Posted on 09/05/2009 10:17:42 AM PDT by Josh Painter
Usually the leftist media can be counted upon to unite, seize upon an anti_Palin meme and run with it. That liberal solidarity, however, has all but vaporized in the wake of Levi Johnston's latest round of charges against Sarah Palin and her family, as promoted by Vanity Fair magazine.
The first cracks in liberal media wall appeared when only CBS of the big three alphabet television networks bought into the myth Vanity Fair's editor Graydon Carter had hoped to spread to take down Palin, as NewsBusters' Kyle Drennen reported:
"Teasing an upcoming segment on Thursday’s CBS Early Show about new attacks on Sarah Palin by the father of her grandson, Levi Johnston, co-host Maggie Rodriguez exclaimed: 'And shocking allegations that could shatter former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin’s conservative family image...'"[...]
"Unlike the Early Show’s accepting coverage of Johnston’s outrageous claims, NBC’s Today and ABC’s Good Morning America raised serious questions about his credibility."
Oops! Only one for three with the morning big three.
FAIL
The crack in the wall of lies spread a bit more with this Reclusive Leftist post titled "Did Bristol Palin dodge a bullet or what?":
"Levi is singing his song again to Vanity Fair, the song of course being, 'so, like, what do you want me to say about Sarah Palin? Cause, you know, whatever you want. Hey, do I get to keep the limo?' Levi is about as believable as The Pathological Liar on Saturday Night Live."Attention: Blogger not on board.[...]
"No wonder Bristol has decided that abstinence is best."
FAIL
The next crack in the wall for Levi's lies came from another unlikely source. Liz Smith wasn't falling for Levi's deception, and the columnist, who is in the habit of slamming Sarah, even felt the need to ask her liberal readers to cut her some slack for not joining in the feeding frenzy that Vanity Fair was trying to get started:
"Don't kill me here on this eve of the Labor Day weekend, but I am actually beginning to feel a bit sorry for Sarah Palin. At least in the matter of her estranged, almost-son-in-law Levi Johnston. This kid just can't keep his mouth shut."[...]
"I just don't see the wish to protect a teenage child as terribly evil or Machiavellian. Sarah Palin could play her well-worn 'Good Mom' card and even I would buy it."
[...]
"...I don't think Bristol tossed away endless nights of effervescent conversation when she broke up with him."
"Now, her mother is nobody to mess with. There is a Medusa behind those Foster Grants; an atmosphere of Faye Dunaway barking in 'Mommie Dearest,' -- 'Don't f*** with me, fellas. This ain't my first time at the rodeo!'"
When you're trying to smear Sarah Palin and you lose Liz Smith, you've lost one of your strongest potential allies.
FAIL
The cracks grew much longer, deeper and wider when the Washington Posts' Ruth Marcus, who prefaced her column by admitting that she had been less than charitable toward the 2008 GOP vice-presidential candidate:
"Finally, though, I find myself in Palin’s corner -- pushed there by Levi Johnston, her former future son-in-law, and the father of her grandson."[...]
"Is any of this true -- the talk of divorce, Sarah’s secret plan to adopt Tripp? I don’t know. Would anybody’s household look especially attractive if its inner workings were splashed on the pages of Vanity Fair by someone with every motive to accentuate the negative? I know mine wouldn’t."
"Johnston is an opportunistic creep..."
Remember that WaPo was founded in 1877 as an organ of the Democrat Party and has never strayed far from its original mission. When even the Post won't get on board your ship to score points against a prominent conservative who it otherwise delights in bashing, your boat is taking on water.
FAIL
But the unkindest glass cutter of all turned out to be the real jaw dropper of the bunch. Gail Collins, columnist for the mother of all liberal media outlets -- the New York Times -- exposed Levi's lack of cred in her September 2 column:
"For the first time in my life, I feel sympathy for Sarah Palin."If you can't convince the NY Times to buy what you're selling to beat Sarah Palin up with, your ship is headed for the bottom.[...]
"Given the fact that Johnston is a 19-year-old high school dropout whose mother was arrested last year on six felony drug counts, it is conceivable that he is not the perfect arbiter of normal families."
[...]
"So it would be helpful to know if Palin was 'always in a bad mood and she was stressed out a lot,' as Johnston claims. But really, we’re going to have to wait for a more reliable witness."
FAIL
So, two of the three major alphabet networks, the Washington Post, the New York Times and a smattering of liberal bloggers, all of whom can usually be counted upon to join in any attack on Sarah Palin, refuse to be convinced by the Levi line of BS offered up by Vanity Fair.
EPIC FAIL
- JP
I really wish Mr. Palin would put Levi out of our misery.
MSNBC defending Palin vs. Levi's smears
The leftist MSM doesn't do this out of any love for Palin. I think they realize that Levi is more a liability to their credibility than any benefit of using this tool any further would bring. Some libs I know, who otherwise disagree with anything Palin stands for, expressed sympathy for her as a person, not at least because of this ridiculous character assasination attempts.
Levi the Turd is 0% credible and 100% loathsome.
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Levi is trashy scum, and that’s perfectly obvious to people all across the political spectrum. The burning question is why, if Sarah Palin is such a devoted mother, she didn’t notice that Levi was trashy scum until it was way too late. Sure, no parent can totally control who their teenage daughter gets knocked up by, but Sarah was carrying on during the campaign about how Levi and Bristol were very much in love and had been planning to get married even before the oops pregnancy. By that time, Levi and Bristol had been “dating” for many months, and Sarah should certainly have known that he was emphatically NOT marriage material. She ended up heavily promoting him and giving him credibility, and since he’s trashy scum, he has predictably proceeded to milk that for all its worth. Hopefully the udder has just about run dry, and he’ll soon drop off the media radar for good, only to reappear in occasional brief yucky blips like Tonya Harding.
I really wish Mr. Palin would put Levi out of our misery.
You may have a relatively normal family, and nevertheless a hostile witness could probably have a hayday with it.
Thats probably one of the toughest things about going into public life, and one of the main reasons people would hesitate or refuse. Your life and your family are going to be spread all over the tabloids and every foible or failing, mistakes, tragedies, all your cellulite and crazy uncles are going to be Enquirer material for the edification of the masses at the grocery store checkout line.
Your whole life will get distorted, exagerated, blown out of proportion and mocked publicly just so somebody can fill some air-time or fill a few inches of newsprint. Nothing you can do about it.
Because her daughter was pregnant to this nut and Sarah was obviously too classy to be in front of crowds trashing her daughter’s then fiancee’. What the heck was she supposed to say back then?
No, this is all on Levi. It’s his backstabbing, lying and whoring himself. And trashing his child’s grandparents.
Actually, that MSNBC Nora O’Donnell package is the same one that first aired on NBC’s Today Show.
The not-ready-for-prime-time MSNBC line up of Schultz, Matthews, Olbermann and Maddow, all of whom are certifiably insane, are on board with anything that bashes Palin, including the VF Levi load of lies.
Which is why I didn’t mention MSNBC in my post.
- JP
Track is due back from Iraq this month. Levi should be afraid... very afraid.
- JP
Plus, the vile, backstabbing trashing of the Johnston clan didn’t start until the split-up. But GS you are right that he was a POS all along.
Except if you are a Liberal Democrat.
Meant of course the trashing BY the Johnston clan.
“No comment, it’s a private family matter” would have been a heck of a lot better. And parading him across the stage at the convention was inexcusable (and there are more people than just Sarah who should be taking the rap for that — McCain shouldn’t have allowed it, even if Sarah wanted it).
{The burning question is why, if Sarah Palin is such a devoted mother, she didn’t notice that Levi was trashy scum until it was way too late}
Perhaps Todd, Sarah, and Bristol had the vain hope that Levi would change for the better with the arrival of the baby. Bristol and Levi maintained the relationship for a few months after the birth. By that time, they could have seen Levi refusing to change for the better and thefore caused the breakup.
So far, the Palin camp has not issued a rebuttal to the Vanity Fair piece. No comment is probably the best response.
And had he not appeared, the anti-Palin brigade would be outraged that he was being "secreted away" to avoid embarrassment. A no-win situation to be sure.
At the time embracing him was better than hiding he and the daughter away. That would have only brought on MORE speculation.
Hindsight is 20/20 you know and I guess Sarah should have gazed into a crystal ball and known that the father of her grandchild was going to do Vanity Fair hit pieces on the family, not marry her daughter, but alas she didn’t./s
And I’m sure Bristol thought she was in love with him at the time. Maybe Sarah should have embarrassed her daughter even more by publicly ignoring the whole thing. Not that the media would let her do that.
Yes, he was a scumbag all along. But teenagers will do want they want to do. Unless you lock them up. So, Sarah should have known, McCain should have known...I prefer to place the blame squarely on the little ratbag.
No the question is why do people who hate people continue to repeat this canard?
It has been stated many times that she and Todd tried to keep them apart and Levi (in one of his many changing stories) has even whined about how Sarah tried to take Bristol to Juno at one point.
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