There has been something lost amid all the noise surrounding Kramergate, like the hateful words themselves, the targets of the rant already hiring a lawyer and issuing a thinly veiled threat of a lawsuit on this morning's Today Show and the ruin of the career of the man who played one of television's most beloved characters. The worst part of the whole thing is that any chance we will ever have to again see the infamous "Puerto Rican Day Parade" episode of Seinfeld is likely gone for a very long time.Immediately after the first showing of the episode, which depicted Kramer accidentally burning a Puerto Rican flag and other things offensive, it faced condemnation. The show's producers immediately pledged to delete the episode from the syndication catalog. According to Wikipedia, the episode started appearing in syndication in 2002 but I don't recall ever seeing it since seeing its original airing. I'm guessing we will not see it again for a long while. To paraphrase Jerry Seinfeld himself, that offends me not as a Jew but as a fan of comedy.
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