Seriously -- Is there any aspect of Sarah Palin's life or anything connected to her that isn't a three-ring circus and/or train wreck? And so it is today that Levi Johnston -- the on-again, off-again former fiancée of Palin's daughter Bristol -- announces that he's going to run for mayor of the small town of Wasilla, Alaska (I would presume as a republican, but who the hell knows -- link to full story at bottom).Of course, Sarah Palin formerly held that same office, leading to the infamous line from the Obama campaign in 2008 upon Palin being announced as John McCain's VP choice: "Senator McCain has seen fit today to nominate a former mayor of a town of 9,000 as his vice presidential running mate." Many of us here in "flyover territory" took a fair share of offense to that statement and won't soon forget it, but I digress.
Well, ol' Levi is apparently determined not to run some boring, garden variety local mayoral campaign. That's why he's going to base a new reality series around his candidacy. "Loving Levi: The Road to the Mayor's Office," the show is to be called. The show is described as featuring "the trials and tribulations of America's most famous teen dad as he enters the world of politics while continuing to dabble in Hollywood." BTW, precisely what does it mean for one to merely "dabble" in Hollywood? It seems to me that you're either "in" Hollywood or you're not, and Levi certainly is not.
Regardless, Levi does seem quite full of himself as you might expect, spouting: "It's hard to figure me out. You've got to follow me around. I'm very different. I lead a crazy life. But [Loving Levi] will basically be both [my] worlds, my life life in Hollywood and back home, the real country boy that I am." But alas, since the Wasilla mayor's post isn't up again for election until 2012, Levi says that he may just have to tide himself over in the meantime by sitting on the town's city council (he's quite the presumptuous sort, no?).
One final line from the linked story also caught my eye: "Johnston also told Variety that he hopes the show exposes his true character." That one immediately reminded me of a line from Harvey Keitel's classic Winston Wolf character (as pictured above) in the motion picture Pulp Fiction: "Just because you are a character doesn't mean that you have character."
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2010/08/10/johnston-running-for-palins-ex-job-in-reality-show/
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