Above we have a photo of 22 year-old Levi Johnston’s weekend nuptials to his second baby mama, Sunny Oglesby, 20. These photos are courtesy of Inside Edition, which also carried the momentous news that Levi and Sunny were expecting a baby, after, in Levi’s words “we went to the cabin and forgot the birth control pills and, you know, about a month later we found out we were having a baby.” He’s far from the sharpest tool, with tool being the operative word. US Weekly has some details of Levi and Sunny’s wedding, which included 100 guests and was held in their hometown of Wasilla, Alaska. Levi and Sunny’s six week old daughter, Breeze Beretta (named after the gun company) was there, but unfortunately his son Tripp, 4, with Bristol Palin, wasn’t. The Palins didn’t come through with visitation for Levi that weekend so Tripp had to miss his dad’s wedding. Here’s more:

As much as Levi Johnston wanted his four-year-old son, Tripp, with ex Bristol Palin, to be present at his Oct. 28 nuptials to Sunny Ogelsby, the little man could not make it.
Inside Edition reports that Johnston, 22, did not tell his ex he was tying the knot over the weekend, instead simply asked for custody of his son. “I wanted him to be my ring bearer,” Johnston said. Palin denied his request.

Though Tripp was not at the Wasilla, Alaska ceremony Sunday, Breeze Beretta, Johnston’s one-month-old daughter with his bride, took part in her parents’ special day. Officiated by Johnston’s friend Crosby Marrow, the couple’s nuptials took a lighthearted turn when the groom fumbled his vows and elicited chuckles from guests in attendance.

“To have and to hold, whatever you say,” Inside Edition reports Johnston as saying. Clad in a Hugo Boss red label tuxedo accessorized with a camouflage vest and bow tie, Johnston is said to have sweated profusely during the event.

It is the first marriage for both Johnston and his girlfriend of just over one year, 20, who teaches in Wasilla, Alaska. The couple welcomed daughter Breeze Beretta — named for the Italian firearm manufacturer — on Sept. 12, 2012, two years after he called off his engagement to Palin.

[From US Weekly]

I love how US Weekly includes the facts that Levi was sweating and wasn’t able to repeat his vows properly. Inside Edition also has the detail that Levi wanted to wear a camouflage suit (they do make them and you can even rent them!) but that Sunny put her foot down so he just ended up with a camo bow tie. Levi said of his camo suit that his “Wife wouldn’t let me do it. I had to dress a little bit nice.”

Did any of you see Game Change on HBO? (I haven’t read it, but I did see the movie.) It was excellent, and Levi Johnston featured exactly once in that movie, in a scene at the RNC convention when Sarah Palin told him that he looked better without his mullet. He was a very minor player in a political miscalculation from the 2008 election. He tried to spin that into some sort of media career for himself, but he didn’t have the personality or the looks (to be blunt, but the dude was in Playgirl) to pull it off. So now he’s selling his personal life to the highest bidder. He’s probably hoping to land a reality show that will never happen.

I’ll say something nice, though, these two look really good for each other, in the way that couples start to look alike. That doesn’t mean I think they’ll last.

We saw deadbeat dad Levi Johnston and his doe-eyed girlfriend, Sunny Oglesby, announce Sunny’s pregnancy in April and describe the circumstances under which it came about. Levi said “There was a time we went to the cabin and forgot the birth control pills and, you know, about a month later we found out we were having a baby.” Well that baby arrived yesterday, a daughter, and as Levi told us in May, the happy couple named her Breeze Beretta, as they intended. Levi even admitted back then that Beretta was in honor of the gun manufacturer. Here’s the news:

Levi Johnston’s new girlfriend just popped … we found out she just gave birth to a healthy baby girl in Wasilla, Alaska … and the kid’s name — Breeze Beretta Johnston.

As we first reported, Levi and his girl Sunny Oglesby did NOT plan the pregnancy — but they’re both down with it now.

Breeze Beretta was born at 5:28 AM at Matsu Regional Hospital. She’s 6 pounds 15 ounces and, at 19 inches, considerably longer than the standard-issue Beretta.

Breeze is Levi’s second child. His ex Bristol Palin gave birth to their son Tripp in 2008.

[From TMZ]

As I said before, that name sounds like a wine cooler. Refreshing but with a kick. Who names a little girl “Breeze,” that’s ridiculous. We’ve heard that Levi plans to fight for full custody of his son with Bristol Palin, Tripp, now 3, but that was just a rumor and there was never a follow up. Levi owes significant child support to Bristol, has barely visited the boy according to Bristol, and that may have been a hollow threat. Well congratulations to Levi and Sunny. I expect we’ll see the baby soon. I’ve heard Levi needs the money.

Levi and his pregnant girlfriend

Bristol Palin isn’t going away after the cancellation of her cringe-worthy reality show, which was replaced in its time slot on Lifetime by repeats of “Dance Moms.” She’s about to go on “Dancing With The Stars: All Stars,” and she’s very defensive about it thank-you-very-much. Here’s another thing for Bristol to rally against. Her ex-fiance, Levi Johnston, just collected the paperwork required to file for full custody of their son Tripp, four, allegedly in response to Tripp either swearing or using a homophobic slur on Bristol’s show. Whether Levi follows through on his threat remains to be seen. Remember when he planned on running for mayor of Wasilla and had no idea what his platform was going to be? That never happened. Here’s more, thanks to TMZ:

Levi Johnston believes Bristol Palin is a TERRIBLE PARENT — and the proof is in her reality show … in which she lets their son Tripp run wild, talk back, curse, and show no respect to his elders … so he’s decided to take action … and seek full custody.

In case you’re like most of the country, and haven’t been watching Bristol’s new reality show “Life’s a Tripp” — her and Levi’s son has been a little ball of trouble … and in one recent episode, even called his aunt Willow the f-word.

During the same episode, Bristol admits, “I’m doing a terrible job disciplining Tripp.”

Now, Levi’s had enough — telling TMZ, he’s been watching the show and is “disgusted” by his son’s language and behavior. Levi says his son is on a “downward spiral” and getting “no real parenting.”

Levi tells us, Tripp “deserves a better family” than what Bristol and the rest of the Palins are providing — adding, “I love my son more than anything .. and I will do whatever it takes to make sure he is raised the right way.”

To ensure that happens, Levi dropped by the courthouse in Wasilla, Alaska this week to pick up all the necessary paperwork to obtain full custody of Tripp — and he plans to file it ASAP.

[From TMZ]

I’m no Bristol Palin fan, but Levi hasn’t been an attentive parent to say the least. He allegedly rarely visits Tripp. Now whether that’s just Bristol’s side of the story or whether he’s being prevented from seeing his son remains to be seen. The truth is probably a little of both – Bristol wasn’t forthcoming with access to Tripp and Levi kind of gave up, but either way I don’t see him as being a more dedicated parent. Plus he’s about to have another child with his new girlfriend after they went away for a month’s vacation in a cabin and “forgot” the birth control pills. This is probably about publicity and money for Levi, and he’s in sore need of both from what we’ve heard. Poor Tripp, that’s all I can say.

Some photos credit: WENN.com

We’ve heard that Bristol Palin’s reality show is just awful and not even on par with the very low bar set by other family reality shows. The numbers are in for the show’s debut and they very much reflect that. The premiere of “Life’s a Tripp” only had about 726,000 total viewers, which is less than half the debut number for Roseanne Barr’s one-off reality show, “Roseanne’s Nuts,” according to Deadline. I’d like to point out that Kirstie Alley’s reality show, “Kirstie Alley’s Big Life” also got double those ratings with a 1.4 million premiere. So Bristol’s show is not long for this world, which should come as good news to most people, not that many of us beyond the gossip-obsessed are paying attention to it.

As an aside, remember when Bristol and her baby daddy Levi reunited briefly, got engaged and were on the cover of US Weekly? That was in July, 2010. They swore in the accompanying interview that they were waiting until marriage to have sex again. (They had a child together and Bristol admitted that they had sex many times, even though she tried to claim the first time was when she lost her virginity to Levi while blackout drunk.) Well Bristol has another boyfriend, Gino, and she’s been with him seriously for at least a year and a half, going by when we first heard about him. (An article earlier this year claimed they’d been “on and off for three years,” which would have overlapped with her brief reunion with Levi. Either way, they’ve been together awhile.) Bristol tells In Touch that she and Gino are waiting to have sex until marriage. Good for her I guess, and why again is she volunteering this information? She said the same thing back in January, so I guess she’s sticking with it.

“Gino and I are going to wait until marriage,” she says of her pipeline worker boyfriend, Giacinto “Gino” Paoletti, also 21. “I’m doing what’s best for me. It’s between me and God, and I know it’s right.”

“Since I have this platform, I want to use it for good…

“I want to let girls know that this isn’t ideal, this isn’t fun, this isn’t easy.

“Gino’s an awesome male role mode. He takes Tripp fishing, takes him out on the Jet Skis and shows him off to his friends. He just loves Tripp endlessly, and I am so thankful for that…

“Gino is on the same path; he has the same faith as I do. I’m blessed to have him by my side.”

“[Levi] hasn’t been an active father to Tripp, He hasn’t been paying child support. I don’t wish that on anyone.”

[From In Touch, print edition, July 2, 2012]

I don’t mean to split hairs here, but if she’s been with this guy for this long, why is she saying they’re “going to wait until marriage” to have sex not that they “are waiting until marriage.” It just sounds like she’s revising history after the fact. Again, good for them if that’s their conviction on the matter. It sounds kind of sweet if you forget everything you know about Bristol.

Bristol has to have some kind of career now that her reality show dreams are being shattered. Since she’s not going to college she could always go back to lecturing on the abstinence circuit for big bucks. That’s probably her plan here.

Also, to address the quotes about how Levi is a deadbeat dad, Levi’s new pregnant girlfriend said that he’s been trying to see his son, but that he refused to appear on Bristol’s reality show. After that, Bristol supposedly shut him out. I could buy that side of the story but I don’t believe Levi is a devoted dad, either.

If you had a million dollars, you could probably live comfortably off of it for a decade, right? At least I think I could with some planning. That money lasted a whole couple of years for Bristol Palin’s baby daddy, Levi Johnston. He of course didn’t have the foresight to realize that his stab at fame was a one-shot, limited time offer and he squandered all his money on high end boy toys, while conveniently neglecting to pay court-ordered child support. Levi, who is expecting another child with his latest girlfriend, is now living with his mother, a convicted felon who spent time in prison for trafficking Oxycontin. High School dropout Levi still doesn’t even have a GED, as far as I can find. Here’s more on this story, thanks to Radar:

The father of former Republican vice presidential hopeful Sarah Palin’s grandson, Tripp, has been left broke after blowing through an estimated $1 million in earnings on “guns, boats and four-wheelers.”
“Levi Johnson hasn’t paid child support in nearly two years,” a source told the new issue of US Weekly. “And he has little contact with Tripp.”

The 22-year-old recently hit back at claims he is a deadbeat dad and absentee father, telling Inside Edition: “No, I never will be [a deadbeat dad]. I love Tripp more than anything and he is my son but I don’t feel like a dad to him. Not by choice …hopefully one day I can be.”

Meanwhile, despite not being able to support his current child, who lives full time with mom Bristol Palin, Levi recently announced he’s expecting another baby!

[From Radar Online]

As Radar mentioned, Levi is expecting another child with his doe-eyed latest girlfriend, a woman named Sunny Oglesby. Sunny was on The Insider with him last month explaining how they got in that situation. They went to a cabin in the woods and “forgot” Sunny’s birth control pills. It was all rather suspect, considering that Levi needs another excuse to get some media coverage and his sparkling personality isn’t opening any doors for him. The happy couple also announced their intended baby daughter’s name – Breeze Beretta Johnston, which sounds like a wine cooler. Levi even admitted that the middle name was in honor of the gun manufacturer, Beretta. What about Ski-Doo Smith & Wesson Johnston or Yamaha Glock Johnston? He may as well name his kid after some of the crap he blew his money on, since you know he’s not going to spend it on the baby.

For what it’s worth, In Touch Weekly scored an exclusive interview with Bristol Palin. They have Bristol’s reaction to her ex and baby daddy, Levi Johnston, fathering yet another child just three years after his first oops baby. Bristol of course says that Levi isn’t visiting their son, Tripp, while Levi has repeatedly claimed that Bristol and her mother are blocking his attempts to see the child. I think it’s probably true that the Palins tried to cut Levi out of Tripp’s life, and I think that Levi just gave up, stopped paying child support and stopped trying to see Tripp. That’s not how Bristol sees it, though. It was just a couple of years ago that she reunited with Levi and announced their re-engagement on the cover of US Weekly. Now he’s got a new girlfriend and a new baby on the way when he can’t be bothered to maintain contact with his first kid.

Here’s what Bristol told In Touch:

Her reaction to hearing that Levi’s girlfriend is pregnant
“I said, ‘No Way, shut up!’”

On her feelings about it
“I think it’s a little bit of everything and a lot of confusion. I’m upset about it.”

On Levi’s parenting
“He’s seen Tripp twice in the past four months. He once went an entire year without seeing him at all.

“I wish Levi would be like, ‘Hey Bristol, can I have Tripp for the weekend? I would be so willing and glad to do that. He continues to lie.”

On Tripp’s relationship with his dad
“Levi is a stranger to Tripp. He doesn’t understand that Levi is his dad.

“I don’t want him to go to elementary school with 10 half-siblings. That would really affect him.”

On Levi’s new kid
“I hope that this child is raised with two parents. He needs to step up to the plate and be there. I thought he had learned his lesson the first time.”

[From In Touch, print edition, April 23, 2012]

Well I hope that Bristol is telling the truth and that she’s making sure Levi has access to Tripp. As we mentioned yesterday, Levi and his newish pregnant girlfriend, Sunny Oglesby, went on The Insider to explain her pregnancy. Levi’s quote on how he knocked up another one is priceless so I’ll repeat it again “There was a time we went to the cabin and forgot the birth control pills and, you know, about a month later we found out we were having a baby.” Uh derp. In that interview, Sunny defended Levi as a dad, so I’m hoping she’ll be instrumental in making sure he visits Tripp. Maybe Levi will realize what he’s missing out in his oldest kid’s life once he has another baby. Or not. He’s not the brightest or the most responsible.

US Weekly from July, 2010:

Bristol is shown signing copies of her book on 2-11-12, credit: FameFlynet and on 8-18-11 Credit: Fallen Star, PCNPhotos. Levi is shown on 9-21-11. Credit: Enrique Carrillo, PCNPhotos

As you may have heard and tried to forget about, Levi Johnston, Bristol Palin’s baby daddy, has knocked up another girlfriend. Considering that the guy has a three year-old son whom he never sees and owes significant child support on, you would think that he would take measures to avoid getting another woman pregnant. Not so much. Levi, 21, and his wide-eyed pregnant girlfriend, Sunny Oglesby, went on The Insider to explain how this happened. It was because they went to a cabin in the woods and Sunny “forgot” her pills. Did Sunny tell Levi about this or did she not inform him until afterwards? I mean I’m sure Levi wouldn’t have bothered to wrap it up or pull out anyway, but if he thought that Sunny was on bc it’s a different story. Either way, he’s sticking with her and says he’s excited to have another baby. Here are details from part of their interview (the video is above) thanks to Radar Online. The rest will air tonight, Thursday:

Levi Johnston is about to become a dad for the second time, but he confesses that he doesn’t “feel like a dad,” to his first son, Tripp, with Bristol Palin.

The 21-year-old Alaskan and his pregnant girlfriend Sunny Oglesby say that she accidentally got pregnant, but that they’re hoping Tripp will be a “big brother” to the new baby.

“There was a time we went to the cabin and forgot the birth control pills and, you know, about a month later we found out we were having a baby,” Levi tells The Insider’s Brook Anderson in a new interview.

Levi says that he hasn’t seen his son with Sarah Palin’s daughter recently. “I love Tripp more than anything and he is my son but I don’t feel like a dad to him. Not by choice …hopefully one day I can be,” he says.

His girlfriend leaps to his defense, telling Brook, “I’m tired of people thinking that my boyfriend’s a bad father especially now that I’m having his baby. I don’t want people thinking that about him.”

When asked if he is a deadbeat dad, Levi denies the charge, “No, and I never will be,” he insists.

Sunny tries to explain that Levi does want to visit with his young son. “It’s really sad, his image, because it’s pretty much the complete opposite of how he is in real life. He’s an awesome dad. And he tries to get Tripp all the time,” she says.

She blames the former Vice Presidential candidate for Levi’s bad image. “It’s really sad that [The Palins have] put that image out for him cause I mean everyone’s gonna believe them because they’re more famous… you know it’s Sarah Palin and she has a lot of fans so everyone believes that and Levi really doesn’t have a chance against them.”

Levi agrees, and says he thinks Sarah is keeping him away from his son. “I think she’s, you know, she plays a big role…on Bristol you know, Bristol looks up to her and that’s a family and, you know I listen to my family, so I’m sure she does have some part of it, yeah,” he says.

[From Radar Online]

Can I say something superficial? Of course I can, it’s my job. This girl needs to stop clumping her eyelashes together. That’s not cute at all. See this product, which I bought years ago and still use.

As far as the rest of this story, it just kind of makes me sigh. We don’t know how old this chick is, but she’s probably around Levi’s age and she’s about to be saddled with a guy who can’t pay his child support on his first kid. Of course she’s defending him, and maybe she wanted to get pregnant because he seems like a great dad and is a “catch” in her neck of the woods. After all, he’s semi-famous and he probably makes a decent living selling interviews and making 2-bit appearances. Now she’s even on TV. Once that baby comes reality is going to set in though, and it’s not going to be the staged E! kind that she gets paid for. Bristol already has that market cornered.

Levi Johnston is like the Kevin Federline of Alaska. Every year, there’s a new report of him impregnating a new girl. I don’t know if it’s for real this time, but yes, TMZ says he’s gotten another girl pregnant. Because that’s all there is to do in Alaska? Just fish, hunt and get girls pregnant. TMZ says that Levi’s girlfriend of a year, Sunny Oglesby, is less than three months along. Levi and Bristol Palin welcomed their son Tripp back in December 2008, which makes Tripp… over three years old now.

Say what you will about 21-year-old Levi Johnston, but his sperm is world class — he’s gotten another girl pregnant out of wedlock.

Sources tell TMZ … the lucky woman is Sunny Oglesby, a 20-year-old school teacher from Wasilla, Alaska. Levi has been dating her for just over a year. We’re told she’s in the very early stages of pregnancy — less than 3 months.

Sunny isn’t showing, which may be why Levi hasn’t told someone else his secret — and that would be Bristol Palin, his other baby mama.

Levi is telling friends Sarah Palin and Todd have completely alienated him from his son Tripp, and he barely sees him as a result. Levi says Sarah and Todd have lied to him, telling him Bristol and Tripp were out of town when they were not.

As a result, we’re told Levi is “so excited” about starting his new family.

[From TMZ]

Levi isn’t going to set the world on fire with his blazing intellect, but I’ve always kind of liked this big lump. I don’t think he’s been 100% honest about the Palin family, but I got a kick out of his fearlessness when he came up against “The Palin Machine”. Sarah Palin might get credit for attacking the loser father of her grandson, but I give Levi credit for making the Palin family look like they were in the midst of a really budget Alaskan soap opera. Whatever. Maybe Levi will end up marrying Sunny and he’ll finally get to be a full-time father.

Photos courtesy of WENN.

Yesterday we covered some excerpts from Levi Johnston’s new book, Deer in the Headlights: My Life in Sarah Palin’s Crosshairs. I pretty much skimmed the whole book, and I mentioned that I was impressed by how well it was written, meaning there’s no way that Levi had penned a single sentence. He does credit his ghost writers in the epilogue, and mentions that he wanted to put their names on the book jacket, but that they declined. It’s easy to understand why they would prefer not to be associated with this memoir in any way.

Yesterday Levi was on the Wendy Williams show to promote the book. He came across much better than he has in the past. He seemed just somewhat stupid and dull as opposed to completely uninteresting and slow. He’s learning how to handle the spotlight and has been working on his interview skills.

When describing the reasons why he and Bristol broke up for the second time, Levi said that the media claimed he had gotten a girl pregnant that he hadn’t seen in years. Levi said to Wendy, “It went downhill real quick. Apparently I got someone else pregnant that I hadn’t seen in five years… I did not get anyone pregnant.”

Levi is talking about this National Enquirer report that came out in late July of last year, after his second engagement to Bristol, claiming he had gotten a girl named Lanesia Garcia pregnant. Only in his book he openly admits sleeping with Lanesia, an old girlfriend, in January of 2010, he just says he’s not the baby’s father. That’s about six months prior, not five years.

Levi’s ghostwriters wrote:

In January of 2010, more than a year after Tripp was born and I’d moved out of the Palin house, I did hook up with Lanesia for one short night. Six months later, the international media community was announcing that Lanesia was pregnant with my child. She announced that she was barely pregnant – and the father of the child was her longtime boyfriend, and she had no f*cking idea why anyone was connecting her to Levi Johnston at this point.

She called me and said I needed to clean up this mess.

A second reason why this baby could not be mine, as if another reason were needed, was that I’d used protection.

[From Levi Johnston's memoir Deer in the Headlights]

He totally lied and he did sleep with that girl, he just wasn’t the one who got her pregnant.

Oh and some of that other stuff he said in the interview (video above) about how Bristol was jealous of her mom’s pregnancy was not in the book at all. The way it was described in the book, Bristol planned to get pregnant after her mom did, but it wasn’t out of envy at all. It was more like Bristol was influenced by her mom’s pregnancy and her new baby brother, not that Bristol wanted to upstage Sarah.

I guess I can’t blame Levi for forgetting what’s in his own memoir since I doubt he’s even read the whole thing.

Levi is shown out in NY yesterday. Credit: WENN.com

Imagine my surprise (or mild amusement really) when I found an ad for Levi Johnston’s new book on one of our favorite sites, D-Listed. That’s the first time I’ve heard that the book Levi has threatened to release for months is actually out. Levi’s new memoir Deer in The Headlights: My Life in Sarah Palin’s Crosshairs has been published by Simon & Schuster. Judging from the passages I skimmed, the book is highly readable, interesting and relatable. They got Levi an incredibly competent ghost writer who makes him sound both coherent and self aware to a degree that is in no way supported by the dull, halting interviews he’s given to date. Levi is a high school dropout who posed for Playgirl and at one point wanted to run for mayor of his Alaska town. In an interview on “The View” announcing his candidacy (which never materialized), he was incapable of reciting a single reason why anyone should vote him. So it’s laughable to imagine Levi writing this book in any fashion since it actually flows well and describes things simply and vividly. Here’s an example in which he talks about his family. Levi’s love of hunting and the outdoors is a common theme throughout:

My male relatives… were ballsy, somewhat crazy, and still are. Not in a Deliverance kind of way though. They wouldn’t think twice about running a wild river in a canoe, catching air on a snow machine, jumping four-wheelers, or flying off hilltops 120 feet downslope. Those same men had unending patience as they taught us boys what we needed to know to be out there, on our own and safe…

I know who I am from hunting. It’s my identity – a world and an activity I know as well as anyone. Better. It’s a place where I can survive.

Kodiak brown-bear country is different from the heavily treed home of black bears need Wasilla. Kodiak land is mushy, swampy in the valleys, with adler that has been stunted by the wind, the cold and the fog. The saplings are ten, twelved feet high. Sometimes you see the tops of these thickets trembling as a bear pushes through, on the move. You guess the direction and cut that bear off or you’ll lose it.

A snow machine? Is that what they’re calling snowmobiles now? (It seems to be the case as they’re called snow machines consistently.) The passages in this book are evocative and interesting. I actually enjoyed reading some of this because it described nature and hunting in a way that changed my perspective. Levi had some incredible stories to tell, like when he nearly got sucked into a whirlpool when he was canoeing with his uncle. They had to wade through ice cold water for hours at night before they made it the ten miles back to camp.

As for what people are really interested in, The Palins, Levi didn’t say much that we haven’t already heard from him, but he did say it in a convincing way. He described a home life in which mom Sarah was in her own world, separate from her husband and the kids. Her husband Todd did his own thing, hanging out in his man cave and sleeping on the couch at night. Here’s the part where Levi describes that:

Claims Sarah and Todd were estranged, Sarah ignored her kids
The first time I went snow machining with [Todd], he surprised me. At home he is like a shadow. Always in the garage, doing something. Away from home, Todd was a totally different guy. He opened up and we had fun together. Todd and I got home one night and he walked back to his house, past Sarah, who was on her way to her bedroom with her typical dinner, a Diet Coke and chips. They didn’t say a word to each other, yet Todd’s face darkened. He went back to his usual grumpy self and headed for his hidey-hole, the garage, where he could be alone…

For the most part, Sarah was as distant as Todd. She gave out hugs and handshakes to the public, but in private, she didn’t reach out to her kids. If she was in one of her hyperjoyful moods, they she might grab one of them as they went by. Otherwise, she left them alone.

If they wanted something, she’d give in, always. It wasn’t important to her to get her own way about uninmportant stuff – things she wasn’t all that interested in.

Most days, by the time Bristol and Willow got home, Sarah was out of sight. She’d be in her first-floor, cavernlike bedroom with its big walk-in closet – that might have been a huge master bedroom, but it was all hers, not Todd’s, although he kept his clothes in there. He spent his time in his workshop in the garage, with overnights in the living room. Still dressed…

I was spending more time with her family than she did…

I never – I mean never – saw Sarah and Todd touch or kiss, other than for a photo op. They barely even talked to each other.

Levi (his ghost writer) was really sweet and gushing when he described how he fell in love with Bristol and spent time with her dreaming about their futures. He didn’t try to nullify their past at all. At this point I just started skimming looking for the good parts, and I found a few but there are probably more.

On how Levi and Bristol told Bristol’s parents about Bristol’s pregnancy
Todd, who had been watching Sarah first, and then me, was in that place where some quiet men go. Look out.

Do you think I’m going to support Bristol and your baby? His voice was loud. Suddenly he wasn’t so quiet after all.

Well, no.

You need to quit school, get a job.

Sarah picked up. You guys are going to have to get married.

Maybe. After we graduate, I was thinking. Had been thinking.

This was the only time she mentioned marriage – until, that is, the McCain team would make it an issue.

Sarah Palin lied when she said she told Bristol she had a choice to abort
There was no talk of abortion. Sarah would later say that she told Bristol it was her choice and her daughter made the right one… That’s total fiction, although Sarah might be deluding herself or just doesn’t know the truth. Bristol got pregnant on purpose. She had finally come clean, admitted to me that she hadn’t been taking her birth control pills. We were having a baby, end of story.

Levi’s ghost writer calls Sarah out a few more times in the book. He mentions that Sarah called her baby Trigg retarded in a joking way (we’ve heard that before), that she lied when she claimed that he purposefully wasn’t there for the birth of his son, Tripp (he made it there as soon as possible), and that she got livid when he tried to tell her that there wasn’t any difference between questioning Obama’s birthplace and people questioning whether Trigg was actually her son. Levi calls out Bristol, too, for fibbing to the press about her plastic surgery. He does it from his perspective without directly calling her a liar.

On Bristol’s plastic surgery (prior to her new face)
During the time we were together, before she was pregnant, Bristol had had her double chin reduced… Then she decided she needed to get her breasts reduced.

On Bristol’s new face not being necessary
Bristol has had more cosmetic surgery; she showed off her changed features a week before my twenty-first birthday. She told the media about the braces she used to wear. I remember those endless orthodontist’s appointments. I never knew it wasn’t all taken care of – the alignment issue she pointed out as the reason for her reshaped jaw. I did know she had continued to complain after the lipo about the remaining roundness of her cheeks…

There’s a lot in there about the custody battle for Tripp, about how Sarah and Bristol tried to keep Levi from his son and tried to block his visitation at every turn. Here’s another segment I’d like to share, about how Sarah was a big flirt. I doubt she was into Levi though.

Sarah Palin regularly flirted with other women’s husbands
All along my female friends had been trying to convince me that Sarah had had a cougar crush on me and was jealous of Bristol once we had a child together…

It’s a classic situation, my female friends told me, while their menfolk rolled around on the floor cracking up.

What did come to mind was how Sarah behaved with men her own age. I remember her standing next to my dad in the stands in the hockey rink in Fairbanks, rubbing the back of his neck. He wasn’t the only guy she was flirty with. I thought my mother would have a stroke. What could she say? Get your paws off my property?

Sarah could care less as she linked arms with another father and walked away. It was her mojo, her strength. Her sexuality. It was pretty powerful.

There’s more I’d love to repeat, and I’ll include some bullet points below.