I am reasonably certain you are aware that there was a fight earlier this month involving members of Sarah Palin\’s family.
The initial reports – and, even now, some accounts – make it seem as though the Palins were fighting each other.
In fact that was not so. Based on Bristol Palin\’s (exceedingly profane) contemporaneous description of what happened, a woman pushed her sister and a man attacked her – neither being members of the Palin family. No member of the family disputed a word of what was said at that time – which, if they were fighting among themselves, you would have expected immediately after it occurred, before tempers had cooled down.
But don\’t take my word for it. Click here for an audio of the police interviewing the Palins, and accompanying pictures.
OK, that\’s one.
Now let\’s go to the other – which I am reasonably certain you are not aware of.
There was a brawl between members of Michael Brown\’s family over who would be selling t-shirts featuring their dead relative.
Last Saturday, October 18th, there was a brawl between Michael Brown\’s mother, Lesley McSpadden and his aunt (Pearlie Gordon) and cousin (Tony Petty) over who should be profiting from their dead relative.
Policesources tell us Brown\’s Grandmother, Pearlie Gordon, along withBrown\’s Cousin Tony Petty, were selling t-shirts and other MichaelBrown merchandise.
Apolice report describes a car pulling up and several people gettingout. One of those people, was reported to be Michael Brown\’sMom, Lesley McSpadden. A witness described McSpadden yelling”You can\’t sell this s%$&” One of the relatives, whowas selling, reportedly demanded McSpadden show a document provingshe had a patent.
Thepolice report says that\’s when an unidentified person with McSpaddenassaulted Petty so violently that it resulted in a 911 call. Awitness tells Fox 2 that the weapon was a metal pipe or pole. The suspect reportedly struck Petty in the face. Medics thentook him to Christian Northeast Hospital. The witness said theassault suspect grabbed merchandise and a box of cash believed tocontain about $1,400.
So there you are. Two brawls involving famous families.
-One involves Sarah Palin, a former politician who has been out of office and has not run for any position in 6 years, and apparently was brought on not by family members, but by people instigating a fight with them. That has been plastered everywhere, with no shortage of smirking insinuations about the Palins.
-The other involves Michael Brown, whose shooting death at the hands of Officer Darren Wilson and its aftermath are still entirely current news. It directly involved family members at each other and resulted in an assault and a robbery. There is virtually no mainstream media news of this fight at all, anywhere.
Media bias anyone?
