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I'm not sure how this is going to play out, but I'm wondering who's going to end up taking the fall for this White House party crashers thing:

The appeal here is one we've seen before: What until the truth comes out. We will be cleared. This is a classic Blagojevich tactic, and it can be really convincing.

Maybe they're lying through their teeth. I guess we'll find out. But I'm pretty sure that this new twist is really the story that the public wants. That is, it's a bit too disturbing to think that people with the right clothes and a few connections can crash a White House party. If this is indeed the case, the Secret Service is not what we thought it was, and our "historic" (code for "black") president is in danger.

So, if there is indeed a new twist (it seems that the Salahis' argument will be that Michelle Jones, special assistant to the Secretary of Defense, is at fault here), it might offer us all a big sigh of relief. Our complicated phantasy/fantasy is simultaneously undermined (there seems to be a perverse desire for the President's "cocoon" to be violated) and upheld (The Secret Service does not fail).

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