It seems that the president has pulled rank (again) to protect one of his friends from public scrutiny. According to online reports, Desiree Rogers, the embattled Social Secretary whose office dropped the ball last week allowing party crashers to embarrass the president at the 1st state dinner, will not be required to testify before Congress today.
So much for Obama’s promise of transparency in his administration.
Wasn’t it her job to make sure Obama’s prestigious guests were greeted properly at the gate and not by Security? As a White House employee who represents the people, the public has a right to know exactly what went wrong — even though we can pretty much guess.
The decision is not likely to be contested by Democrats on the House Homeland Security Committee, saving Rogers a potentially embarrassing turn in the hearing-room spotlight. Since Rogers was only invited, not subpoenaed, to testify by the ranking Republican on the committee, New York Representative Pete King, she faces no legal consequences for declining to attend. [link]
But this will only add fuel to the fire that Obama hired his Chicago cronies as a political favor, and they have no clue what they are doing in the Obama administration.
Thanks to loyal reader Geoffrey for the tip!
SO TRUE …HER A@@ SHOULD HAVE BEEN HANDED TO HER …SHE DONT HAVE A CLUE WHAT SHE DOING! NONE OF THEM DO…. HOW IN THE WORLD DID THAT HAPPEN LIKE THAT & WHERE WAS SHE OR HER PEOPLE…THEY SHOULD HAVE BEEN AT ALL CHECKPOINTS
he better get a white social person asap
I just want to ask is there anyone here that thinks this couple should get punished for what they did? Im just wondering.
hiring black people will have :
PARAMEDICS ON YOUR CHEST PUSHING AND BREATHING
She looks confused in that picture…
@shannon04
ATLEAST trespassing idk.. some kind of felony… i bet me and my hubby couldnt get past the gate in all our finest gear & jewlery
I don’t know anybody that would have took the risk and did what they did.
Bush did the same hting if I recall correctly when it came to the firing of those judges for one og his folks. Its politics as usual.
I dont think the couple should be charged hey they got in and brought attention to the pbvious flaws in the system. These folks have emails suppossedly showing they were under the impression they were invited.
Its not htier problem they werent asked for an invite..shit there wasnt even a guest list checked… Hell at VIP Partys in clubs there is even a guest list….
@shannon04
THEY WANT THE MONEY
MONEY & THE CARS
CARS& THE CLOTHES
I SUPPOSE LMAO
@flyqtnva…
That’s what I been telling my friends that none of us could have got far trying to pull some crap like that. Appears to me that they’ve been thinking all along “we won’t get in any trouble, we’ll just lie about the whole thing as a misunderstanding”
another dumb ivy league graduate..so much for their “affirmative action“ degrees..smdh
@lovinme
EMAIL SAID NOTHING OF THE SORT
3shannon04 Says:
I just want to ask is there anyone here that thinks this couple should get punished for what they did? Im just wondering
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party crashing is not illegal..i think! in my opinion they should be free like birds
@shannon04
That’s what I been telling my friends that none of us could have got far trying to pull some crap like that. Appears to me that they’ve been thinking all along “we won’t get in any trouble, we’ll just lie about the whole thing as a misunderstanding”
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EXACTLY MY THOUGHTS….them nigg@s got game though..and huge balls of steel..i would have been a nervous wreck
:crying:@ Comment #4! LOLOLOL
Its the Job of The Secret Service……..She is the Social Secretary……Like she know who’s a threat or not…….
All of that was just a hook up that went awry!
But the crasher’s relative said that they (the couple) are notorious for doing stuff like that.
Did anyone figure out who those fools are/whta they do (besides party crash)?
#2 – No he should not. He should make the black woman he hired do her job right! If the pres was white and she was still black, she would have followed protocol.
It was assigned to her, so IMO she should’ve been on top of her game
@RTB
they professional party crashers yo
17ReadTheBlog Says:
All of that was just a hook up that went awry!
But the crasher’s relative said that they (the couple) are notorious for doing stuff like that.
Did anyone figure out who those fools are/whta they do (besides party crash)?
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The husband supposedly owns wineries in virginia.. the wife is a former model..thats all i have on them..lol
I HATE TO BUT I gotta go
i miss talking to you guys everyday! IM TAKING METAPHYSICS this semester its reall no joke yo!
Goodnight
Can a sista get some lipgloss, shadow and a little eyeliner going on? Oh and a coat of ‘Cotton Candy’ (holla all me girls in the nail shop) polish won’t hurt either.
She looking a little mannish in that picture.
SR yall are GOING IN today!! Let’s not act like this doesn’t happen in all adminisrations. It happed with Bush, Clinton and I’m too young to remember what happened with Reagan but yall get where I’m going. With that being said it doesn’t mean I agree with whatis going on. She should at least be demoted or reassigned or something. How dumb is this Desiree chic? Didn’t the couple produce emails that she sent to them saying that they could come? Or was that someone else?
* administrations- typing too fast!
See what happens when you hire Ivy Leaguers. They are too impressed with and trusting of white folks to the point that they allow them to breach White House security. Let that have been my black azz. I would not have even gotten near on the block where the White House is located. Blank stare. I probably would not have been allowed in DC in the first place. LOL
26attorneymom Says:
See what happens when you hire Ivy Leaguers. They are too impressed with and trusting of white folks to the point that they allow them to breach White House security. Let that have been my black azz. I would not have even gotten near on the block where the White House is located. Blank stare. I probably would not have been allowed in DC in the first place. LOL
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totally agree, there is something about black ivy leaguers that screams “get off your plantation mentality“ already, no black couple could have made it that far….now the joke is on them!
SIt was her job or at least someone in her office to over see the guest coming in. Someone dropped the ball and clearly did not do their job at all. I don’t want to see someone lose their job over this mess. I think someone needs to explain and needs some training. I think she got wrapped up in the hoopla and lost track of her responsibilities.
here`s the latest, 2 agents have been placed on administrative leave with possibility of employment termination
@ goat76 Says:
@flyqtnva Says:
hiring black people will have :
PARAMEDICS ON YOUR CHEST PUSHING AND BREATHING
I’m laughing so hard Lolol wooo, lol.
Obama and Michelle should have known to not be friends or fraternize with the help. They should put the YTies in jail. They woulda put my dark behind in jail.
Desiree should have been at the gate, not a table getting her drink on. Guess she think she the 1st lady. NOT.
goat76 Says:
Its the Job of The Secret Service……..She is the Social Secretary……Like she know who’s a threat or not…….
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*Sorry, still getting the hang of posting.*
@attorneymom
You are so on point! My behind woulda sent they ass for a cavity search.
I’ve been laughing at the comments all day. Y’all are entertaining.
But, I’ve got to step in to have my say. This has never happened before in any other administration. Desiree or another assistant should have been at the door checking off names. With that big ass staff Obama’s got, he could have paid someone minimum wage to do nothing else but sit at the gate with the guest list.
I don’t think the couple should be charged with anything. Who knows…….they may have saved the prez’s life by showing the how easy an assasin could get in.
african_dude Says:
here`s the latest, 2 agents have been placed on administrative leave with possibility of employment termination
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What? So they’re going to fire the secret service agents that put their lives on the line for the president everyday and nothing will happen to the chic that allegedly told them they could come? Ok- I’m starting to believe Sandra’s theory that Des is President Obama’s jumpoff
i think she should have at LEAST said something at the hearing. while she might not know nurfinn…we do not NEED for yt to think Obama is cutting her a deal and “looking out for a sista”…
i would get up there and be like lavell crawford said to tell your kids before they go to the grocery store…
i don’t KNOW shyt, don’t ASK me ’bout shyt, my staff don’t know them folks NEITHER who crashed the party, and i did not SEE shyt! the end.
The party crasher couple said they were looking for an email back from Desi regarding whether or not they were on the list, but then there blackberry died so they went anyway.
Two questions:
Does their blackberry still have the email stating whether they were denied or confirmed tickets or did it go in a black hole once the blackberry died? That would solve all this ish.
Also, were they running late to the party where they couldn’t stop at the local library to check to see if Desi sent the email to their dead blackberry?
Breached White House Security……Sounds like the Jobs of Secret Service……This lady is the Social Secretary…she organized the guest list……Secret Service dropped the ball on this one……Their Job is to Protect the Prezident
I dont even think the couple should get in trouble, they were allowed in. If I showed up at a party and I was let in thats not my fault!
This is not Desiree Roger’s fault this is the fault of the Secret Service. Simply put they were not handling their job and being on point. I don’t know how they got into the event because they obvious looked out of place. They appear to be nothing but a bunch of publicity whores. But kudos to them for getting that good five star meal.
Oh yeah and Desiree was not the couple’s contact person it was a lady named MICHELLE JONES..
She is not sercet service they let those people in Get it right Sandra and stop being like those white folks on fox news channel
I’m all late but it seems like ryand and rm247 actually found out what was going on before going in.
Desiree WAS NOT the person in contact with the Salahi’s about the invite, it was their friend Michelle Jones who said both in the email “It doesn’t look good for yall getting in” and “I will CALL you and let you know if your were approved”. That doesn’t sound like “yes you’re invited” to me.
Desiree’s only fault in this was not having someone on her team at the checkpoint to verify if someone was invited if they were on the list HOWEVER she DID NOT have ANY part in letting them in, the Secret Service did and therefore they are responsible and not her. I don’t get the whole Ivy League knocks because she doesn’t know them and didn’t have any part of letting them in.
I think she should testify and take responsibility to what she’s guilty of which is not properly having someone from her team at the checkpoint and nothing else.
@Sandra, do you think President Obama will throw Desiree under the bus like he did Van Jones?
talldrink writes:
@attorneymom
You are so on point! My behind woulda sent they ass for a cavity search.
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LMAO
the secret service’s job is to check the list. if a person isn’t on the list, desiree or someone from her team is supposed to be STANDING RIGHT THERE to clarify. in their absence, the secret service let that couple in.
DESIREE ROGERS SHOULD BE FIRED OR PUBLICLY REPRIMANDED. for the first time regarding obama, i agree with sandra. THERE IS NO ROOM FOR FOOLISHNESS LIKE THIS. my husband i laughed because we knew the black chick was behind this and she was probably in there partying and shoo-shooing instead of making sure she had a person posted. like my husband says, it’s STANDARDS, people!
how many people have been “let go” from his administration? one for a doggone email response to some forwarded bullsh*t. this lady makes a major embarassment to the president and he doesn’t even allow her to be publicly accountable. i don’t care what michelle jones did, the responsibility falls on desiree.
Hmm… regardless of who SHOULD have been at the gate along with the secret service to “greet” guests, what in the hellspell is the purpose of the secret service? I’m thinking security…hold on let me double check…yep that’s what they’re there for! So how do you let random azz people who show you a regular passport and are not even on this so called list up in the white house for a party to rub elbows with the President of the United States? If no one was there to clarify this list and there was ANY question then they should’t have gotten their azzes in. PERIOD How simple can you be?
I’m thinking I should have showed up, showed them my expired and twice suspended class G drivers license, told them I was Michelles’s second cousin twice removed if they needed confirmation and seen if I could have got my azz in!
flyqtnva Says:
@lovinme
EMAIL SAID NOTHING OF THE SORT
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which is why i said suppossedly cause i havent seen the emails and just going off what they sayin themselves..
You got the emails?
flyqtnva Says:
@lovinme
EMAIL SAID NOTHING OF THE SORT
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which is why i said suppossedly cause i havent seen the emails and just going off what they sayin themselves..
You got the emails?
Oh for sure. I work for the federal government and know how quick they are to cover up something..