10/13/2008
Levi Johnston on Obama: He Seems Like a Good Guy
Sarah Palin may not be talking to reporters, but her future son-in-law is.
In an interview with the AP, Johnston speaks up on a number of topics,including being told to keep his mouth shut: "They're not telling me anything right now. It's pretty chill."
On his future mother-in-law: "I just hope she wins. She's my future mother-in-law. She better win."
On being forced into a shotgun wedding: "None of that's true. We both love each other. We both want to marry each other. And that's what we are going to do...We were planning on getting married a long time ago with or without the kid. That was the plan from the start...We're up for it. I'm excited to have my first kid. It's going to be a lot of hard work but we can handle it."
On his hobbies: "Johnston is an avid hunter. He's dark haired, tall and muscular, sports a bit of stubble and drives a red Chevy Silverado truck. He'd be the perfect cover for Field & Stream. He's bagged bears, sheep, elk, and caribou. Some of the antlers are scattered about his yard. Last July on a caribou hunt he lost a 'promise' ring that Palin had given him. He said he decided to tattoo her name on the finger and not bother with more rings because he'd just lose them anyway."
And on Barack Obama: "I don't know anything about him. He seems like a good guy. I like him."
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In other fun Alaskan news, I read today from a reputable site that Wasilla leads the state in crystal meth arrests, with 48 labs busted last year. Impressive!
If that's true it would mean (assuming they busted only perhaps a quarter or a third of labs) 1 lab for every 50 or so people. So Wasilla must be doing a booming business in meth exports! Very mavericky.
Posted by: Paul R | Oct 13, 2008 6:36:59 PM
John Sidney McCain: The Story of a Middle Name...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7VS8dg6mWE
Posted by: David | Oct 13, 2008 6:54:49 PM
Where do I even begin?
Posted by: David R. | Oct 13, 2008 7:03:11 PM
Hey, thats great, just like his future mother in law... he knows nothing!!
Posted by: Joel | Oct 13, 2008 7:13:26 PM
Guess he lost the condoms on the caribou hunt, too? And tattooing those on is even less effective than that pretend promise ring on another extremity. He is soooo in over his sweet, redneck head.
Posted by: Ernie | Oct 13, 2008 7:25:12 PM
He looks like every cute but sub-genius str8 guy I wanted to suck off when I was in high school. And usually did!
Posted by: Dom | Oct 13, 2008 7:28:17 PM
Not to speak in broad generalizations here (!), but are they all stupid up there, or is it limited to those in, or soon to be in, the Palin family?
Posted by: Jim | Oct 13, 2008 7:37:01 PM
You would think that the Governor of Alaska would be encouraging or pushing this young man to at least graduate from high school before marrying her daughter. He's now a high school drop out who just a few months ago claimed on his MySpace account that he never wanted to have kids. What a great prize for her knocked up daughter.
Posted by: Patrick | Oct 13, 2008 7:58:02 PM
Has anyone noticed in his pics from the convention and such that when he is clean shaven and in a shirt and tie, he looks like his future father-in-law?
Posted by: jon | Oct 13, 2008 7:59:09 PM
Why beat up on this guy? He's just a teenager who hasn't harmed anyone.
Shouldn't we try to live up to a better standard and not attack some kid for dating Palin's daughter?
Posted by: noah | Oct 13, 2008 8:00:33 PM
Aint nothin like drivin around in the Chevy shootin loads at wildlife and loose teenage daughters of Governors.
That line should have read: "Some of the antlers and bastard babies are scattered about the yard."
Posted by: Chino | Oct 13, 2008 8:31:59 PM
Andy, props to you for finding and posting this, that was a hoot, the kid is pitiful, but, at least he tries to be logical and polite when asked questions, maybe, he can try that on the Palin clan of church going Christans.
Posted by: Sebastian | Oct 13, 2008 8:38:15 PM
After reading some of the comments here...some of you really live up to the expectation of the right wing of being stuck up, snotty, elitist coast faggots. Congratulations.
Posted by: Las Vegas | Oct 13, 2008 8:40:18 PM
What's wrong with being elite, Las Vegas?
Posted by: Kevinvt | Oct 13, 2008 9:06:48 PM
I want to fuck him hard.
Posted by: LightningLord | Oct 13, 2008 9:45:11 PM
Sorry, Vegas, but people who revel in their ignorance don't merit respect. Like I'm sure he'd show you a ton.
Posted by: Paul R | Oct 13, 2008 9:49:59 PM
That's MISTER Stuck Up Snotty Elitist Coast Faggot to you, you ignorant flyover mall-gay.
Posted by: 24play | Oct 13, 2008 10:05:16 PM
He's a kid. Leave him alone. He didn't bash Obama, he's marrying the girl who's having his baby, he's getting a job. Bitchy queens.
Posted by: David T | Oct 13, 2008 10:17:31 PM
How old was he when he knocked up the hard-drinking pot-smoking Bristol?
Geez, it's amazing how this Palin mess is looked at OK for the Palin supporters in the CONservative party.
Reminds me of what Tim Wise, the author of "White Like Me" wrote:
"For those who still can't grasp the concept of white privilege, or who are constantly looking for some easy-to-understand examples of it, perhaps this list will help. White privilege is when you can get pregnant at seventeen like Bristol Palin and everyone is quick to insist that your life and that of your family is a personal matter, and that no one has a right to judge you or your parents, because 'every family has challenges,' even as black and Latino families with similar 'challenges' are regularly typified as irresponsible, pathological and arbiters of social decay.
White privilege is when you can call yourself a 'f...in' redneck,' like Bristol Palin's boyfriend does, and talk about how if anyone messes with you, you'll 'kick their f...in' ass,' and talk about how you like to 'shoot shit' for fun, and still be viewed as a responsible, all-American boy (and a great son-in-law to be) rather than a thug."
"White privilege is, in short, the problem."
Posted by: FunMe | Oct 13, 2008 11:55:58 PM
I don't see him reveling in any ignorance. I see a guy who lives on the edge of a wilderness away from the city and enjoys living out there. I don't give a rat's ass whether he would be a friend to me or not. There is nothing in here that would lead anyone to believe he is ignorant.
What I see is a bunch of bitchy queens making fun on him because of where he lives and what he likes to do. Shame on you...
Posted by: Las Vegas | Oct 14, 2008 12:01:27 AM
Dam you guys are hateful. He can't even vote and he did not bash the Dems. Who cares.
Go Obama!
Posted by: brian | Oct 14, 2008 12:01:39 AM
Oh Boo Hoo funme. GO peddle your race baiting somewhere else. The difference here is that the person who knocked her up is going to hang around and take responsibility for his actions.
When it's gotten so bad in the black community that its own role models (Bill Cosby) have to take to task their own people then things have gotten bad. You'd have an argument if this guy was not in the picture but he is...for whatever reason (political or otherwise). SO if you would like me to go find some hard core numbers on the number of black and latino children that have no father involved in their lives as opposed to white I will be happy to. So the Palins have decided that there will be no "Baby Daddy" but an actual father who will be int he childs life...you condemn that?
Anyone who would like to call me racist feel free but when the facts back the assertion it's not racism just a tragedy.
Posted by: Las Vegas | Oct 14, 2008 1:16:20 AM
Funme, thanks for posting that brilliant gem by Tim Wise, it was exactly what I was thinking about when I saw this report on Levi, the double standards are so blatant.
Posted by: Red | Oct 14, 2008 3:58:42 AM
Imagine having that CUNT as a mother-in-law. Maybe he will tazer her. Seems that's the effect of marrying into the Heath family.
Posted by: Hdtex | Oct 14, 2008 8:02:27 AM
Please. When Palin loses in November, this engagement will be off faster than Bristol's panties.
Posted by: Chris in Kansas | Oct 14, 2008 9:54:19 AM
Thank goodness the rest of us never made a bad decision or wrote something inappropriate when we were 17 years old. The mortification would just be too much.
Posted by: Yeek | Oct 14, 2008 10:04:09 AM
Jeez, give the kid a break.
I don't find anything mean-spirited or ignorant about him. He seems like any normal kid of that particular age. In fact, he comes off as being rather nice. Many of you seem to think that teens and young adults should have, or, in the past, have always had a thorough grasp of politics.
When YOU was a teen, (or can you remember that far back) was that all YOU talked about before hitting the clubs? And BTW, I realized that some of you might have gone to college, and was very politically astute.
Well, surprise! Most teens and young adults are probably not college-educated and lack the level of sophistication of those who consider themselves to be "worldly". Or OLDER to be exact.
And I'd love to kick it with him, a six-pack and his Ford F150 rig out on some dusty road in the hills on a Saturday night with "nothing much to do"...........
Posted by: banjiboi | Oct 14, 2008 2:02:36 PM
He looks like a fag basher who would allow Gays to suck him off.
Posted by: kyle | Oct 14, 2008 6:02:02 PM
I'd totally suck his stick through his Stanley cup and then let him puck me hard. Mullet sweat drippin all down my back as he zambones me back and forth. I'd wear a hat made out of his freshly killed caribou antlers while he blows his hot load into my penalty box. Then we'd collapse onto the ice with our hot exhausted reddened necks steaming from the cool touch of the ice. We'd stare into each other's eyes, then he'd realize how gay that was, punch me in the eyes, nose, and face then skate back to that stank caviar filled uterus Bristol fish. Then it's back to carrying bags onto the local Princess Cruise ship for me.
Posted by: DJ BJ | Oct 14, 2008 10:25:54 PM
They've programmed him very well. There's no trace of a self-professed ass-kicking redneck who doesn't want kids. He must be an angel, except he was poking Palin before marriage. I think BANJIBOY got it right:
"He looks like a fag basher who would allow Gays to suck him off."
Posted by: stevedenver | Oct 15, 2008 1:20:44 AM
My money says that if McCain/Palin lose the election there won't be any Levi/Bristol wedding. The wedding story was necessary to placate the far right once the pregnancy was announced (exposed). "Oh look, we're a normal family just like you. These cute kids, Junior Joe six-pack and abstinence Annie, made a silly little mistake but you bet'ca they're in love and were already planning on getting hitched" - yeah right!
Right now the excuse being used for holding off getting married is because of the election but really, what are they hoping for a rose garden wedding at the white house? I mean come on folks, they've already had the honeymoon so what's the need for a big old fancy wedding? Maybe want the kid to be the flower girl or ring bearer?
Heck, McCain takes every weekend off so I'm sure that the Palin family could find a justice of the peace somewhere that would gladly perform a quickie wedding on a Saturday afternoon without any interruption to to the campaign. Heck, they could even make a campaign event out of it and get the RNC to pay for it.
Momma Palin says she and "first dude" eloped because they couldn't afford a big wedding (it had absolutely nothing to do with the fact that she was most likely pregnant herself since her first child was born 7 months and 20 days later) so they obviously know something about small informal affairs. I simply don't see a wedding in their future.
Posted by: Michael | Oct 15, 2008 12:36:31 PM