Remember reading that the decorator, the guy the Obamas are also using, huge among those with deep pockets, spent obscene money to do the offices of the then Merrill Lynch CEO? And that it included a RUG costing well over 87K? We naturally assumed was some Doris Duke collection level, amazing hand knotted antique?

Well......I came upon this typical of everything I luv about them piece saying the Obamas were paying for their White House renovations THEMSELVES; it reiterated they are using the guy above:

http://nymag.com/news/intelligencer/55679/

Moving right along, I finally got really curious about seeing the Merrill run we all heard about, given it was mentioned again. I Googled......and I was stunned seeing the reality of this RUG. Prepare yrselves:

http://weeklyworldnews.c.../john-thains-87000-rug/

(sorry, I am buys saw I had pasted a non working pink and just fixed this.)

This is supposed to be black humor, I guess. Has anyone seen the actual rug?

I know.....deadly and wonderful. My issue is....I have Googled into the ground and can not find an actual image of the actual rug!!!!!! Why? How can that be? Only piece of hard data I found was that it is (as one wold assume) Persian.

Wouldn't everyone like to SEE THE THING?? I would, boy.

Good choice of smile.

I have an account there, they are incompetent verging on completely faux.. In some part, I paid for the thing....and I WANNA SEE IT, OK? I mean doesn't everyone besotted by rugs wanna see it? Along wiht the one they paid 44K for.