Michaele Salahi has been located and it turns out she wasn’t kidnapped after all, as her husband Tareq had feared, just having an affair with Journey guitarist Neal Schon.

Yesterday, Salahi had alerted the news media that she “may have been kidnapped or abducted and being held under duress” and called upon the public to “be on the look out for her, and if found please contact the authorities and please approach her and contact the authorities to intervene and that she may be forced to say she is okay, when in fact she is not and being held under possible abduction.”

No, this is not Bravo’s Watch What Happens Live. At least, I don’t think so. I’m fairly sure I was watching the somewhat more serious Parker Spitzer on CNN. And yet, how to explain the presence of Tareq and Michaele Salahi, the reality TV couple who jumped to “fame” by crashing President Obama‘s first state dinner.

Taking a break from the midterm insanity Geraldo interviewed last year’s White House crashers Michaele and Tareq Salahi last night. Geraldo introduced them as two people who were “reviled in Washington D.C., a town full of unpopular people so it’s quite an achievement!”

Yesterday after a taping of The View, Whoopi Goldberg got into a screaming match with guest Michaele Salahi and her husband Tareq after Michaele accused the host of hitting her. Goldberg responded to the allegations on the show this morning and readily admitted to using some “choice words” with the publicity-loving couple. She also showed video which proved that she never hit Michaele which is weird because we all know that the Salahis would never ever lie about anything.

In a totally unrelated note, the clip below ends with a statement from the Salahis’ lawyer once again stressing that they were invited to that White House party.

Ah, the Salahis, they’re just universally beloved, aren’t they? Michaele Salahi was on The View with the cast of whatever stupid show she’s in (yeah, I’m just gonna put the “Columnist” tag on now, ok) and was not well received. After a brief on camera altercation with Whoopi Goldberg, Salahi and her equally ridiculous husband got in a fight with The View host and are now accusing her of attacking Michaele. I’m going to side with Whoopi. Not because I have any facts. Just because I like to side with people who have actually managed to contribute something to humanity during their time on earth.

Hooray for the “Columnist” tag!

The infamous White House party crashers, Michaele and Tareq Salahi, are now planning the one thing they have left to do: write a book. According to the New York Post, the couple is writing a tell-all book “about the security breach that sparked a national furor.”

ABC News is reporting that the Secret Service stopped a limousine carrying Michaele and Tareq Salahi last night, as it ran a red light and tried to enter a restricted parking area for the White House. The Salahis are best known for crashing the last state dinner, and the White House made it known that [...]

As the White House prepares for tonight’s state dinner for Mexican President Felipe Calderón, they have taken steps to ensure that this affair quiets the unfortunate echoes of November’s Salahi-crashed state dinner. At Monday’s briefing, Press Secretary Robert Gibbs assured reporters that additional steps will be taken, although he wouldn’t elaborate for fear of tipping off potential crashers. I did manage to get Gibbs to confirm one change, that there will be someone from the Social Secretary’s office at the Secret Service checkpoint.

Hard not to think this isn’t the long arm of the Salahis at work. It’s just been reported that Desiree Rogers will step down as White House social secretary next month. Rogers, you may recall, got into some hot water back in November after the Salahis “crashed” a state dinner at the White House.

White House Party Crashers Tareq and Michaele Salahi went somewhere in Washington by invitation yesterday: A meeting of the House Homeland Security Committee as part of a criminal investigation of the incident. Though that “investigation” didn’t yield much, as the Salahis took the Fifth Amendment, on the advice of their lawyer, and refused to answer any question. Any question. At all.

Talk about the party that never ends! The Secret Service has refused to identify the third party crasher but the Washington Post is reporting he is Carlos Allen, a D.C. party promoter. Though calling him a crasher seems a tad unfair since he was apparently brought along by the Indian delegation

Oof. Welcome to the new decade where apparently we are on our own when it comes to security. Of course you remember, last month when the Salahis created quite the media stir after they slipped the Secret Service “crashed” a White House state dinner. Now the Secret Service confirms that there was a third party crasher, which in light of the aftermath of the Christmas Bomber is no longer at all amusing.

It is perhaps a measure of the media cycles of the blogosphere that I consider the latest study from Pew’s Project for Excellence in Journalism on last week’s news coverage to be encouraging. The coverage of the Salahis and Tiger Woods may have trumped health care, but it couldn’t hold a candle to Afghanistan

David Carr’s latest New York Times column, “Reality TV’s Glare Hits High Office,” has more zingers than Obama has photo ops, as he suggests the president scale back on the “oversharing.” The White House-crashing Salahis are after reality TV fame, but the Obamas have it locked down. But in his criticism of the “Celebrity in Chief,” isn’t he forgetting an important player — namely the press club he’s a valuable member of?

There were several disappointments at Thursday’s Crasher-gate hearing, but chief among them were Secret Service Director Mark Sullivan‘s continued insistence that the now-famous security breach posed no threat to the President, and the committee’s focus on Social Secretary Desiree Rogers‘ role in said breach. This is absurd on two counts.

During House Committee on Homeland Security hearing on Crashergate, the Secret Service Director Mark Sullivan spent the morning on the hot seat for his agency’s failure to repel uninvited guests Michaele and Tareq Salahi from last Tuesday’s White House state dinner. Among the revelations this morning is the embarrassing fact that, according to Sullivan, the Secret Service learned of the breach on Facebook.

As a Congressional hearing gets underway to drill down on how the uninvited Salahi couple managed to breach White House security, the White House has removed any and all doubt as to whether the Secret Service might have had a legitimate excuse for letting the couple past the first checkpoint.

Slate’s Jack Shafer explains what’s really behind the world’s fascination with the Tiger Woods‘ Sherman McCoy-like debacle. He also notes that the reason we can’t get enough of the Salahis is because “they do in maximum what we do in miniature every day.”

The saga of would-be reality stars and accused White House Party Crashers Michaele and Tareq Salahi continues to unroll slowly, as NBC fortuitously scores scoop after scoop. The latest: The Salahis’ attorney provided The Today Show with copies of their emails with Defense Department White House Liaison Michele Jones. If this is the bombshell evidence they promised to bring Matt Lauer in their meager Today interview Monday, they’re in trouble. These emails are all smoke, no gun

While there are plenty of jokes to be made about the Salahi’s White House state dinner party crashing, it is at the core an extremely serious breach of White House security that could have endangered the President’s life. That is not a joke. The focus now seems to be on the social office. Desiree Rogers to be exact. Is she about to be labeled the Social Czar?

At the heart of the story of Michaele and Tareq Salahi’s big adventure at last week’s state dinner is a security breach so unbelievable, I actually don’t believe it. However, the President would do well to heed the alarm being sounded by Rep. Peter King (R-NY) and “In the President’s Secret Service” author Ronald Kessler in this clip from yesterday’s “Today Show.” King calls Obama our “most threatened President ever,” and Kessler says “it’s only a matter of time before there’s an assassination.”

Some media outlets see the news that socialites Michaele and Tareq Salahi were able to get past state dinner security and even snap photos with President Obama as an alarming sign of poor security, some find fault with the Obama administration itself, and some think that the whole affair is funny. A poll: where do you come out?

The latest development in the saga of the polo-playing, dove-throwing socialites who crashed the first state dinner of the Obama administration is something that we suggested yesterday: Michaele and Tareq Salahi may have had help from the inside.

How does a pair of socialite reality-show wannabes crash their way into the most exclusive event in the nation — in the same room as senators, celebrities, and the President? Tareq and Michaele Salahi somehow managed to brazen their way past the Secret Service and into the White House without a hitch, leaving the news to break on their Facebook page. How did they do it?