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Levi Not a "Hands-On" Dad After All

We should have guessed it would end this way. Of course, Bristol and Levi have broken up. In America of 2009, stories that begin with the words pregnant and high school don't end in fairy-tale summer weddings. And I suppose if Bristol were going to become a poster girl for the Real Lives of Evangelicals, she might as well go all the way—pregnant at 17 and unmarried. In the semirespectable news stories that followed the tabloid stories, Bristol complained about people cashing in on her name and Levi complained about false Internet rumors. But those rumors were pegged to his own sister, according to Radar. Mercede, they reported, "says Bristol even told him that she hates him and, when she learned she was pregnant, wished the baby wasn't his."       

"Bristol's just crazy," said Mercede. "That's the nicest way I can put it. She and Levi actually broke up a while ago!" Then she debunked the whole "hands-on" dad thing—a soundbite from the Greta Van Susteren interview of last month. "Levi tries to visit Tripp every single day, but Bristol makes it nearly impossible for him. She tells him he can't take the baby to our house because she doesn't want him around 'white trash.' She treats him so badly!" (Wait until he applies for a state trooper job.)

Next on Jerry Springer, a Connecticut group is starting the first draft Sarah Palin group.