Oops! I forgot today's Doonesbury. And it is a good one too!

Nailed it!

Okay I know this is wrong, but then why does it feel so right? Beware, NSFW language and graphic violence ahead!

From Bleeding Cool:

Apparently this is a comic about a guy who hunts zombies, one of who looks suspiciously like a certain half term governor we all might recognize.

Now just so you know I have NEVER hit a woman (Well except when I was teaching self defense classes, and that was just by way of demonstration, and they were encouraged to hit me back. Which believe me, they did.), but I have to admit if I was attacked by a Sarah Palin looking zombie I might just enjoy the opportunity to drop it on its ass. Okay, I would LOVE it!  Is that so wrong?

But before anybody gets their panties in a wad, let me assure you that I would NEVER injure, or encourage anybody else to injure, Sister Sarah. Unless of course she turns into a zombie, and then all bets are off!

And speaking of enjoyable things concerning Sarah Palin, you just HAVE to read this new article by Sarah Jones over at Politicususa.  Here is a sample to wet your whistle:

As is typical among the incompetent, Palin is a rabid back-seat driver who can’t seem to let a day go by without desperately inserting herself into the national dialogue, in a transparent attempt to both equate herself with the President and get his attention. President Obama had Palin’s number from day one, and he’s never given her the attention she so craves. He’s dismissed her with a respectful nod, rising above Palin’s crude tactics.

Palin uses drama and conflict to gin up support for herself. She isn’t actually running on ideas and can’t run on her history of governing, so she has to run on feelings. She stirs up the Tea Bagging base by getting them angry. They read her anger and rage and contempt as strength, but it really comes from weakness. It’s all Palin has.

Palin uses her contempt to mask her fear of the Press. She uses her anger to mask her envy of the President. She uses her rage to mask her disgust that a black man beat her (this is how she sees it, never mind that she was not running against Obama).

Wow! Reading that is almost as much fun as punching a Sarah Palin looking zombie in the forehead! Well almost.

Do yourself a favor and read the whole thing, you will not be disappointed.

Not a huge documentary fan, but this one feels like a "must see" to me.

I LOVE the old guy at the end!

To learn more about this documentary just click here.

I really believe that to understand what is happening to our country, and why, we need to stay as well educated about all sides of the debate as we possibly can.

Even though I for one find it a little exhausting at times.

The real reason there is no hope for Levi and Bristol's relationship.

Here is a portion of an interview that I did with Mercede back in February of this year.



(If you listen carefully to the video you can hear Sherry in the back ground saying "We all cried" as Sadie starts to well up with tears.)

This was LESS than two months after Bristol gave birth to Tripp.  As you can see she wasted absolutely no time in using the baby to hurt Levi, and to bully his family.

She also essentially admits that she was not being faithful to him when they were dating and suggests that there may have been other potential boys who are in fact Tripp's biological father.  Gee does THAT sound familiar?

My point is that Bristol, much like her mother, has a history of using her child to control people and keep them on the defensive.  The ONLY way that a relationship between Levi and Bristol would have a snowball's chance in hell of surviving is if he did EVERY SINGLE THING that she demanded of him. Now how long do any of us really think that a nice looking guy like Levi can really put up with that?

By the way if you think I an exaggerating in any way, take a look at what Mercede wrote today about her friend Lanesia's pregnancy and the demands put on the Johnston family by Bristol.

Update: Lanesia has also given an interview to Us Magazine in an attempt to clear up the rumors.

Levi is off the hook! Update!

According to the Daily Beast:

“I just want things to be dropped and get the truth out there. He’s not the father and that’s what needs to be said because there is no way he is,” Garcia said in an interview from the coffee shop where she works in Wasilla.

Garcia, who says she is due August 30, admits to dating Johnston in the eighth grade, but says she has not dated or been with him recently. She insists they have had no contact at all.

She also says the baby’s father, whom she did not want to name, is her boyfriend of three years whom she hopes to marry “if everything works out.”

She lays blame to the roots of the rumor at Wasilla jealousy and believes someone in the small town is getting paid-off.

“I have no idea (who it could be) because somebody did that to get big money. That’s how people are here, they will do whatever they can do to get money,” Garcia says. “That’s how this town is.”

Okay, so it is now pretty apparent that Lanesia did NOT give an interview to the National Enquirer, which I still have yet to see, and that she was telling Mercede the truth. And it also means that the Enquirer did not do anything except repeat rumors without even attempting to verify them.

I know for a fact that the guy that was up here from the NE did not talk to Mercede, or Sherry, and did not even contact me until Tuesday afternoon right before he caught a plane on his way back to the lower forty eight.  I did not have anything for him, and told him so.  I have no idea who he actually DID talk to, but it was none of the people I have contact with.

I would like to take a moment to apologize to Lanesia.  I at the very least had assumed that the National Enquirer reporter had confirmed that Levi and she had been romantically involved before he started making accusations. To find that was not the case says lot about that organization, which had just gained some much needed credibility by breaking the John Edward's story.

However when questioned by Mercede Lanesia told the truth and she should have been given the benefit of the doubt. That is bad on me for being skeptical.

Now on whether this information will be enough to repair Bristol and Levi's shattered relationship, I do still remain a skeptic. I think it is pretty clear the relationship will always be in jeopardy since there is a complete lack of trust between these two kids going back for many years, and I just don't see how Bristol is ever going to stop wondering WHERE Levi is when he is not home, and WHO he might be spending time with when she does not have him in her sight.

Perhaps if they were not in the public eye they might have more of an opportunity to patch things up and live a relatively normal life, but let's face it neither one of them seems to really want to drift back into the shadows of obscurity right now, as evidenced by their garish photo spread in US Weekly announcing their engagement.

Not that Bristol's fame whore of a mother would allow her family to hide from the cameras for very long anyhow. 'Hi I am Sarah Palin and this is my perfect family.  Holy crap where did the little retar..uh...special needs one go again? Okay camera guys film quickly before another one of these little terrors breaks into a house, vandalizes a school bus, or pops out another baby!"

And so ends this weeks' episode of the "Way out Wacky Weirdos of Wasilla!" Tune in next week to see Sarah Palin baptize the Gosselin children in Lake Lucille!

Now they have found Jesus AND glow in the dark!

Update:  Uh oh!  It looks like Levi might be back ON the hook again.  Perhaps Lanesia was not the source of Bristol's second thoughts after all.

Doonesbury has some more fun at Sister Sarah's expense.

"Everything she says is programmed in. Her brain is empty. Sarah's a dummy, a shiny plaything, a cipher, a blank, a total nothing... not a thought in her head, just a piece of  plastic crap." Ahh truer words were never spoken.

Go here for more Doonesbury.

Friday morning gossip round up. Baby, baby who's having whose baby?

Okay I am aware you have all wanted to know why I have been somewhat quiet on this topic, so let me bring you all up to speed on what I have learned about this new scandal.

But first, just to bring you up to speed take a second to read this from Radar Online.

Bristol Palin’s friends admit she is “heartbroken” after learning that her fiancé and baby daddy, Levi Johnston, may have gotten his ex-girlfriend pregnant, RadarOnline.com has learned exclusively.

The bombshell news broke this week after the National Enquirer reported that Levi’s old girlfriend, Lanesia Garcia, was pregnant.

Garcia and Levi reunited briefly last year during his break-up from Bristol and it was during that time that Garcia learned she was pregnant.

Levi and Bristol Engaged!

“Levi insists the baby isn’t his, but no one really knows for sure,” a source told RadarOnline.com exclusively.

“Levi is one of three possible fathers who were with Lanesia during the probable week of conception.”

According to friends, Bristol, 19, is devastated by the news and is thinking twice about moving forward with the engagement.

Okay now for those of you who were not constant visitors to Palin's Deceptions, Lanesia Garcia was Bristol Palins main competition for Levi's..well let's go with "heart"...over the last several years. 

In fact so deeply jealous is Bristol of Lanesia, that she even used Mercede's continued friendship with her to bully Levi into not bringing Tripp over to his Mom's house just in case Lanesia was over visiting. (When Sadie alluded to Bristol not wanting Tripp around her friends, some of who were ex-girlfriends of Levi, Lanesia is mostly who she was talking about.)

Now sources have told me that almost as soon as Bristol and Levi finished with their big US Weekly photo spread together that Bristol started to hear rumors that Lanesia was pregnant and demanded to know if it was Levi's .  He assured her that he was not the father, but Bristol was not convinced.

As soon as this story broke on Wednesday I reached out to Mercde to find out what she knew.  She said she had no idea, but did contact Lanesia who claimed the story was false and that Levi was NOT the baby's father. However she also claimed that she and Levi had not been intimate."Sniff, sniff," yeah guess what does not pass the smell test? 

Based on that denial Mercede said she was not absolutely positive Lanesia was being honest with her (What is it with these Wasilla girls and their phony denials of sexual activity with Levi?) So as of right now the jury is still out as to whether Levi is in fact going to have another playmate for Tripp to hang out with in the future. (I am just kidding Bristol would NEVER allow Lanesia's child to even be in the same room as her precious bundle of joy. No way, no how!)

We also know that Bristol moved her crap out of the Anchorage condo she was living in. And that NO public pictures of her have been released since her photo spread with Levi and the adorable Tripp.

Now all of that I have written above is accurate, reliable data.  So now let's get to the rumors.

According to sources, Bristol IS indeed back at the Palin compound.  She MIGHT be looking into purchasing a house out that way, but that is only from one source so take it for what it is worth.

There have been a few pictures that have shown up on Bristol's super secret (though everybody knows about it) Facebook page showing her looking not terribly pregnant.  But judging from the surrounding foliage it appears they may not be exactly current and in fact an attempt to throw people off of the scent of an impending pregnancy.

Now on THAT speculation I can say that about half a dozen sources are pretty positive Bristol IS with child, and further that the baby is NOT Levi's, but instead recently replaced boy toy Ben Barber's.

Which, if true, means that Bristol is busting Levi's balls about knocking up his old girlfriend while potentially carrying the child of one of HIS best friends. Which would be shocking because I have never known the Palin women to be hypocrites.

"Cough, cough, gag", sorry I choked on a ball of snark there.

Now before all of the attacks start flowing in accusing me of "going after the family", and saying "leave the kids alone", let me tell you why all of this is relevant.

Number one Bristol is still the Candies spokesperson for abstinence. So the fact that she might be "with child" from a boyfriend who she claimed not to even have back in May, (though according to Ben himself they had been dating since December of 2009), is relevant in that it reinforces that lying is a Palin family tradition proudly handed down from mother to daughter and that Bristol proudly wears the cloak of hypocrisy just as comfortably as her famous mother.

Number two this means that Levi is, once again, persona non grata with the Palin family.  He has no book or television deals lined up, no Bristol Palin money to count on, and due to his unconscionable treatment of his family, no safe place to go and lick his wounds.  The boy is going to be desperate to find somebody who is willing to lend him a hand.  So call me Levi, you should have done it ages ago, but better late than never. You know I can help, all you have to do is swallow a little pride.  By now you should be used to it.

Number three, and most important, NO WAY can Sarah twist this around and shine it up for the voting public.  I was positive that she was going to run in 2012, but if even a fraction of these rumors turn out to be true, she would be lucky to even get onstage once with Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich, and Mike Huckabee before being laughed off and forced to hightail it back to the relative safety of her house on Lake Lucille. Which means that even though Sarah spent a small fortune trying desperately to cover her tracks in Wasilla so nothing unseemly could derail her political ambitions, it will be yet ANOTHER baby that ends up putting the final nail in her political coffin.

In other words my friends, I believe we may just be witnessing the karmic hand of justice putting things right in the world.  And that is certainly something worth reporting, don't you agree?

Update: By the way I attempted to find a copy of the National Enquirer before I did this post, another reason why I waited, but since I live in freaking Alaska it will be another week before we get it.

So if any of you stalwart visitors are willing to be seen purchasing the rag, and then also willing to send me an e-mail or comment letting me know what it says, that would really help to know who to believe in this situation. If Lanesia gave an interview to the NE saying that Levi might be the baby daddy, and yet told Mercede he was definitely not, THAT would be very interesting information.

Update 2: Levi is off the hook!

If you are feeling a little groggy this morning New York Rep. Anthony Weiner has a wake up call for you and the Republicans who failed to support the 9-11 Health Bill.

You know Anthony does not JUST bring his last name of Weiner when he goes to work, he also brings his ginormous set of BALLS!

If you are unfamiliar with this bill you can read more about it here.

Sarah Palin cannot hide her jealousy at being too afraid to make an appearance on the View like President Obama did yesterday.

The Twit Tweets:

President w/no time to visit porous US/Mexican border to offer help to those risking life to secure us,but lotso' time to chat on The View?

And then a few minute later she adds this snotty remark.

I'm headed to border in near future... let's see how quickly his travel schedule will allow that border visit after all.

Look Sarah we all know that you simply seethe with jealousy when it comes to the President, after all you had it all figured out; John McCain gets elected, John McCain "falls" down the White House stairs, Sarah Palin gets to be President, country explodes in gigantic fireball.

But fortunately, you nasty little bitch, the people of this country are just a little too damn smart to allow you anywhere near the Presidency. So all you can do is snipe at our President from the safety of Fox News, Twitter, and Facebook.  Because as we all know if YOU were to go on the View Joy Behar and Whoopie Goldberg would destroy you in a matter of seconds.

So I have no doubt that the President, who has been doing many very important things when he was not charming the ladies on the View, will indeed visit the border at some point in the future.  However he will NOT do so because of your childish little dare. 

But since we are engaging in juvenile challenges, why don't I challenge YOU to slam back a couple of Red Bulls for courage, shine up one of the many toddlers in your house to use as a shield, put on your best made for television road kill wig, and drag your skinny ass out to sit on the couch next to Barbara Walters, Joy Behar, and Whoopie Goldberg?  Hey don't worry you still have Hasselback to provide some cover for you.

Oh wait, perhaps you cannot count on her anymore.

By the way if you want to see exactly what turned Little Miss Grizzly Britches so green with envy, you can see President Obama's appearance on the View right here, here, here, here, and finally here.

Cover of Sarah Palin's next book.

Can you say photoshop?

I agree with Sarah that you just cannot have too many flags on your person. I mean how else can your demonstrate your super duper God fearin', apple pie eatin', patriotism?

Litbrit has a must read post up today!

This was contributed by a frequent visitor named Jim (aka Prup):

Ten Questions for Sarah Palin's supporters who are also mothers:

1. If you were a state governor who was eight months pregnant--and remember, Sarah Palin already knew hers was a high-risk pregnancy because of her age (44) and, according to her book, her baby having been diagnosed via amniocentesis as having Down syndrome--and you were scheduled to fly some 4,000 miles from home to give a speech at a conference, would you (a) give your speech from home via teleconferencing, using modern real-time technology, and explain to your hosts that the high-risk nature and advanced stage of your pregnancy made you reluctant to fly; or, alternatively, send the deputy governor to give your speech or (b) dismiss any staff or security slated to fly with you and insist on flying 4,000 miles to the conference yourself?

Sarah Palin chose (b).

2. If, while attending this conference, you experienced leaking amniotic fluid and felt early contractions on the morning before you were scheduled to speak, would you (a) hand the speech to someone else, ask him or her to give it on your behalf, and go straight to the nearest hospital--one that was equipped for handling high-risk mothers, premature births, and special-needs infants--and get yourself checked out by a doctor or (b) continue with your day and give the speech anyway?

Sarah Palin chose (b).

To read the rest of the wonderful post (and I really must insist that you do), please hop on over to Litbrit's site.

With "Going Rogue" setting the bar almost at ground level, how badly written must a Sarah Palin book be to keep it from being published?

Like many of you I have been somewhat confused by the sudden decision of Christian publisher Zondervan to put the Sarah Palin book. "Speaking up", on hold for an indefinite period of time. Thankfully the Slate's Ruth Graham received an advance copy and decided to see just how big of a literaary turd this book really was.

Here is some of what she had to say:

The relentlessly reverential book is not modeled after Kitty Kelley's takedowns but rather on those quickie tween biographies of Justin Bieber and Zac Efron churned out for adoring fans. It is a stronger reputation-burnisher for Sarah Palin than Going Rogue was.

In Washburn's telling, Palin's sore subjects are either not mentioned by name or avoided completely. Katie Couric is called only a "well-known journalist" who "came up with a broadcast that emphasized one viewpoint, and it wasn't a good one." Vanity Fair, which published a critical post-mortem on the McCain campaign, is called a "widely read gossip magazine." Palin's 2002 loss in the race for Alaska lieutenant governor is chalked up to the fact that "during this run for office, her passion was surprisingly thin"—in other words, she never wanted to win that stupid election anyway. Bristol's unexpected pregnancy is not mentioned at all; a Zondervan acquisitions editor told the AP that,"We tried to stay away from the super-heavy stuff."

At one point, within the space of three paragraphs, Palin is compared favorably to Taylor Swift, the apostle Paul, Larry Bird, Magic Johnson, and Eunice Kennedy Shriver—in that order. (It's a rare passage that can make evangelicals, music fans, sports nuts, and policy wonks all cry "blasphemy.")
Since the explanation for Speaking Up's postponement can't be found among its glowing descriptions of Palin, why is publisher Zondervan keeping it off the market?

It's probably not Zondervan's relationship with Palin herself. Zondervan is a division of Going Rogue publisher HarperCollins, so despite the fact that Washburn didn't interview Palin for the book, the publisher presumably had, at least at one time, a positive connection with its subject.

Like Palin herself, the postponement seems to invite conspiracy theories. "It could be something political," mused Carolyn Kellogg, who writes about books and publishing at the L.A. Times. Perhaps Palin is about to announce she's running for office, so that by October, "she won't be just a Fox News commentator," Kellogg speculated. Bethanne Patrick, a consultant who has blogged as "The Book Maven" for AOL and Publisher's Weekly, smells something fishy, too. "This just seems that it had to have been postponed because of Levi and Bristol," she said. "It seems like they wanted it to be held until the 'happy couple' was firmly established with going ahead with the wedding." But the Palin clan's dramas are constantly in flux; it seems unlikely such details could really delay the book.

So was the book put on hold so that it could be quickly rewritten to add Palin's doomed presidential run in 2012?  Or was it really in order to wait until Levi and Bristol's relationship finally stopped looking like an episode of Maury Povich?

By the way if it is the latter than this book may never see the light of day.

You know I have been kind of down on Levi lately, but if HE is the one keeping this brain cell exterminating pile of literary garbage out of the hands of impressionable children then perhaps I will have to give the moron a little grudging credit.  Yeah I know he probably only did it accidentally, but let's face it, he does EVERYTHING accidentally!

Oh this is going to piss Palin off!

The Center for Biological Diversity praised the Obama administration’s announcement today that it is cancelling two offshore oil and gas lease sales: one in the Atlantic off the coast of Virginia and another in the Gulf of Mexico. The Atlantic lease sale was part of a controversial area that Interior Secretary Ken Salazar approved for expanded offshore oil development after the Bush administration lifted the moratorium on drilling in the Atlantic. The Gulf of Mexico lease sale was scheduled to take place in mid-August.

“Obama’s decision to cancel these lease sales recognizes that risky offshore drilling needs reform,” said Miyoko Sakashita, oceans director at the Center. “Halting controversial lease sales is among the most proactive steps that Obama has taken toward the Gulf disaster.”

You just know that somewhere on the road (just where in the hell is she these days anyhow?). Sarah Palin is bitch slapping her Facebook writer and demanding that she "make me sound smart" as she prepares to dictate some mind numbingly stupid word salad which will have little, if any, resemblance to the finished post.

"President Obama...oil independence...honor our troops...take away Trig's health care...drill, baby drill...Todd's snowmachine runs better on domestic gasoline...patriotic Americans...common sense...tax and spend...there!  Now polish that up and hit the "publish" button!" 

Oooh I like it!

New DNC ad tying the GOP directly to the Teabaggers.



What? NO Sarah Palin?

Sarah Palin just cannot catch a break in New Hampshire political polls.

"Missed it by that much!"

From Salon.com:

Today, PPP is out with a new poll of the state's GOP voters on the '12 presidential race:

Mitt Romney 31 percent
Newt Gingrich 14 percent
Ron Paul 13 percent
Mike Huckabee 12 percent
Sarah Palin 9 percent
Tim Pawlenty 3 percent
Mitch Daniels 1 percent
Someone else/undecided 16 percent

Journalist Steve Koracki goes on to add this:

Remember, as I noted yesterday, no one in the modern era has gone on to claim a major party nomination after finishing worse than second in the New Hampshire primary.

Yep I think reality is going to prove to be a huge slap in the face for the Palin-bots.  It is easy to let your imagination run wild while ensconced in the warm embrace of Fox news, Facebook, and Twitter, but once Palin has to actually stand up in front of a group of people NOT suffering from some sort of mental deficiency...well simply put.... she's fucked.

Judge blocks implementation of Arizona's controversial new immigration law. Another win for the Obama administration.

From MSNBC:

A federal judge dealt a serious blow to Arizona's immigration law on Wednesday when she put most of the crackdown on hold just hours before it was to take effect.

The ruling by U.S. District Judge Susan Bolton sets up a lengthy legal battle as Arizona fights to enact the nation's toughest-in-the-nation law. Republican Gov. Jan Brewer said the state will likely appeal the ruling and seek to get the judge's order overturned.

But for now, opponents of the law have prevailed: The provisions that angered opponents will not take effect, including sections that required officers to check a person's immigration status while enforcing other laws.

The judge also delayed parts of the law that required immigrants to carry their papers at all times, and made it illegal for undocumented workers to solicit employment in public places. In addition, the judge blocked officers from making warrantless arrests of suspected illegal immigrants.

"Requiring Arizona law enforcement officials and agencies to determine the immigration status of every person who is arrested burdens lawfully-present aliens because their liberty will be restricted while their status is checked," U.S. District Judge Susan Bolton, a Clinton appointee, said in her decision.

Well being from Alaska I have not had much concern about any non-Americans sneaking over our border. For all I know every other person I see could be a Canadian, or Russian, and I would have no idea until they started to speak.

Of course both Russians and Canucks blend in very well so it is not easy to spot them (though we all know that Sarah Palin kept her unblinking eyes on the border during her 2 1/2 year tenure as governor), and it seems to me that people really only get their panties in a wad when the "illegals" have skin of a darker hue.

Having said that it will be very entertaining to watch how Sarah Palin, John McCain, and the other Republicans lose their minds over this ruling.  And Fox News may have to put bibs on their Republican guests today to keep the foam dripping from their mouths from ruining their expensive suits. I predict plenty of teeth gnashing and hints of reverse racism to become the theme of the day on shows like Sean Hannity, Bill O'Reilly, and Glenn "Pillsbury Doughboy" Beck.

It appears that Bill Maher knew Levi Johnston was in danger of becoming a prisoner of the Palins way back in September of 2008.

You know I had completely forgotten about this.

Note to Republicans: My President can still kick your candidate's ass in the next presidential election. No matter which ass you choose.

From the Examiner:

President Obama may have a 46% approval rating, but Americans still prefer him to the likes of Mitt Romney and Sarah Palin.

In a poll conducted by Zogby International, a market research firm, President Obama would best Sarah Palin, Mitt Romney, and Mike Huckabee. His closest challenger being Romney as Obama edges Mitt out by 2 percentage points.

The Republicans 2008 darling, Sarah Palin, was beat by 9 percentage points by President Obama.

Damn, NINE percentage points!  Put that in your pipe and smoke it Palin-bots!

Well I don't like to put to much hope in polls, but if you have to pick one Zogby is usually pretty damn accurate.

Roger Ebert is serious about wanting Sarah Palin to debate Annabel Park, founder of the Coffee Party.

From Roger Ebert's Twitter page:

I'd like to hear this young woman in conversation with Sarah Palin. I'm very serious. http://j.mp/cLQDDv
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Here is the video.



I am totally with Mr. Ebert on this one.  It will absolutely NEVER happen, but damn I would pay big money to see it!

Okay just for fun, how long do YOU think that Caribou Barbie would last in a debate with this articulate, intelligent young lady?  You know assuming that she would actually show up of course.

Is Palin endorsement the kiss of death for New Hampshire Republican Kelly Ayotte?

From Public Policy Polling:

Kelly Ayotte's seen her appeal to moderate voters crumble in the wake of her endorsement by Sarah Palin and her lead over Paul Hodes has shrunk to its lowest level of any public polling in 2010- she has a 45-42 advantage over him, down from 47-40 in an April PPP poll.

There's not much doubt that the shift in the race is all about Ayotte. Hodes' favorability numbers have seen little change over the last three months. Where 32% of voters saw him positively and 39% negatively in April, now 35% have a favorable opinion of him to 40% with an unfavorable one. But Ayotte's seen a dramatic decline. Her favorability spread of 34/24 in April was the best we've measured for any Republican Senate candidate so far this year but her negatives have risen 15 points since that time while her positives have increased only 2 and she now stands at 36/39.

The Palin endorsement may well be playing a role in this. 51% of voters in the state say they're less likely to back a Palin endorsed candidate to only 26% who say that support would make them more inclined to vote for someone. Among moderates that widens to 65% who say a Palin endorsement would turn them off to 14% who it would make more supportive.

Again I have to ask when when will these politicians learn that Sarah Palin's support is like tying am anchor around their political career?

And isn't it interesting that this is happening in New Hampshire?  Not like it is important in a presidential election or anything, right?

The Show must go on! Picking Palin play to appear off-Broadway.

Courtesy of Playbill:

Picking Palin, which concerns "the story of how and why a certain first-term, little-known governor from Alaska became the 2008 Republican Vice Presidential candidate," will make its world premiere as part of the 14th annual New York International Fringe Festival.

Picking Palin, according to press notes, is described as such: "As the Democratic National Convention plays on television, four top Republican strategists meet in a hotel room to decide who will accompany John McCain on the 2008 Republican Presidential ticket. The battle over Sarah Palin as a Vice Presidential candidate soon became a battle for the soul of the Republican party, not just in that hotel room, but also in newspapers, blogs and magazines all across the country. Picking Palin depicts the very real battle that raged, and continues to rage, over the past, present and future of the Republican Party, in particular, and of American Conservatism, in general."

You know this could be VERY entertaining.  I think if I were in New York I would absolutely make it a priority to see this play.

Hey if any of you guys are in the New York area, and happen to catch a show, would you be willing to send a brief review?  I would happily post it if you would.

Oh, and don't forget to bring a pillow to sit on.

I understand that those off-Broadway theater seats can get awfully uncomfortable sometimes.

(Image taken from this video filmed in April of 2008.)

President Obama again calls the Republicans out on their obstructionism, and preference for big business over the American people.

Obviously this is a very important vote that will assist Americans in identifying just WHO is spending millions of dollars to influence their vote.  Now the only question is, will that be enough to keep the American voter from being bamboozled into casting votes that are ultimately against their best interests.

If history is any indication, it won't be.

You can read the transcript of this speech over at Daily Kos.

Stephen Colbert is back from vacation and he does a hilarious job of addressing the Shirley Sherrod debacle.

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Now is the time for the real media to stop jumping through the hoops provided by the highly partisan Right Wing media.

The Washington Post:

The mainstream media and the Obama administration must stop cowering before a right wing that has persistently forced its propaganda to be accepted as news by convincing traditional journalists that "fairness" requires treating extremist rants as "one side of the story." And there can be no more shilly-shallying about the fact that racial backlash politics is becoming an important component of the campaign against President Obama and against progressives in this year's election.

The administration's response to the doctored video pushed by right-wing hit man Andrew Breitbart was shameful. The obsession with "protecting" the president turned out to be the least protective approach of all.

The Obama team did not question, let alone challenge, the video. Instead, it assumed that whatever narrative Fox News might create mattered more than anything else, including the possible innocence of a human being outside the president's inner circle.

The Sherrod case should be the end of the line. If Obama hates the current media climate, he should stop overreacting to it. And the mainstream media should stop being afraid of insisting on the difference between news and propaganda.

This article by E.J. Dionne Jr. is absolutely dead on in addressing the cancer that has invaded our media since the inception of Fox News. With its take no prisoners approach to driving home its ideological message it has learned to create a narrative that other media outlets feel compelled to treat as a reasoned point of view when in fact, more often than not, it seems to be cobbled together out of bits and pieces of twisted information that is then presented as "news."

And despite every politicians claim that "Americans are smart" the preponderance of evidence suggests that many Americans often do not really use their intellect to examine information they receive on their television sets.  They simply absorb it without questioning its validity and it becomes a "fact" that they then use to judge other data they receive throughout their day.

Until "real" journalists begin to immediately examine and dismantle the Fox propaganda as it oozes into people's living rooms (As MSNBC has started to do), they will continue to dictate the narrative and other media outlets will feel they have no choice but to continue chasing the bouncing ball that Roger Ailes and his team has thrown for them to fetch. 

Well this will keep you occupied for much of the day. Journolist e-mails illustrate how progressive journalists examined, and ultimately passed on, the story of Sarah Palin's fifth pregnancy. Update!

From the Daily Caller:

Kathleen Geier

Aug 30, 2008, 9:13am
Obviously, neither Obama nor any other Democrat should touch this story. At all.

But — and that’s a big but — if it’s true, *of course* it would be an issue. And should be! Forget the issue of whether or not she denied her daughter the choice of ending her pregnancy — that’s not the issue. The issue would be if Palin is lying to the McCain’s people, and voters, and basically the world, by trying to pass off a child as hers, if it really wasn’t. Your kids are as much a part of your basic life story as when and where you were born, who you married, and where you went to school. If she’s trying to pass off a child as her own, when that child is actually her granddaughter — that is a huge freaking deal.

Now, that said, this does sound like a pretty wacky conspiracy theory. If there’s no evidence to it other than the fact that Palin allegedly did not look pregnant, and her daughter was allegedly absent from school, that’s an extremely slim reed to hang a story on.
However, if a reporter investigated this story and came up with compelling evidence that it’s true — such as documents or eyewitness testimony from medical professionals and the like — the media should have no compunctions about running with it.

But it’s such a wild story I seriously doubt there’s much to it. On the other hand, I thought the idea that John Edwards would risk having an affair and a love child in the midst of a campaign for president was preposterous as well. So you never know . . .

Ezra Klein

Aug 30, 2008, 10:15am

Seriously, folks? Best case scenario, what’s your outcome here: Her daughter, hounded by the tabloids, breaks down that it was her child, and her mother heroically took on the burden and welcomed the disabled boy as one of her own? Palin’s relationship with her children — however they may have come to her — strikes me as pretty far out of bounds. By all accounts she’s a wonderful mother, and devoted to her fifth son. Leave this be.

Lindsay Beyerstein

Aug 30, 2008, 11:20am

In the post-Rathergate era, journalists should be on their guard for Republican dirty tricks.
If this story gains traction, regardless of its truth or falsity, the Republicans will take steps to neutralize the meme.

It wouldn’t surprise me if the McCain campaign were to leak doctored evidence for the sole purpose of discrediting it and destroying the journalist who published it. That’s probably what the Killian memos were.

We should also be on guard for “evidence” falling into the lap of an unknown and easily discredited figure. That’s probably what Rove did to neutralize the allegations of cocaine use by George W. Bush, lo these many years ago.

If apparently well-substantiated allegations emerge, we should be alert for the story behind the story, so to speak.

-Lindsay

Just speaking for myself I found these e-mails FASCINATING.  They ask many of the same questions that we have covered here and on several other blogs, however in the end they simply decide NOT to take the risk, and as we know left it up to the bloggers to continue the investigation.

Just imagine what could have happened if they had decided to REALLY go after this with all of the resources at their disposal.  The mind reels.

It takes some time to work your way through, but if you are a person who has been following this story since the beginning, you are undoubtedly going to want to take a look.

Update: Andrew Sullivan weighs in on these e-mails as well. He DID say he would not address the Trig parentage issue until there was new evidence.  I guess this qualifies.

Update 2: Sarah's Facebook writer holds up the Special Needs community as a shield to deflect attention away from her insane birth story, and to condemn liberal journalists for their private conversations.

Her post is simply ridiculous but it also misses the point that these "journalists" did her a huge favor by convincing themselves, and each other, NOT to pursue the mystery of Trig's birth to its natural conclusion, the uncovering of a poorly constucted lie.

Teabagger candidate is caught on tape calling supporters "dumbasses." Oops!

From the Denver Post:

On an audio tape obtained by The Denver Post, Buck was caught muttering "will you tell those dumba---s at the Tea Party to stop asking questions about birth certificates while I'm on the camera?" outside a June 11 event in Crowley.

Buck then started laughing as he walked into the event with the Democratic tracker.

"What am I supposed to do?" he asked, rhetorically.

Well I certainly understand his frustration, they are indeed dumbasses.

Of course what do you call a candidate who is dumb enough to allow this statement to be caught on tape?

Update: By the way, this guy was no "Teabagger come lately."  He has been involved with these nutjobs since the beginning.

Mercede Johnston has a new post in which she refuses to be thrown under the bus in a trashy tabloid.

In this new post Mercede reads, for the first time, that she is given the blame for the fact that Levi and Bristol broke up immediately following the birth of her nephew.  As you might imagine she does not take it well.

Nope, not well at all.

Apparently it is not just rabid Right Wing Teabaggers who want Sarah Palin to challenge Barack Obama in 2012.

From TPM:

Well, it's official. Progressive Democrats want President Obama to face off against former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin in 2012 as the battle for the ages.

An early release of the Netroots Nation straw poll taken from Thursday through Sunday and obtained by TPM shows that attendees of the convention in Las Vegas overwhelmingly want Palin to mount a presidential bid.

Respondents were asked who would they "most like to see" as the GOP nominee to challenge Obama for reelection two years from now. Netroots attendees preferred Sarah Palin, with 48 percent of them choosing her. The next closest vote-getter was libertarian Rep. Ron Paul with 11 percent, followed by former Sen. Rick Santorum with 10 percent and former Gov. Mitt Romney with 9 percent.

You know I always get two very different requests from my visitors regarding Sarah Palin.

Most people want me to "take her down" so that she is completely discredited and no longer has a political future.

However there are also those who want me to leave her alone, and allow her to be nominated as the GOP candidate in 2012 so that President Obama can easily crush her and win re-election.

So tell me, which side are you on?

Perhaps all of those politicians actively seeking Sarah Palin and the Teabagger's endorsements should watch this video.

Sure it is all fun and games until the general election, but then how do these candidates find a bus big enough to throw all of these teabaggers under? Or get the stench of Sarah Palin off of them?

If the video does not play for you, you can go to You Tube to watch it instead.

Huge leak of US Military files shows Afghanistan war going much more poorly off than previously reported.

From the Guardian.

A huge cache of secret US military files today provides a devastating portrait of the failing war in Afghanistan, revealing how coalition forces have killed hundreds of civilians in unreported incidents, Taliban attacks have soared and Nato commanders fear neighbouring Pakistan and Iran are fuelling the insurgency.

The disclosures come from more than 90,000 records of incidents and intelligence reports about the conflict obtained by the whistleblowers' website Wikileaks in one of the biggest leaks in US military history. The files, which were made available to the Guardian, the New York Times and the German weekly Der Spiegel, give a blow-by-blow account of the fighting over the last six years, which has so far cost the lives of more than 320 British and more than 1,000 US troops.

Their publication comes amid mounting concern that Barack Obama's "surge" strategy is failing and as coalition troops hunt for two US naval personnel captured by the Taliban south of Kabul on Friday.

Obama continues this war and gets left the blame for its ultimate failure.

Obama ends the war and gets labeled a "Muslim sympathizer" and becomes vilified by the right wing in such a way that he simply cannot recover.

No matter how bad your problems are they undoubtedly pale in comparison to our President's.

Count "Family Guy" creator Seth MacFarlane as one of those NOT intimidated by Sarah Palin and her crazed followers.

According to The Hollywood Reporter:

"Family Guy" will likely bring back a character that made headlines for angering Sarah Palin.

Creator Seth MacFarlane told Comic-Con audiences that "Down Syndrome Girl" would likely make a return to the show and even sang the character's theme song live to the San Diego crowd.

"My guess is that at some point we will [bring her back]," MacFarlane said, "despite all the Palin business."

The incredible backlash directed at Seth MacFarlane was fairly impressive, even by Palin-bot standards.

It is always very gratifying to see somebody emerge from that kind of vicious attack even stronger and more determined to continue doing what they have been doing, with even more energy and creativity.

My Family Guy viewing is sporadic at best, but you can bet I will make sure not to miss this one.

You know anything that pisses Sarah Palin off is "must see TV" for me.

Just who are the Sarah Palin supporters?

There is this amazing article from the Mail Online which examines the kind of people who belong to the Tea Party and support Sarah Palin.  It is, in a word, terrifying.

I suggest that you read the entire article by clicking the link above, but here are some of the quotes from the Palin supporters.

'I love Sarah Palin, I just LOVE her. She's bright, she's clever and she thinks like we do, she acts like we do and she lives like we do. She listens to the people, and she has a proven track record. She talks the talk and walks the walk and she'd make a wonderful president.'

'What's more, she's got good old common horse sense, as we call it round here,' chips in his white-haired neighbour. 'She tells it like it is. And she can shoot and skin a moose! Not many world leaders can do that.'

By the way, and I HATE to mess up anybody's fantasy about Sarah Palin, but there is NO evidence that Sarah Palin EVER skinned a moose. None. On page 32 of "Going Rogue" she talks about her father handing her two moose eyeballs to hold, but as gross as that may seem it is also appears to be the extent of her "moose skinning" experiences.

"I just hope she runs for president,' says beautician Dee Saddler, 63, who's organised today's gathering. 'She's the only person who can unite the Tea Party movement and the Republican Party. Sarah Palin is America's last hope!'

'Amen,' chorus the 26 members of the Sharon Tea Party group.

If Sarah Palin were in fact "America's last hope" then America would have absolutely no hope. I am just saying.

'Obama's trampling all over our Constitution and turning America into a socialist state and we feel angry and let down - not just by him, but by our own party. There's no one to vote for. No one to represent us.'

'Which is where Sarah Palin comes in. She's a proper leader,' says a man called Tom in a ten-gallon hat.

It happens with pretty much everyone I talk to. Particularly Shane Hershberger, 42, from Chicago, who's selling 'I Love Sarah' badges and wearing a 'Commies aren't cool' T-shirt.

'Obama is a communist spy and the collapse of the Soviet Union was staged,' he says, leaning in very close. 'This isn't home-grown Marxism we're seeing now. He's trying to destroy America.'

For every bad word the Tea Baggers say about Obama, there are two good ones for Palin. Despite all her gaffes. 'Who cares about her mistakes. It's the media, it's not her,' insists Hazel.

'Yes, she's made some goofs and errors,' says Jody Fronk, 46. 'But so what. We all make mistakes. That's what makes her one of us. And who cares if there's been a bit of scandal.'

And there you have it. These people are never going to let a few things like writing on her hand, being ignorant of how government works, or her famous pettiness, keep them from looking on Sarah Palin as if she were the second coming of Jesus Christ.

Which once again illustrates the importance of revealing the truth behind the birth of Trig Palin. 

The "Wild Ride" story will NEVER have any negative impact on these crazed supporters, hell she even wrote about it in her book, but the idea that she faked having the Down syndrome baby that she trotted out on stage with her throughout the 2008 presidential campaign, and has used to pimp her pro-life credentials, might just be the kryptonite that will strip away much of Sarah Palin's rabid fan base. And it has the added attraction of in fact being the truth.

Andrew Sullivan has chosen to step away from the "babygate" story until further evidence is revealed.

From the Daily Dish:

I have not written a column on this in the Atlantic or the Sunday Times, because I don't have the facts to back up any substantive alternative theory to Palin's story-line. But on a blog, I take the responsibility seriously not to bullshit my readers, not to adopt a professional persona that obscures my real-time thoughts. I think a blog exists to air things you cannot nail down in a more formal journalistic context. And I think many of my critics do not get or simply disagree with this understanding of the relationship of blogging to journalism.

All I can say is that this is my understanding of the place of blogging - a conversation where nothing is forbidden, a zone of truly free speech, exercized responsibly, but open to any and all views and theories and questions. I don't think I'm partisan on this. Elena Kagan can testify to that.

I don't believe Palin's current story. But since I don't have the facts and sources to construct an alternative, my task is now over. I will stay vigilant for any and all new facts that we may get; and I sure won't let this go if more comes to light. But we're going around in circles now.

It is hard to disagree with his frustration.  I have felt it myself more times that I can tell.

Sullivan is also right that we keep rehashing the same evidence over and over again.

The last new data that we uncovered was the pictures of "ruffled ear baby," and the analysis from the various doctors I interviewed.  But even that only went so far before there was no more I could do with it except hope it was seen by a wider audience, or that somebody close to the family would decide to fess up about why there were two different Trig Palins. So far neither of those things have happened.

I can usually convince almost anybody that I talk to directly that Sarah Palin did not give birth to Trig Palin on April 18, 2008, but what I still cannot do effectively is explain where he DID come from. It all seemed pretty cut and dried back when I was convinced Bristol was the mother, but now the evidence points toward another source.

I wish I could assure everybody that some huge piece of evidence was forthcoming, but I can't.  All I can say for certain is that there are people who KNOW that Sarah did not give birth to Trig.  Whether those people will come forward anytime soon, or at all, I simply cannot say.

I had hoped for a very long time that Levi would ultimately spill the beans, but now I have little hope of that.

Then when Mercede started to speak publicly I thought perhaps she would have the key.  But alas, though what she knows is damaging to Sarah and Bristol personally, it does very little to address Trig's parentage. (I know that people are still under the impression that she must know something, but believe me she doesn't.)

However none of this means that I am giving up, or stepping away from the "babygate" story myself.  I am much too stubborn to let something as completely ridiculous as Sarah Palin's poorly manufactured fable about giving birth to a Down syndrome baby become accepted as fact.  That would be tantamount to simply accepting as fact the idea that unicorns must exist because you cannot prove they do not.

In future posts I am going to divulge some of what I was told this past year.  I assume that there are parts of it which will confuse you just as much as it has confused me.  Be aware however that there are still some things I cannot talk about, because one word written on this blog will alert Sarah Palin's people as to who they have to clamp down on next. That has already happened repeatedly over the last year or so.

My hope is that by continuing to talk about this story, and digging up the facts and rumors pertaining to it, that eventually the people who know the truth will feel safe enough from the Palins, and confident enough that they will be listened to, that they will come forward and finally put this whole sordid thing to rest.  Until I can get somebody who is willing to divulge exactly what happened, and put their name to it, we are left essentially going back over the evidence again and again in the hopes that we have missed something (like the ruffled ear picture), that will finally lead us to the truth.

Obviously this mystery continues to be very compelling as evidenced by the arrival of the newest bloggers to the party LitBrit and Floyd M. Orr.  Welcome my friends.

Son of "God Hates Fags" preacher Fred Phelps has new job promoting atheism and battling homophobia. Oh karma how I love you!

From Xtra:

Unlike his Bible-thumping dad, Nate Phelps likes Lady Gaga’s music and feels sorry for Mel Gibson.

Phelps has also been hired as the executive director of the Alberta branch of the Centre for Inquiry (CFI) Canada.

CFI is an atheist charity that promotes “skeptical, secular, rational and humanistic enquiry.”

In recent months, Phelps, 51, garnered international attention after speaking out against his father’s hatred and intolerance messages and in support of gays.

Last May, Phelps spoke with Xtra about growing up in a Christian fundamentalist household. He talked about being angry with the homophobia spread by his father, the infamous Southern Baptist minister Fred Phelps. He also spoke about the physical and psychological abuse he suffered as a child and how he helped create a healing and support group called Life After Fundamentalism.

In a phone interview with Xtra from his Calgary home, Phelps says he is taking on this new spin in life as head of CFI Alberta to show the world people can be atheist and still be happy. He feels he can help like-minded and disillusioned people who had the Bible rammed down their throats while growing up. The fear of going to hell for abandoning beliefs can be traumatic for many, he says.

My favorite part of this story is knowing just how incredibly pissed off this lunatic will be when he learns about this.  I mean even when he is not learning that his son supports atheists and homosexuals he is completely unhinged.

Just check out Reverend Phelps during one of his usual quiet Sunday services.



I will NEVER understand how somebody so obviously suffering from a mental illness can attract even a small group of followers.  Which reminds me, I wonder how many of those congregants contributed to SarahPAC as well?

Doonesbury's Roland Hedley continues to stalk Sarah Palin's "stalker."

I kind of fell behind in posting these (So much going on in the three dimensional world you know), but they are so great  that I thought I would bring you up to speed by posting the last three all at once.

I love the fact that they drew the front of Palin's house in one of the panels.  It is this kind of attention to detail that puts Doonesbury head and shoulders above most strips.

Okay I take it back. THIS is my favorite YouTube video of all time. Well so far anyhow.

God I laughed so hard I almost teared up.

Levi Johnston to make appearance in music video.

From the Washington Post:

Levi Johnston will make his music video debut as a lover whose romance is thwarted by his girlfriend's disapproving mother, according to a Universal Music Group record label and Johnston's attorney.

Johnston, 20, who is Bristol Palin's fiance, has agreed to appear in the video with singer-songwriter Brittani Senser next month in Los Angeles. The project is based on the song "After Love" by Senser, 26, a sultry-looking R&B and pop performer from Minneapolis.

"He's looking forward to doing it," Rex Butler, Johnston's attorney in Anchorage, Alaska, said Friday. "It will give him an opportunity to act a little bit in front of a camera. He's done a commercial before, but something like this is a little more involved."

Well I am glad that Levi has found work after such a long dry spell.  It is amazing what can happen when your agent actually does his job isn't it?

Not to pee on this little parade or anything, but the money he will make for this will still be chicken feed compared to the kinds of offers Levi had coming his way last year.

In my upcoming posts I will lay out some of the lucrative offers that were on the table, and how Levi's "team" cock blocked him, time and time again.

Greatest YouTube video EVER!

Rachel Maddow brilliantly calls out Bill O'Reilly on his, and the Fox network's, use of race baiting.

Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy

Good news! Bristol and Levi have finally found the perfect way to serve beverages at their upcoming wedding!

And it will go just PERFECTLY with Levi and Tripp's matching camo vests!

Sorry, I saw this story on MSNBC this morning and I simply could not resist.

You just watch and  see if this doesn't catch on in Wasilla as soon as they get wind of it.

Of course "get wind of it" may not be the best marketing approach.

Sarah Palin admits she quit as Governor because of the media.

From the Daily Caller:

From a remote location on an island off Alaska’s coast, former Governor Sarah Palin is blasting what she describes as the “sick puppies” in the media who immediately and ruthlessly attacked her when Sen. John McCain picked her as his running mate during the 2008 presidential campaign.

By "attacked her" she really means "investigated her", which to Palin must have seemed like an attack since, up until then, the Alaska media had rolled over to have its tummy rubbed every time she walked into the room and rarely asked her any difficult questions, or in Palin parlance, "gotcha questions."

In exclusive remarks to The Daily Caller, Palin described “hordes of Obama’s opposition researchers-slash ‘reporters’” descending upon Alaska in the days after she was picked by McCain.
She said the media became a key reason she decided not to finish out her term as governor and faults, in part, the McCain campaign for failing to vigorously defend her.

I have heard that "hordes of Obama opposition researchers" claim since the day Palin was picked as Old Man McCain's arm candy, but in fact most of the reporters who came up here were simply trying to learn more about this newly minted national politician who hardly anybody knew anything about.

Hell I was doing research as well, and I can assure you that NOBODY paid me a dime to do so.

Palin chose to be a public figure at the highest level, as a candidate in a presidential campaign, arguably inviting the most intense scrutiny imaginable.

“It was too obvious to me, my family, my administration and anyone else who knew me (and my record) that we were in a defenseless position the minute I gave my acceptance speech and the hordes of Obama’s opposition researchers-slash ‘reporters’ had descended upon Alaska,” Palin told The DC.
Palin, whose conflicts with key McCain campaign staffers are infamous, said the campaign could have stood by her more firmly.

“To not have had the McCain campaign staff defend my record was an insurmountable challenge, because once a bell is rung, it’s impossible to un-ring,” Palin said.

I believe what Sarah is referring to here is the McCain campaign's refusal to lie about Todd Palin's membership with the Alaska Independence Party.

“It didn’t help, either, that the hours and hours of interviews with the likes of Katie Couric resulted in a few minutes here and there of selected snippets of my annoyed answers. (I naively had not believed at the time of some of the badgering questions [for example, questioning my pro-life position] that the editing process would fulfill their biased purpose),” Palin said.

Another ridiculous accusation.  Palin also recently looked like an idiot while being interviewed by Bill O'Reilly, was THAT also edited?  The truth is that the woman always looks like an imbecile unless somebody asks her only soft ball questions or scripts them with her ahead of time.  And often that does not help either.

“I said, ‘Enough. Political adversaries and their political friends in the media will not destroy my State, my administration, nor my family. Enough.’ I knew if I didn’t play their game any longer, they could not win. I would not retreat, I would instead reload, and I would fight for what is right from a different plane.”

So there you have it from "Mama Grizzly" herself.  Palin quit the job she was elected to, because she simply could not stand up to the media and the bloggers.

There you go Republicans, THAT is the woman who energizes your base like no other, the woman who is the darling of the Teabaggers who are actively hijacking your party.

Good luck with that.

By the way, just so we are all on the same page, NOBODY fears the media unless they have something to hide.  Remember that.

Sarah Palin's Fifty Nifty United States. Very Funny!

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.