Levi’s unemployed. That makes helping take care of his son, Tripp, tricky. He has been on The Tyra Banks Show, where he met Nick Lachey, but he has very little money. Sarah Palin’s father has called him a deadbeat dad in the paper. Levi then responded, saying he’s tried to get a job but his notoriety makes it impossible. No crew boss wants paparazzi following his men around, I suppose. And they are mainly Palin people around here. Levi’s known to be on the outs.
At one point, before he and Bristol broke up, he did have a job, as an apprentice electrician on the North Slope, where the pipelines are. His father works there, in management. But reporters started scrutinizing everything connected with Sarah Palin, looking for ethics violations, and someone noticed that to get Levi’s apprenticeship, you were supposed to have finished high school. Had Palin asked someone to bend the rules? Levi’s dad told him he ought to go ahead and quit, before they were forced to fire him.
On the cable news channels, they were already reporting on the “war of words” between Levi and Bristol. It was the first time I’d been able to observe this process, described so well by Daniel Boorstin in The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America (1961), from inside the mechanism, as it were. First, the networks had generated the news: called Bristol and Levi, engineered a difference of opinion (did Bristol even know what abstinence means? Not three months earlier on Fox she’d called it “not realistic at all”), then aired the segments one right after the other…Levi wanted to text Bristol. Tank thought he should. Of course I said he should, spreading vulturous wings. “Screw it,” he said. “I’m doing it.” He texted her while Tank and I watched over his shoulder. “You looked great on TV,” he typed with his thumbs. A few blocks on she texted back, “Thanks. You too! I tried to call you on your birthday.” They went back and forth some more.
If you’re hooked on this real life saga read the rest at GQ!
Levi Johnston is the NEW Katie Couric…
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Levi is very cute.
this guy is starting to remind me of K-Fed
John McCain should get him a job….