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A tale about an avenging Budweiser employee that first surfaced on the Internet around 20 September 2001 was but one of the innumerable celebrating Arabs tales that circulated in the wake of the 9/11 attacks that year: Variations of the same rumor type, about Arab employees caught celebrating on the 11th as they watched the events of the day unfold, has been aimed at countless businesses, both big and small. Authorities checked into many such stories and found nothing to them, however the negative effect such slanders have had on the businesses named in them is enormous. (Another article here details a few of these rumors, making specific mention of the ones aimed at Dunkin' Donuts and National Liquidators.) The Budweiser version is every bit as much a fiction as all the rest of this genre. The events described above never happened, said Dennis Muleady, marketing director for Advance Beverage of Bakersfield, the Budweiser distributor for the McFarland area. As well, a query to Anheuser-Busch produced the following response:
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