Levi Johnston: A Hollywood Cautionary Tale
by Joseph LindseyFame is that place where character is rarely able to sustain itself. I don’t know how much character Levi Johnston had as a boy, but as a young man in the grips of the Hollywood culture machine he’s lost it all.
Levi’s story is one that plays out hundreds of times each year in Hollywood. The young either come to La La Land seeking fame, or have the opportunity for it laid in their lap due to circumstances they often times never sought. The wreckage of most rarely see the light of day, much less the pages of Playgirl magazine, they only end up chasing a dream that never comes, in rehab, jail or worse.
When one unknowingly trades character for fame the recipient has only one recourse, attack the catalyst that brought them the opportunity in the first place, in Levi Johnston case it’s Sarah Palin and the mother of his child.
When young men lack positive role models at home, often times they go astray in that long stretch towards manhood, only to end up a tool for whatever hungry machine is in their path, gangs, a White House intern, or the exploitative elements of Hollywood. When a young man’s character fails him, good parents are needed to right the course. Levi Johnston didn’t have that growing up in Alaska.
Levi was born in 1990 and raised by Sherry and Keith Johnston along with a younger sister. In 2008 his mother Sherry L. Johnston was charged with six felony counts of misconduct involving a controlled substance and was sentenced to Alaska’s only woman’s prison and later released to serve her three year sentence under home confinement. A Google search for his father Keith brings up only a few sporadic mentions of him and no photos. After dropping out of Wasilla High School in his junior year, Johnston began working full-time for the Alaska North Slope oil fields as an apprentice electrician, but quit his job in January 2009 because he saw an opportunity, something I’m sure even now he thinks is better than being and electrician in Alaska.
Getting your high school girlfriend pregnant is hardly worthy of fame, that is unless her mother is the Governor of your state, a vice-presidential candidate and conservative woman. Only then do the leftist vampires of Hollywood come out of their dark corners and offer you the glowing flame of fame. But what they didn’t tell Levi is that he’s just another one of their moths and the moment he’s served their purpose they’ll push him into the flame and exterminate him.
Levi’s now what Hollywood calls an actor and model, surrounded by the illusionist of Tinsel Town, an agent, a lawyer, a publicist. They prop him up on Tyra and Larry King for painful interviews of which reveals only a young man being nudged towards the embers. They set him up on public dates at children’s events with despicable bottom feeders like Kathy Griffin, get him to hock pistachios on TV and take his clothes off in magazines, all while taking 10, 15 and 5% of his gross respectively. When he’s done with the rounds in Hollywood they set him a blaze by dragging his child into the circus with a court battle because they tell him having custody would be good for his image. And when the media showers the public with the car crash that is Levi Johnston they are filled with glee because somehow they believe they are helping their liberal cause by destroying a young man, smearing a young mother and mocking a conservative woman who rose to power by her own boot straps.
There are worse things in life than ending up an electrician in Alaska and a present, active father in child’s life. I hope that’s where Levi ends up; it’s a far nobler and more lasting life. Cause if he stays on the path of the hungry machine that is Hollywood, just another moth reaching for the fame flame, you’ll see him years from now on “Celebrity Boxing,” “Tool Academy” or “I’m a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here” and he won’t be the handsome young man with so much potential that he is today.
When Levi is older I hope he’s able look back at this time in his life and feel a sense of shame, only then will he know that he’s begun to rebuild his character.
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Sadly, he will be around being taken advantage of and takening advantage of Ms Sarah Pallin's
position, family and others as long as Ms Palin is around. That may be a while longer.
The users and abusers in the left see this as an insurance policy should Ms Palin
have log term political face time. Levi will be their key to opening an old wound at their descretion.
Get use to him being around folks.
The kids a train wreck!
his fame is as noteworthy as a pimple on Michael Moore's ass.
This kid is so dumb he actually think he has something worthwhile to offer. Meanwhile his handlers talk him into making a fool of himself again and again. He won't even see it coming when they kick him to the curb. He'll be lucky if he walks away from this experience without some serious addictions, or worse. I hate to say it, because I don't really want to wish any ill on anyone, but he seems like a Anna Nicole-type train wreck in the making. He has about the same intellectual capacity as that poor woman.
Great, now I have to look at the picture of Griffin again.
Is there a way you can embed her picture in the "more" with a disclaimer for those who don't want to stomach that face?
I'd be open to monetary negotiations.
Follow the money….
As for Griffin- Maybe he's her boytoy??
I've puked at least 2x today! Oh brother
One of the major forces behind Levi's "transformation" into a stah, is his bottom-feeder Anchorage attorney, Rex Butler, who also supplied Levi w/ his ever-constant minder, Tank (who shares the spotlight w/ Levi in the nuts commercial). Poor Levi is either too stupid or starstruck to know that he's being made a fool, all the while Rex Butler and Tank are going to the bank. Rather than hawking Levi's goods, they should be encouraging him to get a real job so that some day he can be a real dad and not some joke on late night tv.
Anna Nicole's emotional and psychological problems aside she still had a freight train load more character than this pathetic POS, who has made it his number one priority to completely ruin the lives of good people who were willing to do more for him than he ever had any right to expect. Anna Nicole never displayed that kind of viciousness.
True enough. This kid is not only dumb– but mean. He must feel at home in Hollywood.
If I were Bristol, I'd make sure he was not a part of my child's life. How embarrassing for Tripp that this is his dad.
Isn't this sperm donors 15 minutes up yet?
Who's that ugly b!tch in the picture with him? Is that a transvestite?
Please, enough of him…
His 15 minutes of fame need to end.
Ah, Rex Butler. Anchorage's only friend to low-lifes.
I'm with you. He is not only a douche who has destroyed any chance of a normal life for him and his family in Alaska, he abandoned his child for fame. I would personally like to neuter this idiot before he does it again to some other poor girl. If this ever finds Levis eyes, know this, YOU ARE A DEADBEAT DAD,CONGRATULATIONS, NOW GO AWAY.
Show me a good loser and I will show you a failure.
This is more than an article about Levi Johnson…it's a scathing indictment of Hollywood in general. On one hand it should be surprising for what meager goods people are willing to trade away their integrity; one the other, it is no surprise that a lack of moral principles usually results in such lopsided transactions.
Remember Cindy Sheehan? After the Left squeezed every drop of humanity out of her, they kicked her to the curb. Sadly, the same fate awaits Levi.
Levi Johnson, pictured here with D lister PUKE (Kathy Griffin), has been asked to pay for any more coverage by the Major Media Outlets
"Rex Butler?" That can't be a real name…sounds like something from a terrible romance novel.
I'll pray for the guy, but seriously, what a douche-tard.
Sadly, he just seems stupid. He will end up another crack addict in Alaska. A waste…
Brilliant, well-written assessment. I think of Cindy Sheehan and part of me feels nothing for both her and Johnson but pity. It is sad to see these despicable "stars" prey upon the ignorant and emotionally vulnerable.
We all make mistakes when we are young. Some just make us look silly, some make us stronger. None of those seem to fit Levi. The important one is the baby. Here's hoping she marries a nice guy who will provide the father figure for her child and yes, they live happily ever after. Just the old grandpa in me.
The integrity of the individual verses the herd. An interior conversation of truth not alibis and excuses (hoping alligators will cry for you). Today, peer pressure is toxic and will maim or kill. Why is Micheal Oher (read The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game) a winner and Levi Johnston a loser. (This is not all about the Tuohys) Self-reliance is a treasure.
I couldn't even bear to read this whole thing, just skimmed a bit.
Why are we giving this repulsive loser any more attention than he already has? That's what he WANTS!
Well, here's hoping Bristol's lawyer is keeping up with Levi's earnings…Tripp is going to need LOTS of money in the future…
Might as well as "introduce" Levi to that other constant of Hollywood life…extremely high palimony and child support payments…the higher, the better…
Bristol needs to get sole custody…Levi can suck up shallow Hollywood sympathy instead…for as long as it lasts, which suggests 2011 and if Sarah runs…
Okay, how long until we see this Johnson in court for some kind of gross misdemeanor or felony? I say Feb 2011. Speaking of gross misdemeanors, that Kathy Griffin would make a train take a dirt road.
All the statements given here about Levi Johnston–immature, no character, unwitting pawn of Hollywood parasites–are true. The reasons given for Hollywood's embrace of this callow ignorant youth are true as well: he is a useful tool with which the Kathy Griffins of the world can embarass Sarah Palin while enriching themselves.
There is another motivation for Hollywood liberals to embrace Levi Johnston and his personal flaws: he confirms all their elitist opinions of "red state" America. This ignorant white kid from a broken home in a frontier state represents everything the left thinks it knows about those pesky McCain voters.
As a stand-in for the dysfunctional hillbillies coastal elites believe populate flyover country, the in-over-his head oblivious rube Johnston also provides justification for liberal plans to "help" those rubes through state-mandated health care, welfare, and other programs the "red state" voters are deemed too thick-headed to see are for their own good.
Am I missing something? No mention of the Palin girl he knocked up? I guess she isn't at fault? What was her name – one of the stupid names like "Trig" or maybe it was "Bristol" which is slang for bewbies. Without these Luanne Platter-style women you wouldn't have to suffer the "Levi's."
In his defense, weakly, he has the amazing ability to think back and say "maybe I
shouldn't have done that" with regard to his playgirl photo, then go right ahead
and do something equally stupid, ala Kathy Griffin and that relationship.
Why would they need money? Don't they have faith in God? They say they do. Then they should have faith the Lord will provide. Seems your own thoughts don't fall in line with Christian ones, either. So many people claiming to be Christian yet none seem to act like it – especially Bristol.
Alas, The Fonz has jumped the shark!
TheFonz – (Really??) – The beautiful girl who is Trigg's mom is at home – finishing her education and being a great mom to her baby. Please crawl back under your rock, troll.
What's Carrot Top doing with Levi Johnston in that photo?
Oh, he's very real. And he wears flashy purple suits, too.
I think she is cute but her personallity is grating…yet I can't turn away….like a car wreck. LOL!
I would never wish fame upon my sons.
It would kill me to see their souls ruined.
hollywood is an all consuming beast the consumes everything in its' path…
INfamy at all costs…
You write, "After dropping out of Wasilla High School in his junior year, Johnston began working full-time for the Alaska North Slope oil fields as an apprentice electrician, but quit his job in January 2009 because he saw an opportunity, something I’m sure even now he thinks is better than being and electrician in Alaska."
He quit his North Slope oil field job over questions about his eligibility to work in an electrical apprenticeship program because Sarah Palin's enemies went after him because he was technically unqualified for the job he was in without a diploma and, in a classic anti-Palin fishing expedition, her detractors assumed she or Todd had pulled strings to get him the job when it was his father that got him his job. So we (and he) can thank Sarah Palin's enemies for ruining his best shot at an honest job. To paraphrase Kirk from Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, "They've managed to hurt just about everyone else, but like poor marksmen they keep missing the target"
Bingo. There's no doubt he's being used, but he's fully complicit in the whole thing. THIS is the cautionary tale that teen girls need to see. Not the 'it's hard to have a child while still a child' (though true), but the guy you thought you loved and loved you enough to marry after the accidental pregnancy would turn on you, your family, and your child with a venom that you could never see coming.
The only thing that can save Levi from gay porn would be Sarah Palin running in 2012. It would 'revive' the Left's 'interest' in him.
one question, and you can decide for yourself which one of those two this applies to–does a waste of human flesh know that they're a waste of human flesh?
Kathy Griffin is banging the hell out of him no doubt because he's young, hot and stupid. Probably a host of other girls doing him too. My guess is that he won't be smart enough NOT to burn through the little money he's made in record time. I predict he's totally broke by this time next year unless he gets a hell of an acting gig. Who's paying for his legal bills against the Palins?
Why do liberals need money when they have faith that the government will provide for them?
Seriously, your thinking skills make Levi look like an intellectual.
It seems that basic self-respect and dignity can sniff out the stench of Hollywood's rotting carcass of character. It's hard to see such blatant self-loathing and not feel nauseated. Hollywood is filled with those people that grossed you out in high school and college because their fathomless and bottomless desperation repulsed you like magnetic repulsion. The ick factor is off the scales just looking at those two.
Because he is a Cautionary tale. Not just for the folks who dream of going to hollywood.. but for everyone that proceeds with reckless abondon towards a Mirage.
Kathy Griffin 'dates' a BILLIONARE! A fat old BILLIONARE! How this squares with what she preaches, who she preaches to and the whole leftist thing about working families, downtrodden, oppressed, etc., etc., is beyond me. But then in my (our) defense, I'm a conservative. Instinctively some things don't make sense to conservatives, like hollywood millionaires, MSM millionaires, billionaires, telling working people they need to be taxed more, have their energy, food, and health care cost more. It makes perfect sense somehow to libtards.
I suppose that's true. The sad part is that there's no shortage of such examples, from Anna Nicole Smith to Britney Spears and all the rest.
And people still don't learn.
This poor bastard has no idea he is completely squandering any moral authority he would otherwise have had with his young son. If he ever decides to take fathering seriously, it will be too late. His kid will consider him a joke and disregard any guidance he tries to give. Even if George Soros were to set up a trust to pamper Levi for the rest of his life, the cost will not have been worth it.
You're missing the Palin girl because she is busy raising their child.
"Without these Luanne Platter-style women you wouldn't have to suffer the Levi's." What style of woman do we blame for having to suffer you–a Kathy Griffin-style?
Bristol…slang, blah, blah, blah.
The Fonz–Republican.
Is Bristol on welfare?
Bristol is in college and she isn't on welfare.
Levi is in for big downfall. Who is that super UGLY female in the picture with him?
If she didn't have her mommy bail her out she wouldn't be. Where is the condemnation for her spreading her legs? She's more at fault than Levi. Funny how you guys have circled the wagon around a girl for engaging in pre-marital sex.
It's interesting that ANS was the first person I thought of when I saw the pic of Levi above. I can't see it ending well for him other than by some miracle intervention. MGHMOHS
I'll take July '10 in that pool.
he has all the earmarks of a flash comet… not that long to destruction.
MGHMOYS
The "girl" in question is handling the consequences a lot better than Levi is. That is actually commendable, regardless of what mistakes she made in the past.
Sorry if you can't see it. Of course, judging from your posting history, there is much that you do not see.
I hope your mother made the mistake of spreading her legs only once.
"Sorry if you can't see it. Of course, judging from your posting history, there is much that you do not see. "
You seem to have a selective focus on the past.
In liberal-land, the race to the bottom gets you to the top.
You're aware that President Obama also wasn't born to a married woman.
Nuff said.
That's right – family helping family. Not surprised you haven't heard of this quaint custom that has been practiced by most here in the USA. Probably why the family has to go in order to achieve your Statist, collectivist dreams.
I'm waiting to see just how well Letterman's (bastart?) son turns out.
is that girl from the Sex and the city
Palin Haters find Levi useful in their campaign to make her a laughingstock for the voters. So far, he has only been squired around by that Griffin woman, who is really low grade on the fame scale. A better question is, who is financing his legal case for custody? It wouldn't be that Alaska lawyer, I think.
I agree that Levi does not have a happy future, or a long one either. He is so pathetic.
Thing is whenever muckrakers on MSNBC need something on Sarah Palin, they'll just feed it to Levi and let him rip in on it on their air.
The exact definition of a useful idiot!
I keep making comparisons with Cindy Sheehan – Levi's only value is to discredit Sarah Palin. As soon as he has no value left in that…
The situation is sad, more than anything. How anyone could think he's hurting Palin is beyond me but then Hollywood lives on illusions.
I am about 2/3rd though Sarah's book. The best part is the last 3rd, where she talks about the campaign, and what it was like on the inside. It is a fascinating read. The things her fans wondered "why didn't she…." are answered.
Being an electrician is a lot more honest and in the long term, a strong foundation for his life. He is building a house of sand.
It takes two, so WHY is Levi "blameless" for not being able to keep it in his pants and then not only ignoring his child, but attempting to make money from his bad behavior? And just WHY didn't he use protection?
And FYI……lots of us said, when we found out, that she shouldn't have had premarital sex. But at least she has taken on the responsibilities that her thoughtless actions caused; but Levi never has.
Shhhh…Fonz thinks he IS an intellectual…logic makes his head explode, though…
As for me, I'm not one of those "forgiving" types,..my style is more, "…dans ce pays-ci, il est bon de tuer de temps en temps un amiral pour encourager les autres"…Levi should be glad I'm not in the mix, and I believe Todd has more fortitude than I would demonstrate in similar circumstances…
Sometimes, that Christian "forgiveness" should be thoroughly tempered with overt unemotional "justice"…but since that is not allowed nowadays, I'll just settle for a thorough impoverishment though legal means, sort of that "…Caesar that is Caesar's, to Gos what is God's…" thing…
And Barry's supposed father was married to someone else, at the time. So not only was he born to an unwed teenaged mother, but was born out of an adulterous relationship to boot.
Were Palin to announce tomorrow she wasn't running for president in 2012, Levi's head would be spinning at how fast he would be dropped by the Hollywood types, who are willing to carry on this farce for another three years, but woudln't if we're talking keeping him in the spotlight until 2016.
On the other side, it will be interesting to see what Johnston's willing to say about the Palin family next, if Sarah does remain in the 2012 picture. He's already made statements claiming far more knowledge about the family than the extranged daddy of the oldest daughter's child is going to have, but given the big media's bias, Levi can pretty much act like he's still got complete access to the Palins and say anything he — or his handlers — want, and his statements will be treated as gospel.
Oooooooh. THAT got him!
That was a BRILLIANT riposte, Sir! Not just a touch, but he ran up the blade almost to the hilt!
A well deserved +1 to you!
Bullshit, Navy Mom. Cindy is building the movement in DC this year. Watch for it.
What crap Jane you ignorant ___________ (refer to Saturday Night Live). Comparing Levi Johnston and Cindy Sheehan is indicative of the stupidity that runs rampant in this some parts of this country.
Cindy Sheehan is fighting for people like you or your children so they won't be sent to die in a foreign country for resources that do not belong to the corporations that run this place.
The real sick people in all of this are the Larry King's , Cathy Griffen's , etc who know what they are doing and are such bottom feeders that this is what they do for money and blood lust . No decent person would be involved with this. It is like molesting disabled children. Levi is a broke young guy grabbing at some fast cash by doing and saying things for a few minutes. He does not realize his picture will be in the dictionary next to Lewinski. Aren't libs just wonderful!
And another…
Now that made me laugh!
What a knucklehead! This guy was right up there on tv with the Palin family in front of the world. And not for anything responsible he ever did – quite the contrary. But there he was for all to see.
Had he used a single brain cell, he would now be accompanying his wife to college, while their son receives the best of care. After graduating, he could have had a successful career and the respect of his family. Should Sarah win the White House, this guy would have had a designated room.
Instead, he has sold himself, and turned traitor to the very people through whose merits he became known. Let the liberal/progressives continue to buy his soul. No thinking person would be influenced even a modicum by anything this young man has to say.
How very sad for all. And saddest most for his child.
been used by Sarah's enemies, and has become a joke.
Personal accountability is a mystery to libs. They can justify an abortion all day long, but keeping the child and facing up the consequences of their irresponsibility? That earns derision and scorn.
Mostly he seems to be a troll throwing out whatever he can to get some attention. Makes me feel sorry for the little twit so I succumb to it and feed him a little. He's so ronery…
(About the only thing the faux Fonz has been consistent about is his blaming of Jews for various problems. So that's probably a view he really holds.)
Yes, you're correct, I fear.
No matter the upbringing, some people are. just. morons.
Linda you are ignorant. This isn't a war for oil, or any other such resources. There is no draft it's a volunteer military. Cindy Sheehan's son made his choice to fight, and when he died rather than blaming it on those responsible she blames President Bush. The left propped her up said she was "brave" for fighting the "system" blah, blah, blah. Linda you posted elsewhere that, "Cindy is building the movement in DC this year. Watch for it." Doubtful when you consider that the Tea Party and 9/12 movements are gaining steam and that these patriots are also for winning wars and blaming the true perpetrators of starting this war. Hint it wasn't W.
That is one ugly woman.
LOL, his name is actually Rex Lamont Butler, if I'm not mistaken.
Imagine all your youthful stupidity being played out in front of the whole world. Celebrated by people who will soon hate you openly. I definitely pray for this guy. He makes me angry and I wish he'd just go back to school and straighten out his life and shut his piehole on the way there — but since I know that's not going to happen, I pray. You really see the absolute soulless monster of the entertainment industry at work in this situation.
I believe the article is about how he's being used to embarrass Sarah Palin. The grandmother of his child. Without Sarah, he would be about where his mother is right now. Getting Bristol (NOT slang for bewbies in the country of her birth, numbskull) pregnant wouldn't have gotten him a pack of cigarettes if it hadn't been for the connection to the guv.
Soooo, yeah, no judgment on the mother of the child because she seems to be pulling it together and actually parent the child.
When did liberals become so prudish?
And … welfare moms getting their GEDs is great. It's welfare moms and dads who don't bother that aren't so great.
Do you have a concussion or something?
They might be treated as gospel, but the media will be nervous to put them out there. It's doubtful he can prove any of the assertions he says he can make. The Palins are private citizens now. Even if Sarah Palin campaigns for the presidency, Bristol Palin and her son will still be private citizens. I'd like to see her sue the gossip mongers for herself.
Thing is, Bristol's got wee-daddy's nutz in a vice. She can pressure him for every dime he makes off of his notoriety from donating the sperm to make Tripp. He will always have that sword over his head. I doubt he's paid one thin dime of child support at this point. He doesn't know how cushy the Palins have treated him.
I saw her on one of the late night shows the other night and was overwhelmingly struck with the feeling that what I was looking at was a man.
Bristol[s]? – you are defending her actions? I guess all the welfare mammies getting their GEDs are great, too?
Someone needs to sit this kid down and show him the South Park Britney Spears episode (Season 12, "Britney's New Look").
Good Lord! Tweedle-Dumb and Tweedle-Dumber.
What gets me is that in trying to hurt Sarah, they are really hurting Bristol who has to watch the father of her child played like a fiddle. Not that we should be surprised given that Letterman thought nothing of cracking a joke about Sarah's underage daughter being raped by A-Rod in what I'm sure he thought was only a joke about Sarah. Wonder if he ever had a second thought about making rape jokes about someones 14 year old daughter. Given his PDS(Palin derangement syndrome) I doubt it
Next stop for Levi:Special guest presenter at this years adult video news award show. What a tool.
"Only then do the leftist vampires of Hollywood come out of their dark corners and offer you the glowing flame of fame."
If I was a vampire, I'd be insulted.
Dear Linda – I often lament the inability of people to make fine distinctions in their use of, and comprehension of, the language and if I am at fault, it is perhaps in assuming others to possess this ability to a greater degree than they demonstrate by their response. I did not compare Johnson to Sheehan; I equated the conduct of the Hollywood crowd toward people like Johnson and Sheehan; i.e., that they attach themselves to people who are especially ignorant (Johnson) or emotionally vulnerable (Sheehan), prop them up, use them and then abandon them. Where are Sheehan's celebrity friends now? And where will Johnson's be a year from now?
And you may call me anything you like – how you use the language doesn't necessarily define the object; it may, however, reflect poorly on the writer (or speaker).
Astonishing the level of degradation and humiliation a person will accept just to receive a momentary flash of Hollywood celebrity; Levi is just desperate enough to drag himself through the sewer to get that membership card to the VIP room.
Is 15 minutes of Hollywood celebrity fame really worth the price of being a foolish imbecile forever?
Another reason why admire Sarah Palin, she did not spend her entire life consuming Hollywood's sewer. She lives life while others watch the lives of loser actors.
Holy yikes! What happened to Kathy Griffin? She used to look human!
Does the name Candace Gingrich ring a bell? She too was the toast of Hollywood until she was no longer useful to the left.
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