Bizarrely, some conservatives viewed the existence of HuffPost’s article as a personal attack on them, and they wildly distorted its message in airing their complaints.

On November 7, Fox News’ Fox & Friends ran a segment about the article in which co-host Ainsley Earhardt claimed that it was “telling America cancel Thanksgiving because of the carbon footprint, telling you not to travel to see family, don’t eat meat, eat veggies.”

“I get tired of people that has lived their life and have ate meat telling others not to eat meat. Don’t tell us what we can and cannot eat,” said guest Lynette Hardaway, better known as “Diamond” of Fox Nation’s Diamond and Silk. “If you have a problem with climate change, stop driving cars, ride on your horse to work, you do everything you can to fix the climate, but don’t infringe upon my right to have Thanksgiving with my family.”

The HuffPost article, it should be noted, was framing this discussion as a personal choice, something Hardaway may have agreed with had she read it. While Emanuelli includes suggestions from experts that include limiting travel, contrary to the conservative narrative, she is clearly not arguing in favor of forcing people to cancel Thanksgiving. Fox & Friends’ unwillingness to accurately describe the article was part of a much larger trend on the right.

Tucker Carlson falsely claimed that the article was “demanding that you cancel Thanksgiving dinner” during the November 7 edition of Fox News' Tucker Carlson Tonight, and on the morning of November 8, a Fox & Friends First segment bemoaned that “cancel culture has turned on the holiday.”

“Liberals are coming for your Thanksgiving turkey!” said co-host Greg Gutfeld during the November 6 edition of Fox News’ The Five, teasing an upcoming segment discussing the HuffPost article in front of a giant “War on Thanksgiving” graphic.

The story was even mentioned during the November 5 edition of Fox News @ Night with Shannon Bream, ostensibly a “straight news” show, sandwiched between news items about partisan newspaper endorsements and supposed anti-conservative bias in tech.

“Social media exploded with ridicule and vituperation after a Huffington Post article proposed cancelling the beloved national holiday of Thanksgiving over its carbon footprint,” read a seemingly thesaurus-assisted article at TheBlaze pushing the cancellation canard.

The Daily Wire ran an article accusing HuffPost of trying to “guilt” people out of participating in the holiday, rattling off a list of things neither said nor implied by the article: