Levi Johnston on the Wendy Williams Show - Witty and self-confident - PLUS: Levi and the Trig pregnancy

By Patrick

Levi Johnston today had a very entertaining appearance on the Wendy Williams Show. He came across as witty and very self-confident, and clearly had the audience on his side. He has improved a lot in comparison to his first TV-appearances.

Here is the full clip:

Levi Johnston will also be on the Joy Behar Show tonight. We will update the post when the clip is available.

I also would like to comment on Levi Johnston and his remarks about Sarah Palin's pregnancy with Trig - somehow the "elephant in the room." Leadfoot_LA has already voiced her opinion regarding this matter, and she surely will have more to say about this in the near future.

My opinion, in short: I am convinced that Levi Johnston was tricked by the Palins - by Sarah and Bristol.

We do know that it is a fact that Bristol Palin was pregnant at the end of 2007. I mentioned this in several posts at Palingates and Politicalgates. Republican politicians in Alaska were talking about it at the time, as we know from reliable sources in Alaska. In addition, we know for example that Bristol's best friend April Morlock once shouted in an argument with her mother Audrey Morlock: "At least I am not pregnant like Bristol Palin." According to our source, that was long before the Tripp-pregnancy.

We also later discovered photos showing Bristol with a significant and unexplained weight gain in autumn 2007. According to our research, Bristol Palin disappeared from public view in late autumn 2007, and as far as we were told, also disappeared from school - from Wasilla High, that is, where she was a student after she had returned from Juneau to Wasilla in May 2007. We were also told that it was nearly impossible for her friends to reach her during that time. Bristol Palin then re-appeared in January or February 2008 at Anchorage High, as we know first-hand through sources in Alaska.

It is clear to me that Levi Johnston doesn't know about this pregnancy. I don't believe that Levi is lying. At this point in time I cannot see that he tells deliberate lies. I am convinced that Levi closed his eyes and willingly believed and still believes what the Palins told him regarding the matter of the pregnancies.

I think that Levi is open and honest, and that he didn't know about Bristol's pregnancy in 2007. The fact that he (and the whole Johnston family) does not know about this pregnancy is in my view also one of the main reasons that Sarah Palin feels safe that her big secret will never be discovered.

Unfortunately we don't know for certain whether Bristol is the mother of Trig. I personally believe that she is, and that Trig was born in December 2007 or early January 2008, but we do not have the final proof. In any case, Levi was kept in the dark about these events, whatever happened.

Levi now says that Bristol wanted to get pregnant because she was "jealous" that Sarah was pregnat. I believe that it is very well possible that Bristol was angry that Sarah had taken her baby away - although we have of course no final proof for this version of events. A more sinister scenario could be a forced abortion, and there is also the possibility of a miscarriage, or Bristol could have been forced to give the baby away.

I do not want to hide the fact that there is a source, a teenager who was very close to the circle of friends around Bristol, who told us that Bristol is in fact the mother of Trig. However, it is incredibly difficult to get this statement or fact confirmed by other sources, as the circle of friends around Bristol in 2007/2008 is a relatively small group, and it's not easy to get access. According to this non-anonymous and verified source, Bristol is the mother, and the fact that the baby had a birth defect played a major role in this story, although it is not absolutely clear at this point in which way the birth defect affected the subsequent decision-making of the Palins, and what exactly happened after the birth-defect was discovered.

The Palins in my opinion deliberately deceived Levi Johnston when it came to Trig's birth. This seems clear to me also after reading Levi's account of these events in his book:

Trig was born April 18, 2008.

I got a phone call way early that morning when it was
still dark. It was Bristol, who I had just left a few hours
before. I knew Sarah was flying home from Texas, but that
was all. I don’t think Bristol or anyone else in the family
knew Sarah might be getting ready to deliver the baby.
Then she called home from Anchorage as soon as
she got to her car in the airport parking lot, and Bristol
called me.

Mom thinks she might be about to go into labor, Bris-
tol said into my ear. We’re meeting her at the hospital.
Sarah had been telling Bristol during the past month
that her water was leaking once or twice a day, in drops.
When she left for the lower forty-eight, though, her baby
wasn’t due for another five weeks. I had told Bristol it was
nuts for her mom to be traveling here and there, giving
speeches. I sure as hell wouldn’t have let Bristol do that.
Now Sarah was telling Bristol that the drops were pretty
much constant. Sarah had felt she had plenty of time to get
back to Wasilla. She wanted to be home rather than deliver
in Texas so that her new son could be a true-blue Alaska
boy. She wanted this child, possibly a Down’s baby, to be
delivered by her doc, who knew the deal, in our new medi-
cal center in Wasilla. If there were complications, she didn’t
want to end up stuck in Texas.

I was only partially awake, and said to Bristol, Okay. I’ll
come down later, after I get a little more sleep.
I arrived just minutes after the birth. Bristol was in
her mom’s delivery room when I walked in. Todd was
there, too.

So was Trig. My heart went out to the delicate child.
I picked him up, cuddled him. Something stirred deep
within me. It was like the instinct that surfaced whenever
my sister, Sadie, needed her big brother’s protection. Trig’s
face had the signs of Down’s. He didn’t have rounded
cheeks, and his eyes had that slant. His tongue seemed big,
too much for his mouth to handle. He needed care and I
wanted to be sure he got it. I felt an adult emotion for the
first time.

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. Bristol, also unaware she was carry-
ing our own tiny secret, took the newborn into her arms.
Todd watched from the wings.

Between the flight and the delivery, Sarah was pale,
whipped. There’d be help at home when she got there. A
retired special-needs teacher had been lined up to care for
the infant.

Sarah was back at work for only a couple of days before
the old rumor, that Bristol had been pregnant all along,
resurfaced. After Trig’s arrival, people believed that Bristol,
not Sarah, had given birth to Trig. I wondered who they
thought the father might be. Oh.

The Palins made sure that Levi was there to witness the miracle of Trig's birth. One more reliable witness. That Levi could hold baby Trig in his arms just a few hours after the offical birth in Mat-Su Regional Medical Center in Palmer didn't strike him as odd - but what does a seventeen year old boy know about giving birth to a premature down-syndrome baby with a heart defect in a hospital which was in no way equipped for these types of births?

Levi with Trig, shortly after the official birth on April 18, 2008

How could teenager Levi have know that Sarah Palin's "doc" Cathy Baldwin-Johnson, as he calls her in his book, could have never been the "doc" who supervised the pregnancy? "CBJ" in my opinion could have never been this "doc", due to the fact that she was living and practising in Anchorage, while Sarah Palin lived during the legislative session from January to April 2008 mainly in Juneau - 850 miles away.

Sarah Palin herself was also very aware that Cathy Baldwin-Johnson was not present in Juneau, as an overlooked email exchange in Palin's recently published state emails revealed. If you go to the Crivella West database and search for "CBJ", you will find all these emails from January 2008, for example this one:

From these email exchanges it's obvious that it wasn't exactly easy for CBJ to find time to visit Juneau. This can hardly be the "doc" who cared for Sarah Palin during a high-risk pregnancy.

So with Levi as the reliable "crown-witness" who in public confirms Sarah's motherhood of Trig, what could possibly go wrong for the Palins?

There will certainly be more to add to this topic. Also, please be aware that this is my personal opinion and that other contributors at Politicalgates won't necessarily agree with me.

This surely makes for one interesting discussion!

A Lesson for Sarah Palin: How to Take a Real American Family Road Trip

By Leadfoot_LA

Please consider this post as a “mental health break,” which I think everyone needs right about now. Also, thank you in advance for letting me share some of my photos.

Every year I take Bella to at least one of our great national parks (socialism at its finest!). This year’s trip happened to fall shortly after Sarah Palin dragged Piper around on her money seeking One Nation Bus Tour, er, “family vacation.” As I watched her trip unfold, my heart ached for Piper, who is close in age to Bella. While it gets harder to feel sorry for her as incidents of bratty behavior increase, I still feel for Piper since she is too young to know what a real family vacation should be like. With a sociopathic mother, she may never know “normal.” In an attempt to help Piper, I put forth these tips for Sarah as she plans the next leg of her bus tour. THIS is how real Americans take a road trip, Sarah:

1.) When you decorate your bus, don’t make it all about you.

2.) The goal of a good family vacation should not be to raise money. It should be to enjoy each other’s company, and make memories for the kids.

3.) Everybody goes. Staying home or leaving the vacation part of the way through is not an option. You can’t even leave to go home to fish. Here, Bella and her cousins explore Carhenge in Nebraska:

4.) Teach the kids about other cultures. We know how you feel about minorities, but tolerance will become ever more important as your kids move into adulthood.

5.) The kids should have to learn about all presidents, not just Reagan.

6.) Let them enjoy the scenery. Kids should not have to navigate paparazzi or sign autographs. Nor should they be used as a hard surface for you to sign autographs. They are kids. If you must satisfy your ego by signing autographs on a family vacation, leave them on the bus.

7.) Show them the national parks. I cannot stress this point enough. Bella and her cousins have a chant they say at every park:

“Who owns this park?”

“We do!”

“What did it look like 100 years ago?”

“Just like this!”

“What will it look like 100 years from now?”

“Just like this!”

It underscores the importance of conservation in terms even a child can understand. Here, Bella and a cousin stand outside the gate to Yellowstone:

Kids also need to learn how priorities change once you are surrounded by nature. Only the simple things matter. Your blackberries won’t even work in most parks, so you don’t have the stress of reading blogs to see if the truth has been revealed yet. Your only concerns will be to drink water, avoid too much sun and don't get lost.

Arches National Park:

A quote from one of my favorite movies of all time, “Grand Canyon,” sums up my feelings on our national parks nicely:

“You ever been to the Grand Canyon? It’s pretty, but that’s not the thing of it. You can sit on the edge of that big ol' thing and those rocks... the cliffs and rocks are so old... it took so long for that thing to get like that... and it ain't done either! It happens right there while you’re watching it. It’s happening right now as we are sitting here in this ugly town. When you sit on the edge of that thing, you realize what a joke we people really are... what big heads we have thinking that what we do is gonna matter all that much... thinking that our time here means diddly to those rocks. Just a split second we have been here, the whole lot of us. That's a piece of time so small to even get a name. Those rocks are laughing at me right now, me and my worries... Yeah, it’s real humorous, that Grand Canyon.”

You matter to Piper because you are her mom. Can’t you focus on that and stop worrying about whether you matter to the rest of us? Even for just a week for "family vacation?"

Mesa Verde National Park:

8.) Let the kids buy silly souvenirs. Spending time together as a family makes them happy, but nothing made Bella and her cousins as happy as the $60 we spent on rocks at the rock shop. Piper doesn’t need an $800 purse, when something as simple as rocks and sombreros works so well.

9.) Use pop culture trends to teach kids about landmarks and history. Planking is huge right now – all the kids are doing it. So let the kids have some safe fun doing something they think is cool, but while they do it, make them listen to your speech about how the interstates ruined small-town America and killed Rt. 66. Maybe you would have absorbed the Paul Revere story better if you had combined it with some fun.

10) Now listen carefully, Sarah, because this is a big one – and I do mean it in more way than one – take a hike!

I know how you love “hard work” – well the effort and journey of the hike almost always makes the destination more delicious. The 3 little dots on that big rock below are Bella and her cousins, raising their arms in joy at a job well done:

11.) Appreciate what you have, and the opportunities you have been given. Life is full of twists and turns. Someday soon, it may all be gone.

12.) Finally, never, ever quit.

Even when the sites get boring (at the Great Salt Lake, the girls resorted to picking out their favorite rock because the scenery was “lame”), you must push on. Quitting is for, well, quitters.