White House party-crashing casts Desiree Rogers in unfamiliar light

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She arrived in Washington with more of a splash than any White House social secretary before her, and no wonder: Desiree Rogers had obvious style, wealth, a Harvard MBA, years of corporate experience, and friends at the top, most importantly Barack and Michelle Obama.

She defined her goal as nothing less than bringing life to the Obama presidency. And she pulled off a series of innovative, high-wattage events that seemed to be doing just that. She even got the nation's governors to dance in a conga line.

Enter Tareq and Michaele Salahi.

Now Rogers is under withering scrutiny for her office's role in the infamous security breakdown at the state dinner. A woman with a reputation as a consummate perfectionist is being criticized for dropping the ball -- and, by some, for putting her own aggrandizement over

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1. My Roomate

Told me yesterday that she tried to crash the reunion of the Dallas Cowboy's Cheerleaders. When they asked her to recite some cheers she couldn't remember a single one, not even a basic cheer. This is why I hate reality television