Big Brother bigot Aaryn Gries says she is not a racist and that she didn't realize her racist jokes were offensive because "no one had expressed that I was taken that way." Then she voiced them on TV and...plunk plunk plunk plunk (the more you know).

Aaryn Gries, the Big Brother house guest booted last week, can't be racist because she has a black friend, says her black friend. A classic defense just got more classic.

Earlier this summer, before Miley Cyrus became the most offensive white person ever to wield a foam hand and darting tongue, a young woman named Aaryn Gries spewed racist and homophobic bile on a trashy staple of modern life and television called Big Brother. Last night that woman was evicted by her competitors and confronted by audience jeers and a real, live Asian person whose primary function is not to cook rice or do nails, the host of Big Brother Julie Chen. Naturally, Gries' head exploded.

Last night's episode of Big Brother nabbed the show's highest ratings since its season premiere about two weeks ago. About 6.25 million people watched; the only network show to grab more eyeballs was 60 Minutes.