Today on the early Show Levi discussed his Playgirl photo shoot and talked more about Sarah Palin

We got to thinking, we’re gonna do it tastefully. We don’t want no bad boy image.

because Levi doesn’t

want to be looked at as some one who’d get naked for fame.

Oh heavens forfend!

Levi feels he was exploited by the Palins during the convention

They used me in the wrong way

but that he wouldn’t change how things have worked out, though he regrets not having a better relationship with Bristol Palin. He also says his mom Sherry is doing well behind bars where she serving time for drugs, and that when he visits her prisoners hold up signs asking to be his cougar.

Watching the interview it was clear that Levi was taking cues from his handlers: His eyes darted to the side and he’d pause before answering questions that required a yes or no. But overall he came across decent, polite and while not super smart, a basically good guy who took the hand he was dealt and parlayed it into a better life. He also admits that he has turned down offers from dating shows and to

do some odd things on camera

so he isn’t a total fame whore. Meanwhile Sarah Palin has turned down repeated requests to come on CBS’s Early Show for interviews, though she’s doing Oprah the day before her book is released. Levi claims Palin left her “governor job” because of the book and offers of money from shows (!), and that he doesn’t expect to be sitting down for Christmas dinner with the Palin family anytime soon.