She is truly the gift that keeps on grifting.

Yes, I certainly do not want to believe that any human being would be that way about their child, and so I would rather see Mr. Johnston as the liar here, and a pretty heinous one at that. Saying things like this without documentation? Levi will never see his kid again.

Hell, we may never see Levi again.

Awful lot of empty land up there…real easy for a fella to “get lost”, if ya catch my meaning.

That boy is pretty, but he ain’t real bright.

I can believe ten stories of Sarah Palin’s venality before breakfast, but I ain’t buyin’ that one.

“…but I don’t think that she’s ever called Trig, even in jest, “the retarded baby”.

You’re right, that would be over the top even for a twit like Palin. She actually calls him “my little short-busser” and Levi decided to exaggerate for effect.

hey, yeah. Wolcott may be amused, but what’s Vanity Fair doing giving Levi a photo spread and an interview? Are they that hard up for subjects?

Since his word has about as much credibility as hers, he really should have gotten “retard” on tape.

Maybe Calvin Klein will hire him to do underwear modeling.

Seeing the way Sarah dumped that baby off on anyone who’d take him during the campaign, I’m not sure what she’s capable of. Hell, I think she accepted McCain’s VP offer as a way to get away from the mom duty (that and the free clothes and private jets). I seem to remember at one point she said she didn’t know where Trig was but she hoped somebody had him (until he was needed for prop purposes, of course).

Levi doesn’t seem bright (or imaginative) enough to make this shit up out of whole cloth.

That is truly a heinous-looking big toe she’s got there. Beauty queen my ass… I believe she’d say anything to draw attention away from that monstrosity. Ugh.

In fairness, maybe it’s the lighting, or just an unflattering angle… but I don’t think so. I’d say that’s
the toe of a person with severe character defects, and that picture should have been cropped. It’s damn scandalous.

Okay, now I get it. I finally looked up from “The Toe” and it’s fairly obvious that she is mortified, and desperately trying to pull her t-shirt down over her feet. And she has spent her whole adult life running from this embarrassment. How fucking sad, and poignant!

Sorta Zen koan-ish: “How far can one run
from one’s own feet?”

Tbogg, I think you’ve got Mother Theresa on the run with the goodness and supportive nature of this post. Of course, I hear tell that Mother Theresa was actually a stone bitch when the camera wasn’t on her and she’s kind of dead now too but, but….damn, lost my train of thought.

TBogg, isn’t it it time to stop making ad hominim attacks on Sarah Palin and deal with her actual issues? She makes cogent sense.

There are a lot of things I’m willing to believe about Sarah Palin, but like everyone else here I’m not willing to believe this. In the extremely unlikely event that those precise words came out of her mouth, there was something said just before that he didn’t hear or a conversation earlier in the day that brought out the misdirected sarcasm we’ve seen a million times.

But the most reasonable explanation is that the kid made it up.

Tell me that isn’t a picture of Sarah Palin. Where on earth did you dig that up from?

And this idiotic ego trip of Levi Johnsons is going to backfire and make Sarah Wasillabilly look more and more like a martyr. You betcha.

Nope. And if by ‘cogent sense’ you mean crazier than a shit house rat, then I agree with you.

Actually I think this story could easily be true, but the word of one idiot kid with an axe to grind isn’t any kind of proof at all. I heard too many BS stories about the Clintons from supposed eye-witnesses (remember the Christmas tree with condoms on it?) to take at face value such stories, even about someone as vile as Palin…

Why do I think it could be true? These people think politeness is “politically correct” and think being non-PC is a good thing. i.e., they’re proud to be rude assholes…

I suspect she and the majority of Americans will have the last laugh…

I think you need stronger meds. You’re hallucinating.

I don’t think she said it, if only because I don’t think she knows the word ‘retarded’. Her vocabulary isn’t that big.

Kudos for the “A Face in the Crowd” reference. Still one of my favorite movies.

P.S. A majority of Americans voted for Barack Hussein Obama and Joe Biden, which is why Palin is not, you know, VP right now.

When my (to be) wife and I were starving grad students practicing safe sex (and I do mean practicing, if you know what I mean, nudge, nudge, wink, wink), we decorated our small but spunky Charlie Brown-like Christmas tree with Trojans of different varieties and hues. Oh, to be young and carefree!

But now that we’re responsible loving parents, we decorate our tree with french ticklers, dildos and edible panties. They’re a great icebreaker for when we need to have “the talk” with the kids.

I can assure you, however, we never call our kids “retards.”

It’s the Angel with the strap-on on the top of the tree that creeped me out!

I suspect she and the majority of Americans will have the last laugh…

That would imply she and the majority of Americans agreed with each other.

You are an inspiration. But what’s a Jewish mother to do??

By the way, the very first comment left on the Vanity Fair site under the “Me and Mrs. Palin” article said, “They’ve replaced Dominick Dunne that fast?”

She’s laughing all the way to Bloomingdales with the money that chumps like you have donated to her noble cause.

I think there’s a lot of buyer’s remorse out there with all these czars, unemployment and outright socialism.

Right. You keep thinking that. *Pats you on the head*. You’re adorable when you have big person’s dreams!

outright socialism? Inigo Montoya: You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

For those keeping score at home, isissqueeker is dlohse. Please ignore.

Well, if Levi caught it on tape, you know that the response would be that the statement was ‘taken out of context’.

Or maybe ‘it was a joke’, if the first line of defense didn’t work.

Sarah Palin is the Diana Moon Glampers of the North and will make a fabulous Handicapper General.

Isn’t isissqueker the sockpuppet of Dlorke or whatever his name was?

please, i wouldn’t put anything past these crazy hicks.

Oh, snap! Now those mean accountants over at Sarah’s MuffPAC will no doubt refuse to pay him for his bespoke astro-turfing services. Again.

That would imply she and the majority of Americans agreed with each other.

The gun-waving yahoos figure that if they shoot enough liberals, they’re bound to end up as the majority eventually.

Being dissed by a high school dropout is just about the right level of critcism for Ms. Palin.

It was “that retarded baby”.

Is there a market for models who wear the underpants on their head?

Oh! So many layers to unpack here. I don’t think that Wolcott is making this shit up, but it is worth remembering that Graydon Carter used to publish Spy magazine back in the day. Some have accused him of being the ultimate sellout, but in this case I think we can go with the give-’em-enough-rope apologia.

So… we have Young Mr. New Frontier giving his once-potential-future-mother-in-law the eye in the picture… but then accusing her of a slur against the disabled. Just another attempt by “Ricky Hollywood” to stay in the public eye, or helping to feed Palin’s ongoing gambit to grab public sympathy by asserting that she and her family are being persecuted by the media–or both?

Layers upon layers, man, wheels within wheels.

I second the “un-PC is the C thing to do” point made above, and I don’t doubt that she may have said that. I have an older sister of the same religous whackadoo tribe and you should hear the crap that comes out of her mouth. Rush/Jeebus told her it was OK though.

No doubt Levi is none too bright; with family members in trouble with the law over that meth thing he isn’t helping their case behind the scenes if ya know what I mean…

I find it believable that she said it. The dilitium crystal that powers her is her narcissism. All that ambition, all those lies, all that obliviousness. How hard can it be, unless you’re blinded by your own ego, to tell Katie Couric, “I read the New York Times and the local Alaska papers”?

So when she says “the retarded one,” she’s being self-absorbed. She’s talking to herself and venting a little self-pity. Levi may not be the world’s most credible source, but in this case I buy it.

I’m not sure how many fans of team Bush/Cheney are actually remorseful.
Apparently torture creates a powerful and loving bond. Nope, I don’t think many of them are experiencing buggers remorse.

I have no use for Palin, but Levi seems like a disgusting little parasite squeezing out his fifteen minutes in the spotlight. Can we just quit paying him to yammer in upscale magazines and TV shows, and let him get on with his obvious life’s calling as a parking lot cart boy at the Wasilla WalMart?

Dammit, Zombiebirdhouse. There goes another monitor.

Agree BerkeleyMom. My sister-in-law had a Downs child, and she was so totally protective of Michael right from the start. Levi is a little weasel but I can picture Sarah saying this.

I’ll never forget (unfortunately) that first speech she gave at the repub convention. How ugly and mean-spirited it was, and how much she was enjoying it. Remember that smirk on her face when she was ridiculing “Community Organizers” and the “palling around with terrorists” crap? I decided right then that she was a shallow, self-centered, hateful little twit, and nothing I’ve seen from her has changed my mind.

Well we are all just guessing / projecting here, but I will say I absolutely believe she said it.. hell it’s not even a stretch considering the streaming diarrhea which spews out of her mouth every day. Unfortunately I’ve known far to many idiots just like her… most of them southern… and they would say the same thing (with the N word, even if the child were their own) about a black baby as Levi suggests SP said here about her kid with Downs.

She simply does not think it’s wrong.. she thinks she’s being cute with her family.

I know Levi is out for the money and attention (where did he learn that?), but Sarah is such an embarrassment of verbal blunder riches, he simply would not need to make anything up… even if he was smart enough.

Holy Moly!
I didn’t know anyone else remembered that story.
It was just a story, right? Right?!

FWDiva

holy crap that is good. I’ve been wedded to Gladys Leeman but will have to revisit

and you owe me a new keyboard

Don’t think so. Wearing underpants on one’s head remains a competitive rainy-day activity, born of desperation, in which which the winner gets to wear DADDY’S (clean) underwear on one’s head.

Sarah has made more than enough documented idiotic, ignorant, venal, and ego-maniacal statements already. No need to pay attention to this undocumented one.

Well, TBogg, you are a generous soul. Me? Not so much. I think she said it because I think this what she heard growing up. Before the era of political correctness, this unhappy sobriquet was in common use, and Ms. Palin, if anything, is common. As for references to Mother Theresa, I will forever be indebted to Christopher Hitchens (about whom I have oceans of reservations and universes of issues) who said of her, she is “a thieving Albanian dwarf.” For that, I keep forgiving him too much.

Hi Mrs. Palin. Is Bristol hom—-. Um. Is that a strap-on, because I can come back at a better time…”

Brain bleach? Why yes, I would like some, thanks.

I don’t know what the sockpuppet’s prob is, Tbogg addressed several of Palin’s “issues”.

I absolutely don’t think she said “the retarded baby.” Too complicated. I think it was just “the retard.”

Thanks for reminding me of one of my favorite stories. Harrison Bergeron fans of the world – Unite!

judging by her political career, I’m not at all surprised that she would wear a shirt that said:

I may be broke, but at least I’ve got tits.

after all, its why she was chosen in the first/last place anyhow.