Thursday, October 8, 2009

Meet the money behind Levi Johnston

Via Gregory Tart's blog at Team Sarah:
"Obama backers have launched an... insidious deal to keep Levi Johnston in the public eye through a promotional campaign by Roll Industries for its nuts products- which seeks to profit from the former relationship between Bristol Palin and Levi Johnston. Johnston is a spokesman for the Roll's Paramount Growers division."
The Chairman of Roll International, Stewart A. Resnick, is -- you guessed it -- a billionaire liberal Democrat. Rolls' business interests are diversified and include some familiar brands. He is also a generous donor to the Democrat Party. 

Resnick's wife Lynda is Godmother to Arianna Huffington's daughter. That would be the same Arianna Huffington whose left wing Huffington Post has been using Levi Johnston as a weapon against Sarah Palin for the better part of a year:
"The jokes about meth, hillbillies, and Bristol Palin [were] beyond the pale."

"Many have speculated democrats would go to any lengths to keep this character in the public eye to [embarrass] Sarah Palin. Its a sad world where the rich can score political points by attacking children to get at the mother."
Roll International brands include Teleflora, the largest flower delivery service in the world, FIJI bottled water, POM pomegranate products, Paramount citrus and nuts, Suterra pest control items, Neptune Pacific Line global shipping company and in-house advertising agency Fire Station, which pays Levi as a pitchman for Rolls' nuts.

Another Resnick holding is The Franklin Mint. He does not own Sunkist growers, as has been reported elsewhere. Resnick pulled Paramount out from under the Sunkist umbrella in 2006. We've already updated our "do not buy" list.

More on this story here from Gary, to whom we tip the ol' Stetson for the link.

Updates: Eric Dondero says we have us a boycott, here and here.

- JP

5 comments:

  1. Thanks for the list- I sure won't be buying any of his crap anymore-

    I will link this in my weekly roundup- good stuff!

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  2. Thanks for posting this Josh.

    I know there is more to this story. I just pray that it all comes out eventually. The left using Sarah Palin's children and grandchild against her is beyond evil.

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  3. Just goes to show how desparate they are, and to what depth they will sink. All these personal attacks and insults are growing older by the day. Once Palin's book is released, and by all accounts will be a best seller, preceptions of her will change significantly, especially with independent voters, and most importantly, among women. I'm also confident that HarperCollins will sign her to another contract before the end of the year. Another book release in late summer or early fall 2010, would undoubtedly be another best seller.

    Going Rogue update:

    #1 at Borders
    #1 in non-fiction at Books a Million
    #2 at Amazon (down from #1, but still #1 in non-fiction)
    #5 at B&N (up from #7 yesterday, and still #1 in non-fiction)

    So, after about 10 or 11 days of pre-release sales, it is still in an excellent position.

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  4. At this point in the game, people could care less about Levi Johnston being the father of Bristol Palin's kid. The only thing liberals have is "rehased old news"? The left always seem to suffer some form of disconnect. So they parade around Levi Johnston. Do they think that is really going to have one grain of impact on the popularity of Sarah's book? These people are warped! The people that already hate Sarah Palin is an uncontrollable passion aren't going to buy her book anyways. Levi is just going to appeal to the tin foil hat brigade and thats it.

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  5. Tina Fey is going to revisit her Sarah Palin impersonation once Sarah's book come out. So it seems like the left is gearing up to take aim once to book is launched.

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