Milking fifteen minutes into a questionable career is one thing, but apparently the one man wrecking crew intent on humiliating Alaska's former governor is also a gentleman.
Claiming that Sarah Palin "joked about her son Trig's Down Syndrome, calling him her 'retarded baby'" and other things is just part of Levi Johnston's "job" now, but he won't reveal things that "could" and "will hurt her."
Johnston, who fathered a child with Palin's daughter Bristol and has since been leaking dirt about the former vice-president candidate, is now hinting that there may be even bigger scandals he's not discussing.
According to Johnston, after he and Bristol broke up the Palins shut him out, and since then the battle has been escalating. In a new interview, he told CBS's Maggie Rodriguez, "When she started coming out with these things and saying things about me, it was kind of like, alright, it's time, we're going to take the gloves off, I'm going to tell a little bit of something."
"Do you feel that you've betrayed them because you're airing this dirty laundry? asked Rodriguez.
"That might be true, but at the same time they threw me out," Johnston replied. "During that, that came out that Sarah didn't really like me, I knew Todd didn't like me. So they were kind of betraying me at the same time, backstabbing me, just putting on a front to me to make Sarah look good at the convention. ... I really don't care any more."
Johnston went on to say, however, "There are some things that I have that are huge, and I haven't said them because I'm not going to hurt her that way. ... I have things that would get her in trouble and could hurt her, will hurt her, but I'm not going to go that far."
When pressed by Rodriguez, Johnston said he was referring to "things she has done while she was governor" but "I'm not even going to talk about them. ... All the big things I've got, I'm keeping it in. It's just something that probably will never come out."
"I'm sure she's got something coming for me," Johnston concluded, but he added, "I'm not worried about her saying anything about me. ... I don't have anything to hide."
This video is from CBS' The Early Show, broadcast Oct. 28, 2009.
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