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Every family’s got its problems

July 10th, 2009 at 09:44am Linda Grist Cunningham

Just when you start to believe yours is the only screwed up family on the planet along comes a story designed to make you want to run home and hug your kids. The ongoing saga that is the Sarah Palin clan just proves the point.

Out just now is a press conference interview with 19-year-old Levi Johnston, the former groom-never-to-be of Bristol (you know the boy; the one who looked like there was a shotgun in his back that was sporting a suit he’d never worn before during last fall’s presidential campaign) and father of Sarah’s grandchild.

Flashing red sign that dysfunctional family is about to surface: A 19-year old — with his lawyer — is having a press conference to discuss his speculations on his never-to-be mother-in-law’s decision to resign as Alaska’s governor.

Dysfunctional sign: A Palin family spokesperson has this to say: “It is interesting to learn Levi is working on a piece of fiction while honing his acting skills.” Those are cat-fighting words back where I come from.

Dysfunctional sign: Levi says Sarah’s just after the money. (Probably why he has a lawyer. To make sure he gets some of it.)

Dysfunctional sign: Teenage Bristol’s doing unpleasant interviews whenever she gets let out of the house.  But that’s another story.

Oh, anyway.  Go home and hug your kids. At least they’re not calling press conferences to talk about you.

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2 Comments Add your own

  • 1. David Johnson  |  July 10th, 2009 at 11:06 am

    The tragedy is that this knuckleheads only claim to fame is that he impregnated a young girl from a prominent family and the idiot press hangs on his every word as though they\’re profound observations. We have met the enemy…and they are the press.

  • 2. chris black  |  July 23rd, 2009 at 7:43 am

    What if they called a press conference and nobody showed up? The media–gotta love em!!!!!!

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