White House gate crashers’ shame extends to NBC, ‘Today’

The Salahi’s desire to appear on Bravo’s “Real Housewives” reality franchise may have driven them to crash a White House state dinner. So, why didn’t Matt Lauer ask the fame-whoring couple about it when the appeared on “Today?”

Why, intra-corporate courtesy, of course. The same courtesy that seems likely to have delivered the Salahis to the “Today” show in the first place:

As applicants to appear on Bravo’s The Real Housewives of Washington, D.C., Tareq and Michaele Salahi had signed a contract with the network limiting their television appearances. And according to a booker at a rival network, an NBC staffer has admitted that Bravo prevented the Salahis from giving their initial exclusive interview to anyone other than NBC News, which is under the same NBC Universal corporate umbrella as Bravo. (via A Bravo Contract Delivered White House Gatecrashers to the Today Show)

Well done, Salahis. Apparently shamelessness is contagious.