I simply do not believe the Marxist view that adults in conducting their work are being exploited. And Levi, while he may be a low life, is an adult and is responsible for his own actions.
I don't think it's "Marxist" to make a distinction between honest and dishonest labor, between free and corrupt enterprise.
So he is not being exploited by the media and he was not exploited by the McCain campaign that asked Levi to hit the campaign trail with Sarah.
The parallelism is, to put it mildly, faulty. The Palin family took him in as one of their own in 100% good faith, and treated him exactly as such, a member of the family. Kathy Griffin and the other idiots are employing him in bad faith, with the primary intention not of making money but of bullying and embarrasing a woman. That's not capitalism, that's stalking.
Around a year ago when so many Freepers were fawning over Mr. Levi, I sensed that Levi was nothing but a punk, and I was right.
However, in being a worthless punk, he maintains the ability to control his life and he is in no way being exploited.
He is instead, selling out his child.