What will be this year's August Silly Season story?

[bluestateguy]

The debt ceiling is done for better or worse.

So what will be the non-story that the bored news media latches onto and won't let go of until Labor Day?

In the past years we had:

2001: Shark attacks
2004: The Swift Boat Liars
2005: Cindy Sheehanapalooza
2008: Manufactured drama about Hillary Clinton voters not supporting Obama/PUMAs
2009: Town Hall August (you should know what that means)
2010: The "Ground Zero Mosque"

and in 2011? Well, your guess is as good as mine.

[bigwillq]

1. The debt ceiling (nt)

[FLAprogressive]

5. +1

[maryellen99]

2. The only one I can think of

Kim Kardashian's wedding-she's getting married on August 20.

[Chipper Chat]

3. Casey Knox

Or is it Amanda Anthony?

[Leopolds Ghost]

4. "Cindy Sheehanapalooza" is what made it OK to oppose the Iraq war.

It was not considered OK in 2004 to even oppose the war or question its legitimacy.

[divvy]

6. There won't be one. Republican media wants to rub our nose into their win.

[bluestateguy]

7. I'm not seeing any candidates yet

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