In the upcoming October issue of Vanity Fair, 19-year-old Levi Johnston, the most famed-for-mere-sperminating figure in pop culture since K.Fed, poses glamorously — and drops some Wasilla bombs on his baby’s grandma, former Republican VP candidate Sarah Palin.
Among his quotables? That Sarah “walked around the house pouting” after her loss; that “there wasn’t much parenting in [the Palins'] house. Sarah doesn’t cook, Todd doesn’t cook—the kids would do it all themselves: cook, clean, do the laundry, and get ready for school.” And that Sarah repeatedly offered to adopt his and her daughter Bristol’s baby because “she didn’t want people to know that her 17-year-old daughter was going to have a kid.”
You’ll be hearing these and other tidbits from the interview all throughout the media for the next few days, no doubt. But do you want to?
Is the fascination with the former Alaskan governor and her family — specifically, the tabloid aspects of her personal life, and the tangential figures in it — exhausted at this point, or do you want more?
And more importantly, in the words of my colleague Margaret Lyons, “Can we include a poll: How many months until Levi has a dating show on VH1? (Loving Levi? Levi Spouse? Will the tagline be ‘I’m sorry, but I’m asking you to leave…eye?’)”
See the piece dissected and digested by MSNBC, below, and tell us what you think:
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I am no fan of Palin or the conservatives, but this kid is just running his mouth to try and make a buck. I don’t believe anything he says, and even if he was being truthful, big deal Palin is human. Leave it alone.
trust me in a few months he will be making out with Spencer Pratt to get some time in the tabloids
In all honesty I actually really like Sarah Palin, but I’m glad to see that even those that don’t can see what a creep this kid is. I mean, really? Is it that surprising that someone would like the idea of making a lot of money quickly?
I agree with your Spencer Pratt prediction, but I hope it doesn’t happen. Spencer is a little too good for this white trash.
Well said. I 100% agree on all counts.
I tend to think Levi is cashing in on an exclusive look at Palin. He is probably not lying. He just has information that is worth a lot. With that said, Palin gave this guy room and board and treated him like a family member. On a personal level he seems to be ungrateful. I guess the value of this information steered him in this direction.
I guess the shoe is on the other foot now, because Palin now knows how it feels to have an idiot badmouthing HER.
karma’s a b***ch.
LOL, well-put!
This kid is such trash. Why should anyone believe what he says? He’s shown time and again that he’s more than willing to whore himself for fame (said he would pose naked for the right amount of money, taken pics of him shirtless and his son in GQ, he’s reportedly interested in a career in Hollywood, he’s appeared on Larry King Live and even on the Tyra Banks Show for God’s sake!)
I believe everything he says. And why shouldn’t he speak to the media? He didn’t decide to drag himself into the spotlight, Mrs. Palin did it. Since he is already celebrity and will never have a normal life again, may as well make the most of it.
Um, did Sarah Palin herself literally drag him unwillingly by the feet to the convention in St. Paul? Because if she didn’t, I’m pretty sure that it was he himself who chose to expose himself to the world.
‘He might as well make the most of it’, that’s an interesting way to look at someone shamelessly whoring not only himself but a family he is not a part of and HIS OWN SON for attention and maybe some money. Just admit it. You find him credible because you hate Sarah Palin, not because he seems like a highly reliable source.
haha good one! and i’m sure that palin is dragging him into all these interviews. i bet she FORCED him to go on a date with kathy griffin. poor wittle levi just wants a normal life!
if he would shut his hole for ten seconds, and if the media would focus on the people that are actually in office and making the decisions, then levi would go back to a normal life.
Sarah Palin was not Levi Johnston’s legal guardian at the time of the Republican convention. She had no authority over him whatsoever. He could have declined to appear, but I’m guessing Levi Johnston wanted to be seen on worldwide TV. He wasn’t forced to do anything he didn’t want to do.
Why is the media so intent on glamorizing this loser? His 15 minutes are over. I’m no Palin fan but this is ridiculous. I mean, consider the source here… what a weasel.
Oh whatever,one moron talking about another moron. If that’s wrong we all shouldn’t be talking here. Go levi, you imbibe the spirit of America. But seriously, even you could do better than Kathy Griffin.
Is Levi giving Palin the high hard one?
Or is Palin giving him kicks in the crotch, Van Damme Style?
Sad after losing? Ya think? A perfectly adult reaction to losing something big and important, as seen through the eyes of an idiot kid who is so far from being an adult it’s pathetic. I really feel sorry for Bristol, because she’s saddled with this guy as her child’s father – I feel sorry for their baby, too. I think it’s equally ridiculous how the media is giving this immature brat any face time, simply because they want to continue to drag her name through the mud. How can *anyone* take him seriously?
the way the media portrays sarah palin (and the way much of america has bought into it) is such a pathetic commentary on american society.
how do they portray her? because theres the good and the bad and i think what you see is influenced by where you are. i feel like idk how everyone else feels about her.
Palin is an idiot who either doesn’t understand anything or deliberately lies to misinform the voting public. After reading her BS about “death panels”, which only a complete moron would believe, I lost all respect for her. Give it to her, Levi… she deserves it.
Whoever is getting the kick wherever, this is the tv show “Ow! My balls!” brought to us in our time and age. Idiocracy rules!
don’t leave anything along. that’s what she get for all the lies that she told. u know what thay say..the truth hurts..can’t stand the heat get out of kitchen
sara is an air head..why would anyone listen to her..
Have to wonder the same thing about you
No, your face is dumb.
god the dems must be really scared of sarah. why else do they keep rehasing everything she does? why does it matter? she lost. isn’t there more important political things to talk about??
as for levi…deadbeat should really think twice before he criticizes someone else’s parenting.
our media is so biased it makes me sick.
Sorry Coco. Republican or not, Sarah always came off as a bitch. All the same, I think it is beyond tacky what he is doing. This is his son’s family.
how she came off was never my question. i just don’t get why the media is so focused on tearing her down, when she’s not campaigning or really doing anything of any importance right now. if they wanna talk politics, there’s plenty going on in the white house. why all this focus on the person who lost??
Right, the dems are really scared of Sarah. In fact there must have been a lot of people afraid of sarah, she lost the election for McCain.
This just isn’t true. For the two weeks after she was announced as the VP candidate, the McCain/Palin ticket was actually AHEAD of the Annointed One, I mean, the Obama. It wasn’t until The subprime mortgage fallout (for which Republicans were largely blamed) did the McCain/Palin ticket fall behind Obama/Biden once again.
two weeks was about how long it took the media to research her past. after people started getting areal idea of her views, and actions, well, they could not have made it any esier for the dem’s to win. McCain probably did not look as closely as he should have here.
I mean, really? Which do you think would be more likely to give Republicans a drop in the polls, a huge drop in the nation’s economy (on a Republican Presdent’s watch), or lies about Palin’s past such as a supposed attempt to ban certain books in the Wasilla library?
i guess i need to clairfy…scared wasn’t the right word. i guess i meant threatened. they feel threatened by her, why else would continually drag her through the mud? because they don’t like her?
i hope its the first, because if they are doing it just for kicks, then that is beyond pathetic and they should work on their own lives before they throw stones at someone who isn’t really relevant in the political world
Free speach is at risk in the USA. Allow someone besides right wing liars to have some air time for a change.
Wow, um….I have a solution for you. Turn on NBC news. Or ABC news. Or CBS news, MSNBC, CNN or CNN Headline News. I guarantee you, they have very, very few “right-wing” liars on their airwaves.
There may not be that many right-wing outright liars on those new networks you mention, but there are are certainly quite a few fairly (or sometimes very) misguided right-wing pundits. It’s on the A.M. radio talk shows where you find the multitude of right-wing outright liars. One of the biggest dumb myths in the U.S. is that the media are liberal. Good grief, just look at Western Europe. We’re quite far to the right wing of the Western World. Dumb, dumb.
My point wasn’t that right-wing pundits don’t exist. My point was pretending that “free speech is at risk in the USA” because of an abundance of right-wing liars who are given airtime is absolutely ridiculous.
Okay, the US media may be more conservative than many outlets in Europe….so? Nancy Pelosi is also more conservative than Joseph Stalin. Would you call her a “conservative”? In relation to the political spectrum of 95% of Americans, many in the media are indeed liberal.
Yuck! They all make me sick – Levi and the Palins. I wish they’d all go away already! Please.
Jeez, I am sick near to death over this Palin/Johnston thing. Don’t we, as a nation, have more important stuff to deal with than this pathetic excuse for a soap opera? The media and more importantly, the American people should start focusing on things that have substance and importance. Enough already!!
Anybody who considers it “news” that a politician might differ from their public persona has been been in a coma for the last few decades. I’m no Sarah Palin fan, and I’m certainly not defending her – just stating the obvious – that if you are shocked or disappointed it can only be because you were dumb enough to believe what you saw on TV during a political campaign. Sorry to burst your bubble, but reality TV isn’t real either.
Famewhore alert.
I find it surprising that Levi’s comments are supposed to be at all shocking or even surprising. Sarah Palin was pouting after her loss. Normal reaction. She didn’t cook, clean, etc., how many Governors or people running for VP do? She wanted to keep her daughter’s pregnancy a secret and pretend the baby was hers. Also completely believable to me. It would be more surprising if she’d told her daughter to have an abortion. Levi never saw Palin picking up a fishing pole. She may have been too busy to hunt and fish before stepping down from office. Who cares. Another nobody trying to cash in on his 15 minutes of fame. I’d be happy to never hear from or about him or Palin again.
“She wanted to keep her daughter’s pregnancy a secret and pretend the baby was hers”
how is this normal behavior?
Oh, wow. I can’t believe you give more credit to Levi Johnston than Sarah Palin. Congratulations, you’re an idiot. He could say that Palin clubs baby seals in her spare time and you’d probably believe it.
Perhaps if McCain/Palin had one (and it’s not like I even picture them as the “dream team” or anything like that), we would be working towards building our economy instead of toeing the line (or perhaps crossing) of socialism. Please… PLEASE try telling me that Obama’s “Health Care Reform” isn’t socialist. Really, I’d get a kick out of it. At least America’s starting to realize he’s doing more harm than good in the White House.
I believe him. She is nuttier than a squirrel’s balls.
There is nothing classy about any of this.
can we remove these people from our view. no matter who speaks, it smacks of ignorance and greed.
Bristol is probably thanking her lucky stars that she didn’t marry this useless POS.
as a democrat id be afraid of SP, too. imagine that she got tons of americans on her side even though shes an absolute idiot with no experience beside presiding over a state that pays people to move there. great. the woman thinks she has internation experience because she “lives close to russia.” im a republican but i am sorely ashamed of her presence.
sure i believe some of what that kid says is true, which isnt to say hes not an a–hole, because hes dragging himself through a quagmire hes going to have to swim through the rest of his life considering he has to maintain a relationship with that family due to his son. but i agree with what has been said before: palins a normal person, of course she would offer to adopt the baby, a NORMAL mother would do that someplace conservative and this idiot was running for vice-president. as it stands, they did have to force him into the public at the beginning im sure, because if bristols baby-daddy wasnt in the spotlight the public would think she’d been hit-and-quit and that wouldnt have done for SP’s campaign at all.
The Palin daughter got a paying contract to advertise “abstinence only” birth control AFTER the baby. That’s a perfect example of media whoring, and Levi looks like a champ in comparison.
I’d like to see Levi get a Trojan Condoms campaign. He’d be a perfect spokesman, with relevance to the subject and the intended audience!
I, too, believe every word the kid says. Even if he’s exaggerating a bit, I still love him for it. It’s quite funny. I wish Sara Palin would just go back to watching TV in her pajamas from WallMart. Yuk!
“I, too, believe every word the kid says. Even if he’s exaggerating a bit”
Wow, can you explain the logic in believing “every word” he says, and then immediately admitting that he may be exaggerating?
In other words, you believe everything he says, even if everything he says isn’t true (a.k.a., “exaggerated”)?
Why would VanityFair waste its time and resources on this loser? Who cares what he thinks? I’m no Palin fan but this is totally over the line. This kid is milking his 15 minutes. Shame on Vanity Fair for trying to glamorize this weasel. It’s not journalism, it’s just rubbish.
vanity fair is rubbish. why would you trust a magazine that put jessica freaking simpson on the cover with the line “you call this fat?”
“Johnston: Palin was sad after losing campaign”. Well no fricking crap, Captain Obvious! It’s a normal human reaction!
seriously! its not being voted the class student council representative, its frikin vice-president; i wouldnt object if she’d gone out and shot something (hunting wise, not, you know) after she lost. id be pissed as hell.
This is a joke. I’m not a fan of Palin, but this Levi guy seems to be a real dope. Why should we believe anything he says? Why should we care what he says? Contrast the media’s interest in this story, with their lack of interest in a real story, Edward’s lying, etc. Hmm, I wonder why that is?
Remember when this was a site devoted to the entertainment industry? Jon and Kate, Octomom, 18 and counting, Levi…Isn’t there anything we can talk about otherwise? Can Entertainment Weekly find some actual entertainment to write about?
some people are entertained by this. it has a low-rent, soap-opera quality to it.
“Remember when this was a site devoted to the entertainment industry? Jon and Kate, Octomom, 18 and counting, Levi…”
—that is the industry. and i understand what you’re saying, but i think the better argument would be “what happened to the world, why are they interested in this stuff?” because EW is doing what its supposed to, writing about what people are interested in, however unfortunate their interests are.
this article has a really disturbing “mrs. robinson” vibe to it–a la ‘the graduate’. what are you getting at, vanity fair?
Sarah Palin is one of the biggest farces that have come along. Anyone who takes her seriously is very stupid and only gets their news from the likes of Fox News.apparently she is as poor a parent as she was a politician. Those who like her will believe only what the want to about anything irregardless of the facts.
Hahaha. You have no idea how hypocritical you sound. Fox News, yes, is a conservative news station–but if you don’t get your news from it, you’re getting your news from liberal media. Sure, CNN and BBC come closest to non-partisan, but still lean liberal.
“Those who [don't] like her will believe only what the[y] want to about anything [..]regardless of the facts.”