Levi Johnston On CBS: Palins Treated Me Like An Outcast After Election

WASHINGTON — The father of Bristol Palin's baby boy says he's been treated like an outcast since the end of Gov. Sarah Palin's run for vice president.

Appearing in an interview broadcast Wednesday on CBS's "The Early Show," Levi Johnston said he felt a need to "get my side of the story out there."

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A worsening feud has developed between the 19-year-old Johnston and the governor's family in the wake of Johnston's complaints about not being able see his young son Tripp, often enough. Now there is a dispute about whether Johnston had actually lived with the Palins. Palin denies that he did; Johnston's family says the Palins are lying.

Johnston says that the biggest misconception about him is that his family is "probably that my family's white trash." He called the Palins "snobby."

Bristol Palin is Sarah Palin's daughter, and at one point she had agree to marry Johnston, but that is now off. Johnston said he was heartbroken by the split.

Johnston said he "wouldn't call any baby a mistake. I love him more than anything. I wouldn't trade him for the world." Tripp was born Dec. 27.

Comments

[FROGi]

03:30 AM on 04/17/2009

Enough of this crap, I think it's time for Obama to step in. lol.

[jilla815]

11:12 AM on 04/16/2009

Boring old news stuff. I'd prefer to see Biden's kids uhhhh...having some recreation.

[americanalien]

02:50 AM on 04/13/2009

This is sweet! So incredibly juicy. I love Republican Scandals.

[irkulyen]

11:43 PM on 04/11/2009

c

[FatherKindly]

11:27 PM on 04/11/2009

I agree with the people who say he must find a good, publicity hungry lawyer. He needs to get his kid away from the toxic Palin family as fast as he possibly can!

[LemonMeringue]

09:09 PM on 04/11/2009

This guy needs to get a lawyer and come up with a Parenting Plan that includes regular take-away visitations for him. Isn't there a publicity-hungry lawyer in AK who would do it pro bono?

[longnow]

06:33 PM on 04/11/2009

Comfortably Floating, sedated & good ol boy numb, know what I mean?

[rhettisha]

06:07 PM on 04/11/2009

I know this is shallow, but I believe him because he is precious and adorable and needs to go to Hollywood to star in some silly young person drama. Yes.

[SonyaInTx]

02:47 PM on 04/11/2009

All they have to do is roll the video tape in 2012 to show what a "family values" person Sarah is. This 2008 campaign shined the lightbulb on the Palin family and now all of the roaches are scrambling out.

[Rhubarbarian]

03:54 AM on 04/11/2009

I bet you a million dollars that Willow isn't getting "Abstinence Only" education. Can you imagine what that would do to Sarah's political future if another teenage daughter turned up pregnant?

[LemonMeringue]

09:07 PM on 04/11/2009

Are you kidding? The evangelicals who will vote for her would not be in the least bothered by that. Ditto by divorce, incest, petty thievery... because they are very, very familiar with all these things.

There is a reason pastors rail against gay marriage. They don't rail against divorce and infidelity in straight marriage because their parishoners are doing those things.

[JumpingCholla]

03:33 AM on 04/11/2009

"Your little boy was a man all of a sudden."

Oh, please. I'm going to vomit.

[joceeco]

03:33 AM on 04/11/2009

Levi really needs to go back to school to get his HS Degree, but until then he should make the rounds to every t.v. show that will pay him, because he needs all the money he can get to help support his son. He actually looks like a pretty descent kid, who got caught up with the wrong family. Palin would ruin God, if He allowed her into heaven. She's actually doing a pretty good job at ruining God's rep now, cause if she's what His followers are truly like, I think most of America and the world, would rather pass on the Christian thang!

[Atac]

12:14 AM on 04/11/2009

Ok one interview, fine. But two interviews? Seems like someone is media hungry.

Or maybe Sarah Palin is giving him the shaft and he's lashing back.

Either way, it doesn't make Sarah Palin look to good, and after what she said about Barack Obama on the campaign trail, I don't feel sorry for her.

[mnyegele]

12:04 AM on 04/11/2009

This all sounds like a bad soap opera. And that is really Sarah Palin's true calling. And remember Levi himself wanted to start an acting career? Great. Let's let the Palins and the Johnstons and everyone else involved with Sarah Palin's family create a new soap opera. We can call it "As the Stomach Churns."
(P.S. That title is not original, I got it from an old Carol Burnett show.)

[Brillig]

11:19 PM on 04/10/2009

Well, well well. This is what happens when a society defines itself by the size of its genitalia.

Men are not male anymore- they are defined by their sexual preference
Likewise women.

And anyone, like me, who believes that discussing intimate details of your life, gay or sad, is plain BAD MANNERS, is scoffed at.

So we have this tasteless drama being acted out on the big screen daily.