Oy, It’s On! Mama Grizzly Sarah Palin Calls Levi a Liar
The Anchorage Daily News reports that Governor Sarah Palin held a press conference today, the non-Obama kind where reporters are allowed to ask about anything, and the questions are not planted or approved in advance. She talked about the stimulus bill for Alaska but she also had this gem in response to a question about Levi Johnston who, along with his mom and pathologically weird sister, has been making the rounds on talk shows to smear Bristol Palin, the mother of his young infant son.
Specifically, Levi had claimed that he had moved in with the Palin family in Wasilla (“yeah, my stuff was there,” he said on the Early Show) a few weeks before Bristol gave birth to Tripp on December 28.
Governor Palin said that wasn’t true: “I know the truth about my family,” Palin said. “I know details about whether Levi Johnston was allowed to live with my teenage daughter or not. By the way, it would be over my dead body that a kid would live with my teenage daughter.”
Levi is calling the Palin family liars and claiming he did sort of live there for 2 months: “They said I didn’t live there. I ‘stayed there.’ I was like, ‘OK, whatever you want to call it’ — I had all my stuff there. So, if you wanna call it ‘staying there,’ that’s fine.”
UPDATE: Sarah said the following about Levi on the Eddie Burke Radio show yesterday:
“He’s a young kid…every kid that age has a lot of growing up to do, but forever and ever he’s going to be Tripp’s father… he’s going to be part of our family. We will love him and help him through this. I anticipate that at the end of the day, things are going to be good…just kind of a rough time right now.”
Sarah went on to say that the assertion that she and Todd allowed Levi to share a room with Bristol is a “bee in my bonnet right now…I would NEVER give a teenage boy permission to live with a teenage girl…”
In reference to the whole situation she added: “My prayer is always for wisdom and strength…part of that wisdom that I ask for is to know when to shut-up…to know when to keep my mouth shut and let the truth be revealed on its own.”
