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timeoutofmind
09/01/09

In reply to Levi Johnston Wrote a Piece For the October Vanity Fair, Everybody
errrr ... Jenna Bush handed a Today show plum, Levi Johnston published in Vanity Fair.

and you seriously wonder why your country is rotted to the core ?
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Lulupasternak
09/01/09

@timeoutofmind: Evgenia Peretz earned her job, right?
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raincoaster
09/03/09

@Lulupasternak: She doesn't suck nearly as much as she used to, and last year she even came up with a good metaphor. Once.
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If_I_Had_a_Poodle
08/31/09

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the book is so pre 9.11 it's a shame to lose the wtc from the cover
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HowDareThey
08/31/09

In reply to Levi Johnston Wrote a Piece For the October Vanity Fair, Everybody
dominick dunne replaced so soon.
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raincoaster
09/01/09

@HowDareThey: Genius!

To my dying day, I will persist in thinking this stumblebum babydaddy stole MY ten dollars a word.
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Tara Incognita
08/31/09

In reply to Levi Johnston Wrote a Piece For the October Vanity Fair, Everybody
For God's sake, VF. Stop with the dead Kennedys. There really are other things I'll read about.
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sarrible
08/31/09

@Tara Incognita: I actually laughed aloud on Thursday when I passed a woman on the street wearing a Dead Kennedys T-shirt.
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lalaland13
08/31/09

In reply to Levi Johnston Wrote a Piece For the October Vanity Fair, Everybody
I think VF inadvertently screwed itself. Next month may very well be a Dominique Dunn/Ted Kennedy double tribute cover! So that's three months of dead people, and no naked starlets. Well, Farrah was nude, but she was dead, so that takes away the salaciousness of it.

Seriously, VF. I know you love the Kennedys, but Ted dying would be at least somewhat more interesting than "Jackie was sad, whaddya know?" Not that they had Ted dying on their calendar, though. Just happened right before their new Jackie issue comes out.

I have thought far too much about this, and must now nap and feel ashamed.
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Ephraim Gadsby
08/31/09

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I thought McInerney had it written into his contract that only Chip Kidd could do his covers... and this doesn't look like one of his to me.
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MelitaPolyhymnia
08/31/09

In reply to Levi Johnston Wrote a Piece For the October Vanity Fair, Everybody
Like everything else I once loved, seems that Vanity Fair is now groveling to people's most salacious and lowest "common" denominator-type behavior. That cover photo of Jackie is lousy, and an article written by "baby daddy" Levi is pandering at the very least.

Just seems so insulting that Vanity Fair would stoop so low as to give us "Levi" when so many other aspiring writers would "kill" to grace their pages. Must everything be dictated by the marketing manager's whims based on little blips on society's collective radar?

Used to be that VF was a great read and had some really interesting points and people within. Guess they too must be desperate for content, ad pages and newsstand purchaser's.
The loss of Dominick Dunne has surely dealt them a big blow.

You know how "things" were made with quality before the "Made In China" label started appearing on virtually everything? Well, looks like Vanity Fair has gone that route and crapped up their product in order to maybe get some extra sales by tapping in to people's morbid curiosity.

It's a cheap trick and I ain't fooled!!
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i'm a bottle
09/01/09

@MelitaPolyhymnia: Interesting. But, Jesus, enough with the quotation marks already. They're not meant to provide emphasis. You're confusing me.
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i'm a bottle
09/01/09

@MelitaPolyhymnia: [www.unnecessaryquotes.com]
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Tattertotter
08/31/09

In reply to Levi Johnston Wrote a Piece For the October Vanity Fair, Everybody
Levi TRIED to read the article but gave-up after the first non-monosyllabic word.

What he said:
"I tole that stupid bitch I ain't gonna wear no fucking condom so she just like rolled her eyes and said whatever, just do it."

VF redaction:
"Of course I wore a condom--what kind of idiot would intentionally impregnate the daughter of the governor of Alaska!?!"
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PaisleyPajamas
08/31/09

In reply to Levi Johnston Wrote a Piece For the October Vanity Fair, Everybody
I think it's time J-school graduates nationwide stage a flash primal scream. How's 4:00 EST today for the rest of you? Simply open the nearest window and screech for 15 to 30 seconds when the clock strikes the hour.

Then hit happy hour...early.
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City_Dater
08/31/09

In reply to Levi Johnston Wrote a Piece For the October Vanity Fair, Everybody
Trying to sell to the nearly dead and the gossipy young (who do not purchase glossy magazines if they can read them on the web for free) -- and failing at both...
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BookishLookish
08/31/09

In reply to Levi Johnston Wrote a Piece For the October Vanity Fair, Everybody
"Mrs. Palin the governor had a killer rack for an old broad, and I actually noticed her before Bristol, which I'm told is Cockney slang for 'tit'--heh heh! Guess it runs in the family!"
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iplaudius
08/31/09

In reply to Levi Johnston Wrote a Piece For the October Vanity Fair, Everybody
I thought my original title, "Sarah Palin and I," was good grammars. Like that musical, the King and I. That Andy Cohen made me watch. While he was blowing me. But for some reason the editors done changed it.
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sarrible
08/31/09

In reply to Levi Johnston Wrote a Piece For the October Vanity Fair, Everybody
I can't wait for more of this kind of cutting-edge, timely journalism from Vanity Fair, including such scintillating features as "Catherine the Great: Her Hidden Pain" and "Genghis Khan: Misunderstood Humanitarian?"
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morninggloria
08/31/09

@sarrible: Contained in the same issue that boasts such stories as "I Am Fucking Insane" by Octomom, "Remember Me?" by Darva Conger, and "Close To The Heart Of Speidi" by Heidi Montag's left breast.
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sarrible
08/31/09

@morninggloria: I would read that Octomom story.
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FormerEnglishMajor
08/31/09

In reply to Levi Johnston Wrote a Piece For the October Vanity Fair, Everybody
Idiocracy lives. Real investigative journalists can't find work, but Levi Johnston, who surprises himself whenever he has a sentence longer than 3 words, gets a paying VF gig.
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PaisleyPajamas
08/31/09

@FormerEnglishMajor: VF is walking a fine line here. While the National Enquirer scoops on John Edwards, they hire someone purely for the sensationalism? OY!
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BookishLookish
08/31/09

@FormerEnglishMajor: What's that whooshing sound I am hearing? Dominick Dunne rolling in his grave...already?
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FormerEnglishMajor
08/31/09

@BookishLookish: Seriously - had they even called the time of death yet? Not that I'm looking to VF for great prose, but for some reason this really is a depressing development. I mean, IS there a less literary/literate person than Levi Johnston out there?
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PaisleyPajamas
08/31/09

@FormerEnglishMajor: Maaaybe, Carrie Prejean, but she's probably earmarked for next month's issue.
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sarrible
08/31/09

@BookishLookish: Well, now we know what killed him.
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FormerEnglishMajor
08/31/09

@PaisleyPajamas: You joke, but I hope you get your 10% cut when it happens, because I can totally see it. I can't even make a "Deep Throat" joke.
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Better to Eat You With
08/31/09

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I love that they chose 3rd-grade-level grammar for the cover line. Is this supposed to make him look as dumb as he is, or to convince us that he actually wrote it?
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TheExperience
08/31/09

@Better to Eat You With: That's what I was kind of thinking. Shouldn't it be "Sarah Palin and Me?"
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BookishLookish
08/31/09

@TheExperience: It should, but "Me and Sarah Palin" is folksy/dumbass, so it makes it seem like he really wrote it.

*hums "Me and Bobby McGee"*
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