Know the White House Crashing Salahis? Make Some Money.
It appears the Salahi couple who crashed the White House dinner the other evening are looking to get paid for their story. Not surprising at all.
But others? Dumb:
Casey Margenau, a real estate agent and longtime friend of Tareq Salahi’s, said he had talked with the couple on Thursday. He said the investigation was “hard on them,” because the couple believed they “really were invited guests.”
“There’s a video out there of Tareq opening a champagne bottle with a saber,” Margenau said. “That’s him. That’s his personality. . . . They’ve always loved living large, always loved living in the spotlight. They have strong personalities and are very outgoing. Some people like that and some people really dislike it, so much that, well, sometimes people hate you when you’re like that.”
And:
“She’d always call and want to come in, but always expected Erwin to comp her,” [James] Packard-Gomez said, referring to his business partner at the salon.
Mr. Packard-Gomez said Mrs. Salahi called him just 20 hours before the state dinner to schedule an appointment. Mr. Packard-Gomez dropped everything, he said, even helping Mrs. Salahi arrange her now famous red sari. She mentioned having asked the White House if it was appropriate attire. But when he asked Mrs. Salahi to show him her White House invitation, he was startled that she could not produce it.
“My guests pretty much always show me the invitation when it’s the hottest party in town,” Mr. Packard-Gomez said.
It appears Casey and James did not read what I wrote weeks ago: “…if you know somebody, however tangentially, who may have been, for even an instant, in the national consciousness, by God do not just tell anyone about it. Send an email to tips@gawker.com”
Just look at this person named Ashley Samson. It appears she got $25,000 to tell the National Enquirer about Tiger Woods and Rachel Uchitel.
Casey and James are just cold talking for free to the Philadelphia Enquirer and New York Times as if they owe them something. They, and others who know the Salahis, are giving away what they could otherwise be making some vacation money on. Dumb. Very dumb.