Chelsea Clinton and longtime boyf Marc Mezvinsky sent out a mass email (BARF) over the Thanksgiving holiday announcing their engagement. The email read:
“We’re sorry for the mass email but we wanted to wish everyone a belated Happy Thanksgiving! We also wanted to share that we are engaged! We didn’t get married this past summer despite the stories to the contrary, but we are looking toward next summer and hope you all will be there to celebrate with us. Happy Holidays! Chelsea & Marc.”
I can’t tell which part is more tacky: that they used the forum of emails to announce their engagement, or that they used exclamation points to end 3/4s of the sentences in the email.
We figure Chelsea will be wearing white, but we’re all waiting to see what the Salahis will be wearing when they sneak in as distinguished guests and Facebrag all over their lovey-dovey couples Facebook page.
While we’re still in a tizzy over the White House crashers that have basically brought upon themselves a bevy of suspicions, let’s not forget the main point of the Obamas’ State Dinner: to splash about tens of thousands of dollars on a lavish dinner to which pretty much anyone with an exotic last name can gain access.
Problematically, there were quite a few typos riddling the “Night in Versailles” dinner menu, leading one to wonder: if no one’s checking the menu, or the security, where are all our stimulus dollars going?
Catalogued by CNN, here are misspellings that were found on the menu:
–The Riesling was bottled in “Willamette Valley, Oregon” not “Wilamette Valley”; guests were actually offered a “2007 Grenache” (not a “2007 Granache”) and a “Thibaut-Janisson Brut” (not a “Thibaut Janisson Brut”)
–The meal featured “chick peas” (not “chickpeas”)
–The dessert “Gelees” were missing an accent on the final “e”
Oops.
Published on
11/27/2009 in
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Tags: celebrities, celebrity politics, legal issues, michaele salahi, obama, obamania, oops, race relations, real housewievs, real housewives, real housewives of dc, reality tv, tareq salahi, tv, white house.
Anyone who lives in DC know the Salahis are known to be stingy and broke, but now they’re crashing the White House as part of their skillful PR campaign for themselves to showcase their whirlwind and glamorous lifestyle. Unfortunately for them, they have some legal messiness to tend to, and it isn’t just because they crashed federal property and threw the Secret Service under a bus.
The Real Housewives stars (wait–isn’t Tareq a male?) have quite a few skeletons in the closet, including debt, unfiled taxes, and suing of various relatives. And, oh yeah, they aren’t even shooting the episodes in their own house, rumor has it. Oops.
For a somewhat complete list of legal/ethical/mostly hilarious issues, check out CNN’s post about the Salahis.
So here’s a question: in the day and age of hyper-political correctness, one has to wonder a few things. The White House should be privy to the most advanced security in the world. After all, the Savior, aka President Obama, is housed there, along with an inspirational organic veggie garden and Sasha Fierce and Malia. Would crashers with much less, ahem, exotic names gotten access to the Chosen One and his recession-aloof Thanksgiving Dinner? Just a thought…
Published on
11/26/2009 in
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Tags: biden, DC, events, india, michaele salahi, obama, obamania, real housewives, real housewives of dc, tareq salahi, thanksgiving.
The White House is supposed to be the most secure place on Earth, so why were Tareq and Michaele Salahi, “stars” of the Real Housewives of DC (to be aired next year), able to crash Obama’s invitation-only dinner honoring the Prime Minister of India?
The celebuwannabes, who are rumored to be worth a combined fortune of approximately ten dollars, did some self-promoting on their Facebook, which is likely to get them, as well as the secret security guys who allowed these famemongers into the White House, in some serious hot water.
The couple wrote on their Facebook:
“I was honored to be invited to attend the First State Dinner hosted by President Obama & [sic] the First Lady to honor India,” says Michaele Salahi on her Facebook page. “In June 2010, the America’s Polo Cup will be between INDIA & the UNITED STATES [sic].”
Still no word on if the Bravo cameramen were able to make it through the “strict security” to get the best shots. Now if only Obama could have several takes before being shown on national television. But hey, he’s a bit of a White House crasher himself, showing up without the necessary documents to gain access to the Oval Office.
Some pictures of a hammered Katie Couric have been leaked by an “anonymous source,” which, at this point in the aging news anchor’s career, I can only mean her publicist trying to bring CBS credibility back to the demographic that actually has brains. Apparently these pictures were taken the night after the debut of Couric’s night show on CBS.
Maybe Jon Voigt was able to pass on some political advice to his daughter. According to Us Weekly, Brad and Angelina have been getting into some arguments about Obama and his outrageous policies. The tabloid reports:
“She’s into education and rehabilitation and thinks Obama is all about welfare and handouts. She thinks Obama is really a socialist in disguise,” adds the source.
“Angie isn’t Republican, but she thinks Obama is all smoke and mirrors,” the source says. And those political views are putting her at odds with Brad Pitt, 45, who is a big fan of the president and even went solo to the 2008 election party in Chicago.
“They get in nasty arguments all the time about it,” says the source. “She doesn’t respect Brad when it comes to politics, but, in the end, this won’t tear them apart.”
Simple solution to these problems: just adopt another baby from Obama’s birth country. Oh, wait…
In honor of Thanksgiving, Obama is continuing the tradition of the Indians meeting the pilgrims and paying his respects to those more powerful/intelligent/politically savvy than him. That ended so well for the Indians.
Concerned everyone’s fled the city for the holiday? Whether you’re trekking in to see loved ones around the Beltway or completely friendless and sticking around the Capitol, there’s lots going on in DC during the Turkey Day weekend.
Starting on Wednesday, they will be a huge Thanksgiving Eve party at Tattoo Bar on K Street. It’s sure to be the hottest party since the pilgrims met the Indians. Vodka-copias and colonial dressing strongly encouraged.
After you eat your way into bigger pants, hit up Black Friday sales for more stuffing-friendly clothing for overeating dressing in style. Here’s a great list of places having BF sales around the area.
Then squeeze in some culture at the Ayr Hill Gallery in Vienna for an art opening for Ken Frye. You’ve got yourself a nice little Thanksgiving game plan, and it didn’t cost you a dime! (Minus the shopping splurges and incidental costs).
