On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 10:37 AM, Kevin M. <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 10:24 AM, K.M. Richards <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Perhaps, since they have been open about what they did and they >> obviously meant no harm (else they would have attempted something at >> the time) the committee wants to talk with them to see what needs to >> be fixed. > > What needs to be fixed? Not on guest list = you have to leave. (SNIP)
I saw these guys on the Today Show this morning (I have not really been following this story too closely). They came across as clueless but harmless. It seems that they have a history of over-interpreting casual and ambiguous comments as specific invitations. Apparently someone in the Defense Department said something - perhaps in an email, that sounded to them like they would be welcome at the dinner, and they got it in their head that this was an invitation, even though that same Defense Department person followed up later with specific written clairification that they did not have an invitation and were not cleared to attend the party. I went to high school with the children of some pretty famous television and film stars. Not infrequently they or their parents would say something casually to me and other friends like "you really should come stay with us at Aspen this holiday". Those of us from more pedestrian pedigrees would just smile and say "that sounds great" or (more my speed) "I'd love to but I'm busy". It was pretty well understood, even by 15 year olds, that if we had taken those comments as formal invitations and just shown up at their cabin in Aspen luggage in hand prepared for a week of skiing and hot tubing, we would have been both embarrassed and disappointed. It seemed to me that the Salahi's are a couple that take everyone of those casual, polite, ambiguous and insincere allusions to sharing time as an official invitation engraved in marble, and act accordingly. The interview was short and fairly non-specific (they promised to come back later after they have permission to talk more freely) - I leave the door open on the possibility that they are some variant of stalkers, erotomaniacs or other kind of delusional disorder. -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en
