Where was the East Wing?

The media needs to get over this “fat cat” social faux paux.

Over on Huffington Post, Cathy Hargraves is being pilloried — because she was from the Bush administration. And they’re all blaming it, not on Desiree, (for being inept, in my own opinion) but all on the Secret Service. And believe me, the SS should be criticized plenty. But I also think Desiree Rogers is way more interested in being seen than in doing any work.

From Newsweek:
“when she [Hargraves] met with Rogers last February and went over her job responsibilities, she says, the new social secretary told her, “We don’t feel we have a need for that anymore.” Rogers’s explanation, according to Hargraves: “In these economic times, I don’t think we’re going to have very many lavish expensive dinners. It wouldn’t look very good.””
Rogers messed up. She should resign. Or maybe she could just transfer to become yet another of Michelle’s hand maidens, er, I mean, staff. She could be the Deputy Associate Director of Posing for Fashion Magazines.

The amateur hour continues – GET SOME FREAKING ADULTS IN THERE! Gibbs will be asked about it today, he”ll laugh that sardonic, insulting laugh–then say something like, “Well won’t you at least ask me who I was wearing and then move on. The damage being done by this White House is becoming almost incalcuable–it is that bad

Has ABC mentioned the fact that Obama had at least met the crashers before? There’s a photo of them together in 2005. Tareq Salahi also served on the board of the American Task Force for Palestine, where Obama’s close friend Rashid Khalidi was vice president. Interesting coincidence, isn’t it?

If the Secret Service felt that having a greeter at the gate was a vital part of their security procedure, why didn’t they say something to the WH staff? I’m sure they would have done whatever the SS said needed to be done to keep the WH and the 1st family safe.

Jake –
Why in the world aren’t you writing more about the CRU “climate change” disaster! This has all the earmarks of a Piltdown Man-scale of scientific fraud — with, however, a many-trillion dollar price tag for us.
Please take the MSM lead in exposing this incredibly important story — the British press is all over it.

Is there any room left under the bus?
Guess they will just have to reassign her then like Buffy, Anita, Yoshi, Van Jones….

I just love it that the social secretary was too busy hob-knobbing and talking about her dress than making sure the right job was done. Ego runs rampant in this WH.

Go ahead and fire Hargraves after the election, but it was the duty of Rogers to REPLACE her with an Obama Administration appointee. Don’t want a Bush hire to do the job? Fine. But that doesn’t mean that security isn’t necessary anymore.
This is reminding me of the advent of the Clintons where the SS were being thwarted for many months over having background checks for the new people in the administration. “We don’t need that anymore’ is an incredibly revealing statement.
The POTUS doesn’t need this level of security? The world suddenly became a less threatening place because Obama is POTUS?
I’d like a reporter to ask Rogers exactly what she meant by that. It’s more than we’re not giving big parties, for what is a state dinner anyway? Or is it ‘our people aren’t threatening so we don’t have to do that song and dance’…?
The job is the same no matter who is in office. ALL parties have to play a role in keeping the president safe, no matter what political ideology they represent.
We are very lucky as a nation that nothing bad happened. If this is glossed over, the inappropriate policies will continue.
Rogers should be ashamed of herself but she won’t be. She should be canned but she won’t be. She’ll just keep preening in designer dresses, and not doing the most important part of her job. Because it doesn’t matter one whit what the place settings looks like if the worst case scenario is going down.
This was a failure on many levels, not just the Secret Service, but they have integrity and will throw themselves under the bus willingly. The OA cronies have none, and thus will blame them only.

nothingmorethanaphotop said:
This was nothing more than a diversionary tatic used by Obama to divert attention from the Global Warming Hoax and his failure on Afganistan
True. But we aren’t distracted.
Dems think we are as stupid as they are…

Desiree Rogers should have been at the gate or had somebody from her office at the gate checking the names of guests. This is just common sense. The problem is that Rogers thinks she’s a celebrity when she’s not. She is supposed to be in the trenches, behind the scenes, making sure that the party runs smoothly, not attending the party as a guest.
Rogers should be fired. Her skill set and personality don’t match the job.

obummer.

The social office submitted a guest list to the Secret Service. The Secret Service officer allowed someone in even though they were not on that guest list. How is is the social office’s fault? Regardless of whether there is or is not a social secretary standing by the Secret Service officer’s shoulder, it’s common sense that the officer should not just let people in who are not on the guest list. At the very least, he could have someone place a quick call to the social office to clarify whether this person should be let in but the default position of the SS should not be “let them in anyway, even though they’re not on any guest list”. The default should be that they are told to step aside until it can be confirmed whether or not they should be allowed in.

It seeems the entire Whitehouse is made up of pretenders and wannabee’s mixed in with a few bare knucklers. Of course the Salahis could have been invited in by the whitehouse dog walker to write health care reform or some job creation stimulus bills.

Just waiting for this to be Bush’s fault,too.
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Couldn’t be Bush’s fault, he’s still engrossed in that Goat book . . .

Desiree Rogers is an incompetent diva and should be fired right away. She dosent know her job and is more interested in being a celebrity. Shame on her.

I agree, she should go. It was her responsiblity. I find it appalling that they are dancing around what is clear to everyone. We are talking the security of the U.S. Presidency. As an African American female, I hate that she did not do her job. Had they been a minority couple she would have paid much more strict attention.