Levi Johnston Lashes Out at Sarah Palin -- Can You Blame Him?

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Levi Johnston Lashes Out at Sarah Palin -- Can You Blame Him?
By Sarah Seltzer, AlterNet
Posted on September 5, 2009, Printed on September 5, 2009
http://www.alternet.org/story/142434/

Levi Johnston, former Sarah Palin accessory and newfound media personality, leveled some low blows at the grandmother of his child in this month's Vanity Fair.

In its pages, already being excerpted in splashy headlines across the Web, Levi casts Palin as a hodgepodge of stereotypes that feed into the sexist rumormonger's playbook: a bad mom who takes hourlong baths, wears Wal-Mart pajamas in the daytime and doesn't cook for her kids, a money-hungry, narcissistic diva, a grabby woman who tried to take her daughter's baby as her own. Oh, and a wife who doesn't sleep with her man.

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During the Republican National Convention, he and Bristol Palin were cleaned up, shorn, put in fancy clothes and literally paraded in front of a live and TV audience of millions. No one can forget how often the cameras on all the networks swung over to the Palin clan, zooming in on these two somewhat-dazed-looking teen parents-to-be.

The McCain/Palin presidential campaign literally effected the transformation overnight, turning two probably scared kids into the poster children for the anti-choice movement.

Levi and Bristol's suddenly upcoming nuptials were announced with fanfare, and they were applauded in a loud, public way for deciding to carry through with the pregnancy and get hitched. They drove the delegates and the right wing wild and the media wilder.

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As much as I cringe at Johnston's words, there remains a perverse satisfaction to watching him stomp through the countryside, terrorizing the villagers, seeking vengeance on his creators.

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[PetrusMonsFormicarum]

1. I like where he gripes

about Palin forcing him to cut off his beloved mullet before the Republic Party® Conventicle.

[TheCowsCameHome]

3. His mullet wasn't what got him into the whole mess.......

[SpiralHawk]

2. Republicon Family Values

Ptoooey. Give me good old-fashioned American values, and can that perverted Pharisitic Republicon ethos.

[TwilightGardener]

4. They used him--they needed a father/husband figure to stand with

Bristol in photo ops, so it didn't look like she was promiscuous and having some anonymous dude's bastard child. Love to see it backfire on them.

[Warpy]

5. They did. While I'm relieved poor Bristol didn't get a shotgun wedding

and a callow husband who needs at least 10 more years to grow up, it's just a little sad how these kids were used.

They should never have been put into the shark tank.

Palin has made a habit of hiding behind her children. I hope Levi is going to make that much more difficult from now on.

[Captain Hilts]

6. He's an idiot who should just shut up. nt

[comtec]

7. why? this is a mess PURELY of palin's making

take just a few minutes to enjoy the delicious schadenfreude before we have to go back to being proper liberals.

yes is is an idiot, and like palin his 15 minutes expired ages ago, but as long as these two paragons of RW values continue to attack each other, why nt le t them go at it?

The left is doing NOTHING one way or he other, our hands are clean.

and to be honest I need a good laugh as the health care situation is damned depressing.

[LatteLibertine]

8. IMO he's just as much of an attention whore and idiot as she is

I don't like either of them one bit.