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We’re trying to find out more about White House party crasher Tareq Salahi. Salahi is on the board of the American Task Force on Palestine, a DC lobby group closely tied to the Palestinian Authority government of Mahmoud Abbas. But his name seems already to have been scrubbed from the site. Here’s what it looked like before the party-crashing incident.

Meanwhile, if you need more evidence that Tareq Salahi is the Zelig of fame-grabbing celebrity-socialite nonsense, here’s video of Tareq and his wife interviewing Will.i.am and thanking him for his support for the America’s Polo Cup. Salahi is the captain of the US Polo Team, or at least that’s what he says. Does the US really have an official team?

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