The Salahi Brouhaha

So the mainstream media is in an uproar over over the Salahi's crashing the White House State Dinner. The fact that two brainless Senators appeared on a Faux News talking heads show to demand the couple's scalps only reinforces in my mind that this is much ado about nothing. I quite agree with Michael Russnow when he says:

    "Crashing a party, even at The White House, does not rise to the level of a federal crime, so much as indicate dismay that the officials in charge were not able to keep the riff raff out. I’m not pooh-poohing the necessity to keep all of our First Families and thus the well being of our nation secure. However, I’m saying what the Salahis did was a rather remarkable achievement, but no more a cause for alarm than if they had achieved the same result at a dinner attended by President Obama at the Waldorf-Astoria."

I don't agree with everything that the Right Reverend Lainie Dowell has to say, but I do agree with these sentiments:

    I am still laughing every time I see the photo flashed on the TV screen showing Michaele Salahi and her husband, Tareq, posing with noted political dignitaries and journalists like they belong. And, no doubt they do. After all, they were introduced and presented to Obama for the well-circulated photo session. Just look at that wide grin on Obama’s face! (Forgive me if I forego the usual blonde jokes)

    How could anybody feel so comfortable coming in off the street and getting close enough to Vice President Joe Biden, place her hand on his chest, turn to the cameras, and smile? Where was Dr. Jill? Wouldn’t you think somebody would stop short of snapping that picture and tell Michaele Salahi that is a “no no?” But, that’s the picture that really cracks me up every time I see it!! The look on Biden’s face is priceless and he appears to be enjoying every moment for all the world to see. How “stately!”