Thanks to a faithful reader, we now have Levi side-by-side: tats, facial hair and wedding ring, which I CAN make out on the right photo, all right here. Skin color, curlie-cues...take it away readers. What do you see? H/T you know who you are!
Brad Scharlott
6/28/2011 11:30:10 am
Careful not to make too much of difference in skin hue. Different lighting can make a huge difference. Even so, Levi seems paler in 2nd pic. The baby looks smaller in 2nd pic. 6/28/2011 11:30:42 am
Honestly, I don't know what you can read into the skin tones. I think the photo (Old Levi) on the right was taken in different lighting so it appears more pink. It would be good if someone with appropriate skills could adjust one photo or the other so the color balance matches. I do agree that on the left Levi looks much younger. 6/28/2011 11:31:58 am
Ha ha Brad. Your comment wasn't visible when I made my lighting comment. I think the baby on the right is not only smaller/younger, but has a different nose.
BC
6/28/2011 11:35:53 am
What I see is a young Levi and an older Levi, both picture with a newborn. I'd say that the age difference in Levi is about 9 months to a year. And how that fits into the scheme of things is starting to make my head hurt.
phil
6/28/2011 11:36:46 am
Left photo has blond highlights in his hair
FEDUP!!!
6/28/2011 11:37:31 am
Levi is wearing a ring in BOTH pictures (barely visible in the second one).
momcat1949
6/28/2011 11:43:48 am
He looks like a very young father meeting his newborn son in BOTH PICTURES. Does anybody else know a young man around the age of 17 to 19 who would cuddle an infant NOT RELATED TO HIM?
Brad Scharlott
6/28/2011 11:43:52 am
The hat is backwards in first, forward in second.
Karen
6/28/2011 11:48:27 am
In the first photo, he is sporting a tan and is thinner than in the second photo (look in the neck/jaw area). Not sure what this means, but: look how the ring is on the finger as if he just put it on. A wedding band rests closer to the palm than the knuckle of the finger. This looks like he isn't used to wearing a ring at all or just slipped it on.
Viola-Alex
6/28/2011 11:48:36 am
My first impression is that the baby in photo 1 is prettier than baby 2. Baby 2 has that worried look of some newborns, while Baby 1 seems more filled out, relaxed.
TF
6/28/2011 11:49:57 am
Levi has a patch (scar, bruise, sunspot) on his left forearm (above the wrist) in the picture on the right that I don't see on his left forearm in the picture on the left. There is a smaller spot on the back of his left hand in both pictures. Also, he looks thinner in the left picture and his beard along the jaw line seems finer (as one would expect in a younger male adolescent). His face is angled similarly in both pictures, but he seems like he has more jowl in the picture on the right.
TF
6/28/2011 11:54:38 am
The baby in the right picture seems more fragile than the baby on the left, although that may be in part because the one on the right isn't all wrapped up and is being held in upright. The one similarity I do see between both pictures is how intent Levi looks - absolutely focused on the baby/babies. 6/28/2011 12:22:43 pm
The bruise on the arm in the right photo IS visible on the left. Look at where the blue line of the blanket comes down to his arm. Right there, the bruise is just cresting the top of his arm.
Conscious at last!
6/28/2011 12:36:06 pm
Is there a way to find out exactly when Levi had his hair longer with the blonde highlights? The photo of Levi in People Mag, just before the '08 convention shows longer hair, but not blonde. It looks like a school yearbook photo that was supplied to People by the Palins.
JM
6/28/2011 12:37:10 pm
The baby on the right looks smaller and frailer to me, the cheeks do not look as full. And the way Levi is holding the baby seems different. He seems like he is more confident holding the baby on the left, where he seems like he is holding the baby on the right as if it were a very fragile china cup?
rubbernecking
6/28/2011 01:06:38 pm
ABC News has picture here that is captioned as "Levi Johnston from the 2006 Wasilla High yearbook." I'm guessing this is his freshman picture and was taken in fall of 2005:
Ron
6/28/2011 01:09:08 pm
Do you suppose the "bruise" on Levi's left arm is a birthmark? If you look very closely, you can see another spot (birthmark?) on the back of his left hand in the same spot in each photo.
Anonfornow
6/28/2011 01:17:15 pm
I agree Levi looks younger and tanner in the green shirt picture, but the truth is it's so hard to tell since lighting can make a huge difference. In two weeks he could certainly have had a haircut and shave, and (as Mercede says) got the tattoo for his 18th birthday, with the photo taken while it was at it's most pristine. What I don't get is why he keeps so tenderly hugging and kissing his "girlfriend's mother's baby"!
Ottoline
6/28/2011 01:18:26 pm
I thought we (i.e., audrey) had dated the photo on the right. Mercede is there, and the same series has Bristol, and then there's one of Bristol in (the same?) sweats with Mercede on the way to a dance, which we dated based on someone else's photos of both Mercede at the dance in the same dress and the backdrop of the dance vs other photos of the dance. Sorry I'm too weary to look it up, but I think it's on Audrey's site.
Deb
6/28/2011 01:19:59 pm
Of course, the lighting can be different in photos so skin tones may be accurate. In this case, Levi's farmer's tan line is seen at bottom of his t-shirt arm.
search4more
6/28/2011 01:36:55 pm
I thought the babies looked a different size so I took the pic into Photoshop and cut the babies out and swapped them over. Now it's important to note that in the left picture he is almost square on to the camera whereas in the right hand picture his body is angled to the camera. So don't draw any great conclusions from this please.
curiouser
6/28/2011 01:57:22 pm
In the sofa photo:
KarenJ
6/28/2011 02:25:30 pm
I just lightened the picture on the left, and adjusted the color balance for the picture on the right, and sharpened it.
Mrs Gunka
6/28/2011 02:26:45 pm
The baby on the right is Ruffles. It is taken in Palin's kitchen and that is Mercedes arm around Levi. Look on the shelf behind Mercedes arm and there is a birthday cake. Levi's birthday is May 3rd,the day he said he got the tatoo, I recall. The sleeve ruffle is covering up the ruffled ear but same outfit as in the Ruffles ear pictures. The baby on the left looks like a much younger version of the baby Sally Heath is holding in the hospital. Cheeks are fat, but not as big as "going home from hospital with Sally and Chuck. That picture was taken in the hospital room. Those are not the same baby. One could be late summer or early Fall the other late winter or spring from the tan lines. I'd say Levi looks about a year different in age. Most dark haired babies are born with the dark hair. Light haired babies may get darker hair after a few years. More likely a dark haired baby can have lighter hair around two years. But neither baby has the coloring of the dark haired Trig we now see. Tripp has always been very fair skinned. The baby on the right is very dainty and could be a girl by the delicate facial features. It looks like a preemie a few weeks old. The left baby looks full term and looks more masculine in the facial features. Neither baby has Levi's thick, long lashes. Two different babies, several months apart by Levi's features.
KarenJ
6/28/2011 02:28:58 pm
That bruise that TF and Laura mentioned might be a burn scar. It looks like one to me, anyway.
curiouser
6/28/2011 02:50:33 pm
search4more - Wow! The baby switch is fascinating.
Cracklin' Charlie
6/28/2011 02:51:33 pm
Just a couple of observations:
LTA
6/28/2011 03:14:14 pm
I don't know how to post it here, but you can look it up for yourselves...the 2006-2007 Wasilla High hockey pic of Levi shows him with the curly moptop. AND...if you open it in windows photo viewer and adjust the exposure to make it lighter, you can clearly make out those bleach(?) highlights.
Rationalist
6/28/2011 03:29:59 pm
I'm pretty sure photo evidence from the relevant time period rules out Willow. Big debate at audrey's.
V
6/28/2011 03:40:57 pm
I'm interested in the tattoo on his left arm in the right pic. Now, I know nothing about tattoos - but does anyone see any sign of it in the left? Or could it be a temporary tattoo? Because if the answer to both questions is NO, then it seems as if we have a real piece of evidence.
SLQ
6/28/2011 03:54:49 pm
V, that's the $24,000 question. Per Mercede's text to Gryphen, Levi got the tattoo when he turned 18, which would have been May 3, 2008. Mercede previously dated the "Triggybear" photo (the one on the right above) as taken in the Palin kitchen on May 3, 2008. Levi's tattoo is fully visible in photos taken since then (Playgirl, with Tripp, etc.)
SLQ
6/28/2011 04:04:33 pm
Hey, I was trying to google to see if I could find anything about hospital-issued receiving blankets at Mat-Su Regional, and stumbled across this:
silver
6/28/2011 04:10:14 pm
In the photo on the right Levi's arms look more developed.
Phyllis
6/28/2011 04:23:33 pm
SLQ asked,
silver
6/28/2011 05:52:06 pm
search4more, that's interesting to view the way you repositioned the babies - good work. Comparing the profiles, the babies seem to have different faces but because one is on more of an angle I can't be certain.
K.M.R
6/28/2011 07:04:03 pm
Good detective work everyone.
K.M.R
6/28/2011 07:06:17 pm
oh dear, I said it backwards.
BlueberryT
6/28/2011 07:33:54 pm
The photo comparisons are great; I am somewhat more persuaded after seeing them that these are the same baby and taken within a few days of each other. The tattoo is still perplexing, how there can be no redness.
V
6/28/2011 07:39:29 pm
@slq & @phyllis: It's possible that Levi got a tattoo "for" his 18th birthday but not exactly on his 18th birthday. So it's possible that it healed by May 3, 2008.
V
6/28/2011 08:05:48 pm
Addendum: and of course Picture L is at Mat-Su - why would he go visit a baby to which he was not related?
ginny11 aka ginny
6/28/2011 08:52:52 pm
(I got a disqus account for commenting at blogs/news sites with Disqus that don't allow guest commenting, and my longtime username of ginny was taken...so it's ginny11 from now on!)
Truth Please
6/28/2011 09:09:02 pm
Levi has curly hair. In Bristol's book, there's one of him with Tripp and Bristol. his hair is longer, like he never got a haircut between RNC and Tripps birth. He also looks very redneck/bad boy, like he does in the above left photo.
comeonpeople
6/28/2011 10:14:23 pm
Jawline younger in the left photo, more fat around jaw in right photo. Other than that, the right photo could be just after a haircut and tattoo. He has scars on his hand which are there in both pics. If not scars and just cuts, they are in both photos. The discoloration spot on hand in right photo is not on left. Don't know what it is but hope it is not dirt and that he washed his hands before picking up baby.
Leona
6/28/2011 11:35:29 pm
I am trying to look objectively and I see three things:
Jeanette 123
6/28/2011 11:47:30 pm
Here are my thoughts with thanks to IM since most of the info from the discussion on that site. I had said some of this earlier.
molly malone
6/29/2011 12:20:19 am
@ Brad.
cuzIsaidso
6/29/2011 12:30:31 am
cuzIsaidso
6/29/2011 12:35:49 am
The only alternative explanation I see for no indication of fresh tattoo scabbing/redness is that what we see in the above photo is the thermal stencil transfer one has placed prior to actual tattoo. It's hard to imagine why one would take a break mid-process, but certainly a possibility.
lilly lily
6/29/2011 12:37:22 am
Sun streaked curls on left side, a younger boy. Darker, much darker hair on right with no tan at all. The hand streaks might be old healed wounds.
Molly
6/29/2011 01:01:34 am
Here is another photo of Levi with Mercede. He has the Johnston tattoo and he also has the Bristol tattoo on his finger, so it was obviously taken at a later date. What is interesting is that if you zoom in on the photo, there is a picture of a baby in the cabinet behind Levi. I know it could be anyone's baby and anyone's house but the pic may be helpful in dating the other ones.
Anonymoose
6/29/2011 01:04:55 am
Mercede is telling us there are two babies. The baby on the left is obviously, undoubtedly larger therefore older than the one on the right. The picture on the right with the younger baby was definitely taken after the photo on the left, because you can't hide a tattoo that big. So, who are these two babies? I think the one on the right (ruffles?) looks like a baby with down syndrome, so I would guess Trig. Which baby is Levi's? I would guess the one on the right. So why did Levi take a photo with the baby on the left?? Did he really think this was Sarah Palin's baby, then discovered it was a borrowed baby while she waited to poach his own son as her own? Why did Bristol take this photo of Levi??
V
6/29/2011 01:10:46 am
If Mercede really does have information that would expose the baby hoax, I wish someone would let her know that she won't be completely safe until she does.
molly malone
6/29/2011 01:12:10 am
@ cuzisaidso.
silver
6/29/2011 01:30:59 am
It would not be Tripp in the green shirt picture as there is no tattoo yet, unless Tripp was born earlier than they claim he was.
Phyllis
6/29/2011 01:54:11 am
Has any woman on here ever brought their baby home in the hospital receiving blanket?
SLQ
6/29/2011 02:16:24 am
FWIW, I don't think the marks on his forearm or the back of his hand are bruises. If the L pic is Levi in the hospital with Trig (April 18), and the R pic (May 3?), that's 15 days. After 15 days, a bruise is either gone or faintly yellow. I got several bruises two weeks ago. They are gone.
SLQ
6/29/2011 02:19:22 am
V, I think the reason he got it on his 18th birthday is that he no longer required parental permission. (Someone posted AK law that you have to be 18.) So, if he turned 18 on May 3, he would have had to have his mother's permission. If she was going to give permission anyway, why wait until you're 18?
lilly lily
6/29/2011 02:25:51 am
Another thing.
Mhurka
6/29/2011 02:39:50 am
Levi definitely looks older in the right photo. His musculature is much more bulkier and more developed. Barring steroid use muscles don't develop that quickly.
Up
6/29/2011 02:56:31 am
I see the same kid, different lighting, but with a haircut. He looks ruddy in both pictures, and the muscles etc. look the same to me.
Anonymoose
6/29/2011 03:06:35 am
Also, Levi appears to have waxed his eyebrows between photos. Lol.
Melly
6/29/2011 03:12:52 am
We're basing too much on things Mercede said.
lilly lily
6/29/2011 03:26:08 am
Wholy Mary, surely you are spassing?
Viola-Alex
6/29/2011 03:34:20 am
Rubbernecking's link to Levi's hairdo in 2007-08 Hockey season jives with another thought I had about his appearance in these two photos. ( I'm drawing a bit on my own experience of my son's high school phases. . .)
viola-alex
6/29/2011 03:39:44 am
Phillis, I like how you think. No woman brings her baby home in the hospital receiving blanket-- except for a baby which could not publically have been bought for or had showers for.
V
6/29/2011 03:52:24 am
With respect to Tripp, Bristol received loads of presents. With respect to Trig, there was a baby shower - but wasn't it after Sarah's faux delivery?
Anonymoose
6/29/2011 03:57:51 am
Tattoo looks like it is in the right place to me.
alexis
6/29/2011 04:02:16 am
@Anon
Palintologist
6/29/2011 04:17:14 am
As creepy as it sounds I suspect Keith is the father and Bristol the mother of Trig. Maybe drugs, money or spite involved.
Anonymoose
6/29/2011 04:18:48 am
Why would Star magazine, Playboy, and whatever other publications that have printed photos of Levi bother to photoshop in a tattoo? And what a coincidence that they all managed to photoshop the tattoo in the exact same place. Plus didn't some people from politicalgates go to Vegas to interview Levi, and then write a blogpost that mentioned his tattoo? If there was no tattoo, they would have noticed and said something. Plus you can see just the edges of it in plenty of photos, which would be difficult to photoshop. Like the cover of Star, if you look closely you can see the black shadow of the tattoo on the underside of his arm near the sleeve. And why bother photoshopping in a dark shadow? This is a red herring, and distracting from the real evidence
Palintologist
6/29/2011 04:24:05 am
Eventually this story will finally break and then Sarah will have a new theme song. I'm thinking Warren Zevons' "Lawyer's, Guns & Money" might be suitable as he sings the lyric "The S#*t has hit the fan"
Anonymoose
6/29/2011 04:29:50 am
@Palintologist The thing I don't get about this theory is if Bristol and Keith were having an affair and got pregnant, why did Levi stick around and have a kid with Bristol (or if Mercede is telling the truth, try to get pregnant on purpose with Bristol). Could Levi be screwed up enough to get engaged to someone who was cheating on him with and got impregnated by his father? Wouldn't the Johnstons have hated Bristol way back in April/May for screwing their father and breaking up their parents marriage(apart from the ick factor), as well as cheating on Levi? And not be in the kitchen of the cheater/family wrecker happily taking photos of the love child that broke up their family? It doesn't make sense.
FrostyAK
6/29/2011 04:33:03 am
Left pic looks as if Levi had been working at a laborer/construction job over the summer. Tan and summer blonde hair is telltale of that here in AK. Tanning beds are used by many, but they don't leave tan lines, unless some idiot wears a shirt while tanning. Nor do they put blonde tips on the hair.
lilly lily
6/29/2011 04:42:59 am
In essense we are trying to make sense out of the nonsense Sarah Palin has put out there.
lilly lily
6/29/2011 05:00:01 am
Bristol is very cocky and pleased with her new face and her finances, plus the publicity which enables her to capitalize on all the lies. She will become loose lipped in these interviews.
viola-alex
6/29/2011 05:17:53 am
Lilylily, I like it. So, to make sure I follow you-- There are three babies. Baby #1 born to Bristol/Levi sometime in fall-spring 2007-8.
viola-alex
6/29/2011 05:26:39 am
RE: tattoo. Will someone explain to me what that straight, white edge is on Levi's arm (Photo 2) with tattoo on one side and ruddy skin on the other. It's very much an edge, with two different skin colors on either side.
Ferry Fey
6/29/2011 05:27:51 am
I brought my first baby home from the hospital in the blanket she got there. Teal and tan stripes, IIRC. Some people do.
Jeanette 123
6/29/2011 05:47:17 am
I don't think we can believe any dates on these pictures and should assume that things could have been photoshopped in or out to confuse us about the dates. For instance the Johnston could have been photoshopped in and the birthday cake put there to make it look as though it was taken on Levi's birthday. I know Levi had this tattoo but he may not have had it when this picture was taken.
lilly lily
6/29/2011 06:02:24 am
I would imagine they didn't realize Baby 1 was as fragile as it turned out to be. Or that it was FAS.
alexis
6/29/2011 06:03:52 am
@Jeanette 123
lilly lily
6/29/2011 06:05:30 am
Sorry, not fruit drinks but wine coolers that relaxed her. And then knocked her out to the degree that she remembered nothing. Was unconcious?
ProChoiceGrandma
6/29/2011 06:17:25 am
@viola-alex, It looks like Levi's arm is shaved in pic #2, which would indicate that the "Johnston" tatoo is fairly recent, although it doesn't appear red or swollen. Since I've never had a tatoo, I can't speak as to how quickly it would heal, or even if it looks fine as soon as it is completed.
lilly lily
6/29/2011 06:25:15 am
Bristol evidently (I haven't read her book and won't) wrote that she never drank. That she didn't know the differences between vodka, beer and whiskey.
lilly lily
6/29/2011 06:39:01 am
Another thought. A FAS baby would be much less of an issue than a Downs child.
lilly lily
6/29/2011 07:04:51 am
Sorry, A downs child would be less of a problem to explain than a FAS child.
ginny11
6/29/2011 07:08:39 am
Hmmmm....after looking at quite a few photos of Levi where we can see his tattoo, I have to say that I think it is quite possible that it WAS photoshopped into THIS picture with Trig in the Palins' home.
Viola-Alex
6/29/2011 07:34:41 am
RE: photoshopped tattoo. That's my point about the line between whiter/rosier skin. Yes, ProChoiceGrandma, that could mean shaving. BUT it could also mean photoshopping. This would be quite easy. The 'shopper lifts the tattoo from another photo, resizes it, positions it, and voila! There will be an edge if the tattoo isn't cropped tightly. Anyone could do this. Especially since the baby footprints have been added to the photo.
Molly
6/29/2011 08:03:15 am
RE: photoshopped tattoo as well. I just went back and had a closer look and I do see the line as well between the white/rosier skin too. It is quite defined. It is also obvious above the tattoo. My thoughts were that he shaved the area before the tattoo was applied (is that normal?) or the lighting is playing tricks with us or else it is photoshopped. 6/29/2011 08:15:10 am
Thank you everyone for a great discussion. More than anything else, I am intrigued by the idea of a boy wearing a wedding band. Either you wear one b/c you're married, or you don't wear one. A gold band on that finger means one thing. You don't usually have fun with a ring on that finger for nothing!
DebinOH
6/29/2011 08:22:15 am
Well, I personally think both babies look the same. I had a 5#7oz baby and a 5#14oz baby and they were tiny. We had to get special diapers for the 5.7 one because when he lost weight after birth he couldn't fit in regular newborn diapers. Both babies have an incredibly small face. The baby Sally Heath is holding has such a full face that I don't think that baby is either of these babies. 6/29/2011 08:32:49 am
I know, Deb, I have asked the same thing, and in fact, Doc and I are looking at a few pictures. No promises for when we'll have something to post, but as the mom of a 5.14 oz-er with feeding issues who hovered in the 10th percentile, I've LONG wondered the same thing. 6/29/2011 08:34:17 am
My two cents concerning the tattoo is that although we may not be able to ascertain the exact date Levi added it to his arm, it is most certainly present in every photo I can find of him that is obviously dated since 8/29/08, and probably in some photos prior to that date. This of course includes the famous kitchen photo. I wonder if possibly the tattoo is even present in the green shirt photo, but the angle of his arm does not quite show it? Any speculation that the tattoo has been Photoshopped into the picture is most likely nonsense. The tattoo is clearly visible in many later shots of Levi. As for the baby, I think it is Ruffles in both shots; the earlier one was taken at the hospital and the later one in the kitchen was taken days or weeks later. In between the two, Levi simply got a haircut.
daisydem
6/29/2011 08:34:29 am
After looking at all these pictures now, I seem to be more confused than ever. I think a lot of us are. How many babies? How many are Levi's? Maybe none. It is a real puzzle.
DebinOH
6/29/2011 08:35:33 am
Oops, I forgot to add that the ring issue is beyond bizarre. I agree with Laura - a gold band on the left ring finger makes no sense at all.
Molly
6/29/2011 08:37:20 am
Laura, and when he finally lost the ring, he had Bristol's name tattoed on the same finger! Were they actually married? There would only be one reason for that at their age.
viola-alex
6/29/2011 08:59:53 am
AK age of consent = 16.
Punkinbugg
6/29/2011 09:01:32 am
Let's look at the BIG PICTURE:
molly malone
6/29/2011 09:36:06 am
@ Viola-Alex.
Ron
6/29/2011 09:58:22 am
Laura, have you read Mercede's old blog posts about McCain staffers coming to her home and perhaps scrubbing her computer? If I recall, people wanted her to take her hard drive out of town & have someone try to save the deleted files. She has got to have more photos, but I'm sure she's scared for her mom right now.
FEDUP!!!
6/29/2011 10:13:03 am
Well, after checking the pics provided of Levi with his tattoo (Thanks, Alexis!), it seems to me that this first one up above (the one in the Palins kitchen) might be photo-shopped. The start of the letters seems to be a bit farther back than what you see in the other pics IMHO.
SLQ
6/29/2011 10:22:15 am
I've been thinking about the tatoo itself, and wondering what it means. Per Mercedes, Levi got this tatoo immediately upon turning 18, so it is important to him.
Rationalist
6/29/2011 10:33:16 am
In the Vanity Fair article, there's a mention of Palin teasing Levi about how he's going to "lose that ring if he's not careful."
ginny11
6/29/2011 10:39:54 am
Floyd, no one is saying that tattoo never existed at all. We are saying that it seems possible that the Levi/triggybear photo was actually taken weeks/months before May 3 2008, at a time that Levi did NOT yet have the tattoo. And so, to make it look like this pic was taken on May 3 2008, the tattoo was PS'd in. I've seen pretty amazing things done with photoshop, and I have no doubt that it's easily POSSIBLE that this could have been done. Not saying for sure that it WAS done. 6/29/2011 10:53:29 am
Ginny11, I get what you are saying, but I think the whole idea is a bit far-fetched. There are many issues that can cause one photograph to appear quite different from another: lighting, angles, etc. I just think a few here may be diving a little too deeply down into the rabbit hole with this issue. This idea strays a little too far from The Kiss Principle for me. I think neither photo has been altered in any significant way.
SLQ
6/29/2011 12:49:55 pm
Rationalist -- regarding the court records, I may have have a contact would be able to help look for paper records. If you could post the case number or county you found the record in, I can see what I can do.
Cracklin' Charlie
6/29/2011 12:58:22 pm
Jeannette and everyone else,
SLQ
6/29/2011 01:05:50 pm
Rationalist -- never mind. I found it. I will see what I can find, but I'm not hopeful. That is a municipal court (city court), so not likely to be a civil family law issue.
jk
6/29/2011 01:27:10 pm
Could Palin herself, or a family friend, have performed a ceremony so that they were "married in the eyes of God," and never mind the legal niceties? 6/29/2011 01:30:13 pm
Cracklin' Charlie: I think you've got it. Makes a lot of sense. "I'll adopt him. No one will ever have to know." 6/29/2011 01:34:22 pm
Cracklin Charlie, you have presented quite a detailed scenario. You are probably aware that I presented the theory that Ruffles is Tripp in Paradigm Shift; however, as I explained in the book, I do not believe that theory quite as strongly as I think there are three babies. Ruffles is the one who has disappeared. Round Ear is the one most of us know as Trig, and Tripp is the youngest, although his birth date was certainly suspicious.
alexis
6/29/2011 01:58:46 pm
@Cracklin' Charlie
Punkinbugg
6/29/2011 02:38:54 pm
I have a correction to my post. "If you believe the Palin story, it's the wee hours of Saturday 4/19/08." should say "wee hours of Friday 4/18/08."
Cracklin' Charlie
6/29/2011 02:43:14 pm
alexis,
Cracklin' Charlie
6/29/2011 03:47:30 pm
Floyd,
Lidia17
6/29/2011 09:23:14 pm
@Rationalist, I remembering hearing on several occasions from commenters that birth records, marriage records are sealed in AK for a substantial amount of time, like 50-100 years.
lilly lily
6/30/2011 12:06:03 am
I agree that Mercede probably had a scrapbbooking box, and added the baby feet, but doubt the Johnston tatoo was photoshopped.
cuzIsaidso
6/30/2011 12:14:19 am
I think these photos were taken within a relatively short time of each other, not a year apart as some have conjectured. Either Levi darkened/dyed whatever was still blonde after the haircut or the photoshop wiz behind photo#2 erased evidence of the old highlights when he/she added footprints, etc. 6/30/2011 02:23:23 am
Charlie, I do agree with much of your theory, but there is one part that pushed me away from it two years ago. When Bristol appears the first time with a baby on Greta's show approximately 2/19/09. These are the same photos that were referenced here a few days ago in an earlier post. The other problem I have with your theory is of course Ruffles. Neither Trig nor Tripp has a wrinkled right ear. This is the leading issue that makes the story include at least three babies.
Jo
7/1/2011 07:21:35 am
Floyd, 7/1/2011 08:36:40 am
Jo, here is a link to the photo in my own Picasa folder. I have never posted a link to anything from Picasa before. If it does not work for you, please let me know. At this point in time, I could not find this photo at any other location. If you send me your e-mail address, I can send you a direct attachment from my files if you need it.
Jo
7/1/2011 09:32:57 am
Jo
7/1/2011 09:37:03 am
I hit enter too soon with the last 'empty' comment. I was able to access the photo just fine, thanks Floyd.
Cracklin' Charlie
7/1/2011 02:09:45 pm
Floyd, 7/1/2011 11:50:11 pm
Cracklin' Charlie, as I have stated, both here and in the book, your theory is basically a version of what I think is the second most likely scenario. The problem still lies with Tripp's official introduction on Greta's show. Even this theory would have to include more than two babies because the baby in Bristol's arms is no older than 2-3 months. How do you explain that? As for the ear surgery possibility at such a young age, the evidence heavily outnumbers that likelihood. Many blog posts have detailed the evidence against this, from the concept of a doctor doing the surgery in the first place to the chance that the wrinkled ear could be turned into a perfectly smooth one. Unless you can produce new evidence, I am keeping my money riding on the three-baby, Ruffles/Trig/Tripp theory. 7/1/2013 04:43:18 pm
Yes, Levi looks really pale and scared in the second picture. The baby is really cute and lays very close to Levi. The way he holds the baby shows how careful and lovable he is towards the baby. Thanks for sharing. Comments are closed.
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