The couple, Tareq and Michaele Salahi, who crashed the Obamas’ first State Dinner last week are exhibit A for how grownups are dumbing deviancy down in their insidious quest for instant fame on reality TV.
Because all indications are that this whole farce was concocted by these two nincompoops as an audition to appear on the reality TV program The Real Housewives of D.C.
I’ve seen an episode of one of these now franchised programs (The Real Housewives of New Jersey). And they amount to nothing more than a gaggle of self-absorbed women acting out scripted scenes from their nouveau-riche lives, exhibiting all of the intelligence, talent and class of water buffalos rolling around in mud.
This is why it seemed perfectly sensible to these two wannabes to crash this White House dinner, with reality TV cameras rolling, for the sole purpose of sucking up to celebrities to notch pictures on their Facebook page the way kids do to notch signatures in their autograph books.
But the real story here is not their idle-minded antics or even the culture that breeds and rewards such superficial ambitions. Rather it is the surreal and unpardonable lapse in security that enabled these star stalkers to sneak into the White House.
Let us pray that as Obama begins to look more and more like the truly inevitable Democratic nominee (and the next president of the United States), his Secret Service bodyguards will redouble their efforts to protect him. Because the last thing America needs right now is another assassination that triggers all of the lost hope and incendiary rage of the killing of John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy, and Martin Luther King Jr… combined!
[Hillary wins New Hampshire; Defies pundits, but not her ill-fated destiny, TIJ, January 9, 2008]
Clearly, his Secret Service bodyguards have not taken heed. In fact they don’t even seem to fully appreciate that there but for the grace of God went two al-Qaeda terrorists waltzing pass their much vaunted security right up in the face of the president. And how do you suppose this makes Obama’s guest of honor, Indian PM Manmohan Singh, feel…?
Mind you, I think casting the Salahis as harmless party crashers is a mistake. After all, they exhibited potentially dangerous passive-aggressive delusions on the TODAY show on Tuesday as they were muttering on about their invitation that was evidently lost in email transmissions between themselves and a far too polite staffer at the Pentagon.
Frankly, I don’t understand why the Secret Service isn’t using all of its power to put this couple in jail, instead of issuing press releases about how embarrassed it is by the whole thing. But l really HOPE this is a wake-up call for this agency.
Meanwhile, the Salahis are adding insult to this national farce by peddling interviews to extend their 15 minutes of fame.
In fact, their only real punishment was to be meted out today at a congressional hearing during which moronic, publicity-seeking congressmen were expected to tell these two fauxlebrities what publicity-seeking morons they are. Unfortunately, the Salahis’ lawyer won them a reprieve….
God save the president!
NOTE: Have you heard there’s a controversial healthcare debate going on in the US Senate…?
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