Sarah Palin Adept at 'Fake Smile': Levi

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»

How much will she spill?

(NEWSER) - Bristol Palin is writing a memoir after all—daringly called Not Afraid of Life—and besides some dope on her famous mom, the tome will include a bit of dish on Dancing With the Stars and two-time Bristol heartbreaker Levi Johnston. It looked for a time like Bristol's memoir, posted briefly then yanked from Amazon.com, was just a rumor. But now publisher William Morrow has promised the book will be out this spring and will give readers "an inside look at her life," reports the New York Daily News . More»

American Idol participants suffer from 'cult of self-esteem'

(NEWSER) - Sarah Palin's new book comes out next week, and leaked excerpts from America By Heart have made their way from anti-Palin blog Palingates to the "lamestream media." The book is part memoir, part manifesto, and while some of Palin's targets—including Levi Johnston, whose rise to fame was "disgusting to watch"—are unsurprising, one in particular is getting attention: reality TV. She slams the "talent-deprived" contestants of American Idol, comparing the contestants to Americans who expect the government to provide for them. More»