Ex-Law & Order Star: Leave Bristol Alone

(NEWSER) - Very late in the presidential campaign, staffers for Sen. John McCain came to the painful realization that it would be impossible, ever, to get Sarah Palin up to speed, reports Vanity Fair. They discovered, too late, she was a truth-shifting, self-regarding "little shop of horrors" who knew little about issues, and stubbornly refused to take direction, writes national editor Todd S. Purdum. More»

(NEWSER) - He might have been the hottest guy at Wasilla High, but Palin babydaddy Levi Johnston doesn’t do it for modeling agencies, reps tell Vanity Fair. A sampling of their reactions to the idea:

• New York Model Management: “I have no idea who he is or what he looks like. I wish I knew more about who that is, but my computers are down.”

Wasillan releasing tell-all memoir

(NEWSER) - There's no love lost between the Johnston and Palin clans, and Levi's new tell-all memoir is set to keep the feud going. In Deer In the Headlights, to be released later this month, Johnston claims that Bristol became pregnant with his child to get even with her mother for Sarah's pregnancy with Trig, reports the New York Daily News . He says Bristol, then 17, believed that she, not her politician mother, should be having babies. More»

Plus, someone accuses Sarah of snorting cocaine

(NEWSER) - More of Mercede Johnston's Playboy interview is leaking, and—surprise, surprise—none of it is very complimentary to the Palins. The latest, from Playboy , USA Today , and TMZ :

• On Levi and Bristol's second engagement: "I don’t think Bristol wanted to be with him whatsoever, not at all. It was all about her using her body to get Levi to retract his statements, and it worked ... They only wanted them back together so they could control Levi, have him say he lied."
• On Sarah: "She’s never there for [her kids]. She doesn’t make her kids go to school. She’d rather parade them around and put on a show at book signings or conventions."

He's a 'good family' guy, Bristol gushes of Giacinto "Gino" Paoletti

(NEWSER) - The Palins thought Levi Johnston was trouble... Now Bristol Palin has hooked up with new beau and "good guy" laborer Giacinto "Gino" Paoletti, who's all pro "family" and Christian, according to Bristol. "We have all the same religious beliefs and our families both come first in our lives," she tells E! Online . Oh yeah, and he likes to call people "n***a" and jokes about hypothetical sex with an overweight woman with Down syndrome on his Facebook page, notes Gawker . More»