Posted on 10/18/2010 2:14:50 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Levi Johnston looked like he was about to cry as he endured a withering interrogation by the ladies of ‘The View‘ Monday morning.
Johnston, the 20-year-old Alaskan, who’s best known as the publicity seeking father of Bristol Palin’s baby, was raked over the coals by Barbara Walters and company on the daytime talk show. The segment aired just a few minutes after the co-hosts discussed last Thursday’s dramatic walkout by Joy Behar and Whoopi Goldberg during an appearance by Bill O’Reilly.
‘The View’ Hosts Open Up About O’Reilly Mess, Deny It Was Staged
In introducing the inexperienced Johnston, Walters made it plain she doesn’t think much of him. “You and I have not met,” Barbara said, seemingly through clenched teeth. “I have to say that in my own mind, I have walked out on you many times,” Walters scolded. “You became famous for impregnating a 17-year-old girl, you’re 20 years old, you don’t have a high school diploma yet, you don’t have a trade, now you’re running for mayor [of Wasilla, Alaska, pop: 10,000]. Would it not be better for you, instead of just seeking publicity, to learn a trade, to find a job, to get an education, and to support your son?”
Visibly stunned by this dubious welcome, Johnston lamely attempted to distribute a yellow rose to each of the five women, who rejected the flowers and demanded he answer Barbara.
“I’m gonna have to say running for mayor is a job, that is a job I want to take,” Johnston stammered, while the co-hosts hammered him with questions.
“What are your qualifications?”
“Qualifications for mayor? There really are none,” he answered defensively. “You gotta live in the city limits for one year, you don’t need a high school diploma, which I’m working on anyway.”
“You have people who have serious problems [in Wasilla],” said Sherri Shepherd. “Do you really think you’re giving the people of Wasilla any kind of respect by honestly saying you’re gonna run for mayor? Do you think you’re hurting the people of Wasilla?”
“I don’t see how I’m hurting them any more than the next guy,” Johnston said.
Watch Joy and Whoopi walk out on Bill O’Reilly:
(VIDEO AT LINK)
Whoopi Goldberg asked him to outline his platform, to which Johnston replied, “At this point, I couldn’t tell ya.”
With that, it was Shepherd’s turn to take him to task. “Usually when people say they’re running for mayor they’ve thought about it before they actually run,” she scoffed.
Elisabeth Hasselbeck asked him to comment on Bristol’s performance so far on ‘Dancing with the Stars.’ “Are you watching her tonight when she dances?” Hasselbeck inquired.
“I’ve seen her one time … I wish her the best of luck,” he said politely.
“How often do you see your son?” fired Walters.
“When I’m in Alaska and [Bristol is also] there, yeah, I have him,” Levi said, looking like he was about to tear up.
In their zeal to grill Johnston, the ladies’ questions overlapped. “What’s motivating you [to run for office]?” asked Joy, while Sherri demanded to know what party he was representing (“Conservative,” he answered).
When the segment was over, Walters thanked him for being a good sport. Earlier in the interview, Johnston declared that he doesn’t regret anything he’s done in his life (in answer to a question from Joy about why he posed nude in Playgirl). By the end of his segment, he may have been moved to amend that statement to say he regrets coming on ‘The View.’ But if he did regret it, he didn’t say so.
I find myself able to endure Mr. Johnston’s discomfort with enormous fortitude.
What a loser.
The sad thing is that he’s probably no worse than 90% of the rest of mayoral candidates in the USA. Apparently he’s not a crooked lawyer. That would make him better than 90% actually.
In other words: “Since you were not sucessful in bringing down Sarah Palin, we have no further use for you. Be gone.”
But The View still put him on the show.
If he was ignored he’d just disappear.
Just five idiot leftists haveing a conversation in good leftist, we eat our own for ratings, manor.
the boy needs to man up.
I can’t think of a better target for this group of (mostly) post-menopausal harpies. IMO, it is only his high profile that keeps him from a thorough beatdown delivered by Bristol’s dad.
He's been working on that for, what, two years now?
-PJ
Does Barbara ever say anything without clenching her teeth?
Except when she's licking Hillary's feet, I mean.
The ugly thing about this is, they’re no better examples of humankind than he.
Don’t feel a bit sorry for him, he asked for all this fame with his betrayal of Sarah & her daughter! Although I loathe THE VIEW!
He says he represents the “Conservative” party..WOW Levi, do you even know what a Conservative is..I think even John McCain knows more about Conservatism then this ass clown LOL
It’s sort of like the Iran Iraq war.
Levi Johnston is a creep and the left tried hard to use him to embarrass Sarah Palin but it never really worked. Most parents - even liberals - don’t approve of a teenage guy impregnating his teenage girlfriend, dropping her as soon as he could then talking trash about Sarah Palin and her family (Johnston later admitted he lied) and generally making an a** of himself in the media. Apparently, the left, as epitomized by the ladies of The View (minus Elisabeth Hasselbeck) have decided that Levi Johnston is useless to them now and they can look good by attacking him for his feckless behavior. Opportunistic but typical of the left media. As for Levi Johnston: zero sympathy. He’s reaping what he sowed.
The View cast must feel real proud of themselves, verbally assaulting a mentally handicapped individual. The combined IQ on that stage had to be less than 100.
Now who can blame him? 0bieber was elected President with barely any more experience than Levi Johnson has. The idiots who elected the Ice Cream Scooper In Chief created the sense that any moron is fit for office.
What Babwa said was true but it didn’t need to be said on camera. If she wasn’t a lib the left would be screaming.
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