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    11/12/09

    In reply to In the Eye of the Levi Johnston Media Hurricane
    Say what you will, but this kid's been in the spotlight for over a year now, and he's somehow keeping his head above water. No major scandals, no huge slipups, no publicly-pressured apologies for something weird he did when he was 12... He's making money and acting as permanent bete noir to the Republican Icon, and no one can do anything about it.

    It's kind of admirable. #levijohnston
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    11/12/09

    @limber: What? The whole thing is a scandal, a slipup, a public manipulation. He's built his house on a foundation of public pressure. It would all be fine with me if he would just show some wang already. #levijohnston
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    11/12/09

    @wundersmack: But it's not his scandal, it's Sarah Palin's. #levijohnston
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    11/12/09

    @limber: I totally agree. He got dragged into the spotlight, he decided he wanted to stay there, and the spotlight likes him, so far. #levijohnston
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    11/12/09

    In reply to In the Eye of the Levi Johnston Media Hurricane
    I started to read all of this, got about three sentences in and then asked myself what the hell I was doing. #levijohnston
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    11/12/09

    In reply to In the Eye of the Levi Johnston Media Hurricane
    I can't believe I'm reading this with the interest I'd read a Capote short story.

    But he's just so cute! #levijohnston
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    11/12/09

    In reply to In the Eye of the Levi Johnston Media Hurricane
    I showed up, asked Moylan if he touched The Royal Alaskan Penis, and left. They call that Party Tact. #levijohnston
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    11/12/09

    In reply to In the Eye of the Levi Johnston Media Hurricane
    Less words, more wang. #levijohnston
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    11/12/09

    In reply to In the Eye of the Levi Johnston Media Hurricane
    It's Capraesque, really. #levijohnston
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    11/12/09

    In reply to In the Eye of the Levi Johnston Media Hurricane
    I feel for Levi... chilly day. #levijohnston
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    11/12/09

    In reply to In the Eye of the Levi Johnston Media Hurricane
    I enjoyed this Page Six snub immensely. #levijohnston
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    11/12/09

    In reply to In the Eye of the Levi Johnston Media Hurricane
    The first rule of Wasilla;
    Don't get photographed holding a big dildo. #levijohnston
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    11/12/09

    In reply to In the Eye of the Levi Johnston Media Hurricane
    I might as well bust out of the closet: I like Levi Johnston.

    His good looks coupled with that perennial "aw-shucks" vibe do a number of me. He's like a contemporary iteration of Huck Finn--a good-hearted white-trash boy with a streak of fundamental decency who fell in with some unsavory company and got swayed by the dark currents swirling around him. Not intelligent, but shrewd in that instinctive way in which smart-yet-uneducated people often are. An innocent who believes that he's manipulating circumstances to his advantage even as other, more nefarious and skilled behind-the-curtain players manipulate HIM. A handsome pawn who thinks himself a knight. A dumb, good-looking, a-hole saint.
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    11/12/09

    In reply to In the Eye of the Levi Johnston Media Hurricane
    He won a Fleshbot award before his first porn shoot even took place? Are these like the Nobel Porn Prizes or something? #levijohnston
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    11/12/09

    @flossy: Haaaaa. Well played. #levijohnston
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    11/12/09

    @flossy: I guess that's what you'd call premature congratulation. #levijohnston
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    11/12/09

    @flossy: Brilliant. #levijohnston
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    11/12/09

    @flossy: Nice.

    I find it interesting that Levi was difficult to approach because he was flanked by enormous black men. Would enormous white man-flankange be more easily passed? #levijohnston
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    10/15/09

    In reply to Anarchy in the Machine: Welcome to Gawker's Open Forums
    I'm not very easily sold on change, but this is nothing short of excellent in ten different ways. My favorite, irreverent two: (1) this places a greater emphasis (and importance) on the fine art of tagging. Which is awesome. And (2) this is going (ideally) to move a lot of the insidery, old-school, overindulgent stuff off of posts and into tag forums. Where readers may put the "hack" in "hacking away" at us, and we can provoke them. On that note, you can find me here:

    #sorrygabe
    #tooinsidery
    #oldschool
    #tagrelatedhumor
    #mycock
    #nickdenton
    #selfreferential
    #juvenile
    #immature
    #foster
    #jambalaya
    #rappers
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    #thisisgoingtobesomuchfun
    #EEEEE!!!!
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    10/15/09

    @Foster Kamer: #toddenglish has hurt feelings. #comments
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    10/15/09

    @PhyllisNefler: Word to #Altarcations. I don't feel bad.
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    10/15/09

    @Foster Kamer: Re: "This is going (ideally) to move a lot of the insidery, old-school, overindulgent stuff off of posts and into tag forums."

    What "stuff" would that be? Care to elaborate? #comments
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    10/15/09

    @MisterHippity: "Stuff" = "Cocaine use." #comments
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    10/15/09

    @Foster Kamer: Ah, I see. So the forums will be the place to go to find the blow. Got it. #comments
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    10/13/09

    In reply to Which Blog Mogul's Life is the Most Valuable?
    Disagree on Perez and Arrington, but the rest sound pretty dead-on to me. Still, the Dark Lord will not be pleased.

    Perez's personality is the key to the site and the key to the media coverage: he's kind of like JT Leroy, except (alas) he actually exists. There's gotta be some money in that. His sister and whatever wankbloggers he can sucker into posting for him are worth money precisely and only because people can mistake their work for his. No Perez, no brand, no popularity. Authenticity, even or especially outrageous, offensive authenticity, is what the audience is responding to.

    Arrington is sort of a found comedy object among the geekerati, but otherwise not key to the success of his site.

    Moral: despotism pays. And Huffington and Denton should never shake hands, or the universe will explode.
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    10/13/09

    In reply to Which Blog Mogul's Life is the Most Valuable?
    With $40+ million, one hopes Drudge would buy more than one hat. Or at least a new siren.
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    10/13/09

    @drewB: Hey, that's not fair -- sometimes he has TWO sirens on the site!
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    10/13/09

    In reply to Which Blog Mogul's Life is the Most Valuable?
    Ok, I bite. How much for Julia Allison?
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    10/13/09

    @Senator Sully:
    Around these parts the opening bid is $120 for the best bits.
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    10/13/09

    @Smitros: How dare you! Julia gets paid $120 for two tweets worth of her expert dating advice. $4/word, remember?
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