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Khloé Kardashian Odom was roaming around the White House earlier today along with the rest of the Lakers wives.

The ladies took a private tour of the White House before joining their men in a ceremony honoring the team's 2009 NBA championship

She even got to shake hands with President Obama and was obviously delighted by the honor. "Such an amazing day! I just meet Obama with my husband! :)," she tweeted.

Lamar echoed that sentiment on his own Twitter, "This is unreal."

Meeting the president—just one more perk of marrying a Laker.

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Check out Khloé in her usual surroundings—the red carpet—in our Lollipop Girls gallery.

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Timing is everything. Unfortunately, the White House's stinks.

How else to explain why President Obama's crew thought it would be a good idea to enlist Jay Leno—the reigning Most Hated Man in Prime Time Late Night—as the emcee of this year's White House Correspondents Association dinner?

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At least Sarah Palin's finding work in this crappy economy.

The former governor of Alaska started her new job today as a Fox News commentator, trading opinions and talking politics with Bill O'Reilly on his top-rated cable show.

While touching on President Barack Obama's job performance, Majority Leader Harry Reid's racial comments and whether or not Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi is crazy, the conversation kept returning to the one topic about which the Going Rogue author is an avowed expert: Sarah Palin.

A warm and welcoming O'Reilly presided over the low-key confab, quizzing Palin about recent media reports about the 2008 presidential campaign, promoting her upcoming Tea Party appearance and smiling as he worked to set things straight with comments like, "You know, governor, the perception of you is that you're not that smart."

He was, you know, just trying to clear things up. So did she change your perception tonight?

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Politics can be a divisive issue, but surely we can all agree on one thing: Hot Vampires!

Barbara Walters isn't the only person who finds the Obamas fascinating.

In fact, Michelle may have topped The View doyenne's annual special, but Oprah Winfrey gets a whole hour with the White House's golden couple.

Chatter gets really deep during this holiday-themed sit-down, too.

"Is there a greater pressure to give a good gift when you're the president, or can you get away with a lesser gift if you're the president?" Oprah asks in a clip of the special airing Sunday at 10 p.m. on ABC.

Like we said, this is hard-hitting stuff.

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TLC

Are supersize reality families out? Is Steven Seagal—gasp!—in? And is Wednesday the cure for Ugly Betty? 

The answers—and more questions about Desperate Housewives, Brothers & Sisters, Monk and other finales, fall and otherwise—in the latest TV ratings quiz:

1. Jon & Kate is over. Michelle Duggar is hospitalized. Is this it for the giganto-family genre? Not if TLC keeps getting some of its best ratings from its biggest casts. Last week, while the network averaged 775,000 prime-time viewers, per Nielsen, an all-new episode of the Duggar army's 18 Kids and Counting scored 1.2 million, and an all-new episode of the Hayes squad's Table for 12 scored 889,000.

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Mel Brooks, Robert De Niro and Bruce Springsteen partied Washington, D.C.-style this weekend with President Barack Obama.

And they didn't have to party-crash to do it. 

The über-talented trio, along with jazz pianist and composer Dave Brubeck and opera singer Grace Bumbry, were acknowledged for their notable artistic accomplishments during the Kennedy Center Honors Saturday evening, according to the Washington Post. 

The ceremony recognizes those who have defined American culture through the arts as a living memorial to John F. Kennedy. 

Jack Black, Matthew Broderick, Edward Norton, Ben Stiller, Sting, Martin Scorsese, and Philip Seymour Hoffman were among the nearly 300 guests in attendance. 

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You didn't think Saturday Night Live would go easy on Tiger Woods, did you? Skewering the week's most scandalous stars is par for the course on the late-night laughfest. (Sorry, we just couldn't resist.)

Gossip Girl's gorgeous Blake Lively and Rihanna both graced the New York stage last night, and while the episode can be considered a bright spot on the season as a whole, it was Lively's turn as Woods' woman scorned that stole the show. SNL gave us their take on what went down between the golf pro and his wife, Elin Nordegren, after the cul-de-sac car crash...and it's not pretty.

And good news: The sketch show didn't forget about the long lost Salahis, either (remember that one couple who crashed the White House last week? No?). Take a look at what those two were up to during President Obama's most recent public address...

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Even if they hadn't shown up uninvited to the Obama administration's first state dinner, we're starting to think the Salahis would have appeared on our radar eventually.

Toreq and Michaele Salahi, a couple of publicity-seekers who thought rubbing elbows with the commander in chief would make an appealing plotline for The Real Housewives of D.C., ended up setting off a media firestorm about the state of security at the White House. (And Redskins games, but more on that later.)

After the Salahis opted not to appear today before a House Committee on Homeland Security, committee chair Bennie Thompson says they're getting the subpoena process rolling.

If they don't show up at a future hearing, Thompson told the Washington Post, they could be subject to "contempt of Congress."

One would hope, he added, that they would be "as willing to talk to Congress as they have been to talk to the media."

True, the Salahis don't appear very camera shy—especially that Michaele!

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They finally score an actual invitation, and then go and turn it down.

Tareq and Michaele Salahi, the couple who infamously got past the Secret Service to crash President Barack Obama's first White House state dinner, released a statement outlining all the ways they have been cooperating with the government's investigation into the matter. 

But as for that hearing before the House Committee on Homeland Security on Thursday...well, they aren't coming to that.

"They therefore respectfully decline to testify," reads the statement from the couple, who have already endured Matt Lauer's grilling on Today earlier this week.

Which is almost like testifying before Congress, right? (Or maybe we're thinking of The View.)

In any case, the couple assert that they will not be making an appearance because no laws were broken, the invitation protocol was "either deficient or mismanaged" and "there were honest misunderstandings and mistakes made by all parties involved."

Or maybe they have another engagement to crash Thursday?

Meanwhile, Jim Messina, the White House Deputy Chief of Staff, issued a memo admitting that staffers "did not do everything [they] could have done to assist the United States Secret Service in ensuring that only invited guests enter the complex" and listing new guidelines for handling such events.

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Enough. Let's go hang with some Sneaky Bachelors.