White House attempts to avoid responsibility for allowing insults to Reagan

You lay down with dogs, you get up with fleas, that is what I was always raised to believe. That and the sage wisdom that you are known by the company you keep. The White House in a feigned attempt at indignation over this incident, has issued a rebuke of the actions of their invited guests, but the fact remains, this president and his administration invited these individuals into the people's house. And as such, they are responsible for the conduct of their invited guests. Obama and his administration are responsible.

This vileness should have never happened, because it should have never been allowed to happen. They allowed these individuals into our house and they allowed them access to conduct themselves in the manner that they did. They allowed these homosexual activists their desires to defame and insult the image of one of our greatest presidents in our history and they were allowed to dance like moronic heathens in front of his portrait while they snapped photos to post to their facebook pages.

No mr. president, your administrations faux rebuking of their actions does not carry weight or any value of sincerity. You allowed these people in our house to do what they did and you are responsible. I sincerely hope that I am among many millions of other Americans who are offended and who will remember.

White House rebukes guests who flipped bird at Reagan portrait

The White House on Friday rebuked two visitors who were photographed last week at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue flipping the middle finger below a portrait of the late President Ronald Reagan.

The guests had been invited to a reception last Friday marking gay pride month. The images of them -- with both middle fingers raised, pointing up toward Reagan -- were first published by Philadelphia Magazine.

The White House did not approve.
"While the White House does not control the conduct of guests at receptions, we certainly expect that all attendees conduct themselves in a respectful manner. Most all do," Shin Inouye, a White House spokesman, said. "These individuals clearly did not. Behavior like this doesn’t belong anywhere, least of all in the White House."

Photographer Zoe Strauss and Matty Hart, national director for public engagement at the group Solutions for Progress, had posted the images of themselves to Facebook.
Hart, under his, wrote simply: "F--- Reagan."

He later posted a link on his Facebook page to the Philadelphia Magazine piece about their gesture.
Neither Strauss nor Hart have responded to FoxNews.com for comment.
Hart, though, defended his gesture in the Philadelphia Magazine article. "Ronald Reagan has blood on his hands," he said. "The man was in the White House as AIDS exploded."