This just in: “Grey’s Anatomy” set just like high school

What if you thought you knew everything there was to know about a pretty sordid story, more than you wanted to, in fact, and yet what you in fact knew was just scratching the surface of an even uglier story?

No, I’m not talking about Dick Cheney’s sinister scheme to create a shadow government that’ll eat our own for lunch. I’m talking about alleged behind-the-scenes hijinx in the ongoing saga that is the “Grey’s Anatomy”/Isaiah Washington melee.

Washington contacted blogger Keith Boykin, once the highest-ranking openly gay member of the Clinton White House, to uncork yet another variation on the story, and, as they say, it’s just so crazy it just might work. The real villain, per Washington, is slur victim T.R. Knight, who was playing sundry cast members off one another in an ingenious scheme to get them both kicked off the show:

“T.R. Knight was very tactical in trying to remove me from the show because he knows that I know, and I was gagged, that he has been working on a conspiracy to get Patrick Dempsey and myself off the show for the last year and a half. … The only reason I used his name, T.R., in the argument was because he had led me to believe that Patrick Dempsey was so abusive and so horrible to people in a two and a half -hour conversation on the plane. For two and a half hours, this boy talked my ear off … about how horrible Patrick Dempsey is and how he needs to be removed from the show. And in my argument, the irony of it is that Patrick happened to show some behavior that was very in line with what T.R. was telling me on the plane and I challenged T.R. to deny it or say this isn't true. … (T)o this day, when I went back to the set Patrick Dempsey and T.R. still have a rift and are still not on speaking terms. They do not talk to each other ... I know Patrick Dempsey has supported me by stating that if there is anyone that needs to be fired it is T.R. Knight because he has created such a negative environment on that set ….

“The producers are not happy about it, and quite frankly, they all think that something has gone awfully awry with the stability of T.R. Knight. And I can freely say this now because I am no longer a Disney employee and I am no longer gagged. But everyone there, including the producers, all the way up to Touchstone, are very disappointed in the behavior of T.R. Knight.”

Either Washington is even more breathtakingly crazy than anyone gave him credit for or it’s amazing that anything gets done on the set of that show. But as entertainingly labyrinthine as Washington’s account is, note that Knight got a raise while he got a pink slip. And does anyone believe T.R. Knight would've had the clout to get McDreamy kicked off the show? (Ah, but perhaps that's part of his genius: Getting Washington to believe he was targeting Dempsey...)

Just when you were completely sick of this story, Washington steps up his game and makes you kind of interested in hearing what his next excuse will be.

Thanks to Greg Hernandez’ own Daily News blog for the tip. (Which means, basically, I stole it from him.)