Levi Johnston: I lied about Sarah Palin

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http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20399773,00.html

Levi Johnston has come clean. He has admitted that he had lied about Sarah Palin.

"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,"

"So to the Palin family in general and to Sarah Palin in particular, please accept my regrets and forgive my youthful indiscretion," Johnston says in the statement. "I hope one day to restore your trust."

http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20399773,00.html

 

[laikaNYC]

He should apologize to the mother and grandmother of his child for paling around with that left-wing loon Kathy Griffin. His daughter is going to grow up and see how her father publicly disparaged her loved ones. Quite sad. He behaved like a foolish kid.

 

[MercuryJones]

I wonder how much that co$t Palin, or what she was able to threaten the kid with.

 

[laikaNYC]

I wonder how much that co Palin, or what she was able to threaten the kid with.

Can you provide us any proof that Palin threatened him? Or should this be categorized as another one of your paranoid conspiracy theories?

 

[NickCole]

Good for him.

Owning up to your lies is a sign of maturing character.

 

[KTheLibra]

Oh, please, he's just trying to make things work with Bristol Palin for the sake of their bastard so he has to get back in Mama's good graces.

Oh well, maybe he'll do something awesome like bring Kathy to one of the Palins' dinner parties or something. How amazing would that be.

 

[CowboyBob]

Quoting Levi Johnston and People magazine? I'd believe the National Enquirer and the two headed baby story before I believe People magazine.

If it's true I wonder how much he was paid by the Palin camp for that statement? Or was it threats to ruin his life? She does shoot from helicopters. Hillbillies from Alaska can be intimidating especially when someone is messing with your income.

 

[CowboyBob]

I was reading up about this. Apparently Levi and Bristol are back together and he's living in her condo, and it may be a "forced" apology.

Here's a comment:

The vindictive Palins don’t play nicely with anyone unless there’s a compelling reason like Levi having the big bad dirt on granny. Sarah has to be in a huge panic to be digging Levi out from under the bus especially after all the things they’ve done to his family. They obviously blackmailed him with access to Tripp and probably paid him so he’d cover if “abstinent” Bristol is PG again – we all know Levi is staying at her condo. He’s young and wants to see his child. He also knows that the crazy woman controls whether or not he sees his son so of course he is going to apologize! He was never going to beat the Palins in court, and let’s face it, like Todd, Levi is not the sharpest tool in the shed.

Palin continues to split and divide…Levi’s family. Sarah will get Sadie and Sherry to shut up if they too want to see Tripp. I’m sure Sarah is not too happy about Levi’s sister Mercede’s new blog since the Queen’s lawyer already spoke against it – next they will try to force her to take down her blog just you wait and see. Levi, you are pussy whipped and now licking Sarah’s boots but I understand why. I wish you luck because you’re going to need it while doing the bidding of the queen in her evil empire.

I thought something like this may be what's going on. This is working for Levi too. They're giving him more integrity than Sarah for owning up to his lies, and she isn't even tho she was a governor. This may backfire on her.

http://www.astrochicks.com/2010/07/...-back-together-forced-apology-to-sarah-palin/

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/gos...ston-apologizes-to-sarah-palin-for-lying.html

I'm sure there will be a lot more about this. The news is only a few hours old. We all know how Sarah likes to make her private family life public.

 

[JB3]

Wait. You bash the OP for using People, and then you use a comment made by some anonymous asshat on a trashy website to try and prove your own point?

Pot. Kettle. Black.

 

[laikaNYC]

Wait. You bash the OP for using People, and then you use a comment made by some anonymous asshat on a trashy website to try and prove your own point?

Pot. Kettle. Black.

You haven't heard? AstroChicks.com is the mecca of factual journalism!

Bob, you sound like Perez Hilton. Try providing us with some facts before hurling out baseless accusations.

 

[stillscion20]

Palin's son Track, the one that's in the military, now he's quite a hottie.

wowow Track is f'n hot! He's hotter than Levi. They may be a bunch of morons, but the Palins sure are one attractive family.

 

[MystikWizard]

Since Levi's career certainly isn't going anywhere and he has a baby to help take care of, perhaps saying these words publicly is best, regardless of whether they are true now or were true before.

Who really cares? I don't even know why I bothered responding to this, to be honest.

 

[braex27]

I hope that this is a genuine attempt to make amends, and not some grab at attention and publicity....

 

[Kulindahr]

Why is anyone supposed to care?

 

[rareboy]

^ I'm with Kuli.

Why would the antics of this completely and utterly unpleasant and dysfunctional tribe matter to anyone except people who are so pathologically obsessed with party politics that they think this is some major victory.

He can apologize all he wants.

The fact remains that his mother-in-law is still an intellectual lightweight who has helped to destroy the credibility and integrity of the GOP in the US, who quit her job in order to cash in and who really shouldn't be regarded as a desirable standard for achievement of any kind.

Only in the US does this kind of publicity whoring by an entire group of people who have had their 15 minutes, get taken up by millions of foaming tea-partiers to argue their political superiority.

 

[NickCole]

Levi Johnston, given a microphone that reached everybody interested in Sarah Palin, lied about her in a way that was used against her by her enemies.

Telling the truth is the right thing to do, and it's important to our society and culture that adults tell the truth and take responsibility for their actions.

Reading this thread, it's interesting that some go to the trouble of ridiculing or dismissing truth telling.

 

[kallipolis]

Levi Johnston, given a microphone that reached everybody interested in Sarah Palin, lied about her in a way that was used against her by her enemies.

Telling the truth is the right thing to do, and it's important to our society and culture that adults tell the truth and take responsibility for their actions.

Reading this thread, it's interesting that some go to the trouble of ridiculing or dismissing truth telling.

My reading of your words would suggest that there is a presumption by you that Levi originally mis-spoke, and has now recognised the error of his ways, by clarifying his original words, that we may now believe that Levi holds Sarah Palin in high esteem.

Not a few of us believe that Levi's original outburst was much nearer the truth, than his apparent clarification of what he really meant to say.

Some would say that Levi has been enticed by incentives that would remove him from the poverty thresh hold. This young man is not the first to have sold his self respect, nor do I believe will he be the last.

I rather believe that this saga will not end with his clarification. I am sure that Levi has a few more years of celebrity interest ahead of him, that should generate a few magazine articles and the green backs that accompany such mind boggling revelations. Oh! for another soap opera. Not from sunny Brazil, but from the frozen north.

 

[MercuryJones]

I'm reminded of political hostages who are made to say all sorts of unbelievable things.

 

[NickCole]

My reading of your words would suggest that there is a presumption by you that Levi originally mis-spoke, and has now recognised the error of his ways, by clarifying his original words, that we may now believe that Levi holds Sarah Palin in high esteem.

Not a few of us believe that Levi's original outburst was much nearer the truth, than his apparent clarification of what he really meant to say.

Some would say that Levi has been enticed by incentives that would remove him from the poverty thresh hold. This young man is not the first to have sold his self respect, nor do I believe will he be the last.

I rather believe that this saga will not end with his clarification. I am sure that Levi has a few more years of celebrity interest ahead of him, that should generate a few magazine articles and the green backs that accompany such mind boggling revelations. Oh! for another soap opera. Not from sunny Brazil, but from the frozen north.

One of the problems with liars is it can be hard to tell when they're lying.

There's support for the belief that he lied initially, being motivated by hurt and anger and also celebrity and flattery and financial reward. And there's support for the belief he's lying now, motivated by the desire to be re-accepted by the Palin family.

My point is that he said he lied and yet some go to the trouble to ridicule or dismiss it, asking whether or not anybody should care. I'm saying we should care about truth and lies and when someone steps up to say, "I lied." It matters. We have a big problem with deceitfulness in the United States and a lot of people seem to not realize how damaging it is, that there are consequences to lying about others. Even if the consequences aren't immediately evident there ARE consequences, sometimes minor and sometimes serious.

So when someone who's tried to damage another's reputation and credibility, comes out and says I lied about that, it matters to people who care about the truth.

 

[grantt]

Levi Johnston, given a microphone that reached everybody interested in Sarah Palin, lied about her in a way that was used against her by her enemies.

Telling the truth is the right thing to do, and it's important to our society and culture that adults tell the truth and take responsibility for their actions.

Reading this thread, it's interesting that some go to the trouble of ridiculing or dismissing truth telling.

Well said. Looks like he decided to get off the roller coaster ride and move on. Looks like the kid from Alaska, that got thrown into public life with no control of his own, may be ready to go back to his "own" life.