiving this year is canceled.
The blogosphere predictably erupted with controversy.
Today, the blogosphere erupted in charges and counter charges about whether Rahm Emanuel canceled Thanksgiving, whether conservadems wet their pants, and whether it is all a Clinton plot to take over the last non-corporate holiday.
One blogger claimed that if the Clintons were involved, even through Emanuel, you can bet it's a plot of some kind. At uber liberal Daily KOS, there were diary battles across the recommended list all day.
"Thanksgiving is traditionally not a political, or corporate holiday", one diary claimed. "Nonsense!", said another. Once Emanuel's name was mentioned, everyone forgot that the argument was about health care.
Furious commenters switched back and forth to do battle with one another, then switched sides and diaries and started all over again. Allegiances were formed, broken, re-formed, then dissolved.
Predictably, one diarist mentioned we should eat less meat. Of course, a copycat diary sprung up to say that no one should eat, or even smell meat. Then meta diaries sprang up by the twos, parodying Rahm Emanuel diaries.
Staying above the fray was Nada Lemming, eminent anthropologist and humanitarian. "OK, I did call somebody a bot, but he TOTALLY deserved it."
"It was a slow news day." said Markos Moulitsas, or whatever a diarist calls himself these days.
In other news, the health care debate is far from over.
Update: In other, other news, who woulda thunk that THIS would be my first recommended diary?