Michaele and Tareq Salahi, on Tuesday in Washington, say they did not "party crash" the state dinner and will explain.
Unfortunately everyone is a journalist in the news media. Or is at the very least pretending to be something they shouldn't. Here's another example of someone that believes they can exploit the power of "new media" to their own advantage - to get on a reality TV show. - MT
The New York Times - WASHINGTON — The Virginia couple accused of crashing President Obama’s first state dinner broke their weeklong silence Tuesday with an appearance on network television to make their case that they had indeed been invited to the most exclusive party on the calendar.
By the end of the day, however, a chain of e-mail messages between a Pentagon official and the couple, Tareq and Michaele Salahi, showed that they knew they had not been given invitations to the dinner, but they went to the White House anyway.
The messages showed that Michele S. Jones, the Pentagon’s liaison to the White House, had offered to try to get invitations for the Salahis, who are aspiring reality television stars. But on the afternoon of the dinner, White House officials said, Ms. Jones left a message on the Salahis’ answering machine, saying she had not been able to put them on the guest list and advising them not to come.
The White House said the Salahis came anyway.
“As the White House has stated,” one administration spokesman said, “as the United States Secret Service has stated, and as Ms. Jones has stated, the Salahis were not invited. Nowhere in the e-mails do they receive an invitation. In fact, the e-mails confirm they came knowing they didn’t have an invite.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/02/us/politics/02party.html
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