Posted on 05/01/2009 3:05:03 PM PDT by redk
Some of our readers have emailed us wondering what Dennis Zaki at the Alaska Report website is alluding to with his teaser headline:
An iceberg is heading toward the Palins. Can it be stopped? I don't think so. Will it sink the ship, all signs say yes. Stay tuned...
We decided to do a little research. It is clear that the Alaskan leftwing blogs are working together to destroy Sarah Palin and her family. First their work centered on frivolous ethics complaints, and now they are moving on to the Palin family itself.
(Excerpt) Read more at conservatives4palin.com ...
An iceberg is heading toward the Palins. Can it be stopped? I don't think so. Will it sink the ship, all signs say yes. Stay tuned...
We decided to do a little research. It is clear that the Alaskan leftwing blogs are working together to destroy Sarah Palin and her family. First their work centered on frivolous ethics complaints, and now they are moving on to the Palin family itself.
Apparently there's some coordination going on among the anklebiting Alaskan blogs. (Surprise!)
Who do they think they are fooling? One day they post an anti-Palin article on their blog and the next day an ethics complaint is lodged using the very same language as the anti-Palin article?
On the day that Bill McAllister went on Eddie Burke's show to announce that Governor Palin had launched a Twitter account, the lefty Alaskan blogs seemed convinced that some bombshell would be dropped - and made posts with "hints" as to what it would be about, kind of like The Riddler in a Batman movie. See Mudflats and Celtic Diva and judge for yourselves.
Anyway, lets get back to the teaser headline on the "Alaska Report." It took about three minutes to discover where this headline originated -- the Immoral Minority blog. Our readers should be aware, if they are not already, that the operator of the Immoral Minority blog, "Gryphen," is a "Trig Truther," meaning somebody who does not believe that Trig Palin is Governor Palin's son. Examples of his "Trig Trutherism" can be found here, here and here. Gryphen also believes that Bristol Palin is pregnant again, and that Levi Johnston has been fathering children with other teenage girls.
Being a "Trig Truther" is the ultimate sign of Palin Derangement Syndrome. We were successful in our efforts to stop the Anchorage Daily News from linking to this nutjob's website.
So this guy is not the sharpest tool in the shed. This is where the "men behind the curtain" come in. The operator of the Immoral Minority blog admits that he is in regular contact with one Rex Butler and Tank Jones. Rex Butler is the high-priced attorney who is handling the law issues for the Johnston family. Butler magically appeared in court to defend Sherry Johnson on her drug-dealing related arrest - she originally was so broke she had to get a public defender.
How does Sherry Johnston afford an attorney such as Rex Butler? How do the Johnstons get the money to zoom around the United States giving interviews? How do they pay their rent/mortgage or even the payments on Levi Johnston's brand-new truck?
Airplane tickets from Anchorage to New York run a minimum of around $700 per person, and that doesn't include hotel stays and other transportation. Trips from Anchorage to Florida, where Mercede Johnston claimed to have traveled to when she appeared on the Larry King show, are running around $1200 round trip.
They have claimed on television that they are not receiving compensation for their appearances. So what gives? Levi has no job, the mother has no job, the sister has no job, so who is paying for this "Smear Palin" tour? If you recall from the Larry King interview with the Johnstons, you will remember Mercede Johnston explain that she had recently returned from Florida. Why Florida? Well, Florida is where Star Magazine has its headquarters. Hold on a second, Mercede gave an interview to Star Magazine!
These people surely do care about Tripp Johnston. They hit all of the reputable news sources to tell their story, from Tyra Banks to Star Magazine. Don't we all want a Mercede Johnston babysitting our child?
So while Rex Butler is handling the Johnston publicity schedule, Tank Jones is the private investigator whose job it is to dig up dirt on the Palin family. Together they are "Butler and Jones" specializing in ambulance chasing and infidelity claims.
Check out Tank Jones' MySpace page, specifically the "Who I'd Like To Meet" section:
Who I'd like to meet: You... If you believe that your signigicant (sic) other is having a fling and/or affair, call us. We'll unleash the truth. Here are his MySpace Friends.
Here is Gryphen admitting to being in contact with Butler and Jones and also admitting to working with other bloggers to smear Governor Palin:
By the way I was also happy to hear "Tank" Jones receive that shout out from the Johnston family. Tank was the man who graciously answered my questions about Levi and let me know, and therefore all of you, that he was safe.
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P.S. I have shared some of the more sensitive information with my fellow bloggers so do not worry that I am in any danger or that this information will not be made public at some point, it will. That is what makes us such a formidable community of bloggers.
Having the proof that Gryphen is in contact with Jones and Butler, we can now establish that Butler and Jones are the people behind the Levi Johnston "media tour across America," based on this next comment by Gryphen:
Now we all have to sit back and see what Rex Butler and Sherman "Tank" Jones have in mind for future Levi television appearances.
Ah, so there you have it. The lawyer and the private investigator are pushing the Johnstons to appear on television programs. This flies right into the face of Levi Johnston's claim that he is simply trying to clear his name in the media and that he is not "white trash." Levi can care less about giving his side of the story, he appears on these television shows because his attorney tells him to appear on the television shows. Unless of course, telling his side of the story involves getting an acting gig:
Johnston said he's working odd jobs and hopes to be an electrician. Or perhaps the publicity surrounding his relationship with Bristol will lead to an acting or modeling gig.
And all that talk about this not being about publicity. This has never been about Levi's son, it is about smearing Governor Palin, which is something Rex Butler himself took part in during the 2008 campaign. Is this Rex Butler or Al Sharpton?:
Blacks don’t have the levels of access to the governor and state commissioners as with past administrations, said attorney Rex Butler, an Alaska resident since 1983. It seems the posture of (Palin’s) administration with Blacks is: Don’t need them—don’t worry about them.
Apparently Butler is doing such a fine job of scheduling the Johnston's media circus that Sherry Johnston, currently awaiting trail for selling drugs, was able to skip out of the state without notifying the prosecutor in the case. This is, of course, a sure sign of innocence.
It should also be noted that Rex Butler is a consistent donor to Democrats.
The counter to all this is to publish these investigations conservative websites and Foxnews. Lets counter this disinformation with information on the smear merchants.
The far left does not want popular Conservative Republican Governor Palin running aginst their
Marxist Obama in 2012.
They know she has the best chance to expose and beat Obama.
Let them keep trying to destroy her life, it WONT work..so they are bringing up Levi Johnston and his nut job family going on Larry King and spending taxpayer money, how the hell is that Sarah’s problem. She has NOTHING to do with those idiots anymore. What they do is their problem, if the state wants to file a complaint against anyone, file it against the Johnston’s, they are the ones that did it
Just another bunch of pathetic losers employed by Axelrod. All these attacks on Palin haven’t gained much traction, and they have become so over the top, and so numerous that I doubt if very many people even pay any attention to them any more.
“Blacks don’t have the levels of access to the governor and state commissioners as with past administrations,” said attorney Rex Butler, an Alaska resident since 1983. “It seems the posture of [Palin’s] administration with Blacks is: Don’t need them—don’t worry about them.”Link (scroll down)
So who's pulling the strings of the Johnston family's new best pal, Rex Butler? I can guess.....
We have been told since September that some big bombshell about her was coming....any day now. None of it ever panned out, from the “Trig truther” crap to the affair.
All crap, if they ever had anything on her we would have found out about it last fall.
They are SO damn desperate to destroy this woman’s life..the question is WHY..she is back in Alaska..it is very obvious why they want to ruin her is because of one reason and one reason only..that she can beat Obama..follow the money, every single one of these idiots who are out to get her, are ALL democrats..or people who worked for the Obama campaign
Follow the money. Not all the attacks are funded by democrats, republicans like McCain, Mitt, Newt and Huckebee have a lot to lose.
Oh bull$hit
Not BS, most of the anri-Palin leaks coming from the McCain camp was form Mitt-witts former supporters.
And Mitt-witt, Huckster and McSocialist have no chance if Palin runs. For that matter the RN (SOCIALIST) C would be hurting for funds I dare say.
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