Who says you can’t crash an exclusive White House party?
A screen capture of a photo posted to Facebook after Tuesday night’s state dinner.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 Joe Biden and Rahm Emanuel.
Tareq and Michaele Salahi – polo-playing socialites best 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 what appeared to be photos of themselves with VIPs at the elite gathering.
“Honored to be at the White House for the state dinner in honor of India with President Obama and our First Lady!” one of them wrote on their joint Facebook page at 9:08 p.m.
Tareq and Michaele Salahi at Tuesday night’s state dinner. (Bill O’Leary/The Washington Post)But a White House official said the couple was not invited to the dinner, not included on the official guest list, and were never seated at a table in the South Lawn tent.
There’s no down side to dressing up: it just might get you into the White House.
– Gautam Dutta
It’s also a wake-up call for the Secret Service.
Left by Quan on November 29th, 2009