Bristol And Levi Break Up: How The Palins Publicly Trash Their Exes
There are perfectly acceptable times to trash your ex. Case in point: every woman understood when Jen Aniston accused ex-husband Brad Pitt of lacking a sensitivity chip, after he dumped her for Angelina.
She was justified in letting the public know the depths of her disgust. We sympathized.
If Mary Louise Parker had called boyfriend of seven years, Billy Crudup, a cad when he ditched her for the younger Claire Danes, when she was seven months pregnant, no woman would have blamed her.
Every woman who has been through high school knows that trashing your ex to your friends is not only socially acceptable but part of the post-breakup recovery process, accompanied by a pint of Ben and Jerry's.
Nevertheless, the Palin women take public trashing to a whole new and totally uncool level.
Bristol Palin, 
18, and her baby daddy and former fiancé Levi Johnston, 19, have now publicly announced the end of their engagement and their split. Both have now released statements that the decision is mutual...blah blah blah!
However, the statement only came after Johnston's sister Mercede spilled to Star magazine what is probably the non-publicist approved truth of the situation.
Mercede says Bristol broke up with Levi and doesn't allow him to bring baby Tripp to his family's house because she doesn't want him around "white trash."
Could it be that Bristol is concerned with her baby associating with her paternal grandmother Sherry Johnston, who has been charged with possession and distribution of the drug OxyContin?
Mercede also charges that Levi tried to visit two month-old Tripp every single day, but "Bristol makes it nearly impossible."
Now, the reason I don't doubt Mercede's version of the story -- Bristol trashing her ex and his family -- is because of the very public trashing and more, that her mom has been tied to, which also involves an ex-in-law: Sarah's brother-in-law.
Palin's sister, Molly McCann, split from her state trooper husband, Mike Wooten, and what happened subsequently got heavy coverage during the presidential campaign last fall.
A special investigator, Stephen Branchflower, reported to the Alaska Legislative Council that he had found that Governor Palin had "wrongfully permitted [her husband] Todd Palin to use the governor's office...to continue to contact subordinate state employees in an effort to find some way to get Trooper Wooten fired."
Whew! Talk about an "ex hunt." That takes trashing to a whole new level.
You better not mess with those Palin women when romance goes awry. Slicing and dicing exes appears to be in the family genes.
And the fact that kids end up in the middle doesn't seem to be a concern. Poor little Tripp may never get to know his dad, and Sarah's sister Molly was so slammed by divorce Judge John Suddock that he warned her and her family to stop "disparaging" Wooten's reputation or risk losing custody of her kids.
It sure is ironic. When it was politically expedient, Sarah spruced up her daughter's 
"redneck" boyfriend, and dressed him out of her family's $150,000 wardrobe budget, so he would be presentable at the Republican National Convention. He even got the John McCain bear hug.
Back then, the couple vowed there would be wedding bells. Well, thank God, the McCain-Palin ticket didn't win the White House. No doubt, there WOULD have been a wedding for PR purposes, followed by a miserable marriage for the two teen parents.
Now the Johnston family may be furious about the Palin women diss, but they should take comfort in the fact that Bristol has also trashed her mom's policy of abstinence-only sex education.
Well, duh?
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Doesn't anyone in Alaska have a normal name? Levi, Mercede, Bristol, Tripp, Trig, Track, etc. Ridiculous.
Levi should be advised to get a paternity test done, and get his visitation rights established if the dna test shows he is the putative father. That way, Bristol can not play games withholding that baby from his father.
While I understand & agree with a lot the author writes, I find it hard to accept Star Magazine as a credible source for anything. People who read tabloids deserve to be lied to. I have a friend who was completely misquoted there where it made him look like he was saying the exact opposite of what he really said. It was libelous to another person & when he asked them to retract or correct, they refused. They only want dirt whether it's provable or not.
It just shows how phony they all are. All that posing during the convention. The perfect family. What I saw was an underage pregnant girl, whose mother also had an unwanted pregnancy, her high school drop-out, boy friend, and all these somersaults to make their outdated, ineffective family value beliefs conform to this twisted image. On top of that they had the twice married McCain who, like Bush, caroused and drank his way through his 40's. But they want to tell everyone else how to behave.
Hmmmm, I have a son and duaghter, do I want my daughter to follow Palin's example or be taught effective sex education and safe sex when the time comes. And should my son follow McCain and Bush's examples of how to skirt by and screw up or should he look to someone like Obama who worked hard, served the public good, studied, and made it to the presidency. Hmmmmm.
Tehehe. Rethuglican family values!
"Single motherhood, by contrast, directly harms children, occurs at a rate of about 1.5 million a year and has a causal relationship to criminal behavior, substance abuse, juvenile delinquency, sexual victimization and almost every other social disorder." ann coulter.
My gosh, they are acting like dems, name calling, the "destroy your opponent" bit.
What is this world coming to???
Don't you mean republicans?The republicans raise name calling to a science,but they never have a plan.They just knock down whatever plan comes from ANY other party or source,other than their own.
You obviously don't remember Newt Gingrich's witchhunt against Clinton, trying to get him impeached for not even having sex. Big deal. Bush should have been impeached for about 5 or 10 legitimate things, things that have brought the entire WORLD to it's knees. But the collective amnesia amongst Republicans over the actions of the past 8 years is very powerful, indeed.
Isn't there anyone that could counsel this young couple? They need a cooler head to help them out here. People should rally around a young couple in distress, not hand out ammo. Of course every one is hurting. This couple needs to find mutually respected counsel who can help them deal with this too public circus.
I hear Dr. Phil has set the Octomom on the straight&narrow. Maybe he'll take a whack at it.
How could anyone trash either of these adorable children of the republican party. True, God fearing children. Their marriage was made in heaven. It had to be some ferocious democrat that caused all this trouble. I am sure that Sarah will bring about a reconciliation to keep the family together. How could anyone possibly call anyone white trash. No such thing exists in Alaska. I mean where else can you go on vacation and spend all day shooting wolves from a chopper and then go back to the lodge and eat on a big moose. Ah, life's good.
Although it is nice to have all these facts in one place -- for the purpose of anyone who may want to 'trash' Sarah Palin if she actually tries for a run at ...anything in 2010 on, this article disappoints. I was hoping for something new. The only new thing is Levi's sister's report on his trying to see his baby every day and that he would like to take him to his house.
I wouldn't trust this guy from the moment I first heard about him, and his web post on himself. His unengaged, self-reflective look also is less than winning. But it could be worse, that a young father wouldn't want to see his son. Indeed it is worrisome that he doesn't have the smarts to know a two-month old baby has no business going somewhere without his mom. And when one thinks of Tripp's going to his father's and grandmother's house it would certainly be best when he is able to report back on what he's seen and heard there. Children need to know their fathers; AND I think Bristol did the right thing. I also think it is very heartening, given the parents she has, that she has become someone who can speak her own mind.
You may be very right. But then again you judge people by those they associate with. Now who would want to be associated with anyone who would try to ruin a brother-in-law's livelihood? Anyone who considers Mama and Papa Palin a friend should not turn their back on them. Don't you remember what a sweet, lovely boy Sarah said her grandchild's daddy was? Now he is person non grata even arounf his own child?
I suspect that Sarah Palin is behind this break-up. Getting the problematic grandmother out of the picture in plenty of time for that certain re-run for the White House.
Give me a break. This isn't even newsworthy. Who cares. Give them thier privacy.
I am with you, Mary, I thought that right away--she is getting rid of him fast so that hopefully we will all forget him and his "f----ing" web page. Bet there is a plan to completely redo the truth on the daughter and the baby, too. I am thinking Sarah is feverishly working with PR people and political strategists trying to figure out how to look better hoping more people than the followers she's got right now will support her. I really feel badly for Bristol. I think she really does want to be with her boyfriend, but needs her mother to be on her side and so has to toe the line and trash this boy to please Mrs. P--and probably her dad too.
Fuller writes, "Back then, the couple vowed there would be wedding bells. " No, the kids didn't say that. Sarah and the RNC said that because it made the out-of-wedlock faux-pas so much more palatable to the Right during the campaign. That whole wedding thing was clearly a trumped-up moment by adults running the political show. What the kids wanted was both unclear and unarticulated. Just another smarmy GOP trick to make Palin more respectable than her illiterate utterances made her out to be.
Good point. I don't remember either Levi or Bristol discussing marriage either. Just Grandma Palin.
I'm not a Palin family fan, but leave the kids alone. Bristol is not even out of high school yet. Quit picking on her. Levi's sister claims that Bristol called them white trash, and you don't even check the facts. Did Bristol say that? Or is Mercede making it up as she goes along? You don't really know.
I'm a daily reader of Huff Post, so I know you can do better than this. I think this is scraping the bottom of the barrel. Leave the girl alone!http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bonnie-fuller/bristol-and-levi-break-up_b_174495.html#
Bristol SHOULD be out of high school and would be hadn't she dropped out! She opened herself up to scrutiny when she chose to do an interview with Greta. Bristol's a big girl.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xaxw7sVfVg4
Bristol is a woman. She is a mother and was almost a wife. Her parents chose to thrust her into the spotlight when she was an unwed mother and she herself chose to appear on national television for her own, personal, ADULT reasons.
Obviously, she nor her mother were overly concerned with her being left alone, so why are you? You sound as though you're personally involved with the family. If so, you should be counseling Sarah about her parenting style.
She needs to understand that she is not blameless in Bristol's pregnancy. Abstinence only education might work for a child who is in close relationship with and strictly supervised by his or her parents. BUT when mom is busy running the state and the "child" is often left unsupervised -- probably taking on adult responsibilities with respect to the care of home and siblings -- that child/"surrogate parent" may tend to become self-reliant to a fault and start having a mind of his or her own and thinking that he or she is competent to make his or her own personal decisions.
He or she might even make "bad" decisions in subconscious protest about the absence of parental ATTENTION.
Sarah should forget about politics and focus more on her children. They only have one childhood. She should make a greater effort not to miss it or BLOW IT.
Okay, I'll disagree on principle. Not that having SP out of politics isn't one of my fondest dreams. But when parents have to work -- as all parents do, since it isn't the 1940's -- then what they need to do is arrange competent childcare. Moms don't have any more choice than dads anymore -- they work. And that's where good childcare -- from nursery schools to nannies to governesses (yes, there are still such things, and they're worth every penny) come in. A governess -- capable of teaching high school subjects, foreign languages, music and the classics, runs from $40-80,000 a year. You think the Palins couldn't afford to give their children decent childcare? Pfft. They chose putting money into the 'Ironwhatever' contest instead.
Bristol is fair game, since she is giving interviews now.
In order to let people know how hard and upsetting it is to have a baby at such a young age. You make it sound like she gave interviews to further her career.
IS GRETA COMING BACK TO ALASKA TO INTERVIEW BRISTOL AGAIN?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xaxw7sVfVg4
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I think we should let the Palin family alone - they had their 15 minutes of fame. Let Sarah Palin go back to governing Alaska.
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Wrong. Sister Sarah wants to be President and has no interest in governing Alaska. She speaks for the "End of Days" crowd and Rush's ditto-heads.
I think we should keep trashing them, just like they keep trashing other people! We need to make ABSOLUTELY CERTAIN that Sarah Palin NEVER, EVER returns to the national stage and attempts to commandeer our precious democracy again! If ruining that dysfunctional family and it's lying mother is required for our nations freedom, then so be it! Sarah Palin, just PLAIN WRONG! WRONG FOR ALASKA, WRONG FOR AMERICA, WRONG FOR THE WORLD! She makes me ill to me stomach!
Then take your anger out on Sarah Palin, not on her teenage kid. Bristol has enough on her plate without all this vitriol coming at her. I thought we were better than that. Well, aren't we?
Don't be so jealous of her. Grow up and leave her alone.
Why is criticism of a woman whose ethics and governance are questionable "jealousy"? Palin wants the White House, but she is a narcissistic dingbat. She can't speak English without a teleprompter, which in turn speaks to her failure to articulate policies and programs. She's busier with SarahPAC and traveling to anti-abortion dinners than she is in Alaska with starving natives or getting an energy bill to the legislature in time for consideration during this session. YOU need to read more about Palin and her belief in End of Days chruches and creationism in science classrooms, appointments of H.S. friends from Wasilla to important state posts for which they have no background, etc. BEFORE you sound off against others who are watching her performance more closely. The thought of Palin in the W.H. is a truly scary thing. Catch up with who she really is and you'll be scared too, NOT jealous.
BocaMom, you appear to be another Lower 48 Palinista who has been totally duped by the hype.
Sarah Palin is a terrible governor. Criticism of her is very valid and not evidence of jealousy.
I really wish you would come to Juneau and see her governing style in action, or I should say, inaction. She's not interested in Alaska policy, she's interested in promoting her own national ambitions, taking out her enemies and trashing many people who have helped her in the past.
She is not a serious governor. She is not a serious person. She is a celebrity. And therein lies the problem -- her adoring Lower 48 fans love her image, which is all contrived.
I wish you and others like you would become a little more informed, and a little more respectful of the job of being governor of Alaska. Take a peek at www.andrewhalcro.com.
Mercede Johnston sold out to the Star. Don't be shocked, but the Star wouldn't pay her unless she said something controversial. People don't read the Star for the truth, they only read it for something juicy.
I am sorry that Trig won't grow up with his daddy. I hope the two parents really do graduate from high school. I don't think Sarah Palin would make a good Vice President and certainly not a President. But I don't think that anybody should wish bad things on these kids. Especially not based on an article in the Star.
Mercede and Bristol were BFF's ya know...
Track, Trig and Tripp. This new baby by Bristol is named Tripp -- I hope. It's not at all clear that Tripp 'won't grow up getting to know his daddy'. Fuller reports only that:
'Mercede also charges that Levi tried to visit two month-old Tripp every single day, but "Bristol makes it nearly impossible."'
Let's (you and the writer) not exaggerate. It says that Levi 'tried to visit two month-old Tripp every single day.' That is not a bad dad. But such visits do not have to be allowed and might only disrupt the mother. The baby is too young, anyway. Surely he could be around the baby for 2-3 hours 2-3 times a week and that would be good enough for him (he needs to get on with his studies and free his mind for his own development) and for the baby. Babies and children need to know their fathers, but not every day when they don't live with the baby and his mother -- it's too disruptive to the whole family. (And the baby is too young to be taken away from his mom.)
Second, Levi's sister says, 'and Bristol makes that nearly impossible'. Does she make visits 'every day' impossible? So...that's fine. Does she make 'visits' nearly impossible? What is nearly? Obviously she is not refusing his visits totally. So why does the author, and you, given the facts written here, assume that Tripp 'will never get to know his daddy'?
"Surely he could be around the baby for 2-3 hours 2-3 times a week and that would be good enough for him (he needs to get on with his studies and free his mind for his own development) and for the baby. "
Wow. Good enough for him and the baby? Might disrupt the mother?
Listen, I'm the mom of two young ones, and barring abuse, children have a right to see more than six or seven hours of dad a week. Unless the baby is breastfed exclusively, there is not a shred of scientific data to support that the baby is too young to be 'taken away' from his mom--especially when he would be in the care of the dad.
I agree with you completely. Bristol is my age. I don't wish anything bad on her.
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