If you watched that Good Morning America segment with accused White House crasher Carlos Allen and his D.C. attorney, A. Scott Bolden, you saw an image of the “invitation” Allen provided to the show as proof that he “got an actual invite in the mail” to the Nov. 24 state dinner. But true to form, Reliable Source is now here to smack down that assertion. Allen’s “invite” looks instead an awful lot like the programs that were placed at each table setting at the event, “although he appears to have trimmed off the image of the White House and date, and cut out the presidential seal from the program cover … .”

“The image that appeared on ‘Good Morning America’ is the inside front page of the entertainment program,” said White House historian Barry Landau, author of “The President’s Table: 200 Years of Dining & Diplomacy.” “It was put at every place setting and does not represent, by any stretch of the imagination, an invitation to a state dinner at the White House.”

Washington Post Managing Editor Raju Narisetti’s invitation to the dinner has been posted to the WaPo’s web site for comparison’s sake. It looks like a real invitation, unlike the one Allen claimed he received in the mail, and actually has Narsetti’s name on it.