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‘The View’ Gangs Up on Stunned, Scared Levi Johnston (Barbara flails him!)
Fancast ^ | October 18, 2010 | Adam Buckman

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.


TOPICS: Education; Local News; Politics; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: levijohnston; palin; politics; television; wasilla
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I guess his usefulness to the Left and 15 minutes of fame are about up. Maybe he can date Cindy Sheehan.
1 posted on 10/18/2010 2:15:00 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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I find myself able to endure Mr. Johnston’s discomfort with enormous fortitude.


2 posted on 10/18/2010 2:18:39 PM PDT by Ronin (If he were not so gruesomely incompetent and dangerous, Obama would just be silly.)
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What a loser.


3 posted on 10/18/2010 2:19:36 PM PDT by samtheman
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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.


4 posted on 10/18/2010 2:19:54 PM PDT by Seruzawa (If you agree with the French raise your hand - If you are French raise both hands.)
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In other words: “Since you were not sucessful in bringing down Sarah Palin, we have no further use for you. Be gone.”


5 posted on 10/18/2010 2:20:16 PM PDT by 5thGenTexan
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But The View still put him on the show.

If he was ignored he’d just disappear.


6 posted on 10/18/2010 2:21:37 PM PDT by Mears
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Just five idiot leftists haveing a conversation in good leftist, we eat our own for ratings, manor.


7 posted on 10/18/2010 2:21:54 PM PDT by exnavy (May the Lord grant our troops protection and endurance.)
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the boy needs to man up.


8 posted on 10/18/2010 2:23:09 PM PDT by rrrod (at home in Medellin Colombia)
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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.


9 posted on 10/18/2010 2:24:48 PM PDT by T-Bird45 (It feels like the seventies, and it shouldn't.)
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"...you don’t need a high school diploma, which I’m working on anyway.”

He's been working on that for, what, two years now?

-PJ

10 posted on 10/18/2010 2:25:17 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too ("Comprehensive" reform bills only end up as incomprehensible messes.)
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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.

Does Barbara ever say anything without clenching her teeth?

Except when she's licking Hillary's feet, I mean.

11 posted on 10/18/2010 2:27:50 PM PDT by Talisker (When you find a turtle on top of a fence post, you can be damn sure it didn't get there on its own.)
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The ugly thing about this is, they’re no better examples of humankind than he.


12 posted on 10/18/2010 2:28:55 PM PDT by bcsco (Karl Rove, from Magnificent Bastard to Malignant Bastard in one day...)
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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!


13 posted on 10/18/2010 2:30:24 PM PDT by blondee123 (Illinois ELECT Adam Kinzinger - http://www.electadam.com/( rid US of marxism!))
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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


14 posted on 10/18/2010 2:32:52 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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If he would of been some young black running for mayor they would be praising him for going for it, with the odds against him having a child out of wedlock and not have a high school diploma.
15 posted on 10/18/2010 2:37:13 PM PDT by guitarplayer1953 (Rebellion to Tyrants is Obedience to GOD! Thomas Jefferson)
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It’s sort of like the Iran Iraq war.


16 posted on 10/18/2010 2:39:43 PM PDT by xp38
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

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.


17 posted on 10/18/2010 2:40:39 PM PDT by Jim Scott (Cautious optimist)
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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.


18 posted on 10/18/2010 2:42:56 PM PDT by Azzurri
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“Qualifications for mayor? There really are none,” he answered defensively.

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.

19 posted on 10/18/2010 2:50:29 PM PDT by TigersEye (Who crashed the markets on 9/28/08 and why?)
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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.


20 posted on 10/18/2010 2:51:03 PM PDT by DJ MacWoW (If Bam is the answer, the question was stupid.)
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