Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar want to give you advice about sexual assault. Wait, what?

Courtesy of Star Magazine: 

Two long months after news broke that Josh Duggar molested five girls, including four of his underage sisters, TLC has finally pulled the plug on 19 Kids and Counting. 

But, along with an hour-long documentary about child abuse that includes Jill and Jessa, Jim Bob and Michelle have a plan to get their family back on TV and TLC paychecks coming in. 

“The family can’t afford to not have the show—it is their main source of income, and with a family of that size, without it they’re in enormous trouble,” says a friend, adding the Arkansas couple are willing to beg for forgiveness to get the cash flowing again. 

“They know they have to at least pretend to be sorry about what happened, and now they want a spin-off where Jim Bob and Michelle would give advice to abuse victims—even though they’re in denial about their culpability in Josh’s crimes.”

In the hierarchy of  truly terrible ideas this would have to be fairly close to the top.

These are religious zealots NOT trained counselors!

And based on how they handled the abuse that he inflicted on his sisters, I would not let them teach my dog not to pee on the carpet much less teach a child not to hump a family member.

Fortunately, according to this same article in Star, it is very likely that ole Jim Bob will have to do something else in order to feed his herd of misfits as a return to TV would "take a miracle."

E! visits Bristol in Arizona.

From E! Online:



Well from the video I cannot tell if Bristol is pregnant, or post partum, or just overweight.  But to me she looks thinner than the last photographs we saw of her.

However I did notice that she still kept holding Tripp in front of her stomach to block the camera shot.

By the way this "pretty serious," picture by the bed, boyfriend of Bristol's just happens to be one of Sadie's cast offs. 

And not the first one that Bristol has swooped in to pick up ether from what I have heard. (Aren't there any other guys to date  in Wasilla?)

(BTW, just for clarification, I talked to Sadie yesterday and she says that this story, while accurate, was NOT given to Star magazine by her but rather a friend of hers who has been selling info to the tabloids behind her back.)

She is pissed off at me anyway, so what the hell.

Look! Sarah made the cover of a magazine that you just KNOW her supporters read. (Well buy and look at the pictures anyhow.)

Damn no wonder she hates Hawaii! Look what visiting there has done to her image.

H/T to Bree Palin.

I read trashy gossip magazines so that YOU don't have to!

"She treats him so badly!"

This is how Mercedes Johnston begins her interview with Star magazine. And of course this was right after Bristol and Sarah Palin claimed that Levi was a "hands on dad", and that they were looking forward to getting married and raising their little bundle(s) of joy together.

But as we have seen time and time again, NOTHING that Sarah Palin and her crew say can ever be accepted at face value.

"Bristol's just crazy. That's the nicest way I can put it!" Says the sister of perhaps the most famous teenage father in the world. "She and Levi actually broke up a while ago!"

Now this little nugget is in exact opposition to the big happy family picture that Bristol and Grizzly Gramma Sarah tried to serve us with the help of FOX News Palin-bot Greta Van Susteren. As is this:

"Levi tries to visit Tripp every single day, but Bristol makes it nearly impossible for him. She tells him he can't take the baby to our house because she does not want him near 'white trash'. She treats him so badly!"

Now compare that to what Bristol said to Greta:

VAN SUSTEREN: What about Levi? How is taking all this?
BRISTOL: Well, he's a really hands-on dad. He's just in love with him as much as I am.
VAN SUSTEREN: Does he -- how often does he see his son?
BRISTOL: He sees him every day.

Mercedes continues. "At first Levi was hanging out with the Palins because he wanted to see his son as much as possible. But he couldn't take her being such a b***h."

"She's cruel and unfair. Levi isn't even allowed to take the baby for a few hours on his own unless Bristol wants to go shopping or hang out with her friends. Those are the only times Levi gets to see Tripp (Trigg?)--when Bristol is busy. One time, Bristol came to pick Tripp up and didn't even get out of her car. She just screamed, 'Bring my damn baby out to the car!'"

Mercedes also claims that the Palins lied about attending school.

"Bristol isn't working, and she is not in school. She was taking the certified nursing assistant classes for beginning nursing, but she dropped out because she did not like one of the girls in her class. As far as I know she hasn't gotten her GED or high school diploma either."

Wait! How can this be? Didn't Governor Sarah herself say that Levi and Bristol DID NOT DROP OUT OF SCHOOL! Yep I believe she did.

"Things are not how Bristol described them, with 'everyone pitching in'. Sarah is away from home way too much for that to happen. From what I know of that family, I don't see anyone helping at all. Not even Sarah."

According to Mercedes the Greta Van Susteren interview was supposed to be a joint interview with both Bristol and Levi.

"They had been planning it, and it was all set. Then, the day of the interview, Bristol sent a text message to Levi saying, 'I hate you, and when I found out I was pregnant I wished the baby wasn't yours.'" Ouch!

Asked if that meant that Bristol may have been cheating on Levi when she got pregnant, Mercedes replied, "It sure seems like that."

Alright now I know some of you are thrilled that I read this article and posted it for you to read. But others are probably saying "Geez Gryphen, we understand you reading the Trailblazer book, but this thing is total trash."

I could not agree more. But I will point out that the book and the magazine are really not that much different, with the exception that I believe this magazine reveals much more of the REAL truth then the book did. Let's face it the book was a love letter to Sarah Palin.

So here is why I felt the need to make this post.

First, the allegation has been made that Mercedes did not actually allow herself to be interviewed and that this was overheard on a plane ride. That is completely ridiculous because of the amount of material in this article, the fact that Mercedes has not publicly retracted it, and the fact that NOBODY involved is talking about suing Star magazine.

Second, because a number of bloggers had located the address of one of Mercedes friend's MySpace pages and were sitting on the story that Bristol was not allowing Levi to see the baby. They did not move forward with it because we had no independent confirmation and did not want to expose this teenage girl to the Palin wrath. In my opinion Mercedes just confirmed it.

Third, I have confirmation that Todd Palin and Levi Johnston had a HUGE argument in Wasilla after Bristol snuck out of the house to see Levi after being told not to. This directly contradicts everything the Palins said about Bristol and Levi's relationship, but supports Mercedes version of events.

And then there is this persistent rumor, and let me go on record saying it is still just a rumor, that Levi may have placed yet another bun in the oven in Wasilla, and THAT may explain Bristol's anger toward him. If that were the case I think we could all understand just why she is so upset.

So taking ALL of that into account, your choice dear reader is to decide who to believe. Sarah Palin, Bristol, and the carefully crafted public relations red herring they have manufactured for our enjoyment? Or the rantings of a hormonal teenage girl who is angrily defending her brother?

I report, you decide.

Update: There have been a number of questions about this picture so I scanned it. I am struck by how young Levi looks in it however.