The Salahis: State Dinner Crashers Should Just Be Ignored

By now we've all heard about the Salahis (probably a lot more than we wanted to) and the way they snuck into the White House State dinner uninvited. They got in and were even able to shake hands with the President, all without tickets. Someone probably got fired for that blunder. According to the Salahis, however, they were not crashing the dinner party, they simply didn't realize they weren't invited.

The Salahis were, in fact, working with someone trying to arrange tickets to the state dinner. When that could not be arranged, a message was left on the Salahis' voicemail, informing them that they did not have tickets to the dinner. Conveniently, the cell phone on which the message was left, had a dead battery. Thus the Salahis never received the message and went to the dinner under the impression that they were invited.

Yeah right! Are we truly supposed to believe that the couple getting into the dinner was all just a misunderstanding due to a dead phone battery? I think not. If someone was hoping for tickets to the White House State dinner, doesn't it seem likely that they would be checking their messages for confirmation at least once before heading to the dinner?

It's fairly clear that the Salahis' true motives were fame and fortune. The missed voicemail is a pathetic attempt to cover up that fact. Before becoming the infamous party crashers, the couple had been auditioning for reality TV parts, and this was probably just another way for them to get attention. They certainly didn't waste any time in posting the photos of the dinner all over their facebook pages.

Now the Salahis are taking it a step further, hoping to make a pretty penny off their story as well. They were scheduled to appear on Larry King, but decided to cancel, choosing instead to try selling their first interview for thousands of dollars. Apparently they hope to be the next Jon and Kate. As if we really need another couple being pasted over every news program for the next several weeks.

In my opinion, the networks should utterly ignore them. Crashing the White House dinner was nothing but a fame and fortune seeking publicity stunt. Why reward their actions by interviewing them, and providing them with the attention they want. They do not deserve the publicity; they do not deserve the money. If everyone ignores them, they will disappear from the spotlight, fading into the darkness, being remembered only as "the ones who crashed the White House dinner." What better way to condemn their actions than to ignore them completely.