Bristol Palin's Former Best Friend is a Person of Interest - Happy Birthday Bristol !

Today is Alaska Day, Bristol Palin’s 21st Birthday , and 6^th Anniversary of Sarah Palin’s Official Declaration as Candidate for Governor.

In honor of all three of these auspicious and simultaneous occasions I took a look back at the former First Family's First Daughter's first television interview.  This is leading somewhere, so stay with me.  Levi recently gave a new name that goes with this old story.  I researched this minor character (she had a speaking part) and found she has spoken more recently.  

This begins with Bristol, young, unremarkable and steeped in middle class visions of what she wanted for her future  - an education, a house, a career. She nervously sat for a television interview on February 16, 2009 with a solicitous  Greta Van Susteren on Fox news. 

The comparison to the woman Bristol is today, on her 21^st birthday is almost shocking if I’d been under a rock for the past 2 ½ years, I would not recognize her. It’s not just the plastic surgeries and/or dental alignment, but also her rise to fame as a lame spokesperson/dancer/motivational speaker.

Talk about lipstick on a …. Well, anyway, she’s changed.

VAN SUSTEREN: Take me back to a year ago, when you first discovered you were going to be a mother. You—I imagine you had to tell your parents.

Allison: A year ago? Like, ummm, February 2008? Greta, do you know something that supports what I’ve been saying on this blog? See Allison's Own Thoughts...on my prior posts or click here.

BRISTOL: Yes, which was, like, harder than labor.

VAN SUSTEREN: OK, where—when did you tell them?

BRISTOL: Well, we were sitting on the couch, my best friend and Levi, and we had my parents come and sit on the couch, too.

And we had my sisters go upstairs. And we just sat them down, and I just—I couldn’t even say it. I was just sick to my stomach.

And so finally, my best friend just, like, blurted it out. And it was just, like—I don’t even remember it because it was just, like, something I don’t want to remember.

Allison: The “best friend” has been outed by Levi in “Deer in the Headlights” as Sammy Becker.  That was new information for us blog writers/followers.

I’ve looked up Sandy and that’s her in MySpace pages (preserved by palindeception.com, linked here) many of us have seen before, some pictures of great interest were taken June 2007 – right around the time Bristol could have become pregnant with Trig.  Many have taken notice of Bristol's slim figure in June and her rotund appearance in the family pictures taken three months later, September 2007. (Here is a good set of comparison photos put together by palinsgate.com)

Now then, if Levi and Bristol went through this twice, once because she was pregnant with Trig and once because of Tripp, then they have two stories to choose from, or morph into one. There have been variations on the “Tripp” story. 

As Levi says, no one is that good a liar.  It seems to me she’s giving Greta the Trig pregnancy events, and if that’s correct, it means it actually was a summer 2007 conception and the news was blurted out by Sammy when she and Bristol were best friends.

I use the past tense because, while researching Sammy, I found there was a falling out between these one-time closest friends. 

Here is  Sammy Becker’s comment left for Mercede Johnston’s in January 2011 when Sadie blogged about “Love, Lies and the Drama of Facebook”:

Sammy Becker said...

Bristol is a very angry, envious young woman, Sadie, and I'm sorry for the deplorable way she's treated you. I've yet to determine if the person she is now was there are all along or if the events of the past few years have simply brought out the worst in her. She's always had quite a chip on her shoulder about the disparity in physical appearance between herself and both Sarah and Willow; needless to say, her recent (rather shocking) weight gain can't have helped matters. You've been given much good advice; please heed it. In the meantime, keep your chin up.

VAN SUSTEREN: Levi was there, as well?

BRISTOL: Yes

…I’m skipping ahead to this:

VAN SUSTEREN: And I imagine [your parents] had some guidance for you, or some thought.

BRISTOL: Yes, they just wanted us to sit down and make a game plan, like, what we were going to do and stuff.

Allison: Always found “game plan” an interesting phrase.

VAN SUSTEREN: Had you told Levi’s family?

BRISTOL: No, not yet.

VAN SUSTEREN: When did that come about?

BRISTOL: That came about probably, like, the following day.

Allison: Really, Bristol, you can’t do any better than this? It’s been rehearsed. I could tell it for you.  Here’s a hint… the day before Levi’s 18^th birthday, etc., etc.

VAN SUSTEREN: And how did that go over?

BRISTOL: Well, his mom was—she was scared for us, too. Just we needed to sit down and make a game plan. But she was excited. We were all excited for the baby, of course.

             Allison: “game plan” again!

VAN SUSTEREN: I take it this wasn’t planned.

BRISTOL: No, not all.

VAN SUSTEREN: What happened at school?

BRISTOL: I was—it was during summer and school had just gotten out, so I just knew that I had to finish up high school and focus on getting an education.

Allison: Summer would be Trig and 2007 and best friend Sammy Becker. When Bristol found out she was pregnant with Tripp, it was mid-March 2008 (as Levi clues us in with his stories about telling his father he was dropping out of school - see post "Hockey Sticks and Pregnancy Sticks").

I live no where near Wasilla, but if I did I’d be asking Sammy Becker about all this.  Her comment to Mercede was well written and sensitive.  Maybe she is open to questioning and exploring things that she once thought she knew about Bristol.  Maybe she has some photographs that would help us fill in the blanks of the mystery months when Bristol is out of sight from October 2007 – January 2008.  Sammy Becker absolutely knows if Trig Truthers are “wackos” or “patriots.”  Or, at least, she knows if Bristol was pregnant in this picture (click here).

The viewer feed on this blog shows that Wasilla readers are stopping by. Sammy, is that you? 

My email is thepalinplace@gmail.com and I would be happy to be contacted by anyone reading this blog. From Wasilla or Wales,  Australia or Finland. Your interest is heartening and encouraging.

I will leave this with the words of Sarah Palin who broke into her daughter’s interview and took over:

SARAH PALIN: …She has it perhaps easier, if you will, than other young mothers. But many, many, many young parents have been successful in raising their children and have raised healthy, happy, contributing members of our society.

Bristol will—and Levi—they will be parents like that. We’re real proud of them.

Awe, shucks, readers, doesn’t that just warm your heart?

Happy Alaska Day!

The entire  text interview can be found here  on the fox news website.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,494205,00.html

Hockey Sticks and Pregnancy Sticks

Levi brags a lot. It's part of his personality. When it comes to hockey, he says he's known since he was twelve that he was better than most of the other players his age, and that was when he began to dream of being a pro someday.  He made the varsity team at Wasilla High in his freshman year, a year that he was home schooled. In his sophomore year he was enrolled at a smaller school, Burchell, that didn't have a hockey team. That meant he could play for Wasilla's. He attended class just enough to be allowed to continue playing hockey. He was chosen for a 2007 US Select Team in the spring, and ended up in the Nationals.

Then came the junior year when he and Bristol conceived the child we know as Tripp, but I'm rushing things.

In late 2007 and early 2008, Levi Johnston was making a name for himself on the ice and, age-appropriately, he began to think about how he was going to get into college.  Even an athlete with a scholarship needed sufficient grades to get in. His dad had been scouted in high school for football, and World Hockey League scouts were already checking out Levi. Life could be good if he could get the grades. Never the serious student, he says he decided to buckle down and get good grades so he'd be able to play college hockey.

It was a good year.  In spite of having a cracked tibia, he played and scored the only points in the last game of the 2007-2008 season in spite of playing with a cracked tibia.

You know, I'm a skeptic. I had to see if this checked out, so I got into the archives of the Mat-Su Valley Frontiersman. As far back as February 2005 I was finding praise for Levi Johnston in the sports reports. He really was a hockey phenom.  Here's what they said about the last game of the 2007-2008 season:

Byline:  Jeremiah Bartz  Saturday, February 9, 2008

WASILLA — After a disappointing loss to South Anchorage in the first round of the ASAA First National Cup 4A state hockey tournament on Thursday, the Wasilla Warriors knew they had two options when they hit the ice against the West Valley Wolfpack on Friday morning.

The Warriors could either bring a brand of physical and aggressive hockey to the rink, or they could put away their gear and call it the end of the 2007-08 season.

It goes on to say:

Junior Levi Johnston gave the Warriors a 2-0 lead midway through the second.

And how about these statistics for the year:

Wilson, Johnston and Barkley combined for 34 goals and 54 assists during the regular season.

Impressive, right? Levi had reason to believe that, with hard work in the classroom and at home doing homework, he had a bright future. That future involved going to college, leaving Wasilla, and working hard for some years right after high school.

(Hmmm, what would Bristol think of those plans?  How would that get her out of the home life she wanted to escape? She could have other plans. Never have known a Palin kid to value college. Just sayin'.)

At this point I want to pile on just because it's going to make Sarah Palin really mad.  Levi, it turns out, was the near-opposite of Sarah, who is lying when she claims to have made winning points for her High School team's basketball championship. She had an injury, and all she did was get in during the last minutes, get fouled, and get a couple of free-throws. She padded the winning score, but the team had already won the game. Levi is the athlete Sarah pretends to be, as shown by this reporter:

By MATT TUNSETH


Frontiersman
Published on Saturday, February 9, 2008

WASILLA — Two days after suffering their biggest setback of the season, the Wasilla hockey team earned its biggest win in a decade Saturday morning.

Junior forward Levi Johnston had two goals, and junior goalie Jake Dargis stopped all 22 shots he faced as the Warriors skated off with a 2-0 win over Lathrop to claim fourth place in the ASAA First National Cup Alaska class 4A state hockey tournament at the Menard Memorial Ice Arena in Wasilla.

The win gave Wasilla its best state tournament finish since 1997...

The inspiration of my internet research into Levi's truthfulness about his potential for making it as a hockey pro was his story on page 77 of Deer in the Headlights - his recollection of what was going on in his life and in his head the day Bristol told him she was pregnant with the baby we now know as Tripp Easton Mitchell Johnston.

The purpose of my internet research was to give us Trig-Truthers more clues to when Tripp was conceived. I am among those who think we've been lied to as much about Tripp as about Trig.

Here is a parallel story to demonstrate why this jumped out at me. Two weeks ago, a young man that I'm going to call Rob, shared with me his own story that had similarities to Levi's. Eleven years ago, Rob was in college. A talented artist, he had plans to study abroad in his next semester. Paris. It was a dream about to come true. Then, on a Saturday night, he got a call from his then-girlfriend. She was pregnant. It was his.

Though it's been eleven years since Rob got that call, he remembers the day of the week, the time of day, the words they spoke and the thoughts he had. His future changed in the blink of an eye. He didn't go to Paris. He didn't finish school. His ten year old daughter is the apple of his eye, but he had to go to court to get shared parental rights. He is now a US veteran using his GI bill to continue his interrupted college studies after serving seven years in the military. It's not been easy, and the details are very clear in his mind. That is presented for you to consider Levi's statements.

I'm going to separate and put in bold, some statements so that they stand out. This is from pages 77 - 78 of  Deer in the Headlights :

... Bristol called me from her aunt’s house in Anchorage. She said, Hey I’m coming out. I miss you, babe. She was all kinds of excited.

It was a Thursday.  I’d gone to all my classes and just walked in the door of our house, with my homework in my backpack.

That past semester I had pulled a 3.8 GPA.  


I’d been thinking more and more about the connection between good grades and a possible future in hockey.  It had dawned on me that the next year college scouts would need to see that I could deal with not just sports, but academics, too.  I kept my nose buried in the books as much as possible, thinking I could actually get  an athletic scholarship. I wanted to play junior hockey and try to get into the Western Hockey League and then go pro.  I had already been looked at by a WHL team.  By the time I was nineteen, I would have been good enough to play for them, or the University of Alaska.  


UA told me I just needed the grades. I’d gotten them.

My tibia was fractured, but despite that, by the season’s last game I was playing the best hockey of my life. 


I was thinking of talking to Bristol about all this when it hit me.

Are you pregnant? I asked her over the phone.

No.

Are you lying?

No, she shot back. I’m not fucking lying.

Fine, I told her. But I knew.

Everyone who has heard the story before, how and when Bristol and Levi found out she was pregnant, will already know he claims this was just before his eighteenth birthday, May 3rd.  In fact, he says in the book that it was Thursday, May 1, 2008.  But other things in the book contradict that timing, and as spelled out in a previous post of mine, which I link here.  In that post, I also present the theory that Levi drops out of school in March, 2008.

I  believe there is reason to support the theory that when he says May, he is talking about March, 2008. Here's what I learned from the internet:

February 9, 2008 Levi played the final game of the season with a cracked tibia.

Thursday, March 6, 2008, was the close of a quarter at Mat-Su Valley schools.

March 10-13 were vacation days from school.

Now, ask yourself, which THURSDAY is more likely to be the one when Levi was thinking about having a talk with Bristol about his future - his good grades, his hockey potential, and his college dreams. March 6, with it's combination of season close, 3.8 GPA, and an upcoming school vacation. Or May 1st, EIGHT WEEKS later?

I know what I think.

Did Levi go back to school after that mid-March vacation? Bristol, in her memoirs, claims Levi always dropped out right after hockey season. Maybe in 2008 he did, but was it what he wanted to do? I doubt it. He had hockey dreams and college dreams. He got benched by a girlfriend who stopped taking her birth control pills.

When was Tripp born?  Not December, if any of this is on the mark.

Keep digging Truthers!

Mercede, the green T-Shirt, and Two Little Boys

Steeped in Johnston family life from having dissected Deer In the Headlights, I took another look at Levi’s sister’s blog entries.  Sadie is a good writer and her words have an earnest ring.  That said, everyone has things to hide, especially in Wasilla AK.

On several anti-Palin blog sites right now, there are pictures of Levi with newborn babies. Wouldn’t we all love to know exactly when he had blonde highlights in his hair? What summer did he fit into that green A & F T-shirt?  Where can we find other pictures of Levi wearing a wedding-style ring? 


We need those  pictures! How else will we figure out the picture of Levi with hospital bracelet and ring, holding (supposedly) Tripp ? (Remember, according to legend --and Bristol and Levi’s books-- that ring was lost in the summer of 2008, months before Tripp, aka “Binky Boy”  was even born. )

Then there’s the bombshell Gryphen at Immoral Minority dropped this week about an older Tripp…  A possible THIRD or fourth (??) baby. WOW!  Just wow. 

Is THAT the Tripp in the picture with the ring and wristband ?  We want to know.  Where are the pictures that would help us date these?  Sadie, can you help? Why the silence?  Oh, that’s right. Mercede Johnston’s first blog posting in June 2010 talked about big life changes when Sarah Palin was tapped by McCain in 2008.  Her computer “was hacked almost immediately," and "all …pictures of my brother Levi and myself...gone forever.”  


Okay, that was a bit of an exaggeration because we have some mystery pictures of Levi in a green T-shirt, and...

Well, anyway, that was a brilliant step by the bumbling McCain people who didn’t even take time to vet the VP candidate.  I believe they did it. I believe they panicked when they heard the rumors about Trig being Bristol's. Sarah probably told them Sadie took pictures so they took everything. It’s our loss, along with Sadie’s.

I wonder how old that computer was. If there is an older computer that the Johnstons retired but held on to that might hold valuable pictures on the hard drive.  Don’t you think 2008 is a little late for any family to be still be using their very first and only- ever personal computer?   Sadie, what pics of Levi are on your old hard drives?  Blog readers want to see them. 

And we'd like to see what other pictures are in the shoebox from the closet that produced the green-t-shirt Levi pictures. Would you share, Sadie?

I tried looking up old Wasilla Warriors hockey pictures and I was surprised to find a comment by the site administrator from the first day of the VP announcement that the pictures had been taken down, along with schedules.  Doesn’t THAT seem a bit excessive? We may never see the pictures we need to have to solve the blonde highlight and green T-shirt mystery without Sadie's help.  

Let's explore how likely is it that she will be forthcoming.  Mercede said in her introductory blog posting,  “Before Sarah Palin was tapped to be the Vice Presidential candidate I had a fairly normal American teen life.”  She goes on and describes it – school, sports, camping, etc.  Then she says:

and,…anxiously waited for my perfect nephew to finally be born.

Call me a conspiracy theorist. Go ahead.  But if you believe, as I do, that there was another nephew, one born with Down syndrome, then, well, isn’t this the perfect wording to stay on the narrow line of truth?  Remember, too, that Bristol used that word over and over to describe Tripp in 2009. He’s perfect. He’s healthy.  Sadie and Bristol in harmony for once.  Makes you go hmmmm.

Also in June 2010 she promises bigger things to come. She is determined to expose the lies, and reveal the truth.  Sadie, Sadie, Sadie! You have become a mere shadow of your ballsy teenaged self. Where has that determined young woman gone?

When she launched her blog, comments were predictable. Friendly, congratulatory, lauditory, and just plain gushing.  Then, I found this:

June 7, 2010 6:43 AM

Heather said...

You know I support you honey! I know slightly more than the "average" person thanks to.. well you know :)

Cant wait to see what else you have to blog about. The stories I here from you and our mutal "friend" are always very entertaining to me. Maybe one day the little boys will become friends...but other things have to happen first :(

What do you make of that?  Tripp seems to be a given as one of these two "Little Boys" because this is Mercede's blog and Tripp has always been the beginning and the end.

Given that one is Tripp, who is the other? It doesn't seem like it could be Trig; they've always been portrayed as buddies.  Does Heather know about a third child. One with ties to Tripp and someone who should be his "friend" except there is something preventing that? Something that must happen before the little boys can be friends. Hmmmm, maybe she's talking about an older Tripp? 

Who do you think are “the little boys” and what “other things have to happen first”?  

I wonder what pictures Heather has? 

I'm sympathetic to Mercede and her family. They've been through a lot. She posted this on her June 2010 statement:

“No longer do I have the freedom to act as a normal teenager because it seems as if every breath I take and every word I say is constantly being analyzed.”

Well, guess I have to own up to being one of the analysts.  However, Mercede Johnston is now 20 years  old, a Playboy model, has appeared on various talk shows, and has sold or provided personal family pictures to media outlets. I’m not going to apologize for giving her and her public statements some critical analysis.

And if you aren't put off by such things, and you head to another blog after reading this, would you do me the enormous favor of linking to this?  But only if you think this is worth the collective brain-power of our community of Trig Truthers. Heather may be a key. Who knows?

Levi, Trig and Tripp

Something's weird with my blogger account.  Yesterday's post  "Levi, Trig and Tripp", now has  the body of the post from my October 5 message "Allison's Own Thoughts."  I'm too new to this to figure out what happened, so I'm putting this up again. Recovered some of  yesterday's comments, but not all. Weird.    

I’ve scoured Deer in the Headlights for clues to Levi Johnston’s relationship with Trig.  Sometimes it cannot be separated from what he says about Tripp and father hood.  This is a very long post and I don’t want anyone to miss the comment about Tripp’s name, so I’m putting it right up here:

Page 263  It was like [Bristol's] explanation for Tripp’s name choice. Total makeup.  I couldn’t even remember what the hell she’d said and I bet she’d forgotten, too.  No one has a good enough memory to make a good liar.  

That may be the most honest statement in the book.  Remember, Levi, when you point a finger, you have three others pointing right back at yourself!

On page 117, he describes a visceral reaction to what he witnessed on television while he and Bristol laid low in the Palin home back in Wasilla:

We watched [Sarah] on the stump, with Trig, her accessory.  It made my stomach turn to see him displayed like a designer bag, then passed off to the many. I also was sick in my gut when I heard the media report that people were saying – again—Trig wasn’t Sarah’s baby.

Personally, I believe him.  I believe it made him sick .  I believe he was sick because he was the bio-father of that child and that he gave up his parental rights to Trig because he – being just a kid himself– couldn’t provide all the things a child with Down syndrome would need. And there was his son being treated like that. Yes, I believe you Levi. I believe you felt as if you’d been punched in the gut.

Levi may not be book-learned, but he is a gifted experiential learner. He pays attention.  Levi has had a front row seat in the room while Sarah Palin taught a class on lying, misrepresentation, and how to commit fraud.  It’s very like Sarah to take a true story and change it just a little to produce the effect desired. Sarah didn’t score the winning point for her high school basketball team in the championship game. She scored the final point, and that was a free-throw. But the team won by three points. They would have won even if she missed.  And she hadn’t scored earlier in the game.  She wasn’t a game-changer, but she wants you to believe she was. And many do.

Levi is on Sarah’s team for the time being. He goes along with the game plan, he tells us Trig is Sarah’s baby. Okay, sure. He is Sarah’s baby now.  But who conceived that baby?  Just like that free-throw, Sarah carrying Trig around after he was born  doesn’t mean she  did the real work that brought him into the world.  Sarah’s just taking the credit for it, just like she did in basketball.  (Remember, she said everything she’s learned in life she learned from sports. )

So here, in order, are many of Levi’s references to Trig and to fatherhood.  I see some mighty careful wording (bold lettering is my emphasis):

Page 11 My mom and pop stopped at two offspring; the Palins kept going. Track…Bristol…then Willow and Piper. A second son, Trig, was last.

Page 11 In December of 2008, [Bristol Palin] and I became parents to a son, Tripp Easton Mitchell Johnston.

Page 71  My parents, [Bristol] told me, are having another baby.  She said the word parents with air quotes.

Page 72  The infant was due in two months. 

Note: this is a stand alone sentence.  You can’t miss it, it’s not buried in a paragraph. It doesn’t say Sarah was due in two months, only “the infant.” 

Page 72   Rumors and speculation that Bristol was going to have a baby had circulated for over a year…from the halls of Wasilla High, through town, and from one end of the state to the other.

Page 72   The whispers started when, after Sarah had been sworn in as governor in December ’06, Bristol left Wasilla and moved to Juneau for the second semester of her sophomore year.  Then the word was that the family was saying that Bristol, who was MIA, had mono. For the record, Bristol never had mono, no one would have said she did—and she wasn’t pregnant then. 

Note: Why Bristol was MIA is never explained. One of the plastic surgeries? 

Page  74  I found out from Bristol that the child would probably be a Down’s baby.

Page 75  Trig was born April 18, 2008. 

Note: Another stand alone sentence. See a pattern?

Page 76  I arrived just minutes after the birth… My heart went out to the delicate child. I picked him up, cuddled him. Something stirred deep within me…He needed care and I wanted to be sure he got it.

Page 76  As I welcomed Trig into the world, I had no idea I’d be repeating this same display of affection for my own child just eight months later.   

Note: “This same affection” ?  Is Levi trying to explain away the tender pictures of himself holding newborn Trig? Nice try. Think Sarah insisted on this passage? I do.

Page 76 After Trig’s arrival, people believed that Bristol, not Sarah, had given birth to Trig.

            Note: Levi had you SEEN Sadie’s captions on her MySpace pictures?

Page 77  We pretty much ignored [the rumor]; it was too crazy for words.  

Page 87   My sister and mom were invited over to the Palins’ to check in with Todd and Sarah and to welcome Trig. Sadie, a camera bug, was snapping photos of everyone, and I shot one of her holding Trig, a smiling Sarah at her elbow.

Note: Levi isn’t going with the story that this was his birthday party. He has a second story about that.

Page 89  I believed the choice to have a child included the obligation to be parents to that child.

Note: This is in the context of Sarah supposedly wanting to adopt Tripp. I’m as skeptical as anyone about which baby Sarah wanted to adopt, but either way, Levi’s statement is a nice dig at Sarah for her neglect of Trig. 

Page 106  Unlike her mom with Trig, Bristol was showing. No question. She and I became media fodder.

Page 119  She was a teenager and giving birth would end that phase of her life. It had to be scary for her with no idea what to expect.

Page 129  It was the middle of November 2008…I could only be there for a couple of days and nights at a stretch…Page 131  I cooked. I loaded and unloaded the dishwasher. Garbage out. Errands. I did the laundry. I held little Trig in my arms, diapered him.

Page 134 ..I was there for the kids while Trig’s nanny went shopping. I’d just changed his diaper and fed him his bottle. He was dozing on my arm… Piper, sitting next to me…

Page 135  It was Christmas Day 2008, Bristol was huge; a photo of that belly would cut off at the knees the Trig truthers…

Page 141 The nurse put my cleaned-up son in Bristol’s arms and my world was complete…We were a trio, a team…I found myself crying, cradling my son. …It was a new kind of love for me.

Page 142  In 2009, almost a year after Tripp’s arrive, Sarah said it was shameful that I was absent when …Bristol gave birth to Tripp…I could not believe it when Brisol chimed in, intimating that I wasn’t there. At least she was a little wishy-washy about it. Caught in the middle.

Note: Maybe Bristol got confused about which birth they were portraying and which Trig facts had been morphed into Tripp facts. I could understand her getting confused. They all do.  Levi’s done it, too.

Page 145  The first day home …was smooth sailing… In the living room…I was burping Trig. Bristol was rocking the newest Johnston in her arms.

Page 146  She was going to breast  feed.  It was good for Tripp and I had urged her…  Sarah hadn’t breast-fed Trig, but I’d been telling my babe all along, It’s a great idea; let’s plan to do that.

Note: Trig was definitely fed from pumped milk, as evidenced by his bottles. More on this in my Oct 5 post (scroll half way down it). http://thepalinplace.blogspot.com/2011/10/allisons-own-thoughts-on-palin-johnston.html 

Page 148  One day, [Sarah] had walked in…Bristol was in Todd’s lounger, bouncing Trig on her knee. I had my son on the couch, on my chest.

Page 195  I said that Sarah called Trig her little retard. It wasn’t that one time that she did it and then winked at me. It happened more than once. Her kids were used to hearing it.

Page 196 She was just kidding  around with her family. She was joking and at the same time maybe wanting to pick up Tripp because he was more fun, better able to respond.

Note:  Not buying it, Levi, but nice try. Did Sarah make you say this?  You moved out when Tripp was a little more than a week old. He wouldn’t have been responding to much at all.  Or, was Tripp actually born in November, in which case he might have been more fun and this story might be true. Which is it Levi? 

Page  211  Tripp turned one. My son’s December birthday came and went without my participation.

Page 221  Harper’s Bazaar did a shoot for Trig’s birthday…I hadn’t seen Trig –my special little boy ---for so long and would love to have been included.

Note: Emphasis mine. WTF?  Why would Levi even think he could have been included? Unless this is another message to Sarah…

Page 223  …for my eighteenth birthday [Sarah] invited my mom and Sadie…they and Bristol and I ate on the sofa; I balanced [two week old] Trig on my knee while I forked in the grub.  Todd was outside and Sarah disappeared into her room…

Page 263  [Concerning Bristol’s] explanation for Tripp’s name choice… Total makeup.  I couldn’t even remember what the hell she’d said and I bet she’d forgotten, too.  No one has a good enough memory to make a good liar.

Page 263  Johnston men don’t want to see themselves as victims, but it was humiliating to have no presence in your child’s life.  …When …you knew the outcome wouldn’t get any better for you or for your kid, it was easy to wimp out, to stop fighting.

Note: Is this about Trig, too?

Page 283  I want to be clear where I stand” my son, Tripp, is the best thing that ever happended to me, and I’d never throw in the towel when it comes to being his dad.

Note: Which begs the question, did you throw in the towel on being Trig’s dad?

Please, read his book, see what you find. There are longer passages that sound like a regurgitation of Going Rogue, and I didn’t want to put blog readers through that. But you might find something hidden there. Let me know.


Sunshine1970 said...

The passage where Levi says 'Sadie is a camera bug' and was taking those photos. I thought Sadie had said Sherry had been taking the photos that day with Sadie's camera...? 

October 12, 2011 11:16 AM 

557468643 said...

That is the most ridiculous thing I have ever read. Damn Levi, you could write fiction lucratively. Funny how he never mentioned ALL the press in the Palin home post election. That went on most of Nov. Then all the Palins went to Juneau in Dec, save Bristol who obviously couldn't fly.

Levi, your memory blows. You do realize ALL the Palins react strongly to the use of the R word right? From the first time you claimed Sarah said it, they ALL began hating you. I have a screenshot of a convo saved.

What a chump. 

October 12, 2011 11:33 AM 

GinaM said...

Whitney...why are you posting your Social Security number as your Screen Name??

And what makes you think Levi reads here??

Wow...you Palinbot's are getting more and more unhinged by the day. I feel sorry for you...you sound like you need some serious help.

You know that Sarah called that sweet baby a "Retard"...stop protecting that awful family and tell the truth. 

October 12, 2011 11:54 AM 

557468643 said...

btw, Levi also explains in the book the relevance the name Tripp has for him.

Gina, You need help dearest. I speak common sense and fact. How do YOU explain Levi's blatant contradictions? HUH?

Which do you believe, does Sarah cry or does she not? Because Levi has said both.

I feel sorry for hateful, ignorant folk who refuse to think outside their own little fantasy worlds. 

October 12, 2011 12:13 PM 

GinaM said...

Whitney, DEAREST...I don't think "common sense and fact" means what you think it does.

And now I'm starting to think that you are SARAH PALIN herself...you seem to be obsessing over Levi a great deal...do you still want to show him your gun underneath your bed Mrs Robinson...Er...Um...I mean Mrs Palin.

You still didn't answer my question...why are you using your Social Security number as your screen name Sarah?

Levi has something on Sarah and Sarah has something on Levi....right now it's a stalemate...who will blink first! 

October 12, 2011 12:25 PM 

carrie said...

Whitney, Is that YOUR back?!! GROSS!!! 

October 12, 2011 12:53 PM 

Allison said...

Whitney, you have added some spice to this mix!

It's interesting that Bristol couldn't fly in December but Sarah felt at ease taking a much longer flight in April. Any comments on that?

I'm sure people would also like to see any conversations you saved as a screenshot. Would you be willing to share ?

(That would actually be your SS#, right? Because I don't want you putting yourself at risk of identity theft. Stay safe.) 

October 12, 2011 12:53 PM


Because I value all comments, I kept looking and found the rest from yesterday:
  
Oh Dang...I hope I didn't chase Whitney/Sarah away....well Allison maybe she's busy getting those "screenshots" for you. *SNORT.

By GinaM on Levi , Trig and Tripp on 10/12/11

Page 76 "My heart went out to the delicate child. I picked him up, cuddled him. Something stirred deep within me…He needed care and I wanted to be sure he got it. "

 Doesn't this sentence sound....odd? The guy is allegedly talking about his GIRLFRIEND'S. MOTHER'S. baby. Not only that, this baby "belongs" to a lady he doesn't even KNOW very well! He's a teenager, and this is presumably not HIS baby. Not Mercedes' baby. "He needed care and I wanted to be sure he got it." ? I call bullshit. You know what I think? I think this paragraph of DITH describes *perfectly* the rush of emotions a new father experiences as he cradles his firstborn child. Am I right, Levi?

By Lou Sarah on Levi , Trig and Tripp on 10/12/11

Lou Sarah, we see things the same way. Do you believe Sadie? GinaM, it's all good.

By Allison on Levi , Trig and Tripp on 10/12/11

Regarding the naming of Tripp, what does "total makeup" even mean? [Where did these writers learn English?] Is Levi saying that Bristol just made up the name, but she gave an explanation that neither he nor Bristol can remember? I currently have six pets, and I have many other pets over the decades. I can tell you why and how I arrived at each of their names. They didn't put any significant level of thought into the name(s) of their biological child(ren)? How does "No one has a good enough memory to make a good liar" fit into this context? Is he projecting? Did he expect that his lack of a plausible explanation would be interpreted as a lie? Allison, thank you for this excellent post. The mind boggles!

By colacarat on Levi , Trig and Tripp on 10/12/11

Colacarat, so glad you asked. I didn't mention that Levi presented a story early in the book to explain the name Tripp. He said Trip was a character in a movie and supposedly Bristol liked the name but added an extra "p". What he's saying later, that I repeated, is that she was lying. She was makin' stuff up, as Sarah would say. And because it was a lie, Levi couldn't remember what she'd said. (Must be someone reminded him so he could put it in the book? Or maybe Sarah made it up during the Sarah Pact conversation I posted about on Oct. 7.) Have you heard of Shailey Tripp? Yes, TRIPP. She credibly claims that she was Todd's pay-for-play mistress. She was arrested. Her story was in the National Enquirer. Gryphen at the Immoral Minority interviewed her as did the blogger Blade at Sarah's Scandals and Maria Litman at the blog of the same name. Shailey has a blog, too. Check them all out and you'll have a good idea where Tripp got his name. The total mystery is WHY would the baby be named for his grandfather's PROSTITUTE? One thing is for sure. Bristol has serious issues.would the

By Allison on Levi , Trig and Tripp on 10/12/11

Allison, Thank you for your explanation. Yes, I do know about Shailey Tripp. I've been following this since the RNC. I read Shailey's blog frequently. I also find it highly suspicious that Tripp's name matches Shailey's last name. I asked her about it on her blog, but I didn't get a response. I appreciate your explanation of Levi's quasi-explanation in his book. (Sorry I got confused about this modern technology stuff; I posted this response on a prior post earlier. Doh!)

By colacarat on Levi , Trig and Tripp on 10/12/11

Sarah Pact: Has Levi made a deal with the Quitter?

Levi, this is Sarah.

No Shit.

Are you recording this?

Huh? What?

Don't lie to me. Are you taping this call?

She sounded uptight...

No, Sarah. I'm not.

Are you positive? Tell me the truth.

Sarah, you called me.  How could I be recording this?  And why?  I have no idea what the hell you want.

All of the above can be found on page 273 of Deer in the Headlights. This is only 16 pages from the end.  It's after the second engagement of Levi and Bristol has been called off, and Bristol has spent at least another year publicly trouncing the father of her child.

We don't get an exact timing, but he says he was in his truck, "pulling up to one of our many lakes, one that I'd not looked out over in years, since the day Bristol had told her family we were back together."  (Italics are mine.)

Though Levi plays fast and loose with timing over and over again, I think we can figure that  this call came quite a while after the July 2010 breakup.  It couldn't have been "years" since then, unless he has a time machine and he's somehow launched himself into the future. For arguments' sake let's place it as summer 2011, which means Bristol's book of lies, er, I mean life, has come out and Levi still has time to decide how to react to it in his own book.

The phone call is completely unlike Sarah. He makes that clear. He says "Sarah never had the balls" to say anything to his face and that she used her lawyer, her political associates, Bristol, and the media.

No surprise there. That's the Sarah we've heard about in recent books by Dunn, Bailey, and McGinniss and in Nick Broomfield's movie. Yup, that's believable.

What could make Sarah go one-on-one with Levi? This call is a big darned deal.

Levi never tells us what she said. Not a clue.  So why is it even mentioned?  I think I know.

Just the mention of it speaks volumes if you've listened to his messages throughout the book.  Here's what I mean:

Levi is a quiet guy. He doesn't use extra words. He's subtle. He's careful. He hasn't impressed anyone by being brilliant. Levi's shining moments come on the ice or with a gun or fishing pole. Then, hockey or hunting, he's among the best.

With a hockey stick or a gun, Levi knows how to line up a shot. He has quick reactions and he's accurate. He keeps his eye trained and watches opponents' moves. He can anticipate and he can be patient, waiting for a clear shot. Those are useful life skills.

Levi has sharply honed survival instincts. DITH was his chance to brag  about his prowess with various weapons, his patience when stalking prey, how he waits for the best animal and how he doesn't kill an animal just because it is threatening him.  So many stories about escaping death from mauling, drowning, freezing, or being eaten alive.

Is there a message for Sarah in these stories? Consider the one below, from pages 23-24:

Suddenly, there was a bear, hunched over, head down. He was grunting quietly. Then he picked up his head and stood. He fluffed up, trying to scare us, and stomped his rear paw on the ground...

It wasn't a big bear. Dom and I knew we didn't want to shoot him. We had a moment of indecision, as did the bear. He started to charge and we aimed. Just as Dom and I began to squeeze our triggers, the bear changed his mind. Turned and walked away.

This is the Levi Johnston that Sarah Palin fears. She is the self-proclaimed mamma grisly who is all fluffed up and grunting and stomping. Levi has his finger on the trigger.  He's waiting to see if she is going to continue her charge, or turn away.

Back to the phone call. This was Sarah aka mamma grizzly rising up and sniffing the air, checking for tell tale scents of fear or courage.

The one who could smell fear turned out to be Levi. He saw his chance and he took it.

Whatever the conversation entailed, we can guess that it ended with something like this:

Promise me Levi. Promise me you will never tell anyone about this deal we just made.

I won't.

Promise me.

I promise, Sarah.

Are you telling the truth?  Not one word. Got that, Levi?

Yeah, whatever.

After that, the final draft was done for Deer in the Headlights. Levi kept his word. He didn't give away a single thing they talked about. But, he isn't as dumb as some people might think. He mentioned that there was a call...from Sarah...

Levi was interviewed about his book and said he held some stuff back, in case it gets crazy again. Levi's survival instincts serve him well. If he gets whatever it is he bargained for in that call from Sarah a few months ago, he'll stand down.  But if Sarah doesn't keep up her end of the agreement, whatever that is, she know's Levi is still "locked and loaded" and that his trigger finger is poised to send off inquiries to major talk shows to see if they would like to hear Sarah's biggest secrets.

Sarah got something, that's for sure.  She got it in print. Right at the top of page 75, standing out there as its own little paragraph. You can't miss it:

Trig was born April 18, 2008.

So there, Trig truthers!

Okay Levi, you did your part. Are you going to get to see Tripp now? Will the Johnstons see that beautiful little family member anytime close to the actual dates of the holidays coming up (instead of a month or more later) ?  We'll see.

By the way, when is Tripp's real birthday, Levi? November what? Maybe you can have him on that day. After all, the Palins are stuck with celebrating it right after Christmas.  (For anyone who doesn't get what  I'm saying, it's a theory I put forth in my previous blog post Allison's Own Thoughts on Palin - Johnston October 5.)