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December 1, 2009

The Most Scandalous Picture Inside the White House Tent

Michaele Salahi Katie Couric.jpg

After a week dominating cable infotainment, the White House gatecrasher story has become a media distraction game.

The much bigger question is what Katie Couric and America’s top network (so-called) journalists are doing at the Administration’s first State Dinner, and why they are standard fixtures at such events, consistently hobnobbing around and sucking up to the ruling class, whoever may be in power– so much so that we, like sheep, see photos of leading political figures and media journalists paling around and just take it for granted.

Also on the official guest list was: Tom Friedman, Fareed Zakaria, Gayle King, Robin Roberts and Brian Williams.

It’s also no wonder, by the way, that media would conveniently leave this picture out their endless gatecrasher coverage while broadcasting shots of the Salahi’s with Obama and Biden ad naseum.

Go surge!

(photo: Michaele Salahi@Facebook.com)

  • George hickey

    What strikes me about all the photos I’ve seen of these “gate crashers” at this event is they are washed out by camera flash.
    It’s a common problem-especially with small point and shoot cameras which is likely what was used here. But a couple minutes with a photo editing program would easily fix it. Why hasn’t someone taken that couple of minutes?

  • Asta

    Because they are not worth that couple of minutes.

  • kh

    The effect of washing out ones complexion has been popular amongst the fashionably vain for many years. No complexion, no wrinkles, no nose, nothing. Sort of sums it all up.

  • http://akinoluna.blogspot.com akinoluna – a female Marine

    It was left out of the coverage? Yeah okay.
    The first place I saw this photo was a “liberal” media website, not here.

  • mad_nVT

    Who does Salahi’s hair?

  • steve

    Bravo is filming the stunts of the Salahi’s.
    Bravo is a part of NBC Universal.
    Vomit now.

  • Susan

    I like Michaele Salahi’s look. Very elegant.
    Katie Couric is lovely too.