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White House State Dinner Party Crashers
ABC.news.com ^ | November 25, 2009

Posted on 11/25/2009 8:06:39 PM PST by khnyny

It’s one of the most secure places on earth, but two Washington area socialites and reality TV wannabes were apparently able to get behind the gates at the White House and mingle with the crowd at the State Dinner in honor of India last night.

The Washington Post has the dish on Tareq and Michaele Salahi, below:

The First Lady’s office told ABC they would have no comment on the crashers and referred all inquiries to the Secret Service.

Secret Service spokesman Ed Donovan confirms that the agency is looking “into a report that two individuals not on the guest list were in the event.”

They sure were. The Post has pictures from Michaele Salahi’s Facebook page that clearly show the two in pictures with attendees at the state dinner and there is video of the two on the red carpet inside the White House grounds.

(Excerpt) Read more at blogs.abcnews.com ...


TOPICS: Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bhostatedinner; bloggersandpersonal; crashers; diplomaticincident; india; michaelesalahi; salahi; securitybreach; singh; statedinner; statedinnerczars; tareqsalahi; usss; whitehouse
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To: khnyny

Has Obama hired NOI to run security?


21 posted on 11/25/2009 8:39:33 PM PST by ricks_place
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To: Jen

Look at her chummy photo with the VP: http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=2806771&id=101907941877#/photo.php?pid=2806770&id=101907941877&fbid=183864396877


22 posted on 11/25/2009 8:39:48 PM PST by PghBaldy (James Earl Ray was just stressed when he killed Martin Luther King Jr.)
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To: Conscience of a Conservative
This picture,

and his name is enough for me. Sorry, but I'm sick of the PC.

23 posted on 11/25/2009 8:40:41 PM PST by buccaneer81 (ECOMCON)
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To: ricks_place
Has Obama hired NOI to run security?

Were they wearing bow ties?

24 posted on 11/25/2009 8:43:56 PM PST by buccaneer81 (ECOMCON)
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To: ricks_place
Has Obama hired NOI to run security?

This may serve as pretext for doing so.

25 posted on 11/25/2009 8:46:03 PM PST by fso301
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To: PghBaldy
Way to go Joey Biden!

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26 posted on 11/25/2009 8:57:18 PM PST by vox_freedom (America is being tested as never before in its history. May God help us.)
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To: vox_freedom
And way to go Katie. She is so ... well, perky.

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27 posted on 11/25/2009 9:11:43 PM PST by vox_freedom (America is being tested as never before in its history. May God help us.)
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To: vox_freedom

Joey Biden FTW!!


28 posted on 11/25/2009 9:19:49 PM PST by BigSkyFreeper ("The Community Organizer better stop bitching that the community is organizing." - Rush Limbaugh)
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To: khnyny

Rove, you magnificent bastard!


29 posted on 11/25/2009 9:20:08 PM PST by granite ("We dare not tempt them with weakness" - JFK)
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To: BigSkyFreeper
They even attended a polo match with Prince Charles:

 

30 posted on 11/25/2009 9:22:43 PM PST by BigSkyFreeper ("The Community Organizer better stop bitching that the community is organizing." - Rush Limbaugh)
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To: Jen
Oh, there is a very funny photo (caption, actually) of Rahm Emanuel, Michaele and Tareq.

Michaele can't spell, for sure. Calls the guy "Ron" Emanuel.

Ditzy blonde?

31 posted on 11/25/2009 9:32:43 PM PST by onemiddleamerican (FUBO - and all your terrorist buddies, too!)
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To: khnyny

India’s last few Prime Ministers have been “taken down” by some crazy people who “got into the inner perimeter”, so I would imagine they are rather sensitive about this breach when Manmohan Singh was there. I would imagine the Obama WH, being such dolts and amateurs on the international diplomacy and security scene as it is, will have either no excuse or will just laugh it off. I sense a SNL skit in the making.


32 posted on 11/25/2009 9:59:19 PM PST by AmericanInTokyo ( Palin's new autobiography: "Going Rogue". Obama's new autobiography: "Going Khmer Rouge".)
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To: Conscience of a Conservative

Could be a Palestinian Christian. There are a few of those around. And some of them are in fact anti-Israeli. Who knows? The guy was born in the D.C. area apparantly. Not so sure about her.


33 posted on 11/25/2009 10:00:48 PM PST by AmericanInTokyo ( Palin's new autobiography: "Going Rogue". Obama's new autobiography: "Going Khmer Rouge".)
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To: khnyny

When I was in college, I had a part time job in Century City, CA, and the night Ronald Reagan was elected, I walked down the steps of my building and told the first stranger I saw that night that we had a new President. He was also a young person and said, “Yeah, I’m going to go see him right now. Wanna come?”

We walked across the boulevard and went into the bowels of the Century Plaza Hotel, where, in front of the Grand Ballroom, security men were checking people’s tickets. My new companion saw that one needed tickets to go in, and got creative. We went over to the side a few feet, he took out a couple of pieces of notebook paper out of his backpack and folded them to look like tickets. He put these into his front pocket and we attempted to go in through the ballroom door, with him gesturing briefly to his “tickets” as we passed “security.”

We were very early for the election night party, so we moved to the front of the standing room only area, only a few feet from the stage, and were later able to see Ronald Reagan accept his win. We were just students carrying big, bulky backpacks filled with books, but I’d like to think they would not have let us through if we had been terrorists with bags full of explosives.


34 posted on 11/25/2009 10:02:43 PM PST by Yaelle
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To: khnyny

Such BS.

No one can just “crash” a party the Obamas set up.

There is something they’re not telling us.


35 posted on 11/25/2009 10:04:46 PM PST by Tzimisce (No thanks. We have enough government already. - The Tick)
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To: Conscience of a Conservative

For anyone to get into the White House these days, you have to be on a list. To get on the list you have to have someone who works on the inside of the White House complex clear you in with your social security number and date of birth. The secret service then runs a background check on you, puts you on the list, and you go through a heavy security process to even access the White House compound.

What obviously happened here was someone from inside the White House (friend? client? ambassador?) cleared them onto the list, and they snuck into the party probably pretending to have lost their invitations.


36 posted on 11/25/2009 10:10:25 PM PST by Karma Police (Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition!!!)
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To: Tzimisce
Seeing as they screwed up on the shameful bowing before the Emperor in Japan, and now in going over the official White House list, that a White House Official told journalist Jim Fallows on the Atlantic just several days ago that Obama was in a "funny" jacket when at the APEC group photo in Singapore (hint, nothing funny at all about it to Singaporeans as it was their national dress for men), and now I spot a misspelling of the last name of one of the guests for the State Dinner, etc. etc., these amateurish idiots cannot do ANYTHING right when it comes to anything at the intersection of Quality Control and Diplomacy. What makes you think they were "in on it"? I think it is blatant imcompetence, probably peppered with political correctness.

Now think of all the other goofballs that are going to try this to see if they can get away with it.

37 posted on 11/25/2009 10:33:31 PM PST by AmericanInTokyo ( Palin's new autobiography: "Going Rogue". Obama's new autobiography: "Going Khmer Rouge".)
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To: Karma Police

But their names were not on the list.


38 posted on 11/25/2009 10:34:11 PM PST by AmericanInTokyo ( Palin's new autobiography: "Going Rogue". Obama's new autobiography: "Going Khmer Rouge".)
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To: vox_freedom

In a way, mortifying. In a way, hilarious.


39 posted on 11/25/2009 10:37:48 PM PST by john in springfield (One has to belong to the intelligentsia to believe such things.No ordinary man could be such a fool.)
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To: Yaelle

Whoa! Cool, but all the same ...whoa!


40 posted on 11/25/2009 11:11:25 PM PST by spetznaz (Nuclear-tipped Ballistic Missiles: The Ultimate Phallic Symbol)
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