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Looks like Levi Johnston wasn't kidding when he said on The Early Show yesterday that he had no intention of backing off in his crusade against Sarah Palin.

As we've talked about previously, the father of the former Alaska Governor's grandson is gonna pose for Playgirl. The only question was how nude he'd get.

Well, it's now confirmed we're getting the full Levi Johnston. Or something. We mean full, frontal nudity. Need us to draw you a picture? We really hope not.

Levi's manager, Tank Jones, already said he was 90 percent sure the baby daddy of Bristol Palin would take it all off, but he's now confirmed that final 10.

In the best press release ever, Jones simply wrote the following:

"Everything's gonna hang out. We're talking full Johnson."

Levi Johnston is taking the gloves - and everything else - off. Sarah Palin ain't seen nothin' yet! This guy has no shame and nothing to lose. A dangerous combo.

He left out a letter there, but no complaints. Oh, and it gets better yet. Jones says Levi Johnston is gunning to shoot the Playgirl pictures on November 16.

That's the very same day Sarah Palin makes her much-touted, book-shilling appearance on The Oprah Winfrey Show. She'll definitely love that. Point, Levi!

Yesterday, Johnston caused quite a stir when he accused Palin of calling her son Trig retarded. Trig, 1, has Down Syndrome. Palin was far from pleased.

The ex-governor angrily fired back in a statement, but Levi was completely unfazed, ominously saying that he could say far worse things than that. Man.

As for the naked pics themselves, a Playgirl rep says of the shoot: "We're working on some athletic scene stuff for Levi: gyms, rinks - that sort of thing."

Hopefully he boxes with a Sarah Palin blow-up doll. That'd be all-time.

Whose side are you on?

Levi Johnston is about to get totally undressed for a nude spread in Playgirl. Now he's also getting dressed down by his baby mama's mama Sarah Palin.

Yup, their ongoing war of words has been kicked up a notch ... or 10.

On CBS' Early Show today, Levi continued his Palin-bashing PR tour by saying she referred to her infant son Trig, who has Down syndrome, as "retarded."

Moreover, he says she used the term repeatedly, and during the 2008 campaign, used the baby as a prop while in reality Bristol Palin primarily cared for it.

Without providing details, Johnston also ominously suggested that Palin, last year's Republican V.P. nominee, has done a whole lot worse than that, as well.

Cryptically but knowingly, he says he knows things that could "get her in trouble and could hurt her." You really couldn't make this stuff up if you tried.

"I'm not gonna go that far," Levi Johnston said. "You know, I mean, if I really wanted to hurt her, I could easily. But there's ... I'm just not gonna do it."

Suffice it to say, Levi's comments didn't sit well with Sarah.

In a bitter reply, the mother of five said in a statement that: "We have purposefully ignored the mean spirited, malicious, untrue attacks on our family."

Only she hasn't. Just saying.

"We, like many, are appalled at the inflammatory statements being made or implied," Palin's statement continued. "Trig is our 'blessed little angel' who knows it and is lovingly called that every single day of his life."

Palin said "CBS should be ashamed for continually providing a forum to propagate lies" and was indignant at the insinuation of using such a term.

Taking both Levi Johnston and CBS to task, Palin questioned the credibility of somebody about to get naked for a magazine, specifically Playgirl.

"Consider the source of the most recent attention-getting lies," she says.

"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."

In response, Levi says his recent interview with Vanity Fair was just the beginning, and while he's sure Sarah Palin "has something comin' for me," he is unabashed about his counterattacks as long as the Palins cut him out of his child's life.

Your move, Levi. Your. Move.

In this difficult economic climate, you gotta pull out all the stops. Just ask former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, who's networking to job hunt like so many others.

Palin has placed her resume on LinkedIn, picking out a misnomer username of governorpalin, despite resigning her post over the summer out of boredom.

Maybe crazyexguv was taken.

Known as the “Facebook for professionals,” LinkedIn is a social media site that displays more than 50 million resumes and allows for virtual networking.

LinkedIn lists years of employment as well; her profile says Palin was the governor of the State of Alaska for just two years, seven months. What a quitter!!

Sarah Palin kissed her career goodbye ... but at least she's back on the job hunt.

Sarah Palin's profile also notes that she's interested in “job inquiries, expertise requests, business deals, reference requests, and getting back in touch.”

Among her special accomplishments and skills she could add:

• Being able to see Russia from her house.
• Employing the worst publicist in PR history.
• Picking out some of the most ridiculous children's names of all time.
• Looking like Tina Fey, and being almost as funny (albeit unintentionally)
• Staging her teenage daughter's engagement to Levi Johnston so her getting knocked up wouldn't sabotage her Vice Presidential bid.

Without a doubt, Levi Johnston nude photos are in bad taste.

Similarly, spending pages and pages of one's autobiography bashing the heck out of your grandson's father could also been seen as morally questionable.

But that's exactly what sources say Sarah Palin has done in her upcoming memoir Going Rogue: An American Life. According to the National Enquirer, the book is a "self-serving press release" with one goal: destroying the credibility Bristol's ex-fiance.

Because this is exactly what a possible Presidential candidate should be focusing on: an 18-year old desperate for money and attention.

Said a publishing source, with knowledge of the book:

"Sarah got a ton of dough from her advance, but the book appears to be nothing more than a self-serving press release touting what she calls her 'happy marriage.' It's also a renewed attack on Levi Johnston, calling him 'a liar' once again for all the claims he's made against her after breaking up with Bristol and for saying he's going to battle for custody of baby Tripp."

Palin also shoots down rumors that she and Todd Palin are nearing a divorce, while calling Levi a "bald-faced liar."

Simply put, the insider added: "Sarah unleashes a blistering attack on Levi."

We can just imagine her 2012 Presidential campaign motto now: Levi Sucks. Democrats Swallow!

Over the last few weeks, Levi Johnston has given the world his original, hilarious take on Sarah Palin.

On November 17, the former governor of Alaska and current cult-like figure will release her own story, as Going Rogue: An American Life hits stores earlier than originally announced.

It will go up against the release of Kris Allen's debut CD that day.

Some Republicans, and ALL Democrats, hope Sarah Palin is a nominee for President in 2012.

The 400-page memoir from HarperCollins was essentially penned by ghostwriter Lynn Vincent.

Palin was likely too busy shooting wolves from helicopters and believing in the unproven premise that abstinence education leads to fewer pregnancies.

Among the topics expected to be covered in the tome are:

• Palin's life as a beauty pageant contestant;
• Her selection as Vice Presidential running mate by Jon McCain;
• Daughter Bristol's pregnancy;
• A passionate defense of Alaska's proximity to Russia;
• The main reasons why Katie Couric is a stupid head;
• An English translation of her Gubernatorial resignation speech.

We may have made a few of those up.

Levi Johnston has a good gig.

Just 19 years old, he lives his life largely out of the limelight, but once in awhile gets a nice paycheck to dish about former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, whose teenage daughter he famously impregnated in early 2008. Nice work!

Vanity Fair is the latest to profile America's most beloved unwed teen baby daddy. In the magazine's October issue, Levi explains what happened behind the scenes of the 2008 campaign for the White House - and inside the Palin home.

Johnston wastes little time dispelling myths about the former Alaska Governor ...

Levi on Sarah's parenting: "There wasn’t much ... The kids do it all themselves: cook, clean, do the laundry, get ready for school. Most of the time [Bristol Palin] would help her sister with homework. I’d barbecue chicken or steak on the grill."

On Sarah's reaction to him knocking up Bristol: "Sarah told me she had a great idea: we would keep it a secret - nobody would know that Bristol was pregnant. She told me that once Bristol had the baby she and Todd would adopt him."

"Sarah kept mentioning this. She wouldn’t give up. She would say, 'So, are you gonna let me adopt him?' We kept telling her definitely not. I think that Sarah didn’t want people to know her 17-year-old daughter was going to have a kid."

On Palin's response to criticism that John McCain lost because of her: "She thought she was running for president. She'd say 'I brought everything to the table' and 'the majority of people were out there voting because of me!'"

On Sarah changing post-campaign: "Sarah walked around the house pouting ... one or two weeks after she got back, she started talking about how nice it would be to quit, write a book or do a show and make 'triple the money.'"

Quality stuff, and certainly there will be plenty more where that came from. Just write Levi Johnston a check and he'll bash Sarah all you like!

Here's a behind-the-scenes video of Levi's photo shoot with Vanity Fair ...

Sarah Palin and her husband Todd are getting a divorce. Beyond a doubt. Right?

A reputable magazine like Star would never report this if Sarah and Todd's marriage weren't in turmoil, leaving the parents of five on the brink of a split, would it?

According to Star's coverage of their "disintegrating union," Todd and Sarah are sleeping apart, arguing 24/7 and losing control of their party-animal daughters!

"Sarah and Todd fight all the time," says Mercede Johnston, sister of Levi Johnston, ex-boyfriend and baby mama of Sarah's eldest daughter, Bristol Palin.

"When they do, Todd ends up sleeping on the couch at their home in Wasilla. Bristol used to tell Levi that her parents would argue and bicker over the littlest things, like who was supposed to take out the trash or wash the dishes."

Levi Johnston, the father of 7-month-old son Tripp with Bristol, also spoke this week about Sarah Palin's marital problems, which he said have been happening "from day one," and blamed for her decision to resign as governor of Alaska.

Todd Palin is "tired of living a lie." Star, on the other hand, thrives on it.

The Palins shot down the previous batch of divorce rumors, for the record. But fueled by Sarah's resignation as governor, similar stories continue to dog the pair.

Now Mercede Johnston predicts: "If they ended their marriage within the next year, I wouldn't be surprised. It really seems it's just a sham for the cameras now!"

Another possibility, an "Alaskan insider" tells Star, is that with Sarah Palin's new book deal in place, "she might even come to some financial agreement for him to stay with her and give the impression of a loving husband."

This source then calls them the "Jon and Kate Gosselin of politics!"

The comparison may not be too off-base. Like the TLC reality stars, Todd and Sarah have a brood to worry about, and the worries keep growing amid new scandal.

Star says 15-year-old daughter Willow Palin was drinking vodka and smoking pot at a house party, "her eyes getting more and more glazed as the night went on."

We hope the magazine has some good lawyers on retainer.

Bristol Palin's baby daddy, Levi Johnston, hasn't trashed the Palin family in a few weeks, so we're so glad he found a mic at Sunday's Teen Choice Awards (yes, he went) and told the world what he thinks of Bristol's campaign for abstinence.

"I don't buy it," Levi told Radar Online. "The first time it [the subject of abstinence] came around, she said it wasn't realistic. Now she says it is. So I think she caught herself in a little thing there. I don't buy it. It's all a show."

Strong words from Johnston, although pretty accurate.

As for the mother of Bristol Palin, former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, Levi says he's back on good terms with for the sake of his new baby, Tripp.

But that didn't stop him from saying how her marriage has been in trouble for some time, and ultimately led to her resignation as Alaska governor.

When we asked if his would-have-been in-laws, Sarah and Todd Palin, had marital problems, Levi responded: "Oh yeah. There have been from day one."

Asked if he thought marital problems were the reason she stepped down as governor, Levi Johnston again didn't hesitate: "Oh yeah, I definitely do."

He also said Sarah Palin will be chasing bigger paychecks now that she’s out of office and on the speaker circuit. “She took the money,” Johnston said.

“That’s what she’s talked about for awhile now, that’s what I’m gathering and I think that’s what she’s doing,” shared the 19-year-old aspiring actor.

Not sure how long he'll be in their good graces after this, but we're glad he shared - and we look forward to Meghan Stapleton's ridiculous response.

Rumors of a Todd Palin-Sarah Palin divorce gained some traction today after a website out of Alaska reported that the state's former chief executive and her husband were calling it quits, but further investigation reveals it is not true.

Sarah Palin's spokeswoman, Meg Stapleton, has denied the story by an Alaskan blog that just hours ago claimed to have inside info on an impending split.

On Palin’s Facebook page, Stapleton posted the following rebuke:

“Yet again, so-called 'journalists' have decided to make up a story."

"There is absolutely no truth to the recent “story” (and story is the correct term for this type of fiction) that Sarah and Todd Palin are divorcing."

"The Palins remain married, committed to each other and their family, and have not purchased land in Montana (last week it was Long Island).”

“Less than one week ago, Governor Palin asked the media to 'quit making things up.' We appreciate that the more professional journalists decided to question this story first before repeating it.”

Sarah Palin may have recently quit on Alaskans, but despite Internet reports, she and husband Todd Palin aren't saying farewell to their marriage anytime soon.

Sarah Palin’s attorney, Thomas Van Flein, also went on record shooting down the divorce story, telling CBS News that reports of a split are “categorically false.”

The initial report claimed that previous affairs by both Palins had led to a deterioration of their marriage, and that the Palins were noticeably not speaking to one another at Sarah's resignation speech in Fairbanks, Alaska, last Sunday.

No word on whether the website that reported the divorce rumor really is "makin' things up," or whether they just received faulty intel from Levi Johnston.

If there's anything more comedic than Sarah Palin's farewell speech, delivered Sunday as the Alaska Governor resigned her office, we haven't heard it.

Although William Shatner reciting portions of Sarah Palin's farewell speech verbatim on The Tonight Show the following night has to come pretty close.

The master of the spoken-word and master thespian delivered, as only he can, a different take on the now-ex-governor's classic rambling, nonsensical goodbye.

Here's William Shatner channeling his inner Sarah Palin ...