This image was lost some time after publication.

On Monday, we printed an email from a reader about an encounter with TV's David Cross at the East Village bar, 2A.

Cross wrote in to tell us his side of the story and to clarify that he is not, as the writer asserted, an asshole:

I'd like to respond to the post about my racist writings in the steam on the glass at 2-A the other night. I didn't do that, Gavin McInnes (the "Brave Canadian of Vice magazine") did. I was the guy next to the girl who was next to Gavin. My girlfriend (who was standing in-between Gavin and I at the bar), just told me that Gavin had written "Love Your Race" and I went and added the "ist" part to it as a joke.

Then Gavin started to write all this stupid shit about fucking nigger babies and that's when the boyfriend came running over. So, in fairness to the girl, she did see me write "racist" (or the last part of the word at least). When the boyfriend of the girl who posted this ran over to wipe it off, I was the one who was trying to calm him down and make sure it didn't escalate into something stupider then it was already becoming. This was all before Gavin threatened to punch him in the face. I don't hit people, I try not to get into fights, and I don't write "nigger" on steamy windows. Man, it's one thing when Page 6 writes a bunch of crap that makes you look like an asshole and they barely have any of their facts right, but when you guys do it, I mean, what's the difference? You just post anything that anybody writes in about anybody? Thanks for the "Small Soldiers" shout-out though, that was pretty sweet.

So, there ya go, David Cross, not an asshole. Gavin McInnes: not funny.

Now, as for you, Gavin: We thought you'd dropped the whole "ironic white supremacist" shtick after that Times 'Style' article in favor of "saying stuff to the press that is so left-wing, so-Black Power, that it will make your ears burn off," as you told a previous editor of this site in 2003.

But, what do we know: maybe you were being retro: you were, after all, hanging out in a bar that hasn't been cool for ten years.

David Cross: Love Your Racist
Letter to Gawker from Gavin McInnes