D.C. bar says “drink like a [sic] Indian” to promote Thanksgiving party

This story was filed on December 6, 2012

McFadden’s is no stranger to being linked with bad decisions. (Go ahead, look through the bar’s Facebook gallery of party photos and hope against hope you aren’t in any of them.) So it shouldn’t be totally surprising that the West End bar is being roundly slammed for making one really, really bad decision about how to promote its upcoming Thanksgiving party.

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