Though I would have hoped someone would know that *before* they went ahead and did it.

(Besides, there’s a Daily Caller piece now predictably spinning the story just the way Johnson would like them to, so now he doesn’t need to sully this blog’s rep doing it himself.)

Hmm. Really? Yeah–guess you had to have been there!

I didn’t manage to have the page up with any comments beyond that before Johnson deleted it.

If after reading the responses you decided perhaps you over reacted to Mr. Alexander that’s fine. Leave the post up and update it.

If you disagree with us that’s fine too. Leave the post and update it with your reasoning.

If perhaps someone else removed it or asked you to remove it, that explanation would suffice as well.

But pretending it never happened? I don’t get it.

Whats the next rung on the internet asshat ladder? sock-puppetry? Outing anonymous commenters?

I could always pastebin the text version with more of the comments preserved, as well. Some were rather entertaining.

Oh, Drew, I love it when you name-drop.

I was hoping that after you memory-holed your last post, you’d spend some time reflecting on your sins. Maybe say a few Our Fathers, or sit on a mountaintop in the rain for a night. But no, you’re back to regale us with the notable* things that other people have done in your presence. Or at least to talk about where you were sitting at the time, and then link to the video of someone else telling a funny story.

Let’s talk about the funniest thing I’ve ever watched a video on the Internet of someone else watching a video of and talking about. It was during the debate on the health care bill, when Barbara Boxer got up on the Senate floor and retold a joke that she (or more likely one of her staff) had seen on The Daily Show. The joke relied on physical comedy, which Boxer had to narrate. Jon Stewart then showed the footage of the original joke, and then of Boxer stumbling through her retelling of it, and then Boxer explaining the joke, and what it had to do with the health care bill, and then Jon showed a mock advertisement for a 12-hour DVD collection titled Senator Barbara Boxer Meanders Through “The Daily Show” Like One Of Your Mom’s Friends. And now I’ve just narrated that joke to you, building another tier on this ziggurat of weird meta-comedy.

All of which is to say: if you’re going to tell a story about an interesting thing someone else did, strive to make the story itself interesting. “You had to be there” is not a punchline.

Here endeth the lesson.

* in the Monday Night Football color-commentary sense, where “the most field goals ever kicked in the first half of a game by a team from the Midwest, since 1986″ counts as notable

Now THAT’s a funny story.