Mark Halperin: ‘Exciting Things Happen’ When The Palins Drink

Mark Halperin attends the world premiere of "Knife Fight" during the 2012 Tribeca Film Festival on Wednesday, April 25, 2012 in New York. (AP Photo/Evan Agostini)
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Is it safe to joke about the Palin brawl now?

In an interview with the New York Times Magazine published Thursday, Bloomberg Politics’ Mark Halperin and his co-editor John Heilemann were asked if they’d rather split a six-pack with Sarah Palin, Michelle Obama or Hillary Clinton.

“I’ll go with Hillary Clinton right now, only because she’s a little more relevant to our forward-looking lives,” Halperin responded. “But when the Palins drink, apparently exciting things happen.”

Halperin was no doubt referring to the epic, booze-fueled fistfight that some members of the Palin family, namely Bristol and Track Palin, were involved in back in September at a house party. The story was revived this week after the Anchorage Police Department released photos and audio from the scene of the brawl.

Sarah Palin herself finally addressed her family’s involvement Thursday on Facebook.

“Looking at the reports, it strikes me as bitterly ironic that the same people who tell us there is a ‘war on women’ have no problem laughing at the recording of my daughter crying as she tells police about being assaulted by a man,” Palin wrote. “I’d like to say shame on the media and those on the left laughing at her or at any young woman in a similar situation, but I no longer think they have any shame.”

h/t Mediaite

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  1. Hilarious and 100% correct.

  2. Is it wrong that I can’t stop smiling?

  3. I’d imagine though, the Palins had much more than 3 beers each that night.

  4. So because of the ongoing war on women, an adult woman who drinks too much and aggressively assaults another adult and then lies to the police about it is above criticism because, after all, she’s just a woman?

    A paragon of feminism, that Sarah Palin.

  5. The MSM smells Palin blood in the water.
    Her 15 min. is officially over.

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