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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.

We've already updated our "do not buy" list.

- JP

Credibility Test

Which of the following two people is credible?

Levi Johnston...

"She says she goes hunting and lives off animal meat -- I've never seen it. I've never seen her touch a fishing pole. She had a gun in her bedroom and one day she asked me to show her how to shoot it. I asked her what kind of gun it was, and she said she didn't know, because it was in a box under her bed."

... or Chuck Heath?

"She started shooting a gun when she was eight and shot her first animal when she was ten. It was something small, possibly a rabbit.

"She is a really good shot. I taught her to shoot a moose and dress it, to fish and hunt for game."

"We raised our family to be able to support ourselves - 90 per cent of our meat and fish we get ourselves."

We will take the word of the man who shot the bear that adorned the couch in former Governor Palin's office over the lies of the paid character assassin who drives around in a $30,000 truck and has never so much as bought a pair of diapers for his infant son.

- JP

Ian Ransom on Levi's Vanity Fair Palin Smear Job

Ian Ransom's cutting commentary regarding Vanity Fair's latest character-assassination-for-hire of Sarah Palin is not to be missed. The contract on Palin went to the most unlikely of hit men -- Levi Johnston, who blends with the VF elites like Scotts Miracle Gro mixes with moose manure. Any way you package it, it's the same old... er, stuff. What we like about Ian is he uses a keyboard like a samurai wields a katana.  Here are a couple of excerpts:

"Once again, we witness the Left's indefatigable obsession with defaming and dehumanizing Sarah Palin, long after she has departed center stage--for the time being--in the battle for America's ideological soul. Though Beltway denizens and pundits have adopted a wait & see approach (whilst keeping their straight-razors handy), bloated old fashion-mummies like Graydon Carter can't seem to shake their overweening fear of Palin's decency, or their inability to comprehend her unwavering, distinctly American dignity. Fops like Graydon Carter can't tolerate such abiding normality because, unlike Palin, these individuals do not value character...they value characteristics."

[...]

"It's not shocking that Vanity Fair and its washed-out hive of worker bees would stoop to such galling depths to ridicule a fine American leader who has never harmed anyone. Vanity Fair's sales are unquestionably in the same toilet wherein the souls of its editors are currently swirling toward the Ultimate Flush. These dandies are forced to pander for their very lives, which, in a way, testifies to the power that Sarah Palin has over them, and not vice versa."

Well, Ricky Hollywood, when Rex Butler said he would make you a star, is this what you had in mind? Probably beats posing for Gayboy magazine, though. Or is that next? And to think that your dad had found honest work for you until Dan Fagan screwed that up.

Read Ian's complete commentary here.

- JP