Two months have now since passed since the Brawl and John McCain weighs in

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John McCain makes his first public remarks on the Brawl, from Talking Points Memo

Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) came to the defense of his former running mate, Sarah Palin, on Friday, more than a month after she and her family were involved in a drunken, bloody altercation at a house party in Alaska.

During an interview with Phoenix television station KTVK, the 2008 Republican presidential nominee said he wasn't excusing the brawl but went on to blast the media's coverage of it.

"I think these family affairs are -- I don't know much of the details about it," McCain told the TV station. "Things happen in people's families and I'm not excusing it, I'm not condemning it."

The brawl occurred in September at a house party in Anchorage that was attended by Palin and several members of her family. Witnesses and a police report on the incident said Palin's husband and some of their adult children ended up physically fighting with other party guests. The former vice presidential nominee, meanwhile, was seen yelling profanities during the melee, according to at least one account.

Palin has since called the incident "humiliating," although she and her daughter have criticized the news coverage of it.

McCain echoed that criticism on Friday.

"I just know that the kind of coverage that this got, in my view, is in keeping with the kind of coverage the liberals have accorded to Sarah Palin for a number of years, which in my view, is biased and unfair and sometimes unacceptable," McCain told KTVK.

Of course John is going to be diplomatic about it.  Hoo-hah knows all his secrets.  I'm sure Cindy and Meghan McCain had a good raucous laugh over the brawl however.

And yes John things are going to happen in families.  Did you ever get in a drunken brawl with your dad and brother.  I bet so, I hear John "Jack" McCain Jr. was quite the drunken sailor.

You know I did have some sympathy for John once, back in 2000 when Karl Rove with the blessing of Dumbya spread a nasty lie about John and Cindy's adopted daughter Bridget being John's illegitimate daughter with a prostitute.  That sympathy died when he sold his soul for Sarah Palin.