Posted on 11/26/2009 5:46:37 AM PST by Mozilla
A couple of aspiring reality-TV stars from Northern Virginia appear to have crashed the White House's state dinner Tuesday night, penetrating layers of security with no invitation to mingle with the likes of Vice President Biden and White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel.
Tareq and Michaele Salahi -- polo-playing socialites known for a bitter family feud over a Fauquier County winery and their possible roles in the forthcoming "The Real Housewives of Washington" -- were seen arriving at the White House and later posted on Facebook photos of themselves with VIPs at the elite gathering.
While the White House offered no official explanation, it appears to be the first time in modern history that anyone has crashed a White House state dinner. The uninvited guests were in the same room as President Obama, first lady Michelle Obama and Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, although it is unknown whether they met the Obamas and the guest of honor.
Later, they posted pictures that seem to chart their course through the night: Michaele posing with Marines outside near the White House doors, and with Katie Couric and Rep. Ed Royce (R-Calif.) inside the mansion. In the East Room, the Salahis both cozied up to D.C. Mayor Adrian Fenty and his wife, Michelle.
But the best was yet to come: Once inside the dinner tent, they got pictures that appeared to show them with ABC's Robin Roberts, Bollywood composer AR Rahman, PepsiCo CEO Indra Nooyi, Obama Chief of Staff Emanuel (identified as "Ron" in the couple's Facebook photo caption) and two with a grinning vice president. The photos end there -- no shots of the Salahis sitting at a table, their seatmates or the post-dinner entertainment.
Facebook photos suggest that the Salahis walked into the tent; it's unclear when they left.
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Here is the couples photo gallery from the evening:
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=125305&id=101907941877
Too funny...hopefully the guards were having some fun and giving the boss a bit of a payback.
Joe biden stated “They did a great job catering this great event.”
Guilty or not? How can we know?
The rules, the rules!
Heck, if they’d only had the smarts to wear a turbin and a burqa and carry a Koran they might have been given a seat at the O’s table.
This Doofus administration can’t even run a state dinner. God help us.
...there’s something about this that reminds me of the Balloon Boy episode...hustling to get that 15 minutes of fame.
Indeed! And as far as I'm concerned,
Bleached = Guilty.
Bet the carpet don’t match the drapes.
Maybe his name, Tareq Salahi, was enough to get them past security. Sounds Middle Eastern. Security might have thought he was a buddy of O’s.
Whether natural or out of a bottle, that is *so* blonde.
My BS meter is starting to peg out on this one...
I’m thinking this whole thing was orchestrated.
There is no way they just waltzed in there - “uninvited”
What a pile of crap.....just like obongo, only it doesn’t stink as bad.
I was honored to be invited to attend the First State Dinner hosted by President Obama & the First Lady to honor India. ...
Does that include Crissy Matthews?
KGB, I am thinking, these “socialite polo players” named Tareq Salahi.
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