In an interview he just finished with Playgirl editor-in-chief Nicole Caldwell, Levi says of the invite, "You could tell by her laugh she was full of it." The petition to come over for some turkey was part of a segment the former Alaska governor taped for an Oprah episode that airs Monday.

Levi also that it was a "nice gesture, but she didn't mean it" and if he went, it would be "awkward." He also tells Entertainment Tonight, "Either she's telling a little spoof here or she's going to ask me in the next couple of days. I couldn't care less to go with Sarah Palin, but I want to be with my kid. It would probably be a little weird. It would be uncomfortable, but I'd go for my son's sake."

Well, between Levi's upcoming issue of the magazine and Palin's book, we think that a Thanksgiving dinner together (promptly followed by a food fight) would be just the photo op these two need to keep their prolonged dance of death going.

Palin obviously hasn't realized what the truth of what we told her last month: just as Levi would be just another anonymous, aging high-school hockey star if Palin hadn't decided to pose him as teen father of the year, out of power Palin would be all but disappearing from view if Johnston wasn't keeping her script interesting. So she spent today acting shocked, shocked that anyone would put him near a camera, when she should be lapping up the attention - just in time for her book, too!

In the first part of an interview on CBS' The Early Show, Johnston says he has knowledge about Sarah Palin that would be very damning to her (the full interview is below). Last week, we told you what his svengali, Tank Jones, told us—that Levi has plenty more dirt on the Palins and he's writing a book. It wasn't news to us.

Still, Palin's response was pretty great:

CBS should be ashamed for continually providing a forum to propagate lies. Consider the source of the most recent attention-getting lies - those who would sell their body for money reflect a desperate need for attention and are likely to say and do anything for even more attention.

Oh, that is rich. This is coming from the woman who said David Letterman thought it was "OK, accepted and funny to talk about statutory rape," when he made a joke about her daughter, one he thought was aimed at her of-age daughter, not the younger one. Always blowing it out of proportion. Anyway, Levi isn't selling his body, he's just posing for some naked pictures. There is a huge difference. Well, we don't know how big the difference is yet, but we'll let you know once we see the test shots.

And of course the "naked Levi" controversy and her statement has nothing to do with the release of her book, Going Rogue, on November 17. No, she doesn't need to have her name in the press at all. And Levi doesn't need continued interest in his almost-but-not-quite mother-in-law to sell a bunch of nudie magazines to gay men. No way! These two continue to feed off each other like a snake eating its own tail or some kind of weird animal that survives by eating its own vomit.

Speaking of which, Johnston also said his upcoming nudie shoot will be very tasteful. "I'm not gonna just go out there and get naked," he said, putting to rest those rumors that there will be a roaring fire, a bear skin rug, and a snifter of brandy involved. Oh, Levi, you make us so sad. For more on the shoot, you'll have to tune in tomorrow. Of course, we won't be watching because we're not following this naked Levi Johnston thing one bit.

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The blog approaches its subject forensically. Palin's Deceptions claims that MySpace was "scrubbed" of messages from Bristol, who had been a prodigious user of the site to stay in touch with friends in Wasilla while she was living in Juneau, around June of 2007. But it has collected, cross-referenced, and collated what messages remain on MySpace from, to, and among Palin's circle of friends to come up with a portrait of teen living in God's Country, including apparent revelations that Sarah Palin had previously accused her daughter of being pregnant and that Bristol's brother once told their mother that Bristol was a "stoner."

The view of teen life in Wasilla Alaska gleaned from the fifty or so MySpace pages that our researchers have followed diligently shows a sad, disappointing, in fact, very upsetting tale. If these are the family values that the McCain campaign hoped Gov. Palin would bring to America, all I can say is "no thanks." Drug and alcohol use is detailed, even boasted about regularly, by teens as young as fourteen and fifteen. Young women who are no more than fifteen discuss who is f***ing whom with the ease of a discussion about who will pick up the pizza. Bristol Palin, presented to the country by her mother as an honor student, at age 16 does not spell the word "decided" correctly.

Among the choice communiques culled is this May 2007 conversation between Bristol and "Johnny," whom the blog identifies (citing the National Enquirer) as the boy Bristol dated before Levi Johnston:

That would be a full year before Bristol actually became pregnant, rendering Palin's later claims that she was surprised at Bristol's pregnancy somewhat disingenuous.

Also, if the MySpace posts pulled here are to be believed, Bristol was a pothead—or at least her brother Track narced on her to their mom that she was.

The MySpace messages also, according to Palin's Deceptions, provide ample evidence that Bristol knew plenty of pregnant teenagers in Alaska, something she has denied. "This is totally false and seems like a pointless lie," according to the blog. "Numerous girls in Bristol's circle at Wasilla had already had babies."

Caveats: Palin's Deceptions provides no links to the MySpace pages cited, claiming that they have been private or removed. The blog did, however, provide a pdf of screengrabs of the comments along with various items of corroborating evidence, which is where we got the images used above. But that pdf has since been taken down, the blog says, "while we check a final fact." Could they be wrong? Yes! Will every teenager's private exploits forever be archived and catalogued for public viewing and mockery thanks to MySpace? Yes! Here's Bristol's alleged final MySpace comment—the last one that survived "scrubbing" by Palin's flying monkeys:

The analysis comes in three parts. Part one is here, part two is here, and part three is forthcoming.

UPDATE: The proprietor of Palin's Deception writes in to say that the pdf with screenshots of all the messages can be found here.

This whole mess began when candidate Palin roped Levi Johnston onto the stage at the Republican National Convention, and promised he and her daughter. by the obviously pregnant, would be married by the election. That never happened. And after Palin failed to become vice president and returned to Wasilla, Alaska, things went downhill fast for the young couple.

Johnston proclaims his devotion to his son Tripp and touches on the ongoing, pointless debate over whether his family is white trash — they are, but so are the Palins, and none of them less lovable for it. But the real issue are whether Sarah Palin, a crusader for family values, sanctioned Johnston's sleepovers at the Palin house. His sister Mercede says she didn't even get to see him during the two months that he lived there — a charge she first made on MySpace.

The Palin camp is accusing Johnston of seeking publicity. Pot, kettle, etc. But they may have a point. At the end of the interview, anchorlady Maggie Rodriguez reveals that Johnston hopes to find work as an actor or model — otherwise it's back to pursuing a career as an electrician. Levi, may we suggest modeling? Speaking audibly is considered a prerequisite for acting.

There's one lingering question to this family feud: How close were the Johnstons and the Palins before Sarah Palin became a national political figure. Palin's Deception, a blog dedicated to proving that Trig Palin is not Sarah Palin's baby, raises an interesting point with a photo of Sarah Palin and Mercede Johnston in the Palin's kitchen. Then there's the theory that Sherry Johnston, Levi's mom, who was busted in December for possession and distribution of oxycontin, was the dealer for Sarah's son Track, whose alleged drug problems were aired last September. What else went on between these upstanding citizens of Wasilla?

You do if it also involves Parallel Universe Vice President Sarah Palin, who ascended to the post of Empress of Alaksa when she pulled the sword of old-boys-club politics from the Moose of Entrenched Political Interests.

Gawker readers learned about the Palin/Johnston family feud back in January: according to the sister of the father of Sarah Palin's grandson, the Palin's are stuck-up snobs who call the Johnston's "white trash."

The situation back in January:

Umm, I'm not allowed to see my nephew and my mom isn't either. We aren't Palins so therefore we are white trash and Bristol doesn't want her baby around us. So mom and I are really upset over it. I just hope Levi pulls his head out of his butt and lets us see our nephew and her grandbaby.

Things have only gotten worse since then! For one thing, Star (presumably) paid Mercede some cash for the exclusive, sad details.

"Levi tries to visit Tripp every single day, but Bristol makes it nearly impossible. She tells him he can't take the baby to our house because she doesn't want him around 'white trash'!"

Also there is a "hate-filled text message Bristol sent Levi, cheating rumors," and, surprising no one, "lies about Bristol's schooling." You know, the sad little family dramas that play out every time dumb, inadequately educated kids who just wanted to screw end up with babies they're not ready for. Except the losing Republican candidate for Vice President of the US is involved.

In an unexpurgated Esquire "What I Learned" interview they just put on their web site, she gives this explanation for naming her daughter who would become a high-school drop-out and unwed teenage mother:

Two meanings in Bristol's name: I worked at the Bristol Inn, and Todd grew up in Bristol Bay. But also, Bristol, Connecticut, is the home of ESPN. And when I was in high school, my desire was to be a sportscaster. ESPN was just kicking off, just getting off the ground, and I thought that's what I was going to do in life, is be one of the first woman sportscasters. Until I learned that you'd have to move to Bristol, Connecticut. It was far away. So instead, I had a daughter and named her Bristol.

There is more. There's always more with our favorite Republican Party rising star:

Bored, anonymous, pathetic bloggers who lie annoy me.

I eat, therefore I hunt. I want to fill my freezer with good, clean, healthy protein for my kids. That's what I was raised on. It is abundant and it is available here in Alaska, with caribou and moose and different game and lots of very, very healthy and delicious wild Alaskan seafood. That's what we eat. So that's why I hunt and why I fish.

The secret to chili is you gotta have good mooseburger in there. I don't know if you can get moose commercially in New York. You'd have to come up here and visit me in my home, and I'll prepare it for ya.

Hot? If only people could see me as I come in from a run early in the morning without a trough full of makeup on, I think that they'd have a different opinion.

Fleece, lots of fleece, and skinny white-chocolate mochas. That's the best way to stay warm.

After a long day, if the weather's good, I like to take a long, hot run to unwind. Otherwise, lately, I take a bath with Trig, and I answer e-mails, and then we all fall asleep in my big bed while we listen to Piper read her Junie B. Jones books out loud. She's learning to read and she'll read for hours on end. It's idyllic. It's amazing.

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We were pretty convinced by the claim that Mercede and mom Sherry were being barred from seeing baby Tripp. But now, we see that Mellissa Wilfong has since changed her MySpace profile to private, and left us this little note: "If your here to steal comments and Gawk ...get lost!"

[Update: Yep, it's true.]

The message was supposedly left by Mercede Johnston, Levi's 18-year-old sister, on the page of Mellissa Wilfong, a former Wasilla resident who now lives in Florida, to tell her about an upcoming trip to Orlando. As an aside, she notes that she and her mom (that would be Sherry, the one who was busted for dealing OxyContin) aren't allowed to visit Bristol and Levi's love child.

For those who have trouble reading the prose of this fine product of the Wasilla school system, here's a translation:

Levi is in a bit of a haze right now... Umm, I'm not allowed to see my nephew and my mom isn't either. We aren't Palins so therefore we are white trash and Bristol doesn't want her baby around us. So mom and I are really upset over it. I just hope Levi pulls his head out of his butt and lets us see our nephew and her grandbaby.

It's not just the utter inability to spell that makes us think this is the real Mercede. Her MySpace page (which is set to private) has been the source of other fun Palin family revelations. In happier days, i.e. last year, Mercede visited the Palin household soon after Sarah's magical baby Trig was born (see above). And Wilfong appears to be in the Palin orbit as well. Last September, while everyone was claiming that Trig was actually Bristol's baby, she piped up on Fox News' web site to tell everyone to shut up, note that her sons used to attend school with Bristol, and that she wouldn't be voting for her former Mayor. (Smart lady.)

(Yep, her name is spelled Mercede. Wasilla names are so damn creative.)