Alaska Dispatch lists the Palin drunken brawl among their "Most Read Stories of 2014."

Courtesy of the Alaska Dispatch: 

All of these were topics that captured the fascination of Alaskans -- and in many cases, the rest of the country -- in 2014. From an especially heated Alaska political season and the murders of two Alaska state troopers in the remote community of Tanana, to lighter topics like the ongoing saga of Alaska reality TV and the involvement of the Palin family in an Anchorage tussle that went viral under the hashtag "#PalinBrawl," these are our most-read stories of the year.

The story that received the attention was the one that finally confirmed on September 11, that despite attempts to claim otherwise the Palins WERE there the night of the Throwdown at the Hoedown:

“A preliminary investigation by police revealed that a party had been taking place at a nearby residence and a fight had broken out between multiple subjects outside of the residence,” Castro wrote. “None of the involved parties wanted to press charges at the time of the incident and no arrests were made at the scene. Alcohol was believed to have been a factor in the incident. Some of the Palin family members were in attendance at the party.” 

Of course that was the day after we had already confirmed that here on IM. But really whose keeping track?

When reading this I had almost forgotten that Palin had attempted to preemptively put herself someplace else before the news broke about the brawl.

Unfortunately for her there were just too many witnesses and, eventually, too much evidence that put her right in the thick of things.

A fact by the way, that at least one commenter to her Facebook page knew all along:

On her Facebook page, Sarah Palin posted that she was traveling on Saturday. 

One commenter, Kimberley Vranckaert-Trujillo, claimed to be a witness to the incident, writing in the post thread: “Interesting. ... pretty sure you were not traveling and you and family were on the Southside causing chaos. Saw it happen. Don't fib.” The comment has since been removed.

I have to confess that this was a story that damn near gave me a breakdown as I learned about the story on Monday, September 8th from a single source that I simply could not name, so I had to wait for confirmation to arrive before I could post anything about it on the blog.

Fortunately for me that came in my e-mail box and I literally posted my initial story, with a few mistakes that had to be cleaned up, right around the time that Amanda Coyne posted her piece.

After that is was all about trying to build a fire under the APD to get them to finish their investigation and release the details. That part was excruciating.

But when they finally did it was worth it.

I mean none of the Palins were indicted which would have been better, but at least the police allowed the public access to the audio so that they could hear for themselves exactly the kind of foul mouthed trailer trash that we have been telling everybody the Palins were since way back in 2008.

And that is nothing to sneeze at.