Little known fact...they were planning to make their getaway in a giant homemade mylar balloon.

These people are so full of shiat my TV stinks.

How this continues to be a story amazes me.

The CIA farked up. Someone will lose his or her job. Security will increase at all events. Can we move on?

Personally, I think NBC is keeping the story alive on purpose - leading with it practically every day since it happened - for the publicity that they're generating for the show she's involved with on Bravo or whatever network it's on. NBC owns Bravo. Great way to jack up the ratings.

You make the Secret Service look like asses and piss off the First Lady? You got a jailin' in your future.

Demetrius: The CIA farked up. Someone will lose his or her job. Security will increase at all events. Can we move on?

The CIA are spies. The FBI are federal cops. The Secret Service handles Presidential security....and counterfeiting (don't ask, they started as a Treasury security division).

Secret Service, not CIA. I'm a dumbass.

Demetrius: Secret Service, not CIA. I'm a dumbass.

Nah, you just made a mistake.

These are dumbasses:

I just heard them say that they WERE invited.

By whom? Where are their invitations?

what_now: I just heard them say that they WERE invited.

By whom? Where are their invitations?

On the news last night, I'm gathering they had requested an invitation and some lady was not able to get it approved...

Yeah, my mind is a sponge

Wow, not only did they get to go to the White House, they got to be on Matt Lauer.

On the next episode of Party Crashers, Tareq and Michaele Salahi crash Falcon Heene's birthday!

what_now: I just heard them say that they WERE invited.

By whom? Where are their invitations?

Obviously, Republican Jesus invited them.

/Nothing else makes any sense.

what_now: I just heard them say that they WERE invited.

By whom? Where are their invitations?

These two questions are something I'm not too interested in or worried about.

Now, is the secret service properly handling security for a President with 4x the death threats of his predecessor? If so how did these two get in? And if they WERE invited, why does the SS not have a record of it?

Tick, tick, tick... Your 15 minutes of fame is up. You may now get a job and get a life.

Demetrius: How this continues to be a story amazes me.

The CIA farked up. Someone will lose his or her job. Security will increase at all events. Can we move on?

Personally, I think NBC is keeping the story alive on purpose - leading with it practically every day since it happened - for the publicity that they're generating for the show she's involved with on Bravo or whatever network it's on. NBC owns Bravo. Great way to jack up the ratings.

Gross.

hipgnostic: On the next episode of Party Crashers, Tareq and Michaele Salahi crash Falcon Heene's birthday!

Tareq? Falcon? Doesn't anyone have a normal name these days?

How come gun crazed wackos never go after the right people?

Tareq Salahi sound like a terrorist name.

RockIsDead: How come gun crazed wackos never go after the right people?

They generally do, with the very last shot.

Does anyone think they would have gotten in if they were any other ethnicity other than white? I think not.

...an interview for which I'm sure they were quite well compensated.

Stop giving them money and attention.

Mad Scientist: hipgnostic: On the next episode of Party Crashers, Tareq and Michaele Salahi crash Falcon Heene's birthday!

Tareq? Falcon? Doesn't anyone have a normal name these days?

It's easier to get on TV with a strange name.

The news will not stop, because CNN, FOX, and whoever else get higher ratings when they show them. I assure you, if the audiance wanted meaningful news analysis, CNN would damned well show it. We have ourselves to blame for this crap being so pervasive.

Friction Tape: Does anyone think they would have gotten in if they were any other ethnicity other than white? I think not.

Yeah, because all the people I know named Tareq are lily-white WASPs.

You jackass...

/unimpressed

She's pretty hot.

Broz_Tito: Tareq Salahi sound like a terrorist name.

Verily 'tis time to create an Event Watch List that we can add names to any time we like, and they can never leave.

what_now: I just heard them say that they WERE invited.

By whom? Where are their invitations?

I love their reply about how the important thing is that they are working closely with the Secret Service to figure all of this out. Then they cry about how the ridicule has "destroyed" their lives.

Broz_Tito: Tareq Salahi sound like a terrorist name.

Even if he were a terrorist obama would not be in any danger. Terrorists don't attack their allies.

They have to keep reporting on something. If they didn't have these people it would be some other non-story. Otherwise they would have to report on all of obama's failures.

Anyone else notice his wiki page says he has an army or Richard Simmons robots?
Which farker added that?

Farkin sloppy of the Secret Service to allow an unauthorized Arab to get near President Obama. Especially so soon after Fort Hood. They know he gets more threats than the last couple presidents combined.

Couldn't you charge them with tresspassing on a federal facility?

I hope they make an example of these two, I think a few months in federal prison would be appropriate.
These reality show idiots have to be kicked in the nuts really hard in order for them to get the message.

Leonard_Cohen: Couldn't you charge them with tresspassing on a federal facility?

I hope they make an example of these two, I think a few months in federal prison would be appropriate.
These reality show idiots have to be kicked in the nuts really hard in order for them to get the message.

Shhh, don't give them ideas for a new show.

/Ouch! My Balls!

Leonard_Cohen: Couldn't you charge them with tresspassing on a federal facility?

I hope they make an example of these two, I think a few months in federal prison would be appropriate.
These reality show idiots have to be kicked in the nuts really hard in order for them to get the message.


Great, Real Housewives of Club Fed.

Hypocritic_Oath: Anyone else notice his wiki page says he has an army or Richard Simmons robots?
Which farker added that?

Gone before I could get a screenshot. :(

Send them to Gitmo.

The positive media attention, they like. The stuff where the WaPo reports on how they haven't paid HOA fees ... ever... and are generally deadbeats and owe money all over? Yeah, not so much.

Philip J. Fry: what_now: I just heard them say that they WERE invited.

By whom? Where are their invitations?

These two questions are something I'm not too interested in or worried about.

Now, is the secret service properly handling security for a President with 4x the death threats of his predecessor? If so how did these two get in? And if they WERE invited, why does the SS not have a record of it?

Something crazy is going on here. The Secret Service are security guys, not doormen (doorwomen). One pundit who worked at the While House put it "They aren't bouncers - the social office should have handled this". In other words, the Secret Service was concentrating on no one having a gun/bomb, not who was on the official guest list. The WH social office should have caught them well before they got in. Since these two (likely) don't have criminal records, no red flags would have gone up anyway if the Secret Service did do a last minute check on them.

My theory is that someone who thought they could get them in tried, failed, and is denying it so they don't lose their jobs. The Secret Service will "take the hit for the team" and not play petty office politics if they are blamed.

/Plus, local news mentioned they did have ties to India. they helped host the Indian polo team a while back (correct? don't know). So there is a chance people assumed they were just missing from a list, but would likely have been invited.

We haff infitations.

I think a lot of farkers are being too hard on this couple. If you never crashed a party then you lead a boring life. As for crashing a white house party, that is a huge score and I say bravo!

As far as a breach of the law... I am not convinced they violated the law. From everything I have read, no one stopped them to see if they were on the guest list. The couple did not misrepresent themselves or create and/or use counterfeit invitations.

Had security done its job they would have been stopped at the gate. Embarrassing security, even if they are members of the federal government, does not automatically mean the couple are criminals.

Finally, it is actually a good thing that this occurred. Clearly, those charged with protecting the white house, the first family, and foreign guests screwed up. Had this harmless couple not made their way into a "secure" area, this gap in security may not have been made known leaving open a serious security flaw that could have been exploited by someone who is not so harmless. Love or hate this couple, the white house surly is more secured today for them crashing the party.

Apparently, she has also showed up to a Skins cheerleader reunion and got in pretending to be an alumni. Why are these people being treated as anything other than petty grifters?

Whatever dude. I call BULLSHIAT. They "claim" they were invited but they weren't on the guest list. AND they for some reason left as people were getting seated for dinner. Now, if you were invited for a dinner, why in the hell would you leave just as guests are getting seated for said "dinner"? Sounds like the music ran out and they new they didn't have seats to sit in.

Incidentally, did anyone actually see the interview with Matt Lauer? I'm curious if anyone puked into a Tupperware container.

/Hm?...what...?

Their wiki page reads like a rap sheet.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tareq_Salahi

Attention whores get attention, news at 10, 1, 9 3, 5 and a special at noon

TFA: Before last week the couple weren't known in Washington social circles, and records show that Tareq Sahali gave just $1,600 in political contributions over the past nine years.

Wow... I mean, we all know it's a fact of life that you don't get in good with politicians unless you have deep pockets, but it's pretty staggering to see it laid bare like that.

*fingers in ears*

holeinthedonut: Attention whores get attention, news at 10, 1, 9 3, 5 and a special at noon

I like the clocks in your world.

ichiban: ...an interview for which I'm sure they were quite well compensated.

Stop giving them money and attention.

I'll say it again,

from the other thread on these jackasses

IAMTHEINTARWEBS: Attention Whores and Trolls,
The only solution is to NOT FEED THEM!

I'm surprised that there's no mention of how they helped Glenn Beck rape and murder a girl back in 1990.