"Youthful Indiscretion" Edition...
Jenn of the Jungle at The Political Jungle:
"The darling of the loony left, Levi Johnston, has apologized for his behavior and the LIES he told about the Palin family... SARCASM ON/ I am sure now, all the leftist media outlets will air/print retractions. I'm just sure of it./SARCASM OFF."Mary at Freedom Eden:
"It turns out that those scandalous things Levi Johnston had to say about the grandmother of his son were lies... Johnston has apologized. I think The Early Show's Maggie Rodriguez should apologize as well. CBS and Entertainment Tonight and Vanity Fair should apologize for giving Johnston a forum to spew his lies. Now that Johnston has come clean, these outlets should spend as much time retracting and covering Johnston's lies as they did hyping and spreading them... Andrew Sullivan, too. These sleazemongers were so eager to believe Johnston."Ace at AOSHQ:
"Andrew Sullivan hardest hit..."Stacy McCain at The Other McCain:
"Sullivan can’t seem to accept the obvious conclusion: Mama Meth-head and her brood have been running a scam, premised on the gullibility of 'progressives' who were willing to believe anything negative about the Palins... Let’s give Levi Johnston this much credit: He may be just bright enough to have figured out that he was being used by Tank Jones and the other cheap hustlers who hitched their wagons to the 'Ricky Hollywood' star."Jehuda at The Rhetorican:
"I expect Sullivan to cope by crafting some of the best fiction ever seen in cyberspace."Chris Jones at The Hot Joints:
"I said at the time as did most honest people that Levi Johnston, the ex-boyfriend of Sarah Palin’s daughter Bristol, was clearly a lying little toad. He ran around Hollywood smearing Sarah Palin and the Palin family telling the liberal media exactly what they wanted to hear. In return for his lies he got to make the media rounds and attend glitzy parties. The little dummy was even talked into doing an incredibly gay photo spread for Playgirl... Fortunately for Levi it looks like he’s finally coming to his senses. He now realizes he was just being used as a pawn by the left to damage Sarah Palin... He was quite literally a useful idiot... Being the person she is, Sarah Palin probably will forgive Levi eventually. But I would still sleep with one eye open around that little weasel. Forgive but don’t forget."Contento at Boom Boom Boom:
"Like we didn't know he was troubled and bearing false witness."Adrienne Ross at Motivation Truth:
"I have always said that there is hope for Levi and that he needs prayer. In spite of going from feeling sorry for him that he didn't have a role model in his life to direct him to being quite angry with what he was doing to the Palins, I have always envisioned that he would wake up at some point and see that the error of his ways had caused his beautiful son and him a world of hurt, and that he would apologize."Don Surber at the Charleston Daily Mail:
"He apologized. Will the goons who used him? Nyah. They haven’t grown up."desertgardens at Sea to Shining Sea:
"Levi has come out with an apology to the Palin family. Blaming his tawdry behavior on hurt feelings from his break up with Bristol, Levi has admitted that he said things about the Palins that 'were not completely true.' Really? Not completely true? You mean he was lying when he said Sarah Palin called her son, 'retarded?' Saying he’s privately apologized to the Palins, and now wants to apologize publicly, Johnston is apparently coming clean with us about his claim on having 'stuff' on Sarah Palin... How about he go back on each and every media outlet where he spouted untruths and set the record straight?"HotAirPundit:
"All the stuff he said about the Palins was eaten up by the left wing press that couldn't wait to use it against them..."John Hinderaker at Power Line:
"Most of us, of course, never were hanging on Levi Johnston's latest bulletins about the Palin family, but one wonders about the handful of gutter journalists who built their careers, in part, on Johnston's lies. Like, specifically, Andrew Sullivan, the once-respected journalist who went completely nuts over the maternity of Sarah Palin's youngest child. We all make mistakes, but there are levels of insanity from which it is impossible to come back. Andrew plumbed the depths with his fevered speculations about the Palin family, based in part on his swallowing Levi's tales hook, line and sinker, as the linked web site search shows. There are a great many reporters and editors who owe Sarah Palin an apology, but first on the list is the repugnant Andrew Sullivan."Shane Vander Hart at Caffeinated Thoughts:
"'Said things about the Palins that were not completely true'… That has to be the understatement of the month. Well let’s hope this is a sign that he’s growing up a little for his son’s sake. He’s more important than Johnston’s 15 seconds of fame."David Anderson at DelawarePolitics.net:
"It seems everytime the light of truth shines, allegations against the Palins fall apart. The heated attempts at the total personal and professional destruction are disgusting. Ethics complaints that were fraudulent. Hacking emails, digging through garbage, and sending spies to be next door would normally be viewed as cellar politics, but they weren’t low enough. Now we see clearly the exploitation of Levi Johnston. What I hope is also seen clearly is the evil behind the hard left... I have often said that the personal attacks are a screen from facing the real issues. This is just more proof. While Palin speaks about the big issues of life, energy, culture, debt, and economic revival, the critics best answer is found in false personal attacks."Mark L Jackson at Mark’s Soap Box:
"The lefty media used you, dumped you, and now they have forgotten you; so you come groveling back to the only people who treated you as family."Carissa Mulder at Big Journalism:
"It would seem obvious to any observer of human behavior that a disgruntled, publicity-hungry former fiancé is not the most reliable source for information about anyone. Caution is doubly warranted when the information offered is about a high-profile, controversial politician. Unfortunately, the media didn’t exercise the same level of skepticism a normal person would exercise when listening to gossip about his or her neighbor... But guess what? It was all a lie. If the media hadn’t been quite so eager to pillory Palin — to destroy the only real threat to their beloved Obama and the miraculous narrative of his wondrous rise — perhaps they would’ve exercised some due diligence. Instead, they have egg all over the faces again."Jeff Prince at Fort Worth Weekly:
"He’s apologizing for saying untrue things about Palin and her family. He hasn’t yet said exactly how he lied, but he’s sorry he did."Vocal Minority:
"Maggie Rodriguez and the rest of you at CBS: If you have at least one shred of decency and professionalism left in that Dan-Rather-poisoned 'news' outlet of yours, you will report on Johnston’s apology. And you yourselves will apologize to Sarah Palin and her family for using this disgruntled young punk media-hog as a weapon against your sworn political adversary with no fact-checking whatsoever. If you don’t, then consider this episode as just the latest exposing you as nothing but a shameless propaganda arm for the Obama administration and the Democrat Party."BigGator5 at RedState.com:
"I am happy that the Palins have been vindicated."Mr. Grey Ghost at Politik Ditto:
"I know that Levi Johnston is young and with youth usually comes a ton of immaturity and irresponsibility, but allowing the idiot Palin-haters on the Left to use him as a tool the way they did was beyond stupid. Glad he had the good sense to finally [do] the right thing by his child and apologize."- JP
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