Posted on 11/29/2009 6:23:45 AM PST by truthandlife
While hand-wringing continues in the White House and among Secret Service officials over an alleged gate-crashing of a state dinner, it appears Michaele and Tareq Salahi had met with Barack Obama previously when he served as a U.S. senator.
Yet, a June 2005 photo from Polo Contacts Worldwide shows the Salahis with Obama at a pre-event to America's Polo Cup. Others in the photo include American Idol's Randy Jackson and members of the rock group Black Eyed Peas.
Salahi is a former board member of the American Task Force on Palestine.
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We here at Free Republic have known, for at least 24 hours, that the Party Crashers are friends of Obama and have been for at least 5 years.
How is that not the story? I mean, shouldn't Fox be asking questions about this relationship and giving it light using their media power?
The news must stop this lame story. We know that there a minimum of 3 challenges that take place before you even enter the White House. There are an additional 3 to 4 challenges as you go through the White House and into the tent.
Once in the tent, the SS has a list of those allowed to co-opt Barry O.’s time and what that maximum face time is. All else are excluded.
Barry O. is a busy guy and he can't have all 300 people approaching him and those that do must be friends, family and those with an agenda to the State.
There is now way the Party Crashers got face time with Barry O. unless they fit the criteria. They even got Photos with hugs of Joe Biden and Rahm Emanuel.
How? Well, they are friends of Barry O. and he personally cleared them.
Barry O. cleared his friends to enter with a camera crew? Yep and that is a higher level of security risk. Who the hell enters a State dinner with a film crew?
Now the crew could have been just one guy or two, at most. However, said crew would not be on the list and they are not only an additional risk, requiring further screening to ensure their equipment does not contain covert C4 or a gun in the camera but, they are an additional cost to the party.
You don't really expect additional people, who finding themselves in the White House, wouldn't take some hors devours and a drink or two, do you?
Bottom line, this is a lame news story to pump the show the friends of Barry O. will be in. It is shameful the White House is engaged in media promotion of a show. Doesn't seem like an interest of the State.
It is also silly and bewildering the media continue to promote the story of Barry O.’s friends as Party Crashers.
“Fox News”, stop this silly story or expose it for what it is or become irrelevant. We know you are doing what you can to garner favor with Barry O. for interviews but this is not how gain eyes on your Ads. We just turn the challenge when the story comes on.
Someone tell Fox News that they need to drop the story or give light to the relationship.
“Salahi is a former board member of the American Task Force on Palestine.”
That’s all we need to know. He’s never going to jail, there will be no fine, and he will make millions off his publicity.
Narcissists are disgusting.
I smelled a rat as soon as I heard this story. They didn’t crash it. They had permission. The question is who gave them permission. The SS will take the fall for this.
We here at FR have known a lot of things that FOX won’t use to bolster their ratings. Murdock knows where his bread and butter comes from.
Do not be deceived. It’s about money and ratings, not about the full, complete and unadulterated truth.
Dang, it’s hard to get away with anything these gays.
I don’t know. I was hoping someone else would.
The Barry administration makes Clinton’s administration look amateurish.
I think the whole thing was a roos to give US security a black eye to make a mockery of!
I would not be surprised if a major staffer and hollywood who are behind this stunt and this is why Peter King NY is investigating to expose this charade!
We are in the stage of Lamentations nothing new under the sun!
There is the flag thing and another round one. He seems to wear them most of the time since there are there at 2 separate events. Anyone know what that flag and round thing is?
Well orchestrated Hollywood production.
Manufactured crisis and predictably overblown by the MSM.He probably wanted a few secret service agents out of there. This is could also be a warm up for his very own Reichstag crisis.
Y’ALL GET A LOAD OF THIS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! He’s been scrubbed from their website....but it’s in the cache.
The husband is on the board of directors for The American Task Force on Palestine! Holy crap!
Someone PLEASE get a screen shot of this!
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