Book Wars. Palin v. Johnston – Who’s Got the Slam Dunk?
2 09 2009Oh boy.
Vanity Fair does it again. Get ready for the latest teaser extraordinaire about life in the Palin house after the 2008 election. The world’s most infamous ex-almost-son-in-law has let loose a couple interesting little nuggets of which there promise to be more in the upcoming full article entitled “Me and Mrs. Palin.”
“The Palin house was much different from what many people expect of a normal family, even before she was nominated for vice president. There wasn’t much parenting in that 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. Most of the time Bristol would help her youngest sister with her homework, and I’d barbecue chicken or steak on the grill”
“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.”
“Sarah was sad for a while. She walked around the house pouting. I had assumed she was going to go back to her job as governor, but a week or two after she got back she started talking about how nice it would be to quit and write a book or do a show and make “triple the money.” It was, to her, “not as hard.” She would blatantly say, “I want to just take this money and quit being governor.” She started to say it frequently, but she didn’t know how to do it. When she came home from work, it seemed like she was more and more stressed out.”
It’s time to check and make sure those little fans in your computer tower are fully operational, because I believe certain segments of the internet have actually burst into flames.
The rest of the article is due out later this month.
One can imagine “Mrs. Palin” in some undisclosed location furiously unloading into a recording device for her ghost writer, adding an extra chapter in her book called “Levi Johnston is a Liar Again.” That comes right after the other chapters entitled, “Levi Johnston is a Liar,” “Those Ethics Complaint Filers are Liars,” “That Ex-Public Safety Commissioner is a Liar,” “Those McCain Staffers are Liars,” “That Former Wasilla Mayor is a Liar,” “That Police Chief is a Liar,” “Republican Event Coordinators Everywhere are Liars,” “The Alaska State Legislature Lies,” and my personal favorite, “Those Bloggers are Liars…and Pathetic Also.”
While all this is going on, Mrs. Palin is off somewhere in an undisclosed location (known not even to her own father) working on her memoir.
“Sarah’s been out of town for almost a month now,” said Chuck Heath,who is on a campaign swing through Idaho for GOP congressional candidate Vaughn Ward. “I don’t know exactly where she is, but she’s writing her book. She e-mails me quite frequently. She asks, ‘Oh, what happened on June 13, 1978?’ This is material for her book.”
Her e-mails to her dad, he said, have asked about “trivial things like maybe a basketball game, ‘How many points did I score here,’ ‘When did we go to the Boston Marathon?’ … Mainly sports.”
Hmmm. Juicy insider Palin gossip from Levi, or “I Played High School Basketball With an Injured Ankle, and By the Way Everyone is a Liar.” Wonder which book is going to be the “slam dunk?”
September 3rd, 2009 at 5:35 AM
Thank you so much Lori and anyone else who posted bits from the VF article, I will be picking up one when it comes out. I personally think Palin is being groomed by somebody, simply due to her silence, and if it’s Murdoch, it’s only because he believes she can make him money. Somehow I think he’s too saavy (and smarmy) a businessman to think he can actually groom her into presidential material.
I’m picking up Micheal Wolff’s book later today, The Man Who Owns The News: Inside The Secret World of Rupert Murdoch,
I’ve wanted it for awhile, but now I have to go buy it if he’s involved with Palin!!
September 3rd, 2009 at 6:18 AM
Thanks, Lori, for posting the excerpts of Levi’s VF article. I think I’ll pick up a copy when it comes out in Florida. I have to see it for myself because I too cannot believe she called the baby the “R-word” and it sounds like it was a habit. Just awful. As a parent, I am disgusted by Palin’s behavior.
September 3rd, 2009 at 7:13 AM
”Time is on my side, yes it is…”
Well, here we are:
It is time for Bristol to go ‘back’ to college. Is that a correspondence college?
It is time for Trig’s government sponsored health care. However, his mother, Sarah Palin is in a non disclosed location. Is Trig with her? If not, he’s not her kid. Does anyone know a mother that would leave their child for more than a day or two, if that? She’s been gone couple weeks, right?
Who will stand up to repudiate Levi? Bristol? Willow? Todd? Piper? Van Flea?
Without a threat of suit Palin will have substantiated Levi’s claims.
Things that make you go hmmmmmmm…
September 3rd, 2009 at 7:22 AM
I posted this on Gryphen’s site, too. My two cents about the “retarded child” comment attributed to SP… I have worked as a special education teacher for many years. I have seen and heard many things that people would be shocked over. Although it is politically incorrect to call someone retarded, it is still used by ignorant people and those from a certain generation. I had many parents refer to their child as “retarded”. I would gently remodel the more exceptable term “developmentally delayed or challenged”, but they persisted. It’s just ignorance – which SP definitely IS. Folks, I hate to say, it’s really not all that uncommon for a mother/father/sister/brother/grandparent to have ambivalent feelings about a special needs child. I can’t tell you the number of students I have had that lived with the grandparents because the parents could not deal with even the THOUGHT of a special needs baby. Same goes for the number of mother’s who were suddenly single because the dad couldn’t deal with a less than perfect child. Quite a few of my students were in foster care. It was a rarity to have an intact loving family. This is reality. Why would we be surprised and shocked that SP had these feelings? It happens behind closed doors more than we think. I’m NOT defending Palin, just saying what I’ve observed as a professional.
September 3rd, 2009 at 7:22 AM
“The Revenge of Levi”. Lay in a large supply of popcorn. This will be interesting.
September 3rd, 2009 at 7:34 AM
It would be interesting to know if Sarah and Levi were alone in the house when she asked him to “teach her to shoot”.You know ,kind of Hey,will you teach me to shoot?I have a gun under my bed.In my bedroom.Where there is a bed.That the gun is under.”Cause it’s a gun,under my bed.
know what I mean ?
September 3rd, 2009 at 8:13 AM
SunSweet, I don’t disagree with anything you say, but I do have to add to this:
“Same goes for the number of mother’s who were suddenly single because the dad couldn’t deal with a less than perfect child.”
Sometimes it’s the mother who leaves because she can’t deal with a special needs kid, too. That’s what happened to my brother.
September 3rd, 2009 at 9:05 AM
#306, mudkitten, I have a good friend that married a man with a ds daughter,
the child’s mother left them when the child was 1-1/2 and rarely made contact.
September 3rd, 2009 at 9:19 AM
Yes indeedy, Murdoch is finding out just what JUNK Palin has hidden in her TRUNK. I’m so grateful that Sarah was built with that divisive gene, she’s been burning bridges to nowhere her entire life. The snow has to be hitting the fan for Winky right now.
Gooood Mornin’ pups!
September 3rd, 2009 at 9:22 AM
You are absolutely right, mudkitten. I was showing my bias lol. Women do leave, too. In the late 70’s, I worked at a state institution as a teacher. The majority of the residents never saw ANY of their families. They were “put away” and forgotten. Even now days, when I take students out on their weekly community outings, we get some negative feedback from people. It really saddens me that people still have such bias.
September 3rd, 2009 at 9:34 AM
Lori, I know you can’t believe SP would say that about her own (grand)child, but I am here to tell you that my own mother said much, much worse to my sister. Much worse. And so, yes, it is possible.
September 3rd, 2009 at 9:39 AM
sjk from the belly…. says:
karen in OR Says:
September 2nd, 2009 at 8:48 PM
It was about a year ago now that the unveiling of the Palin phreak show caused me to develop what turned out to be a rather obsessive and unhealthy relationship with my computer monitor.
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You are not alone…
Glad I’m not the only one.
Re: Sarah not knowing how to identify or use a gun. I was raised in a home with a father who hunted everything, we ate wild game and fish nearly daily some years, guns were in the gun case and hung on chair backs, yet I do not know how to identify or load a gun. I did get to do target shooting with my dad and accompanied my boyfriend hunting after school so I was heavily exposed to it and it was part of my life; but since I was not interested in killing animals I never learned about the guns. I am not defending Sarah, just saying that it is believable that she doesn’t know much about guns, despite her father’s influence. I’ve always thought that she simply exaggerated her prowess with guns andexperiences hunting to make her life look special.
September 3rd, 2009 at 9:59 AM
This too, shall pass.
September 3rd, 2009 at 10:04 AM
To anyone concerned about what SP’s children may read about themselves or her and their family life in the future, can it be any worse than her children standing on stage with her as she accused President Obama of paling around with terrorists, or as her supporters should hate things from the audience and were not shushed! My children would have been all over me … “Mom, do you really believe that? Is that really true? Why don’t you stop them?”
September 3rd, 2009 at 10:27 AM
Collins, Marcus and other columnists are being pretty harsh on Johnston. Picking on a peach-fuzz faced kid who is a product of the Sarah Palin brand machine. She and the McCain campaign made him, they showed him the way – she is responsible for him.
Perhaps one day he’ll have the grace to be embarrassed at how he aired some family secrets, but he is still just a kid trying to figure out how to be an adult under very public and extraordinary circumstances. He did not make Sarah accept an offer she was in no way shape or form prepared for or worthy of and I don’t think he has an agenda – he’s just making observations that aren’t flattering.
Nothing he says is a surprise to me and many other Alaskans. We knew her even if we didn’t know her. I can only imagine what she says and thinks about Native Alaskans, Todd’s people. . .
September 3rd, 2009 at 11:14 AM
I remembered that Palin criticized Pres. Obama’s self-deprecating joke about his bowling game being like the Special Olympics in March. Here is what she said:
“This was a degrading remark about our world’s most precious and unique people coming from the most powerful position in the world,” said Palin, who has a son with Down Syndrome. “I hope President Obama’s comments do not reflect how he truly feels about the special needs community.”
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/story?id=7129997&page=1
Meanwhile, at home she calls the baby/grandbaby the R-word. She’s just a super hypocrite, isn’t she?
September 3rd, 2009 at 11:14 AM
Buy stock in the company publishing Levi’s story. Everybody’s going to buy this book from the tight lipped moralists to the gossip lovers to the Palin haters to the right wing Sarah loonies. Name a segment of the population that won’t buy it. Oh, yeah lay in a supply of snacks so you don’t have to stop reading to cook. LOL This is going to prime Palin watching whether the stories are true or not.
September 3rd, 2009 at 11:27 AM
Sunsweet and jc, my brother actually finds it a bit amusing when women are interested in him to wait just a little while, then mention he has custody of a special needs kid and watch how they stumble on themselves running away from him.
September 3rd, 2009 at 11:33 AM
mudkitten–I’m sure he’ll find one who won’t run from him one of these days. Since he’s obviously man enough to stick it out and raise that kiddo, he’d be quite the catch!
September 3rd, 2009 at 11:36 AM
Well, seems like the story is already dying out in the so-called MSM.
If that is a correct observation (which would make sense, since Murdock owns most of them anyway), then $arah and Murdock win.
September 3rd, 2009 at 12:29 PM
It always seems that the pro-quitter sites are the last to comment on stories.I think that may reflect the fact that they only read a very narrow selection of news.
September 3rd, 2009 at 12:31 PM
#316, mudkitten, my friend is the most loving, nurturing woman I know.
Her oldest daughter is in her late 20’s, her ds stepdaughter is in her early 20’s and she and her husband adopted a little boy who is now in his early teens. Her step daughter considers my friend her mom and has grown so much in every aspect since they’ve become a family. Tell your brother not to fret, there’s other women out there like my friend & won’t blink an eye when she meets his child.
September 3rd, 2009 at 12:53 PM
Does anyone else think it was weird that, when she had Trig, she flew from Texas to Anchorage and then drove to Wasilla AFTER her water broke? That is weird and totally unresponsible. Oh yeah, she was taking care of that baby. Well maybe not. I wouldn’t want to imply that she didn’t want this baby….
September 3rd, 2009 at 1:53 PM
The Palin Johnston family drama seems like it is straight from a very bad Jerry Springer episode or a really bad Lifetime made for TV movie.
I seem to remember a McCain staffer referring to the Palins (in the context of the RNC 180K shopping spree) as the “wasilla hillbillies” ransacking high end department stores from coast to cost. Case in point why on earth would any child need a Louis Vuitton hand-bag.
Palin is truly world class train wreck and to think she was that close to 1600 Penn Ave. Now that scares the piss out of me.
September 3rd, 2009 at 1:56 PM
The Mrs. Robinson aspect of seems to be there. And Levi isn’t THAT dumb. Is she insensitive enough to be flirtatious with her daughters intended?
Don’t know if it was intentional on Vanity Fairs part. Most likely.
There is a photo of Palin in a beige silk jacket, caressing Levis jaw, and Bristol standing a bit off to the side looking awkward. One of the campaign photos. Levi looks stiff, but he usually looks stiff and uncomfortable in photos when he is wearing a suit. In jeans and a loose shirt he looks at ease.
Todd certainly could show his wife how to shoot.
It was the only part of the article I found a bit surprising.
September 3rd, 2009 at 4:22 PM
Levi is probably thinkin’, “Why didn’t I get that set of truck nuts and just go huntin”….
September 3rd, 2009 at 4:25 PM
Levi, Any light you can shed on who built the Lake Lucille house with toad would be like totally awesome!
September 3rd, 2009 at 4:27 PM
(fake) NEWS: Palin to sue for defamation of character. “I did NOT order from Taco Bell” no matter what Levi says.
September 3rd, 2009 at 7:57 PM
Wish Levi would spill the beans about the Matanuska Maid Dairy scam. But, he probably wasn’t paying attention to that Matanuska maid. LOL
September 3rd, 2009 at 8:19 PM
I don’t know why she’d bother to fact check anything in her book when she does so well just making shit up out of whole cloth and thin air.
September 3rd, 2009 at 10:44 PM
Wait a minute. Levi was at the hospital when Tr** was born at 6 am? Does that make sense? According to the Official Canon, Sarah broke her water, called her doctor, went to the morning session of the convention, was the lunchtime speaker, then flew from Dallas to Seattle, then from Seattle to Anchorage, and then drove to Mat-Su Regional…. arriving late at night, it would have to be midnight or so… and was induced the next day. Wasn’t she? Induction doesn’t work instantly. It would have taken a bit of time to get checked into the hospital, since Sarah wasn’t in active labor, it’s not like they’d have rushed her from the parking lot into a delivery room: they’d have done the check-in process which would have taken a minimum of 30 minutes, and probably longer. They’d have observed her for a while, wouldn’t they, before deciding to induce? And then the pitocin takes a while to work; it’s not instantaneous. I’m not seeing how Sarah could have given birth at 6 am after an induced labor, given the other stated time constraints.
September 4th, 2009 at 7:55 AM
Ivyfree–I think she was induced right after she got there around midnight or 2 am. I “suppose” that with a “fifth child” ones labor might progress quickly, even after being induced?
September 4th, 2009 at 8:23 AM
so she is on an airplane with a huge baby belly — knowingly having started to leak amniotic fluid……thinking to herself that this is just some fake contractions like she had before and the leaking stuff is not any big deal…but apparently when she finally gets home – BAM induce and produce
btw…what happens when a 35 week pregnant woman stays in a pressurized cabin for four to five hours at a time, land, and then go back up? is this good for babies that have leaking amniotic fluid?
so back to crazy sarah birthing story……then she has the baby induced when she finally gets to some local hospital with no NICU……..how does that work exactly? having baby at 35 weeks (which is five weeks premature) and no facility to care for the baby if it had breathing problems, heart problems, or other known DS infant problems…
just to be kind, let’s say she is induced at midnight — then only six hours to birth. and everyone shows up at 6 am to see triggers. even teenagers that are not related to the mom. just dating their daughter….okay.
let me see – how many teenage boys want to get up and go see their girlfriend’s mother’s brand new baby at 6 am? apparently, at least one.
and then three days later – crazy sarah is showing off the five week premature down syndrome baby at work.
voila – as they say – that is her story and she is sticking to it.
there must be TONS of women that bring their five week premature down syndrome babies to work……..i am just sure of it.
give me a break. story sucked the first time she told it.
September 4th, 2009 at 9:43 AM
Looks like Sarah really doesn’t know how to shoot a caribou. She’s being shown how to shoot by an expert in Kuwait in 2007 and handles the gun impoperly.
Over at Palingates. They are discussing the tapes. Finger on trigger the wrong time, while someone is near the muzzle. Holds the gun too high, and in general doesn’t know what is what.
What is authentic about this woman? Fakery all the way? Caribou Barbie my foot. Hunt to eat? Couch Potato Barbie is more her style it seems. The home network, wedding shows, and taco belle takeout.
Her dad, her husband and Levi Johnston, certainly do, but Sarah Palin? Looks like she can’t shoot her way out of a paper bag.
September 4th, 2009 at 11:43 AM
Palingates.blogspot.com/ is discussing Sarah Palin the sharp shooter. Very interesting. It show a video of her being shown how to shoot a Rifle, and doing some rather stupid things.
lol To think she was honored by the NRA with a lifetime membership, a gun, (I’m sure very pricey) and a huge honorarium to speak to a selected few members, no media.
So it could be she is Couch Potato Barbie, not Caribou Barbie.
Photos with dead Caribou does not mean she shoots Caribou of does the field dressing of same. It means she is photographed with a dead Caribou that was shot by someone. Possibly dad.
September 4th, 2009 at 12:59 PM
Can you just imagine if Cruella Wasilla and John “Abe Simpson” McCain had won the election?
God help us. Seriously.
I suspect we’d also be talking about Secretary of State Joe “the Plumb Bob” Wurzelbacher right about now, from the depths of “The Great Depression II: The Sequel.”
September 4th, 2009 at 3:08 PM
First of all, thank you Lori in La for giving us all the quotes on the VF article. I don’t think Levi has any reason to lie about the goings on in the Palin house.
As I’m reading through the comments I noticed there are people who do not think SP is T**g’s mother. I realize that when someone get’s their head wrapped around an idea, it’s sometimes difficult to let go of that. My own logic thinks different and I think my theory makes more sense….to me. As you read this, please just keep an open mind.
I have never felt that Bristol was nothing more than T**g’s big sister. I remember reading somewhere awhile back that when Sarah found out she was pregnant, and had the test done that determined that her baby was going to be DS she tossed with the idea of terminating the pregnancy. Ultimately, her belief’s led her to continue on. I think she hid her pregnancy by binding her midsection with tight girdles and clothing options helped with the illusion that she wasn’t carrying a baby. I’m not sure what was in her head, but I’m assuming that she may have thought if she binded herself long and tight enough it would cause her to miscarry, but it didn’t. And when she hit the end of her pregnancy, she just couldn’t find a girdle big enough to help hide it.
As far as her catching the red-eye, or whatever, she had to have the baby in Alaska at all costs…she was probably seeing dollar signs. Doesn’t a person need to be a resident of Alaska for an entire year before they get that lovely check from the oil company each year?
The entire family was most likely notified to meet her at the hospital…pronto. A birth is a family affair. And besides, wasn’t Levi living with them at this point? Also too, who would look after P*p*r? I’m sure Bristol needed Levi there for HER, for moral support as well, especially knowing they’d be going through the experience themselves.
So, that’s what I’m thinking happened, as sick and twisted as it is because that’s what my logic tells me.
Now…if we could only get Bristol to write a book…
September 4th, 2009 at 3:19 PM
TN
Don’t believe everything you read.
September 4th, 2009 at 3:59 PM
@ MinNj I heard a saying a long time ago. “Don’t believe everything you read, and only half of what you see”. Things are never as they seem.
To form an educated guess about something, I always arm myself with as much information as I can. I do my best to sift through all of the bunk in order to reach the most logical conclusion. Especially when it’s something that is only a guess. At this point none of us know the truth, except the people directly involved.
September 5th, 2009 at 1:56 AM
The most authentic character trait about Sarah is that she is a liar, a fibber, a stretcher of the truth, full of malarkey, teller of tall fish tales, full of it. I don’t know how long she had this problem. Seems she likes to live vicariously through her dad’s hunting, her husband’s snogo race adventures and her daughter Bristol’s real birthing experiences.
With Labor Day around the corner, wouldn’t it be a relief to know who God really blessed with little Trig before adults came pressuring, posing, politicking and parading their precious campaign prop. Enoughwiththetrainwreck sumed it up well. Have followed my former governor for the past year plus closely.
Followed this Babygate story as well. She is Gut-sy to invent it, MSM is weak livered to not call her out on it. Hope the teens Levi and Bristol and Mercede look in the mirror and keep ratting. Right ActiON Truth.
Willow should be fed up by now being the kid who gets dumped on by mommie dearest-her Tell All Book may be the most 360 view of all some day.
Levi is probably restricted in telling the whole truth. Hope his new taste for the finer things don’t further cloud his judgement in stating the higher truth. The bottom line is Labor Day Revelations. Blogs at Palingates and Palindeception along with my own discoveries convinced me that Sarah pulled the political novelty hoax of the 21st Century. Feminist progress-Viva la difference! Let’s hope other female politicians don’t follow this Northern Star.
September 5th, 2009 at 1:25 PM
I don’t see how palin can sue Levi anyway,she is a very public figure and the bar is very high for her to sue .He is giving his observations that he saw and felt.