Correcting injustice in Wasilla.

When the whole debacle concerning Lanesia Garcia blew up last Wednesday I held off reporting about it because it just seemed kind of sudden.  So I reached out to Mercede to ask her if it was an accurate story, but she said she as confused as anyone.

By Friday the story was everywhere and of course my visitors were asking repeatedly why I did not post anything about it.  So I did, including the denial that Lanesia had provided to Mercede. 

I wish I had waited a little longer.

The National Enquirer story was so detailed and potentially libelous that I found myself doubting Lanesia's denial at first.  I mean after gaining so much credibility exposing the John Edwards affair could the Enquirer really be so incredibly sloppy and vicious in reporting THIS story?

Later that same day we found out that they could indeed.

After I learned that the story was bogus I did what I could to get the truth out as quickly as possible.  As did Mercede.

However the scandal had gone viral by then, and it just kept getting bigger and bigger.  On Saturday the first corrections started to appear, but only because Lanesia went to the press to correct the story which she never should have had to do.

Lanesia of course is just the latest innocent bystander to get run over by the Palin fame mobile. Her only "crime" was to have once been friends with Bristol and to have had her boyfriend stolen by her.  And that was several years ago.

We may never learn exactly WHO told that terrible story to the National Enquirer reporter, or WHY, but there are some culprits who we can identify.

One is the reporter himself, Alan Butterfield, who spent over a week up here looking for dirt on Levi and Bristol and somehow got tricked into destroying a young girls reputation instead.

And the other is Levi's attorney Rex Butler.

ET quoted Mr. Butler as saying: "We spoke with this young lady personally to find out if her pregnancy had anything to do with Levi before the announcement of the engagement to Bristol. We did not want something like this to derail the marriage. She specifically told us no and that Levi had nothing to do with her baby. Someone waived a check under her nose and now she has come up with this opposite [scenario]...."

Well guess what? I contacted Lanesia to ask her if Butler had indeed talked with her about the rumor. Nope, never happened. Despite his quote to ET Rex Butler in fact NEVER spoke to Lanesia Garcia. 

And as for his claim that "someone waived a check under her nose?"  That also never happened . 

The National Enquirer only reported on rumors told to them by anonymous sources, not Lanesia herself.

As far as I can tell, Lanesia has a pretty good case of libel against the National Enquirer and reporter Alan Butterfield, and should, at the very least,  expect an apology and retraction from Rex Butler in the very near future.

By the way even though the Bristol/Levi engagement seemed to self destruct during this whole mess, there is now information to suggest that it was another, more recent, girl in Levi's life that caused Bristol to kick him to the curb. Of course based on what we have just learned from the National Enquirer kerfuffle, perhaps we all need to take that story with a large grain of salt as well.