Joy Behar to Levi Johnston: You Realize You're a Gay Icon?

The Levi Johnston/Playgirl publicity express continues to roll out across the country as Levi drops by to chat with Joy Behar on her show tonight. This preview clip is only 1:13 seconds long, but actually packs in quite a bit of info such as:

• Levi is a gay icon. Hmm, if this requires a unanimous vote from us 'mos, then I vote no.
• There is a gay adult film out there with a Levi lookalike. Perhaps that is part of being a gay "icon?"
• He didn't want to regret "showing it all" when he got older. I guess he's saving something for his comeback five years from now.
• Growing up, he never saw a gay guy in Wasilla. 
• Gays are people, too!

It does sound as if Levi's world has been broadened somewhat by all of this, but listening to him talk so inarticulately, I actually feel kinda bad for him. The publicity machine isn't kind to most people who end up in it and Levi seems particularly ill-equipped for it. I don't particularly care for the guy, but I do worry there is a bad end in store for him and he doesn't deserve that.

BTW, if you listen closely to what Joy says, it sounds as if every gay guy in the studio popped in to check out Mr. Johnston. 

What do you folks think? Is Levi a gay icon?