A quick post about Team Levi.

I promised to write something today and I hate to break a promise. However I suddenly realized that today is Thursday, late in the day on Thursday even, so since posts written late in the week receive much less attention than those written at the beginning of the week I will wait until early next week to do a more expansive post on the handful of individuals known as "Team Levi," and what I observed going on behind the scenes over the last year. 

Just to give you a little something to digest over the weekend I will tell you that I first met up with Mr. Sherman "Tank" Jones late in April right after Levi, Mercede, and Sherry returned from doing the Larry King show. We had a very animated conversation in his office, where I offered to help the Johnston family in any way that I could,  and things progressed from there.

The relationship with Jones, which occasionally included Rex Butler as well, lasted until December of last year.

There were a lot of telephone conversations and face to face meetings, but after awhile I began to realize that Tank was playing fast and loose with the truth and seemed to be doing everything he could to sabotage Levi's reputation and potential for being taken seriously.  When I would confront him with this he would give me some song and dance and claim that he had everything under control.

However it took me a while to finally learn that Rex and Tank were INTENTIONALLY keeping Levi from meeting with potential authors, movie producers, and television people who were genuinely interested in brokering deals with Levi. Why they did that I can only imagine, and of course conspiracy theories abound.

Some of you have asked why I did not come forward with this news earlier, and the reason for that was because until very recently I truly believed that Levi was simply a naive dupe, and that revealing the fact his management team was far from truthful or trustworthy would have potentially damaged his reputation even further. 

Obviously now that Levi has destroyed that same reputation beyond repair by suggesting that he made things up about the Palins in the past, there is no longer any reason to protect him.  Essentially there is really nothing I can say that will damage his reputation more than he damaged it himself with that unbelievable statement to People magazine.

"Last year, after Bristol and I broke up, I was unhappy and a little angry. Unfortunately, against my better judgment, I publicly said things about the Palins that were not completely true," he tells PEOPLE exclusively. "I have already privately apologized to Todd and Sarah. Since my statements were public, I owe it to the Palins to publicly apologize."

I am absolutely certain that Levi was indeed telling the truth back then, and that if his team had done the job he hired them to do, he would NEVER have had to go crawling back to the Palin family with his tail between his legs.

By my estimation, and this is NOT an exaggeration, Levi had multiple opportunities to make many millions of dollars. He also had offers from family lawyers who would have gladly helped him get joint custody of his son, and the support of millions of people who really wanted to root for him and support his desire to tell the truth about Sarah Palin.

But after he acted like an ass, bared his ass in Playgirl, and did not get his ass to school to work on his GED, that support simply drained away.

Besides his family, I don't think anybody is as disappointed in that outcome as I am.

As I have said I will write much more about this sorry saga early next week, and it will undoubtedly take me a number of installments to tell the entire tale.

And for you Palin-bots who will invariably come to the comment section to pound your chest and dance with glee, don't waste your time.  Because if you think that losing Levi will put an end to our ability to find the truth about Sarah Palin, you could not be more wrong.  In fact in some ways it has only reinvigorated the process, as well as inspiring others to step forward to fill that void.