The Palin family drunken brawl, five days after the police report.

I thought the above graphic was by far the best I have seen pertaining to the Throwdown at the Hoedown.

A quick Google search of "Sarah Palin" shows that all of the first options are links to stories about the brawl. Indicating that this is now a permanent part of the Palin story, and in fact may continue to define them to the world for years to come.

Speaking of that I watched the MSNBC coverage of the brawl the other day, and was struck by the fact that even they, a cable news channel that has every reason to revel in this news about Sarah Palin, still manages to give the Palin family's version of events way too much credibility.

The reporter Betty Nguyen even waters down the confrontation that the Palins started with Klingenmeyer saying that while he was being interviewed "He began getting into another verbal altercation with the Palins," instead of accurately reporting that Todd and Track walked up to him to start another conflict right in front of the police.

I think one of my favorite pieces about this brawl, albeit also riddled with inaccuracies, was the one by James Wolcott of Vanity Fair in his opinion entitled "The Whalin' Palins: 

"Breathes there a soul so pure and fair that it does not take relish and delight in the unfurling exploits of the Palin clan--Sarah, Todd, Toody, Tripod, Terracotta, Bristol, and Brylcreem?* The latest installment of Palin Family Fight Club is the most epic yet, a boisterous party turned Riot-on-the-Sunset-Strip when the Palins rolled in like badasses and before it was over Bristol whaled away her her fists of fury, the Real Housewives of Anchorage piled on, Todd did his impression of Viggo Mortensen fending off orcs, and Track dove into rescue his father like Ricky Nelson in defense of Ozzie.** And where was Moose Empress Sarah, pray tell? Presumably in the Palin gangsta limo that was parked outside, checking her emails while all hell was breaking loose on this now-historic boogie night.

Yeah it gets quite a lot wrong, but it is still a kick in the ass to read.

I am still wrestling with the idea of how Palin will deal with all of this.

The smart thing would be to ignore it, or to make some self effacing joke about it during the relative safety of a Sean Hanity interview, but Palin is not known for doing the smart thing.

I doubt she will simply create a video response and leave it behind the Sarah Palin Channel paywall as that would not do anything to quiet her critics and would legitimately suggest that she is hiding from the media.

The only question is will she go full "blood libel" or has she learned from past mistakes?

I think we will learn the answer to that question sometime this week.

In other news the SarahPAC quarterly report was just released, and guess who is once again spending more than they are taking in.

Yep they took in only $433,496.82 but managed to spend $483,825.45.

And yes there are still multiple thousands of dollars going toward "postage."

So fiscally responsible, don't you think?