(thehill.com) President Obama’s social secretary quipped that she regularly let event crashers into White House gatherings — months before two reality-TV wannabes waltzed into last week’s state dinner.
Desiree Rogers claimed in an interview with the trade magazine BizBash at the Creative Coalition’s annual meeting in June that she had added extra tables and benches at every event to accommodate uninvited guests.
“Lots of people just come anyways,” she said. “They won’t take no for an answer. Finally, I just said, ‘All right, come on in. It’s no use kicking you out.’ ”
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We here in the blogosphere may believe that mainstream media is going the way of the dinosaur, but this nearly extinct creature has proven once again that it still has the power to influence.
It has been interesting watching as folks all across the net bought into the sheer absurdity that two unknowns just showed up a party at the White House. We’re not talking about Animal house, or Martin’s house (from the movie “House Party”, or even Mitch’s house (from the movie “Ol Skool”). We are talking about supposedly one of the most secure places in the United States. When the news first came out about these so-called crashers, I immediately told someone that the media is labeling them “crashers” simply because the media did not know that they were coming–not because of some oversight by the Secret Service.
From that point on, bloggers all over the net ran with the “crashers” template and it has taken a life of its own. By the time it reached the Black part of E-Town, folks were saying that if these crashers had been Black, they would not have made it past the gate. Well, they are White and managed to sneak inside a recent CBC dinner only to have reportedly be thrown out later.
It just so happens that the chairman and CEO of GE (which is also owns Bravo, which will be producing the show “The Real Housewives of D.C.) — the show Michaele Salahi (co-crasher) was also in attendance.
But they just waltzed into the White House without a hitch. Yeah, right. The hitch’s name was Immelt. And Desiree Rogers knew all about it.
Update: Boo! Black folks are afraid again (according to the media). Never mind history.
