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Vanity Fair loses Dominick Dunne one month, and adds Levi Johnson as a contributor. That whirring sound people here in New York, is Dunne spinning at high-velocity in his grave.

The Vanity Fair piece may be found here.

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

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

"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."

"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?"

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."

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.

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

Cindy Sheehan’s replacement. He’ll last a short while and be as irrelevant and pathetic as she is now in Martha’s Vineyard.

Is the FR website emitting some sort of amnesia rays?

Folks, go back and read the threads when the pregnancy story first broke. Praise, praise, and overwhelmingly nothing but praise for Levi (great guy, hunk, model behavior, stand-up guy, etc.) and Bristol. Any criticism was *viciously* attacked.

Well, at least the “vicious” part hasn’t changed....just the direction.

Good rebuttal to the lies: http://www.conservatives4palin.com/2009/09/levi-liar.html

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.

Right adopting a baby and nobody would know