Levi Johnston: Bristol Palin's Ex Tells All In New Book, Slams Palin Family

[RamboLiberal]

HuffPost: You write that Bristol wanted to get pregnant.
Johnston: Bristol was on birth control for a long time. She got off it soon after Trig was born. I think Trig was a big motivator for her. Her mother just had a child and I think Bristol was really jealous. She was the one who was supposed to have that kid and that's when she got off of . We weren't practicing safe sex and she ended up getting pregnant.

HuffPost: What do you mean she was the one meant to have it?
Johnston: We'd always talked about a kid. We'd been dating for several years. I think it kind of hurt her because she really wanted a kid so bad and seeing her mom have another one really made her want a kid now.

HuffPost: You say that Sarah kept Trig's pregnancy a secret until the seventh month.
Johnston: Yes, she kept it very secret. Willow had actually found the pregnancy stick in her bedroom. That's when we all found out because she went around telling everybody. Bristol and the whole family was hurt that their mother couldn't share that with them. Keeping it away from your own family is kind of messed up.

HuffPost: Describe Sarah and Todd's marriage.
Johnston: I'm no marriage counselor here but I had a mother and father growing up my whole life. (The Palins) were completely, 100 percent different from my family. They rarely spoke to each other, they never had family meals. I never saw them really do anything together unless the cameras were on and then they played an American family. Todd always slept on the couch, never in Sarah's room, that I've seen.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/09/21/levi-johnston-bristol-palin-book_n_973465.html

[msongs]

1. palin should get a medal for sinking McCain's presidency chances nt

[CloakedClock]

2. Nah, that was the economy that his Repub buddies tanked...

...Plus McCain's belief in preserving the economic status quo and his strong backing of the War in Iraq. Any Repub he chose would've lost. Besides Jesus, that is. Except we all know that Jesus would never have been a Republican!

[CloakedClock]

3. I don't have much appetite for stuff like this...

...I mean, it amuses me. I get personal enjoyment out of it. But I feel it degrades the debate, and ends up feeding Palin's victimization narrative (and energizes her acolytes). Now she really DOES have people (Joe McGinniss, Levi Johnston) hounding her and spreading rumors/gossip. There's so much that's bad about Sarah Palin--her beliefs, her policies, her extreme brand of conservatism, her inability to keep even the most basic of facts straight--that there's MORE material to use against her without going into unsubstantiated heresay.

[RamboLiberal]

4. Still fun to read and probably a lot is true

Sarah likes to parade herself as family values & Christian & true American while portraying Obama & Dems & liberals as Un-American & spawns of the devil.

[roguevalley]

8. McGuinness, a respected writer and a long time alaska writer

wrote a book on a public figure who lived her life like an asshole. There is nothing here that is victimizing her. I can see your point but she deserves to be written about because she put herself out and if its crap its her own fault. We are truly and completely sick of her up here.

[HipChick]

5. Palin has had enough rope to figuratively.

make herself irrelevant..but no longer a viable presidential candidate
this won't help or matter at this point..

[HelenWheels]

6. Levi and Dr. Phil

Levi was on Dr. Phil's show the other day. Dr. Phil was quite impressed with Levi. Said his book was well written and a good read. Dr. Phil thought Levi should be allowed more time with his son than was allowed by Bristol.

Bristol just moved from her new home in AZ and is living with two guys in LA. She has her son with her. What in heaven's name will the teabaggers think about this? She met the one man when she was on Dancing With The Stars. The article implies there is no romantic relationships going on here. I think the whole thing is very strange.

[GreatCaesarsGhost]

7. Willow found the "pregancy stick" 7 months later?

Was Sarah keeping it as a momento?

[jmowreader]

9. No, she's the world's worst housekeeper

Most people empty their wastepaper baskets. Maybe the Palins' garbage cans were snowed in?