Andy Warhol is credited with saying, “Everyone will be famous for 15 minutes.”
Levi Johnston appears determined to use all of his allotted time before he celebrates his 21st birthday.
Levi Johnston
The father of Bristol Palin’s child managed to make a name for himself first as a lucky sperm donor contributing his genes to a family destined for political fame.
He leveraged his newfound notoriety by appearing in Playgirl magazine. He also drew attention to himself by dating 49 year old Kathy Griffin at the Teen Choice awards. Along the way Johnston made some disparaging remarks about Sarah Palin and her family that he later admitted were not true when he briefly reconciled with Bristol.
Allegations he fathered another child with another young woman ended his engagement to Bristol Palin almost as quickly as it happened.
As the limelight grows increasingly dim, Johnston is growing desperate to rekindle fleeting public interest in him. Therefore he plans to run for an unspecified political office in his hometown of Wasilla, Alaska.
Johnston’s manager Tank Jones was quoted as saying, “If you live in a town and things are happening in that town and you’re displeased with it, what do you do? You try to change those things.”
Like what? Pressed to give details about what exactly it was that displeased Johnston and what he proposed to change, Jones declined. Still he insisted, “This is not a spoof. This is not a joke.”
We can only wish it were. Why does a twenty-year-old young man even need a publicist? What has he accomplished that merits publicity except to father a child out of wedlock? Is that really considered a major accomplishment?
Sadly, it may be true that Johnston will run for office on the city council or even for mayor. Hopefully there are enough intelligent voters in the town to refrain from supporting his campaign in lieu of an actual platform.
The most offensive aspect of the story was that Jones was recorded on camera to say, “People questioned Jesus Christ, so I definitely don’t care about these mere mortals questioning Levi Johnston.”
Only a shameless public relations hack could envision would have the nerve to make a comparison between Levi Johnston and Jesus Christ.
The punch line followed immediately: “People can question whatever they want. I mean, he’s going to keep on doing his thing. He was going to do this even if it wasn’t a reality show.”
Give me a break.
And God help us all if Levi Johnston gets elected to political office by pretending to campaign for a “reality” television show.
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