Hey patriots, how was your Thanksgiving? Did anything catch on fire? Did your relatives spend the entire meal yelling about Sarah Palin and/or ACORN?

Did any D-list socialites crash your dinner, prompting a Secret Service inquiry and consternation on the part of Evan Bayh?

Bayh, D-Ind., compared the [White House state dinner] crashing of Michaele and Tareq Salahi to would-be bomber Richard Reid, whose attempt to blow up an airplane by lighting explosives in his shoes led to travelers having to remove their footwear at security checks in U.S. airports.

"These folks could be like the — what is the name, Richard Reid, who changed the way everybody travels through the airports because of this one guy. This couple may change the way people go to the White House," said Bayh, who is scheduled to go to the White House on Wednesday.

"I'm kind of wondering what I'm going to be facing to get into the White House this time. It's probably going to be a lot stricter than it has been," he told "Fox News Sunday."

Yes, Evan, but maybe that's because you went on national TV to draw a just-waiting-to-be-misconstrued parallel between a pair of party crashers and a notorious domestic terrorist, which will trigger a talk show chorus of "Barack Obama's administration would gladly invite Richard Reid over for a barbecue" in about as much time as it took me to eat the last piece of pumpkin pie.

This is probably a metaphor for something or other.

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See also: The Daily Show's Best Thanksgiving Moments on The CC Insider.

Hmmmm… I'm suspicious about the President's motivations. I'll bet he really pardoned this bird because the Koran forbids the eating of turkey. (Does the Koran forbid the eating of turkey? It probably says something like that somewhere in there.)

See also: Biden Pardons Single Yam in Vice Presidential Thanksgiving Ritual

…in this exclusive outtake of Better Know a District with the congressperson from California's 12th district.

So, so sad. As it turns out, Glenn Beck, Sarah Palin, Rush Limbaugh and all of Tea Bag America were no match for the political corruption juggernaut that is ACORN.

Alas, NY-23's congressional seat has slipped from the grasp of Doug Hoffman — who had just recently un-conceded — once again…

[A]s absentee ballots were tallied, it quickly became clear that Hoffman had no shot at victory in the initial count, and probably couldn't win a challenge, either. So on Tuesday he conceded one last time.

In a statement noticeably free of the accusations of theft and fraud that had accompanied his un-concession, Hoffman said: "Yesterday, the remaining ballots were counted in the 23rd Congressional District special election. The results re-affirm the fact that Bill Owens won."

It doesn't surprise me that he didn't call out ACORN in his (second) concession speech. They have agents everywhere. Everywhere! Hoffman doesn't want to wind up with a poison dart in his neck, does he?

As Dennis reported on Monday, ex-talking head Lou Dobbs is pondering a run in the 2012 GOP primaries, unless Chewbacca has an edge in the polls. In which case there's always a third party and the U.S. Senate…

Mr. Dobbs, who left [CNN] last week, has said in recent days that he is considering a third-party run for a New Jersey Senate seat in 2012, or possibly for president.

Remember, Hispanic and Latino people make up 16% of New Jersey's population, so it's a good thing Lou Dobbs has such strong feelings about immigrant communities…

In a little-noticed interview Friday, Mr. Dobbs told Spanish-language network Telemundo he now supports a plan to legalize millions of undocumented workers, a stance he long lambasted as an unfair "amnesty."

"Whatever you have thought of me in the past, I can tell you right now that I am one of your greatest friends and I mean for us to work together," he said in a live interview with Telemundo's Maria Celeste. [...] Mr. Dobbs twice mentioned a possible legalization plan for the estimated 12 million illegal immigrants in the U.S., saying at one point that "we need the ability to legalize illegal immigrants under certain conditions."

Hmm. What's the Spanish for "Lou Dobbs is an immigrant's friend"? Let's run this through Google Translate, for those of us who only speak American…

…ah yes, here it is: "Lou Dobbs es un hipócrita patético."