"Me & Mrs. Palin" Sneak Peak

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Remember all of those accusations flying around during the presidential race for the White House that Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin was trying to conceal the fact that her daughter, Bristol, was pregnant? Well, in a recent interview with Vanity Fair magazine, Levi Johnston, the father of Sarah's grandchild, said that... "She had a plan. She wanted to adopt his child so that people wouldn't know her 17 year old daughter was pregnant".

The October issue of Vanity Fair which features this interview is scheduled to go on sale Saturday 09/05/09. Johnston told the magazine that Sarah was constantly nagging him and her daughter about the subject of adopting the baby and just wouldn't give up. She kept asking them if they were going to let her adopt the baby and both of them repeatedly told her that they were not going to let her do it.

If you recall, a week after Republican presidential candidate John McCain named Sarah Palin as his running mate, the campaign issued a statement that her unwed daughter was pregnant. It also said Bristol, who was 18 years old at the time, and Johnston would marry. Johnston was 19 years old then and he lived with the Palins for two months while awaiting the birth of their baby boy, Tripp Johnston. However, the couple called off the wedding shortly after their son's birth. Since then, Johnston has complained in several interviews that the Palin family limited his access to the boy and the Palin home in Wasilla was not what most people would think.

Johnston stated that, even before Sarah was nominated for vice president, the Palin house was much different from what many people expect of a normal family. Sarah and her husband, Todd, have a total of four children. There wasn't much parenting going on in the house and the kids were pretty much taking care of themselves (with the exception of their last child, Trig, who was just a baby). Sarah didn't cook and her husband didn't cook either. For the most part, the kids did it all... the cooking, cleaning, and laundry.

After Sarah returned to Alaska following McCain's unsuccessful run for the presidency, Johnston said that she was different. She was sad for a while and walked around the house pouting. He assumed that Sarah was going to go back to her job as governor but, a week or two after she got back, she started talking about how nice it would be to quit and write a book or do a TV show and make triple the money.

Johnston also claimed that Sarah is not the hockey mom or outdoorswoman she pretended to be during the presidential campaign. She rarely attended her oldest son's hockey games and asked Johnston how to shoot a gun. Sarah also made statements that she went hunting and lived off of animal meat. Johnston said, if she did, he never saw it. He also told the magazine that he laughed every time he saw Tina Fey imitate Sarah because she sounded just like her.

Levi Johnston is the man behind the mask of Sarah Palin in the above photograph and I'm sure that he collected a hefty paycheck for his "tell all" interview with Vanity Fair... his interactions with Sarah and all the other "goings on" in the Palin household. Well, good for him but I'm not impressed. This "TMI" interview at this stage of the game leaves a real bad taste in my mouth and serves no real purpose.

Don't get me wrong... I am by no means a fan of Sarah Palin and I haven't forgotten that she said and did some "God-awful" things during the presidential campaign. (I suppose that is why "He" decided that she didn't need to be the vice president so, I'm good!) However, I've always been leery of people who "kiss and tell" and I'm even more suspicious of those who do it for money or personal gain.

I'm sure that, if we dig deep enough, we might even discover that Levi offered the content for this interview to Sarah first... for a price, of course. But, unfortunately, Sarah doesn't have "Vanity Fair" money so, it went to the highest bidder. Did you happen to notice that it looks like Levi is riding in the back of a limo in the photo?

At the risk of sounding like a Sarah Palin supporter, which I clearly am not, I strongly believe that everyone is entitled to a certain amount of privacy when it comes to their "personal" life and family... even, Sarah. (Yuk!)