Tareq and Michaela Sahali’s intrusion on Barack Obama‘s first State Dinner was as much an affront to national security as it was performance theater on the state on America’s thirst for reality television. Bypassing the Secret Service’s obviously-not-so-secure wall to shake hands with the president, the Sahalis represent all that America stands for today: the chance to get on television. And please this country’s homosexuals.
In the running for a spot on Bravo’s The Real Housewives on D.C., we can’t imagine producers will opt not to choose the Sahalis for their program, for it will all but guarantee media buzz and huge ratings. You know, given that they hang out with the president.
Housewives‘s cameras followed the wine-monied coupled before the big dinner, and knew they were headed to the White House (where they wouldn’t be allowed to film), albeit as legitimate party guests, the show claims. And undoubtedly, the Sahalis crashed the State Dinner because it would help launch them into the atmosphere of notoriety that Housewives producers crave.
And given the Housewives is a series serial dined upon by legions of gay Bravo audiences, it’s really America’s homosexuals and their diet of bitchy blonde semi-wealthy terrible people that are to blame for giving the Sahalis motivation to RSVP to controversy. If it weren’t for your selfish need to scowl at ditzy, clueless surgically enhanced women in their 30s and 40s, we might not be facing such national embarassment.
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You can also, then, accept blame for getting Rep. Jared Polis to play the reality television game as well, which he does on the upcoming season of The Real World: D.C., shaking hands with token non-hetero roommate Mike, who’s basically a big nelly bottom but will take 23 episodes and at least three hot tub soaks with shirtless fratboys to figure it out. It’s unclear how big Polis’s cameo will be (we’re guessing under 20 seconds), but even from this brief season trailer it appears he willingly took part in MTV’s ode to stupid youth.
All because of the gays. Good job!
Mike in Brooklyn
Really?!
I mean, I guess that the percentage of gay viewership for Bravo’s runway, hair salon, tattoo, interiors and food shows runs on the higher side. But for the Jon & Kate and housewife shows?
Well, as a card carrying fag with an active membership for 35+ years, I say that sex is a hell of a lot more fun than any of these reality shows. And any fag who spends their time watching such stupid TV time is actually wasting perfectly good sex time. For that, each of their membership cards should be placed on hold.
No, not the gays this time (except for those of us willing to admit their reality TV fix needs). The blame falls at the feet of those straight folk who think its okay to launch their children’s (ie., balloon flying saucer boy/family; Orange County teen angst) and spouses (ie, wife swappers; weight lose) insipid antics on the rest of us.
Peter
I am proud to say I have never ever ever watched a single episode in the entire housewives series…must be a slow news cycle for you Queerty…care to report on the gay bar the government in China is forming to help with the AIDS crisis there?
That would be REAL news…
Charles Merrill
I won’t be surprised to learn that this couple is represented by Rahm Emmanuel’s brother, the Hollywood agent Ari Emmanuel. Even David Geffen might be in on this. My conspiracy theory for today.
romeo
Women watch those housewives shows. My sister watches them incessantly. I laugh at her and ask her how she could waste so much time watching these horrible broads. It’s painful. Not to mention seeing their shell-shocked husbands. Jesus, I’m so glad I’m gay.
lil mongo
eck..it only goes to show you that Obama does smile at anything. The toothy grin stamp of appeal. I love him, I really do, but the last thing he needed to be invaded by was a real housewife….what a bravo reality presidency if there ever was one.
andy_d
These two DO NOT deserve the attention they so desperately crave. It is, once again, the glorification of people acting badly. What they DO deserve is jail time for treaspassing and fraud.
Cam
No. 3 · Charles Merrill said…
I won’t be surprised to learn that this couple is represented by Rahm Emmanuel’s brother, the Hollywood agent Ari Emmanuel. Even David Geffen might be in on this. My conspiracy theory for today.
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You know, that makes a hell of a lot of sense.
Ian
What the hell does Bravo or its viewers have to do with this?
It is the Secret Service’s job to keep the President of the US safe and if they let any riffraff have close contact with him they should be fired immediately(I’m guessing if the crashers had been black they wouldn’t have been able to bypass security, but that’s a whole different story).
This is nothing but ineptitude on the part of the Secret Service. Don’t make it into something that it’s not.
Hammar
Queerty, are you certain of all this? Obama knows these supposed party crashers at least for five years.
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By Judi McLeod Saturday, November 28, 2009
imageWhile the big gun media and American Secret Service are out there investigating “party crashers” Tareq and Michaele Salahi, no one’s telling the truth: Obama knew the Salahis when he was still an Illinois senator.
Keith Kimmel
Yay, more bullshit. This isn’t even news worthy of attention here on this site.
hephaestion
Whoever wrote this story for Queerty misspelled Salahi all the way thru it. Their name is Salahi, not Sahali.
Charles Merrill
The whole affair oozes of “no class”. From the collard greens, corn pone and pigs feet served for dinner. A state dinner should be very exclusive in a White House dining room with gold serving plates, no more than 48 people that really care about India. It’s an insult to the President of India to invite hundreds of people in a huge tent on the White House lawn. Obama needs an old money WASP or diplomatic advisor to the Queen of England to teach him the ways of International diplomacy and security.
Ian
@ Charles Merrill
So your idea of “class” is gold plates and crowds smaller than 50 people? I’m afraid you’re either very poor or you’re trying to be funny (and failing miserably)..
alan brickman
Damm! lets just blame gays for everything!!!
alan brickman
Lets Just blame Andy cohen for being hot and comprinazing natl security..it’s just that simple…
chelesley
If Logo can get the next round of drag race applicants to pull stunts like this at the next state dinner, then we, the gays, have did it.
Oh Really
Queerty is the only one saying it’s the fault of the gays. This is the same blog that ran a former marine through the mud for making a porn flick, and has allowed its commenters to accuse that marine of being HIV-positive. Hmm. Who runs Queerty anyway? The Mormons? I’m starting to wonder.
JimBo
I am gay and hate the entire housewives series, All these people in these shows need to spend a month trapped in the house with each other with no TV cell phone or internet access. They might develop a real relationship.
Charles Merrill
Ian, no. Just referring to First Lady Jackie Kennedy as an example of old money WASP who hired Leticia Baldwin as social secretary, a writer on etiquette. The gold embellished china collection of the President is still there. She gave the Kennedy’s class and knew the protocol of how to entertain foreign dignitaries.
Andrew
This post is a joke right?
And if it isn’t, can we just take a second and appreciate the irony that it’s posted on a gay site which is then in turn giving attention to these cretins?