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Yeah, I’m A Total Jerk

Posted on | February 17, 2010 | 16 Comments

Sometimes — and this happens far too often — I offend people accidentally. Carelessness, thoughtlessness, recklessness. I’m a jerk.

When I wrote earlier about the Hot Air buyout, I didn’t mention my friend Bryan Preston, who was the original video producer for the site and left in 2008. The omission was because I figured Bryan’s departure was a sore spot best left unmentioned. But the omission, it turns out, was even more offensive.

So by an attempt to be tactful, I treated my friend like an Unperson, “The Fifth Beatle,” as it were. But unlike Stu Sutcliffe, Bryan Preston is alive and well and working as Director of Communications for the Republican Party of Texas.

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Comments

16 Responses to “Yeah, I’m A Total Jerk”

  1. Red
    February 18th, 2010 @ 1:52 am

    You can’t be that much of a jerk. A jerk wouldn’t set things right and it sounds like you had the best of intentions in the first place.

  2. Red
    February 17th, 2010 @ 8:52 pm

    You can’t be that much of a jerk. A jerk wouldn’t set things right and it sounds like you had the best of intentions in the first place.

  3. TBinSTL
    February 18th, 2010 @ 2:09 am

    I miss Bryan almost every day visiting Hot Air.

  4. TBinSTL
    February 17th, 2010 @ 9:09 pm

    I miss Bryan almost every day visiting Hot Air.

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    February 17th, 2010 @ 9:32 pm

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  6. Dan Collins
    February 18th, 2010 @ 2:49 am

    Wish Bryan would get back to blogging a little.

  7. Dan Collins
    February 17th, 2010 @ 9:49 pm

    Wish Bryan would get back to blogging a little.

  8. Corrindium
    February 18th, 2010 @ 5:35 am

    Hey, at least you can man up and apologize. Even with a little style.

  9. Corrindium
    February 18th, 2010 @ 12:35 am

    Hey, at least you can man up and apologize. Even with a little style.

  10. Joe
    February 18th, 2010 @ 2:28 pm

    At least you are a jerk who can recognize when you are being a jerk.

  11. Joe
    February 18th, 2010 @ 9:28 am

    At least you are a jerk who can recognize when you are being a jerk.

  12. Brian Paasch
    February 19th, 2010 @ 1:32 am

    Does anyone know if Bryan has a Twitter account? Facebook? LinkedIn?

  13. Brian Paasch
    February 18th, 2010 @ 8:32 pm

    Does anyone know if Bryan has a Twitter account? Facebook? LinkedIn?

  14. Brian Paasch
    February 19th, 2010 @ 2:08 am

    Okay, he is on LinkedIn, but he hasn’t done anything with it.

    http://www.linkedin.com/pub/bryan-preston/13/58a/842

  15. Brian Paasch
    February 19th, 2010 @ 2:08 am

    Okay, he is on LinkedIn, but he hasn’t done anything with it.

    http://www.linkedin.com/pub/bryan-preston/13/58a/842

  16. Brian Paasch
    February 18th, 2010 @ 9:08 pm

    Okay, he is on LinkedIn, but he hasn’t done anything with it.

    http://www.linkedin.com/pub/bryan-preston/13/58a/842