Posted on 04/03/2009 6:08:46 PM PDT by Hawk720
Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin is firing back at her grandson's teenaged father, Levi Johnston, for comments he made on TV about the circumstances surrounding his son's conception.
On an episode of "The Tyra Banks Show" to air Monday, Johnston, 18, claims that Gov. Palin did not think that he and her daughter Bristol were being abstinent when they were together.
"Bristol did not even know Levi was going on the show," Palin's rep tells People.com. "We're disappointed that Levi and his family, in a quest for fame, attention, and fortune, are engaging in flat-out lies, gross exaggeration, and even distortion of their relationship."
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I think those teams that were sent to Alaska gave up after the election.
Once the engagement was broken off, they must have done this to attack palin. They expected her to just sit and take it.
I think it is dishonorable that he would go “sleaze” in order to litigate his custody case in public.
Eric Smith is the trial judge in the Johnston case? And the high price lawyer for the Johnstons is an Obama supporter? I've heard it all now.
No. But, I own my own company and have paid obscene amounts of money to PR firms. That's exactly what they would recommend.
As for knowing what he said or didn't say, it's immaterial. In politics, it's about managing news cycles - extend positive news cycles, minimize negative news cycles. Commenting with anything other than "no comment", especially with a disgruntle family member, only extends a negative news cycle.
Lastly, I didn't bring it up before, but since you did, I'll respond. Palin made a serious lapse in judgment when she allowed her teenage daughter to be interviewed on prime time, national television. Again, no competent political consultant that had national campaign experience would think that to be a good idea.
Yeah I’m trying to say this is more serious than we realize while people act like she is an American Idol contestant they don’t like.
I'm not a Romney supporter.
I refuse to treat any politician who wants my vote as an idol who is above criticism. I'm an American citizen and a free man, not a subject. We fought a war to get rid of royalty in this country.
Saying that someone is making a tactical mistake by talking to the press is not "hateful". Get real.
Our country is lost.
haha!
Also, I'm really glad Sarah is fighting back. I don't see anyone coming to the defense of Sarah except Sarah! On the contrary, we have the haters saying we'll do better with a man.
Time to fight the nitwits, Sarah!
I wouldn’t say that I knew Levi was “bad news,” but I was about 98% sure that the “engagement” was pure bull. (I came to that conclusion, in part, based on Levi’s myspace page. That was not a boy who was ready to marry. )
Obviously, Johnston is being egged on by the Palin-haters in the media. Either that or he was paid a visit by Soros Charities..
Don't you dare try to tell me what I was thinking a few months ago. Actually, why don't you try not telling anybody what they were thinking...EVER!?
You missed the point then, as the charge wasn’t directed against you but that certain, notorious bunch that I described you before. If you don’t see yourself as part of them, then good for you. Because they ARE nothing but Palin haters.
So when people call her white trash and rather eloquently explain that this is why woman shouldn’t be allowed to vote much less hold office it isn’t hateful.
I love it when people on this board say whatever they want about her and then hide like little girls behind the idea that the rest of us are treating her like a god.
I’ll “get real” when you stop acting like a coward.
This assumes there will be no damaging headlines without a response from Palin. I disagree. The bad headlines are inevitable.
"No Comment" means Levi and his family manage the news cycle. There doesn't have to be an impetus to get a reaction from the kid. He's got a sexy story to tell about a target the drive-by's are hot to destroy. If he's not responding to Palin's camp, he's revealing juicy new details of all the nasty stuff he did to Bristol Palin under Sarah's roof. Either way, the MSM are going to run with this story.
Taking the "high road".
http://mkfreeberg.webloggin.com/why-they-hate-sarah-palin-so-much/
Ive met a lot of women whove achieved remarkable things in a mans world. I have admiration for all of them. But I have a lot more admiration for the ones who managed to get it done, without becoming bitter. Such an extraordinary thing, in ordinary women.
But for the woman who aspires to lead us all? Lead us all, in that way we keep talking about? It seems like so little to ask. And Palins got it.
The ones who dont have that cant stand it.....
I don’t think YOU get it. the media will report on anything Sarah, anything. whether she speaks or not.
She is defending her daughter and the HELL with the rest of us. I am with her.
The ones who dont have that cant stand it.....
I've followed the whole thread but you lost me with this. Can you make it simpler for more simple people?
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