Levi Johnston is not a popular man. The 21-year-old has already been voted Alaska’s least favorite human being. But Johnston is getting the shaft, claim husband-and-wife team James and Lois Cowan.

Who? James and Lois Cowan are the ghostwriters of Deer in the Headlights: My Life in Sarah Palin’s Crosshairs, Johnston’s new 320-page book that hit bookstore shelves yesterday.

The Cowans volunteered to write Johnston’s memoir after seeing Sarah Palin portray Johnston as a “deadbeat dad” and “scumbag.” The couple felt sorry for Levi, and wrote to his agent offering their services. “What we saw was a kid, a nice kid,” Lois Cowan said. “Someone needed to rise to his rescue.”

As the Cowans were based in Florida, they took two month-long trips to Alaska, interviewing Johnston for countless hours. Meetings took place in Johnston’s Wasilla home, in the Cowan’s hotel room, and with Johnston in his pickup truck.

They grew to like him, and the feelings were mutual. In the acknowledgements section of his book, Johnston writes that, “The Cowans […] thought I was getting the shaft.” He adds elsewhere:

“We got beyond the ghostwriter-author work, and had conversations because we enjoyed spending time together. They acted like another couple of parents — pushing, prodding, expecting me to understand and explain a confusing series of events and a time when I often chose to bury my head under my quilt.”

The $25 tome charts Johnston’s journey from a simple hunting and fishing lifestyle in Wasilla, Alaska to being centre of attention in the media scrum that was the 2008 National Republican Convention.

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Levi Johnston is back in the press, this time with a new book that attacks ex-girlfriend Bristol Palin’s pregnancy. In the book he claims that Bristol was so angry with her mom’s pregnancy with son Trig that she got pregnant out of spite.

Levi says in his book Deer in the Headlight: My Life in Sarah Palin’s Crosshairs that once she found out her mom was pregnant she said in March 2008 “let’s get pregnant.”

The news of her decision comes after Bristol revealed in her own book Not Afraid of Life: My Journey So Far that she lost her virginity to Levi while drunk on wine coolers during a camping trip, an excursion Levi says he never attended (maybe it was another Levi).

Jabs at Bristol should almost be expected from Levi who has been fighting with the Palin family for years.

In his book Levi says he had “been too dumb” to use protection even though he knew having a baby was her ultimate goal. Bristol became pregnant at 17-years-old and had her baby after she turned 18.

Johnston also reveals in the book that Sarah Palin laughed the first time she heard about the pregnancy, believing it to be a joke, while dad Todd Palin raised his voice and said Levi had to quit school and get a job.

In another part of the book Levi says Sarah wanted to adopt the baby to “avoid a scandal” but Levi and Bristol wouldn’t allow it, giving birth to a healthy baby son (Tripp) in December 2008.

If you’re interested in reading more, which I don’t know why you would be, the book hits stands on September 20.

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Bristol Palin got knocked up out of wedlock at the age of 17 and then proceeded to cash in our her mistake to the tune of $262,000 as a Teen Pregnancy Awareness spokesperson by riding the coattails of her mothers fame.

After delivering her baby, Palin at the age of 18 was given the job of teen ambassador for New York-based The Candie’s Foundation.

Throw in the nearly $200,000 Palin earned for her part on Season 11 of Dancing With The Stars and the money she is making from her HarperCollins “memoir” publishing deal and being an unwed mommy with a semi-famous mom isn’t a bad gig.

Seriously does this girl need a memoir? I wish I could make a cool Million for laying on my back.

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The on again, off again Bristol Palin/Levi Johnston relationship is off again.

The Alaskan ex-couple have a 1-year-old son together, Tripp, but Palin says their relationship began to falter again the very same day they “went public” with their plans to marry. Palin now says that Johnston lied to her and admitted to perhaps fathering another child with an unnamed woman. (Former Johnston girlfriend Lanesia Garcia denies that he is the father of her yet-to-be-born baby.)

Palin explains the reasons behind the latest split:

“The final straw was him flying to Hollywood for what he told me was to see some hunting show but come to find out it was that music video mocking my family. He’s just obsessed with the limelight and I got played.”

Bristol also took a swipe at her babydaddy’s “wrong side of the tracks” clan:

“Through this whole experience I know I need a man who’s going to be completely honest with me and someone who loves me and Tripp and wants to be with him all the time. I also want someone who has religious beliefs and a good family.”

In a statement, Sarah Palin gloated:

“I wish for Bristol to be able to move forward in life with her same forgiving, gracious, optimistic spirit, but from henceforth she’ll know to trust but verify… Bristol is strong, she is independent, and she knows what is right for her son.”

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The young woman alleged to have been impregnated by Bristol Palin’s on again, off again fiance Levi Johnston spoke to Us Magazine, vehemently denying rumors that Bristol’s man is her baby’s daddy.

Lanesia Garcia, who describes herself as “nine months pregnant,” says both she and her baby’s actual father were dismayed and baffled by the pervasive rumor that has allegedly caused static in the newly rekindled relationship between Bristol and Levi:

“Point blank, it’s not true at all. We haven’t hung out at all since 8th or 9th grade when we broke up. I don’t know where people are getting this. It’s not true at all. Levi is not the father of my baby.”

Garcia says that she dated Johnston for over two years in junior high, but hasn’t been with him since:

“I mean, it’s stupid,” she tells Us. “I’m nine months pregnant. If I wanted people to think that, I would have said something like that when I first found out. I would not say something like that now that I’m getting ready to have my baby. That doesn’t make sense.”

Garcia says her baby’s father is “really mad” about the rumors; and indicates that she has tried to reach out to Bristol Palin to assure her that the rumors are false but has been rebuffed.

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If the latest scuttlebutt is to be believed about the recent reunion of Sarah Palin’s daughter Bristol and her babydaddy Levi Johnston, the rekindling is off after Palin discovered that Johnston didn’t learn his lesson the first time.

Bristol’s BFFs say she’s “heartbroken” over the revelation that Johnston might be a dad again, but the rumors also say that Levi is one of three potential suspects ex-girlfriend Lanesia Garcia bedded during the “probable week of conception.” Seriously, who has that kind of time?

Levi insists the baby isn’t his, but no one really knows for sure,” a source told RadarOnline.com exclusively.

“Levi is one of three possible fathers who were with Lanesia during the probable week of conception.”

The 19-year-old poster child for abstinence only sex-ed is said to seriously be rethinking her commitment to a man who habitually refuses to wrap his cheese. Bristol is reportedly only talking to Levi via text right now, and Palin’s camp says no final decision has been made. Please insert your own Maury Povich joke here.

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Sarah Palin must be reeling in her Naughty Monkey pumps.

Daughter Bristol Palin and her trash-talking babydaddy Levi Johnston have reunited, according to statements they provided to Us Magazine. And the interview seems to imply that Palin and Johnston “came out” to the Palins via the article:

And, they tell Us Weekly, former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin has been kept in the dark about their plans … until now.

“We got engaged two weeks ago,” Bristol, 19, tells Us Weekly. “It felt right, even though we don’t have the approval of our parents.”

The teenaged lovebirds say they reconnected three months ago while trying to figure out a parenting plan for baby Tripp:

“I really thought we were over,” Levi tells Us Weekly. “So when I went, I had no hope. I think we both just started talking — and then we took Tripp for a walk.”

Says Bristol, “When he left that night, we didn’t hug or kiss, but I was thinking how different it was. He texted me: ‘I miss you. I love you. I want to be with you again’ … I was in shock.”

The Palin family have already publicly responded, of course, releasing a statement to the Today Show. Although not outright condemning the union, the statement comes off as a bit… backhanded:

“Bristol at 19 is now a young adult. We obviously want what’s best for our children. Bristol believes in redemption and forgiveness to a degree most of us struggle to put in practice in our daily lives.”

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A rally is planned outside the Ed Sullivan theater in Manhattan on Tuesday following calls by Sarah Palin supporters to “fire David Letterman.”

Letterman drew a considerable amount of outrage after a controversial crack at Yankee Stadium that Bristol Palin was “knocked up” by Alex Rodriguez- during the seventh inning. He further got right-wing panties in a knot by likening Palin’s look to that of a “slutty flight attendant” during one of his “Top Ten” segments last week.

The movement even begat a website, Fire David Letterman, and a mission statement:

Our Mission Statement: David Letterman Must Held Be Accountable For His Disgraceful Statements

In addition to shameless abuse of the Caps Lock key, the site also frustratingly, deliberately misconstrues Letterman’s joke to be about Willow, not Bristol Palin. That simple misdirection plants the joke firmly in the “inappropriate comments about the underage” category (Willow Palin is 14), likely to sway advertiser opinions on the matter.

While it is unlikely such a cultural icon will be unseated so easily, the movement has drawn some high-profile supporters. Palin superfan John Ziegler has predictably joined the fray, and New York State Minority Leader Brian Kolb is also calling for Letterman’s firing.

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Bristol Palin, daughter of failed GOP VP candidate and Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, for a time America’s most famous pregnant teen has given an interview about her pregnancy and life in the spotlight.

The interview aired Monday on Fox News Channel’s “On the Record with Greta Van Susteren” and dare I say it, Bristol Palin actually comes across as more reasonable than her mother.

The best line from the interview was Bristol saying that the abstinence preached by her mother was “not realistic” because teen sex is “more and more accepted.”

On rumors that Sarah Palin forced her to have her baby, she also took full responsibility: “It doesn’t matter what my mom’s views are on it. It was my decision, and I wish people would realize that, too.”

While we doubt Bristol is about to become a spokesperson against the abstinence movement any time soon (the full quote “Everyone should be abstinent, but it’s just not realistic at all”) it’s refreshing to see that even in such a conservative household that Bristol can see reality, and not just Russia from her back window.

Here’s the Bristol Palin Fox News interview:

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Bristol Palin, the 18-year-old daughter of Alaska Governor and failed GOP VP Candidate has given birth.

Tripp Easton Mitchell Johnston was born on Sunday, weighing 7 pounds, 4 ounces (3.3kg).

Relative Colleen Jones told People Magazine that the baby is fine and Bristol is “doing well.”

Bristol Palin was, at least for a short time America’s most famous pregnant teen, after her mother was forced to disclose the pregnany after accepting the Republican Vice Presidential slot. Her relationship with the child’s father, and their family has continued to remain gossip fodder, particularly after the child’s grandmother was arrested on drugs charges.

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No, this time round it’s Oxycontin.

Oxycontin is an opioid analgesic medication similar to Codeine that is used for pain relief in severe cases and for cancer patients. The drug is taken in tablet form legally (it’s available by prescription) or snorted, crushed or injected by addicts. It’s considered highly addictive and has strict controls over its distribution in many countries.

Pain killer abuse isn’t new, although experts say that Oxycontin is fast becoming the drug of choice among pain killer addicts, and it’s apparently popular with teens as well.

It’s not clear from reports whether Sherry Johnston was manufacturing the drug, just doctor shopping prescriptions and selling them on to addicts…or simply popping them all herself, but on a bright note, at least it wasn’t meth.

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Sherry Johnston, the mother-in-law to be of Alaska’s favorite pregnant teen Bristol Palin has been arrested on drugs charges.

Bristol Palin, daughter of Alaska Governor and failed Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Parah came to prominence during the 2008 Election after it was disclosed that she was pregnant by her then boyfriend, now fiancee Levi Johnston. Bristol was (and to some extent still is) the center of unconfirmed allegations that she had already had a child, and that Sarah Palin had pretended the child was hers.

Sherry Johnston was arrested after officers served a search warrant on a Wasilla home, and is charged with six felony drug counts. Authorities have not disclosed the drug involved in the charges.

Sherry Johnston was released from jail on $5,000 bail.

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