The things you find on Reddit. Today's topic: Incels.

Here is the post.

Gee, no wonder these guys have a problem with women.

I first heard this term "Incel" when somebody used it to label me.

I quite literally had no idea what they were talking about, but I looked it up:

Incel: aka "involuntarily celibate", a person (usually male) who has a horrible personality and treats women like sexual objects and thinks his lack of a sex life comes from being "ugly" when its really just his blatant sexism and terrible attitude. incels have little to no self awareness; even when they see other "ugly" men with girlfriends, they consider these men to be tricksters who have somehow beat the system and can get women despite being cursed with unattractiveness (in other words, theyre respectful to women and women are attracted to their personalities, but incels cant comprehend such a phenomenon). they believe that women owe them sex, and many of the more extreme incels like to spend time in incel communities on the internet coming up with ways to make women have sex with them (often involving genocide of people of color, genocide of "Chads" (men who have sex), taking rights away from women, raping them, having sex with women's dead bodies, and other horrid, disgusting things. they cant understand that that is PRECISELY why women want nothing to do with them).

Okay, well there are plenty of derogatory things I could be called, that might actually reflect my character in some way, but this ain't it. 

Apparently that recent attack in Canada is being blamed on one of these losers.

Men hating on women is certainly nothing new, and this does nothing more than put a new label on an age old problem.

For the record nobody owes anybody sex, or even affection.

Those are things you earn.

And relationships, no matter how awesome they may begin, often end with hurt feelings and even outright anger.

I have certainly been there myself. 

But to hate on an entire gender just because you are unlucky at love, is certainly never going to convince that gender that you are worthy of their time or affection.

You have to try to be a better you, before you can expect others to be a better them.

Aw, Hope Hicks and wife beater Rob Porter are no longer dating? Say it ain't so!

Courtesy of the Daily Mail: 

White House Communications Director Hope Hicks and former staff secretary Rob Porter are no longer dating, according to two sources with direct knowledge of the bygone relationship's status. 

One person close to Hicks told DailyMail.com on Wednesday that the dating came to an end after Porter resigned last week when his two ex-wives came forward to accuse him of abuse. 

The revelations by DailyMail.com have set of a crisis in the White House over the handling of Porter's past. 

The pair were on their way to becoming a bona fide Washington power couple, as two of President Donald Trump's most trusted and closest aides. 

But their falling out was seen as inevitable, one West Wing aide said Wednesday, after Porter's two ex-wives accused him of spousal abuse. 

Gee, first Dakota Meyer and Bristol Palin call it quits, and now this?

It's like dysfunctional relationships just don't stand a chance anymore.

Newsweek is totally slut shaming Donald Trump.

Courtesy of Newsweek: 

The collapse of the Trump-Putin mutual admiration society—potentially the world’s most politically important relationship—is a story of unrealistic Russian hopes, badly-thought-out U.S. gestures and the Kremlin’s misguided attempts to interfere in American democracy. Putin believed Trump was a man with whom he could do business, a pragmatist willing to overlook Moscow’s annexation of Crimea, support for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and warmongering in eastern Ukraine; someone who would allow the Kremlin a free hand in exchange for Russian support against terrorism. Trump had long admired Putin’s authoritarian leadership and envied his dictator-like approval ratings. On the campaign trail, he also had viewed praising Putin as a useful, if minor, tool in his arsenal of anti-Clinton invective. “I think I would have a very, very good relationship with Putin,” Trump said in September 2016. “And I think I would have a very, very good relationship with Russia.”

Both men were very wrong.

Newsweek then reminds us that before Vladimir Putin wanted to go steady with Donnie boy that he was totally fixated on destroying that bitch Hillary Clinton.

So Putin sent his little internet ninjas in to hack, phish, and gather as much dirt on the popular girl that they could.

During that enterprise Putin noticed a certain special someone, and it was on like Donkey Kong.

The Kremlin’s love-in with Trump began in earnest after Super Tuesday, March 1, 2016, after he unexpectedly won seven states in the Republican primaries. Russia’s state-controlled media began talking him up as a pro-Russian maverick who admired Putin. “We never believed that the U.S. establishment would ever allow [Trump] to win,” recalls a senior Russian TV anchor and well-known Kremlin propagandist, who asked for anonymity when discussing the evolution of his show’s political position. “But it looked like this man was interested in a deal. He seemed like someone who wanted to break down Washington’s clichés about Russia.… Basically he looked like he could be nash —our kind of guy.” Kremlin-controlled TV, along with its foreign-language mouthpieces RT and the Sputnik news agencies, began spinning the line that Trump was a fan of Putin and an enemy of a supposedly Russia-hating Washington establishment. Meanwhile, on the dark side, Russian hackers began creating bots to boost Trump’s Twitter numbers—whether on the Kremlin’s orders or not hasn’t been proved—and retweeting anti-Clinton memes like #crookedhillary. “Trump has said that he does not want to impose the American will on other sovereign nations,” Vyacheslav Nikonov, head of the Duma’s Committee on Education, told Newsweek at the time. “That’s a world which I welcome.”

Many Russians were thrilled by Trump’s fondness for their supreme leader. As early as October 2007, Trump told CNN’s Larry King that Putin was “doing a great job in rebuilding the image of Russia and also rebuilding Russia period.” In 2013, when Trump brought the Miss Universe pageant to Moscow, he wondered in a tweet if Putin would “become my new best friend.” (Trump also falsely claimed that he had met Putin during his visit.) And in December 2015, on MSNBC's Morning Joe, Trump defended the Russian leader against allegations he had ordered the killings of journalists by retorting that “our country does plenty of killing also.” Most attractive to Russians was Trump’s often-repeated insistence on the same kind of machismo that forms the basis of Putin’s cult of personality. "I don't think [Putin] has any respect for Clinton,” Trump said in July 2016. “I think he respects me."

Yes, because the player always respects the booty call, right dumbass?

But just like Ross and Rachel, Sam and Diane, and the Captain and Tennille a happily ever after was simply not in the cards.

It was Congress that finally ended any chance of a Trump-Putin reset on July 25, when both chambers overwhelmingly passed a bill enshrining Barack Obama’s economic sanctions against Moscow into law, recommending even more sanctions against Russia’s energy sector and forbidding the president from easing them without congressional approval. The law struck at the very thing on which the Kremlin had hung its hopes—Trump’s authority to create his own Russia policy. Top officials in Moscow were quick to grasp that Congress had effectively neutered the president, at least as far as the Kremlin was concerned.

“Trump’s administration has demonstrated total impotence by surrendering its executive authority to Congress in the most humiliating way,” wrote Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev in a Facebook post. “The U.S. establishment fully outwitted Trump.… The hope that our relations with the new American administration would improve is finished.” Or as Sergei Zheleznyak, deputy chair of the Duma’s Committee on Foreign Affairs, tells Newsweek , “Trump is no longer in charge. What is there for Putin to talk about with him? What is the point of talking to Tillerson if he comes to us, when [Putin] knows that [Trump] cannot remove sanctions?”

And just like that the Trump-Putin bromance hit the skids.

No more late night phone calls, no more staying up to all hours doing each other's hair, no more text messages bashing Hillary to each other during work hours.

Putin bet that Trump was finally the one, but as he and his followers have come to learn, he is just a reality show clown whose entire persona is made up of carefully crafted bullshit held together with good old American gullibility.

Like many famous sitcom relationships that have come before, there will likely be multiple attempts to rekindle the magic, but with so many eyes (Including those belonging to investigators and prosecutors) focused on what happens next it is unlikely that Putin and Trump will be riding off into any sunsets together.

But fear not Donnie, because history will surely remember that you were once Putin's little bitch and that ultimately, when you were no longer of any use, he unceremoniously cast you aside like a used condom.

Good news folks, Bristol Palin has marriage all figured out now.

Courtesy of Bristol's ghostwritten blog:

My marriage is far from perfect. Dakota and I learn things about each other everyday. Our parents and friends weren’t lying when they warned us that it will be work! I think we both understand that now. 

Nothing has been more difficult, and yet rewarding, than marriage. It reminds me so much of parenting. It’s hard at times, but also the greatest and most precious gift!

Bristol then goes on to offer up some marriage quote pablum that really does not offer anything of any use.

Like this one:

Yeah anybody who thinks that marriage is only about three things has never been married.

Now look I recognize that considering my unfortunate experience with marriage I am the last person to give anybody any advice, however one thing I do know is that after only three months of marriage, you know NOTHING about being married.

And just in case you are wondering why Bristol is working so hard to give the impression that everything in her marriage is going perfectly, it is because the exact opposite appears to be the case.

According to the buzz in Wasilla the honeymoon stage has come to a screeching halt and the fact that they are now stuck with each other has caused more than a little friction between the lovebirds.

And apparently those Gino texts did not help matters much.

However much like Sarah and Todd, Bristol and Dakota are determined not to give any tabloids (Or know it all bloggers) the pleasure of spouting "I told you so's"  so they are working to keep things on the down low in the hopes that everything will work out in the end.

Now before the inevitable trolls slither over here claiming that these are private people and should be left alone, let me remind them that this post is in response to Bristol's post about making a happy marriage.

If she does not want to be ridiculed and called out over her bullshit, then she should resist the urge to give parenting, abstinence, or marriage advice ever again. Because we know better.

Simply put you do not stand in front of your house encased in flames and give your neighbors fire safety tips.

Conan's late night sidekick tells his Planned Parenthood story. Oh yes, he has one.

Courtesy of the Hollywood Reporter:

It’s not easy for anyone to share an abortion story, but Andy Richter did just that on Sept. 10. Host of the second Sexy Beast, the art-themed fundraiser for Planned Parenthood L.A. (PPLA) held at The Theater at Ace Hotel, Richter took attendees at the event back to the early 1990s, when he and his then-girlfriend (and now-wife), comedian Sarah Thyre, were starring in Jill Soloway’s stage production of The Brady Bunch. 

“I’d like to share a story,” he began. “In 1992, my girlfriend and I were having a rough time. We’d been performing in a show together for a couple of years, but it had come to an end, and we found ourselves living apart. She was in New York City working three jobs; I was in Chicago jobless and sleeping on my mother’s couch. The strain of living apart, and the stress of being two young people attempting to make a living as performers and writers was really taking a toll on its relationship. So when she called me to tell me that she was pregnant, it was not exactly happy news." 

 "Luckily for us Planned Parenthood existed," Richter continued. "My girlfriend knew that she was not ready for motherhood, and I knew that I was in no way prepared to be a father. I drove from Chicago in my battered old Toyota pick-up to be with her when she went to Planned Parenthood to terminate her pregnancy. Her choice to get an abortion was a choice that she made with assuredness. She knew that she was doing the right thing for everyone involved. But I can’t say it was easy. She was sad, and I was sad, and it was sad. But to this day, I know that she will tell you that she made the right decision."

Richter's story took another sad turn before a very happy conclusion. "Soon after I returned to Chicago, the strain of our long-distance relationship became too much for us, and Sarah and I broke up," he said. "But then, what seems like five minutes after that, we realized that breaking up was the stupidest thing we’d ever done. So we got back together, and we got engaged, and we got married, and we had a couple kids, and a parrot and two dogs. And so far, we’ve been married for 22 wonderful years. Planned Parenthood gave two young struggling people the ability to do the thing that is in their name: We got to plan parenthood. When we could barely care for ourselves, much less a newborn, we were able to choose the time when we brought a child into our lives. Planned Parenthood allowed my wife to make the decisions she needed to make in order to control her body and her health, and maintain her life and her future. And for that, I will be eternally grateful.”

I thought this was a very poignant story, and made even more so by the fact that it was told by a male concerning how the decision to terminate an unwanted pregnancy positively affected his life.

We actually need to hear more stories from the male perspective because often these decisions are as difficult and terrifying for them as they are for the women.

And ending a pregnancy when you are not yet ready to care for a child, certainly does NOT mean that you will not go on to have a wonderful family, a wonderful marriage, and to be a wonderful mother or father.

I have known more than one couple who terminated an early pregnancy only to go on to have a house full of kids after they finished school and were financially and emotionally ready to be parents.

Somehow I think feminists will get over it.

This guy is gonna go his whole life thinking it's his looks & not his personality that makes women not date him pic.twitter.com/3s17aZ9wYq

— Sophia Benoit (@1followernodad) September 8, 2016

Here is the column that this tweet refers to.

Get a load of this:

If you look for a reason to hate men, chances are you’re going to find it. 

The truth is, I don’t blame women, (especially in my generation) for hating men. They’ve been told there’s a wage gap (I disagree). That there’s a culture of rape on college campuses (I also disagree). And the patriarchy is keeping them oppressed in almost every facet of their lives (I really, really disagree.)

So first this guy refutes any evidence which supports a woman's feelings about gender inequality, and then demonstrates his ignorance about women, relationships. and even love.

People who are more loyal to their gender and not their significant other don’t make good partners. They will always look at you as inherently more fortunate than them. They’ve bought into the “battle of the sexes” mentality and it often pervades their perceptions of romance. Romance turns into a power struggle rather than a partnership.

I don't even know what it means to be more loyal to ones gender than to their loved one.

That sounds like a made up circumstance from a guy who does not get a lot of female attention.

I don't believe romance is often a power struggle, though relationships certainly  can be.

And that can happen in ALL relationships, not just those involving members of the opposite sex.

It’s a shame, really, that this divide is widening between the sexes. It’s evident that gender politics is hurting our culture. More marriages are failing and women are reporting that they’re unhappier now than ever. Perhaps in several decades this won’t be the case. 

Maybe one day, men and women will stop trying to eliminate the lines between us and realize it’s the differences between the sexes that make romance, family and love an enjoyable experience.

"Gender politics?" Is that even a thing?

If you are getting the feeling that this guy might be a woman hating conservative, his Twitter feed will do little to dissuade you.

He seems to have a real issue with women and liberalism in general. Go figure.

(And yes he supports Donald Trump.)

Personally I have never heard of the guy, but this article is blowing up all over the interwebs.

So here let me offer my two cents.

Former child actor Kirk Cameron's marriage advice is essentially everything works out fine as long as women know their place.

Courtesy of Christian Post:

"A lot of people don't know that marriage comes with instructions," Cameron explained. "And, we find them right there in God's word." 

Cameron stated that husband's are "to love their wives and not to tell their wives that they need to submit to them," but added that wives should not only respect their husbands but also follow their lead. 

"Wives are to honor and respect and follow their husband's lead, not to tell their husband how he ought to be a better husband," Cameron explained. "When each person gets their part right, regardless of how their spouse is treating them, there is hope for real change in their marriage."

So to be clear the husbands should tell their wives to submit, the wives should just know to do that in order to keep the marriage together. 

You know I'm twice divorced so I am the last guy to give marital advice, but it seems to me that if your relationship only survives because one of you is expected to shut up and do as they're told, then what you have is not really a relationship. Well certainly not a healthy one.

On a related note we could all still be enjoying the existence of slavery if those uppity Negroes had only accepted the fact that the white folks were in charge.

Now I know why I am not dating. Not pathological enough.

Source.

Courtesy of Scientific America:  

In the study researchers focused on nearly 1,000 heterosexual men and women with a variety of pathological personality traits whose disorders ranged in severity from none to diagnosable. Participants were referred to the study by general practitioners or other medical professionals, says Fernando Gutiérrez at the Hospital Clinic of Barcelona, who led the research. Gutiérrez and his team inquired about participants’ lifetime numbers of mates and children, along with job level, income and other sociodemographic factors using a combination of self-reporting surveys and interviews. 

Their results show that people with some pathological personality types, such as those considered neurotic and impulsive, had more mates and even more children than average, suggesting that such traits are not being weeded out by natural selection and actually may confer an evolutionary advantage. 

The study results show both males and females who were pathologically reckless and impetuous attracted more short-term partners than participants with average personalities. And obsessive-compulsive males—but not females—were successful at securing long-lasting mates, an outcome strongly associated with this group’s high income (obsessive-compulsives made nearly twice as much as the less obsessive study participants), Gutiérrez says.

(So sane people make less money? Well that explains two things.) 

It should be noted that the findings of this study are considered speculative since certain personality types tend to be less trustworthy.

But putting that aside for now, there IS a grain of truth here.

There IS something to be said for the fact that pathological personalities sometimes have over inflated egos, and lack the kinds of self doubt that trouble those who are more introspective or self aware.

And perhaps there is something to be said for the fact that it requires a certain level of self delusion or fear of being alone which helps a marriage last for decades. I am of course not saying it is true of all marriages, but the possibility certainly makes me feel better about my past relationships.

For instance I do not usually have trouble attracting female attention, but cannot make relationships last for the long haul. And I ALWAYS think after a few years into the relationship that my partner has gone a little crazy.

In fact an actual Thanksgiving conversation with my family centered around whether I only attract crazy women, or whether living with me DRIVES them crazy.

I for one chose the former. Sadly that was not the consensus.

So apparently I am crazy enough to attract a woman, but not crazy enough to keep a woman. Not sure how to feel about that.

I guess my only option is to sit here ensconced in my sanity and feel smugly superior.

Yeah, THAT should keep me warm at night.

Letter to blogger demonstrates how religion provides an excuse for men to avoid personal responsibility.

Courtesy of Raw Story:  

It’s a brief post that doesn’t mention the blog of the woman—titled I’m In Love With A Serial Cheater—who started this shaming site, but I ended up reading many blog posts from it because, to be frank, the experience of being a woman who has completely absconded any personal dignity and is so devoted to even the most grotesque sexism is really alien to me. I began to almost feel sorry for the blogger, whose shitbag of a husband is clearly enjoying the hell out of having his wife and his mistress fight relentlessly over him. The only thing he has to do for the pleasure is occasionally pretend to be mildly sorry, but honestly not even that, because the blogger is 100% clear that she believes that he has no choice but to fuck a woman who offers. It’s mind-boggling and distressing to realize how many women have completely bought into the notion that a man’s only as good as his options. 

But what I didn’t really touch on in the Slate post is the role religion plays in all this. The blogger printed a letter from a reader that really shows how religious beliefs that men are leaders and women are submissive helpmeets do not, in fact, encourage male responsibility. In fact, they do they opposite. Here’s an excerpt from the letter, titled “Open Letter To The Homewrecker”. 

"You don’t know my husband. I know him inside and out 14 years’ worth of mostly ups and a few downs that made us. 47 years that made him. His family, his needs, his desires, his weaknesses and his strengths. You don’t know him. You know what he tells you of himself. What he pretends to be in a dirty little secret world. It’s in his heart to serve the Lord and lead his family as a Kingdom Man, but his flesh is weak. Satan preys on him to distract and destroy and you are but one of many of the enemy’s tricks. Yes, TRICKS. My husband is caught in a spiritual battle and he is losing as you continue providing satanic ammunition. Manipulative texts, dirty pictures and Satan laughs at both of you and the destruction you seek to deliver. No, you don’t know my husband. If you did, you would know that he will not leave me. Not for the kids’ sake or child support but because he LOVES me in a way you will never know. In a deep and eternal way that doesn’t stop even if our relationship did. He desires me in a way he never has anyone else. I provide a sense of safety, stability, warmth, passion and freedom that no one else will. Unconditional love and acceptance in the safety of his covenant of a family. If you knew my husband you would know the juvenile infatuation that prompts him to reach for you will prompt him to reach for another if he was without you. That the chemical reaction in his brain is nothing more than a horny-teenage impulse and is unstable at best. The deep, abiding and familiar love he seeks he has at home. That when he is truly alone, it’s his family, not his harem that he misses. If you knew my husband you would know that romantic texts and sweet nothings are his player’s lines. Not his love language. He speaks his love in his actions – love is an action word for him. He shows it in making sure his family is taken care of in every way. All his empty words might get you to send one more dirty video or maybe get him laid, but he will tire of you soon. If you knew my husband you would want the best for him. You would want him to listen to the Spirit and God and move in the direction he moves him, which is not anywhere near you, my dear. You don’t know him."

Despite the fact that this woman believes that her husband is the “leader” of her family, the responsibility to hold the family together doesn’t belong to him, but to some random woman that he apparently has to fuck because men supposedly have no self-control. This always amazes me, the way that people with sexist beliefs both think that men can’t handle even the basic responsibility of keeping a promise but nonetheless are supposed to be the leaders while women are supposed to be followers. The bad logic of that should be screamingly obvious, and yet people don’t see it. 

Frankly, as this letter shows, the reason they don’t see it is largely religion. Obviously, a lot of religious people are smart, rational people on the whole. (I’ve never met a smart, rational person who didn’t have a wacky belief or two, and so it follows that a popular one would be religion.) But religion is one of the best ways that humanity has ever come up with to bamboozle people out of noticing giant flaws in a system. There’s no logical reason to argue, “Men are so irresponsible and flighty that they can’t keep their dick in their pants, so let’s give them the power to run the world and give none of it to women.” You need to add, “God said so,” at the end of that so that people stifle the obvious questions.

Just to be clear Atheists can be assholes to women as well. The only difference is that we don't have an organized religion providing cover for us and encouraging women to forgive us becasue "we are sinful creatures who cannot help ourselves."

I have known a number of women who told themselves that their husbands cheated on them, beat them, or abandoned them, because they "had demons" and believed completley that if only they were better wives they could have "saved them."

And I have also known more than a few men who prey on such women, and use them up, destroying their self confidence and self worth in the process, only to toss them aside when a new, younger, challenge presents itself. And the process starts all over again.

In a few of these cases then women went to their ministers for guidance and were told to pray on it, and that keeping the family together was the job of the wife.

A few years ago I attended the funeral of one of these very same women.

I guess she didn't pray hard enough, did she?

It's not about the nail.

It's Not About the Nail from Jason Headley on Vimeo.

As a man who has been married twice I cannot tell you how true I find this to be.

I literally once had a conversation with my second wife during which she complained bitterly about a co-worker and how this co-worker was not doing things the way my wife, her boss, was telling her to do them. This, she felt, was undermining her authority.

As the conversation continued I suddenly realized that my wife was completely wrong and found myself on the side of her co-worker who had solved a number of problems at the workplace by ignoring my wife.

The truly unfortunate thing for me was that my wife began to pick up on subtle body language cues that I was apparently giving off which indicated that I was not on her side, though I stayed silent on the issue. This caused her to become increasingly angry at me until ultimately the whole thing somehow became my fault.

It's not about the nail.

Hillary Clinton's last day as Secretary of State. Update!

Are politics supposed to be that much fun?

Having this picture taken was not the ONLY thing that Hillary Clinton did before she left office yesterday. She also gave an interview in which she addressed the Benghazi conspiracy fanatics:

"There are some people in politics and in the press who can't be confused by the facts," she said. "They just will not live in an evidence-based world. And that's regrettable. It's regrettable for our political system and for the people who serve our government in very dangerous, difficult circumstances." 

Well gee, I wonder just who she could be talking about?

Catholic priest blames female victims of domestic violence as being responsible due to ther "arrogance" and the fact they serve cold or fast food to their men.

Not married and celibate, perfect person to dish out advice on abusive relationships.

Courtesy of the Herald Sun: 

"How often do we see girls and mature women going around scantily dressed and in provocative clothes?" Piero Corsi said in a Christmas message posted on the door of his church in the small town of San Terenzio in northwest Italy. 

"They provoke the worst instincts, which end in violence or sexual abuse. They should search their consciences and ask: did we bring this on ourselves?" it read. 

The leaflet, a copy of which was posted online sparking a wave of outrage across the country, said the 118 women killed in acts of domestic violence in Italy in 2012 had pushed men to their limits. 

"Is it possible that all of a sudden men have gone mad? We don't believe it," Corsi wrote. 

"The fact is that women are increasingly provocative, they become arrogant, they believe themselves to be self-sufficient and end up exacerbating the situation," he said. 

"Children are abandoned to their own devices, homes are dirty, meals are cold or fast food, clothes are filthy," he added. 

The region's bishop, Luigi Ernesto Palletti, stepped in as the story went viral and said Corsi's words were "unacceptable and go against the church's common feeling on the matter".

Once again ladies why would ANY of you subject yourselves to a  patriarchal religious faith that was essentially founded to suppress women and keep them at home cleaning house and birthing babies while elevating their husbands to a state of Godhood within their homes?

And another thing, why, oh why, do people take marital, relationship, or sexual advice from men who are not married, in relationships, or having sex?

That is like asking an Amish man why my computer is running slow.

Poor Levi Johnston never had a chance.

Levi being led to his eventual doom.

On January 9, 2009, my friend Dennis Zaki sent the following e-mail to Bill McAllister, Palin's media spokesman:

From: Dennis Zaki - AlaskaReport.com 
To: McAllister, William D (GOV) 
Sent: Fri Jan 09 12:49:30 2009 
Subject: Levi baby #2? 

Hi Bill, I’m giving you a heads up. Three gossips mags and two networks have called me today for information on a possible pregnancy of another high school girl by Levi Johnston. When the networks call, there’s usually something there. 
DZ 

AlaskaReport.com
 www.alaskareport.com 

McAllister than sent the e-mail to his boss. Who replied as follows:

 From: Palin, Sarah (GOV sponsored) 
To: McAllister, William D (GOV); Perry, Kristina Y (GOV); Leighow, Sharon W (GOV) 
Sent: Fri Jan 09 13:15:44 2009 
Subject: Re: Levi baby #2? 

I hate people. No it’s not true. And to double, triple check I just called Levi. Dang these stupid people. They’re lying. What are the facts behind this allegation??? Who, where’s the baby, who’s the girl, etc.? 

Why aren’t Gov. Pawlenty or Perry or Schwartz kids scrutinized like this? Let me talk to the folks asking these questions, please. 

Now what is kind of interesting about this is that THIS e-mail was sent only about two hours BEFORE the Brendan Joel Kelley e-mail asking about the confrontation between Todd and Levi. So on this particular day Palin was undoubtedly wishing that she had never even HEARD of Levi Johnston. (No wonder uber image conscious governor was whispering in Bristol's ear how much better her life would be without the father of her newborn around.)

Interestingly enough I had NO idea that this rumor was even out there in early 2009. I was constantly hearing a number of questionable rumors, but this one did not filter down to me, and even my buddy Dennis Zaki, left me out of the loop. (To be fair we had just become friends at this point and he was always very secretive about his sources.)

However this is exactly the kind of rumor that would have enraged Bristol, who is very insecure and was constantly convinced that Levi was cheating on her. I actually don't think that Levi would have had the time to cheat on Bristol, since he was literally living in the Palin home and caring for Tripp (and often Trig) virtually 24 hours a day. (When Palin was not sending him on runs to Taco Bell, or he was working his extremely temporary job on the slope, of course.)

As demonstrated in July of 2010, even the hint of unfaithfulness was enough to send Bristol into a rage. So this incident in 2009, coupled with the tension between Todd and Levi, spelled certain doom for the young lovers. (By the way Mercede dispelled the rumor that last broke Levi and Bristol up in the summer of 2010 on her blog. Just in case you missed it)

Now as for Palin's assertion that she called Levi to check on these rumors, I don't believe that is true.

It might be, but from what I understand Sarah rarely called Levi, so it most likely yet another case where Palin claims to have spoken to somebody, or had a press release written on their behalf, without actually contacting that person. (In fact that "youthful indiscretion" apology supposedly written by Levi, was in fact written by Thomas Van Flein. As revealed on page 141 of Levi's book.)

Essentially Levi was born to be manipulated.

He was manipulated by Bristol into impregnating her.

He was manipulated by Palin into standing on stage with the family for purely political reasons during the campaign.

And he was terribly manipulated by Tank Jones and Rex Butler out of making the kind of money that he could have made by telling the REAL truth about his time with the Palins.

Like I said Levi NEVER stood a chance.

P.S. People have been asking me if I know anything about Levi's refusal to appear on Bristol's reality show. I do have a little information, but it is not something that I have permission to share.

What I think I can say though is that there is some concern, justified in my opinion, that Bristol wants to film Levi so that the producers can edit the footage to make him seem like an uncaring father or defame him in some way.

Personally I think that is one of the few smart moves this kid has manged to pull off.

P.P.S. This is Dennis Zaki's response to my questions to him about this e-mail.

Wow. I forgot about that panic attack by them since there's been so many. I do remember my contacts at CNN and CBS called asking, can't remember which rags called. I do remember Bullshit Bill denied everything first in a phone called as soon as he got my email (before he called Sarah) then started asking questions because it was clearly the first he had ever heard of it. That was SOP by him and Leighow to lie first, find out details later, then return a call and lie again. I never heard from them again after that first inquiring phone call. 

Actually in this case I do think this was just a rumor, but interesting how the Palin team dealt with these things by adamantly denying things out of hand, BEFORE they ever check to see if there is anything to the story. Don'tcha think?