Vanity Fair publishes Levi's story: 'Me and Mrs. Palin'

Politico ^ | Michael Calderone

[OldDeckHand]

Levi Johnston, not content with just a GQ spread, heads to Condé Nast sibling Vanity Fair to offer a first person account: "Me and Mrs. Palin." The magazine posted a couple excerpts early this morning, including Johnston's account of how Palin considered keeping Bristol's pregnancy a secret.

Sarah told me she had a great idea: we would keep it a secret — nobody would know that Bristol was pregnant. She told me that once Bristol had the baby she and Todd would adopt him. That way, she said, Bristol and I didn’t have to worry about anything. Sarah kept mentioning this plan. She was nagging — she wouldn’t give up. She would say, “So, are you gonna let me adopt him?” We both kept telling her we were definitely not going to let her adopt the baby. I think Sarah wanted to make Bristol look good, and she didn’t want people to know that her 17-year-old daughter was going to have a kid.

The full piece will be in the October issue. So for now, Vanity Fair's only offering a couple excerpts and a behind-the-scenes video of the Johnston photo shoot, which includes a discussion of whether he'd pose for Playgirl. Seriously.

[SJSAMPLE]

Something about that Levi boy says meth, dingy motel room and DOA.

Just sayin’.

[swain_forkbeard]

Yeah. It’s not so complicated.

He thought he had his ticket punched for a trip to fame and fortune with the Palins, and then they kicked him off the bus.

So now he’s trying to cash in while he can. That’s all.

[PureSolace]

Why doesn’t Levi Man-Up?

[Virginia Ridgerunner]

Sarah doesn’t cook, Todd doesn’t cook...

Hmmmm......

[USFRIENDINVICTORIA]

Bristol and Obama’s mother were about the same age when they got pregnant. Apparently, the MSM goose sauce doesn't work on ganders.

[swain_forkbeard]

“Shut up...”

He’ll shut up when people stop paying him to talk or someone pays him to shut up. Not sooner.

[fantom]

This why i miss the Clintoon Gang. By now there would be a complete expose of his entire family . all legal and financial dealings complete with detestable , but indefensible rumors and innuendo. The Pubs are such pussies .Hows that turn the other cheek crap working out .

[Hegewisch Dupa]

worst Today Show-logo placement ever

[9YearLurker]

Haven’t read the full article. On the surface, it does sound like the idea (if it were real) would have been for Bristol to give birth privately, and then for the Palins to adopt their grandchild anonymously. Not so whacked out as to sound impossible for a political grandmom and mom in a fix. Fits with her having kept her own pregnancy quiet for so long.

Damaging insofar as politicians are supposed to be quasi-open books re: their families, and in an odd way almost heroic and an all-round solution. But the story could hurt Sarah, I’d imagine, and it’s good that it’s only coming for an in-the-tank, paid, characterless twit with so little credibility.

If anything, everything we know or hear even rumored about her suggests someone acting on high principle, but sometimes at the cost of leaving a opening for criticism.

On the other hand, could very well be (more likely) entirely made up and put into the twit’s mind by those looking for an outrageous and false story to discredit her. We know that’s been going on in spades, and that such operators have a thorough hold on Levi.

Given the obviously false lies that have been repeatedly generated about her, I’m perfectly fine with guessing this fits into that category, ignoring it, and moving right by without further comment. In fact, I feel like washing my eyeballs off after just reading the blurb posted here.

[Sarah Barracuda]

Well looky here, looks like Sarah is well...COOKING. Levi is an idiot. He is nothing more then a puppet for the left but he is too damn stupid to see it

[machogirl]

Levi may be an “adult” as defined by his age, but he is no gentleman.

[TC Rider]

The kids an obvious liar and opportunist and is letting his new liberal “friends” put words in his mouth.

Interviewer: "So Levi, would you say that Governor Palin and Todd are just in it for the money?

Levi: "Uh, yeah"

Interviewer: "Would you say that the Governor knew you and Bristol were having sex? In fact, that you were having sex on the deck outside the breakfast nook at 8:00 AM on the morning that McCain chose her as his VP?

Levi: "Uh, yeah"

Interviewer: "All right Levi, would you say the Palen marriage is on the rocks due to numerous affairs of both Tod and Sarah? In fact, that she was turning tricks with eskimos in exchange for opportunities to smash in the heads of baby seals?

Levi: "Wha? Oh, yeah."

Interviewer: "So Levi, is it your contention that you were Todd's 'cabana boy' after snow machine season?

Levi: "Huh? No way dude!"

Interviewer: "Let's move on..Levi you realize your poor attitude is hurting your earning potential.."

[Sig Sauer P220]

Levi, in his 15 minutes of fame, is being used by the Left at their pleasure. He will be dumped by them at the opportune time.

The Sheehan Effect.

[Diogenesis]

"Who's the Palin Leaker from the McCain Campaign? (Mark Wallace, Romney pimp)
National Review Online: The publication of a Vanity Fair profile of Sarah Palin
appears to have opened old wounds in the McCain campaign.
... the source of the “Diva” leak was Nicolle Wallace’s husband."

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"Peeking Out From the McCain Wreckage: Mitt Romney"

"Someone's got to say it: IS MITT ROMNEY RESPONSIBLE FOR OBAMA'S VICTORY?"

"Vanity: Team Romney Sabotaged Palin and Continuing to Do So?"

"Romney Supporters Trashing Palin"

"Romney advisors sniping at Palin?"

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Late in October, The American Spectator's The Prowler revealed:
"Former Mitt Romney presidential campaign staffers, some of whom are currently working for Sen. John McCain and Gov. Sarah Palin's bid for the White House,
have been involved in spreading anti-Palin spin to reporters, seeking to diminish her standing after the election.
'Sarah Palin is a lightweight, she won't be the first, not even the third, person people will think of when it comes to 2012,'
says one former Romney aide, now working for McCain-Palin.
'The only serious candidate ready to challenge to lead the Republican Party is Mitt Romney.
He's in charge on November 5th.'"
The Prowler added: "Some former Romney aides were behind the recent leaks to media, including CNN, that Governor Sarah Palin was a 'diva' and was going off message intentionally."
The Romney supporters in the McCain campaign had access to internal polling which indicated well in advance of the November 4 election that McCain had no chance to win.
So they began working to position their man Mitt for a run in 2012. Just two days after the election,The Palmetto Scoop reported:
"One of the first stories to hit the national airwaves was the claim of a major internal strife between close McCain aides and the folks handling his running mate Sarah Palin."
"I’m told by very good sources that this was indeed the case and that a rift had developed, but it was between Palin’s people and the staffers brought on from the failed presidential campaign of former Gov. Mitt Romney, not McCain aides."
"The sources said nearly 80 percent of Romney’s former staff was absorbed by McCain and these individuals were responsible for what amounts to a premeditated, last-minute sabotage of Palin."
These aides loyal to Romney inside the McCain campaign, said The Scoop, reportedly saw that Palin would be a serious contender for the Republican nomination in 2012 or 2016, which made her a threat to another presidential quest by Romney.
Erick Erickson, who organized Operation Leper, said:
"Here’s what I think: I think there are some staffers on the McCain campaign who seriously screwed up the roll out of Sarah Palin, to which Governor Palin herself objected.
These staffers are now out trying to finish her off thinking, as typical D.C. types do, that if they don’t do it to her, she’ll do it to them. They just never understood who Palin is or what she is about."
"Likewise, I do think there are some staffers and others who expect Mitt Romney to run again in 2012,
they decided McCain could not win, and decided to undermine Sarah Palin and her chances hoping it would ingratiate themselves with Mitt Romney."

[Anima Mundi]

Even if true, it is all, as we have been told over and over, a private situation. It can’t be worse that she was thinking about covering up something that her daughter did than that Clintons actually DID cover up what Clinton himself did...and we were told that there was no there-there even when he was President.

[Sunshine Sister]

My thoughts exactly.

[jonrick46]

I am wondering when the libel lawsuits against Vanity Fair and Levi Johnson begin.

[CondorFlight]

IMHO Levi is being used by those who want to besmirch Palin; and he is too young/inexperienced in the ways of the media
to know that they will dump him as soon as he is no longer useful to them.

[ansel12]

On the surface, it does sound like the idea (if it were real) would have been for Bristol to give birth privately, and then for the Palins to adopt their grandchild anonymously. Not so whacked out as to sound impossible for a political grandmom and mom in a fix. Fits with her having kept her own pregnancy quiet for so long.

You are as bad as the far left. Bristol's pregnancy was well known in Alaska so that is idiotic to think she could "privately" deliver, Palin never hid her pregnancy and you really think that it isn't leftist silliness to think that a 44 year old sitting Governor with five kids would find and adopt a rare, white, newborn, out of the blue immediately after delivering her own Down syndrome newborn?

[RoshYisrael]

Or how about the media not going after oslimbo’s butt buddie, who had sex and illegal drugs with the so called president. They could fill their magazines with wonderful heart wrenching stories of barries love of man sex and drugs.