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On Levi Johnston & Media Bias

July 8, 2010 by B. Daniel Blatt

Last fall, when Levi Johnston was telling stories which confirmed the prejudices of MSM reporters and editors about Sarah Palin, they ate up his stories, featuring him on cable news programs, inviting him to swank Hollywood parties.  Heck, one left-wing TV hostess even dubbed him a gay icon.

As I wrote back then:

For certain figures in the media clearly delighting in promoting him so as they could better destroy their favorite villain in the post-George W. Bush era, the grandmother of his child.  He took their interest in destroying Palin as a real interest in him and giving a kid from rural Alaska a chance in the big city.

Well, now they don’t seem as interested as they once did. You see, he made it all up:

After surfing the wave of celebrity that was primarily fueled by a willingness to lie about almost everything about Sarah, Todd and Bristol Palin, Levi has finally come clean in the pages of People, admitting; “”I publicly said things about the Palins that were not completely true.”

As the MSM lost interest in him, he surely had an epiphany, realizing that the media were just taking him for a ride to promote their preferred prejudice, you know about Sarah Palin being a rube from the sticks.

I didn’t catch the major news sources devoting as much time to his apology as they did to his fabrications.  Wonder if any of them will engage in soul-searching about their readiness to believe his tales and their rush to give him lots of air time.  Seems they’re only interested in the salacious details of the lives of Republican candidates for Vice President, given that this young man was given far more air time than a certain masseuse from Oregon.

Filed Under: Media Bias, PDS (Palin Derangement Syndrome)

Comments

  1. rusty says

    July 8, 2010 at 1:20 pm - July 8, 2010

    Levi might be in a situation ‘of kiss and makeup’ for his money train came to an abrupt stop. but I can’t imagine young Levi had the where with all or the connections in his own self-prostitution. He had pimps, many pimps, and like most fresh meat on the media radar, there were many johns willing to pay the price.

    hope the young man turns his direction to his child and rebuilding a relationship with the mother and her family.

  2. B. Daniel Blatt says

    July 8, 2010 at 1:24 pm - July 8, 2010

    good point and ditto that 2nd ¶

  3. rusty says

    July 8, 2010 at 1:28 pm - July 8, 2010

    totally off topic but this is hillarious

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCOz-ShZwTs

    The Talking FEDS.

  4. Sonicfrog says

    July 8, 2010 at 3:16 pm - July 8, 2010

    Yep. Levi’s 15 minutes were over. It will be interesting to see how long it will take for the news that he is broke and deeply in debt to surface?

    BTW: Andrew Sullivan is absolutely fuming about this betrayal! 🙂

  5. ILoveCapitalism says

    July 8, 2010 at 3:43 pm - July 8, 2010

    Sullivan has gone off the deep end. To any normal person, Levi’s admission that he said things that were “not completely true” is merely the kind of half-assed legal-ese apology that is typical of the 21st century, designed to leaving wiggle room and minimizing the potential for lawsuits. But Sullivan treated it as yet another dark sign of the all-malignant, all-powerful Palin silencing all opposition.

  6. Ashpenaz says

    July 9, 2010 at 10:57 am - July 9, 2010

    Levi’s not as cute anymore now that he’s not a bad boy.

  7. Sebastian Shaw says

    July 9, 2010 at 2:20 pm - July 9, 2010

    Levi Johnston was a pawn to be used against Sarah Palin. Perhaps he was too young to realize this, but his apology & admission that he slandered the Palin’s just shows he was used by the MSM.

  8. Bob says

    July 12, 2010 at 12:16 am - July 12, 2010

    I posted the story on LifeOut’s blogs and the fellows there were unamused that they had lost their perfect foil. He was their useful idiot but if I were the Palins, I would trust him as far as I could toss him!

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