by Mark Silva
Sarah Palin's dad has an idea for what Levi Johnston, the estranged father of great grandbaby Tripp can do with any money that he's making running his mouth:
Buy the kid some diapers.
Chuck Heath, father of the Alaska governor, has some words for Levi Johnston, the 19-year-old father of 17-year-old Bristol Palin's baby in an interview that Us Weekly features in its new edition. Johnston, Heath says, "has not contributed anything" to young Tripp, who was born in December after the general elections.
Johnston, appearing on The Tyra Banks Show recently, has claimed that the governor probably knew he was sleeping with Bristol when he lived under their roof. He falso has said on CBS' The Early Show that the Palin family won't leave him alone with Tripp. Johnston had said on ABC's Good Morning America that he doesn't know what the future holds for Bristol Palin, Tripp and his dad.
"I don't agree with what he's doing right now," Heath tells Us Weekly of the media tour that Johnson is making. "It's not right. He's broke, so he's trying to capitalize on this. I wish he'd take some of this money he's making and buy some diapers with it."
(Photo of Levi Johnston, above, by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images. Photo of Gov. Sarah Palin by William Thomas Cain / Getty Images)
Comments
Levi Johnston is being immature and irresponsible. NEWS FLASH: He's a high-school kid, and that's what high-school kids do. That's why it isn't such a good idea for kids to have kids of their own -- they don't have the stability they need yet to raise a child. Many kids who find themselves parents at this age can rise to the occasion and be adults long before they're ready, but then again many just plain can't. And how many 17- and 18-year-olds do YOU know who are financially independent enough to support a family?
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All in all, I'd think the Palins should be glad that he's Bristol's baby-daddy rather than her husband. Either way, they should have figured that a whole lot of the raising of the baby would fall on them.
Posted by: Op109 | April 15, 2009 4:43 PM
Big feud at the Palin trailer park! You've gotta love it !
Run!, Levi, Run!
Posted by: Wingnuttia | April 15, 2009 5:23 PM
Oh, another Palin story. Keep it clean, Bemused!!
Maybe grandpa can help poor Levi get a good job.
Posted by: Flo | April 15, 2009 6:06 PM
Roger Clinton, you have met your match!
Posted by: ornery | April 15, 2009 11:10 PM
Mark, you do have a very surreal fixation on the Palin family. I know you and your varmint censors don't like me writing this, but I think you have some sort of thing for her. You know, an opposites attract kind of thing. Why else your fixation on the Alaska governor?
Posted by: John D | April 16, 2009 12:17 AM
Shocking that Mr. Heath would speak in national media this way about his grandchild's father. I didn't agree with the trailer trash comments before, but he has fallen in my view to sink to this. It isn't fair to the baby to have his gr. grandpa, grandma, etc, trash his father at this stage of things.
Posted by: Upturn | April 16, 2009 1:50 PM
Levi:
A real man does not get on national television and air their "dirty" business.
What do you think your child will think of you when he grows up and see such "mess". Shame! Shame! Shame!
The mother of this child is showing much more intelligence rather than you "self righteousness.
It takes two to make a baby!
Young Ladies: Stay out of the bed with immature boys until you 1) have the maturity for such behavior (2) finish school/college (3) get a job and can take care of yourself!
Posted by: LyCA | April 22, 2009 9:25 PM