I fear still get the impression that the reporter (and the Board) seem that feel that whether or not KL's remarks were otherwise defensible, the reporter should be exempted because he was Jewish.

Oh for the sense of a another partner in a firm in which I was once a partner. The conversation was of winter immunisations. Another person committed a spoonerism, intending to refer to his "Flu Jab". Quick as a flash, Ashley replied "You can't say that around here you know". He too was being self-satirising, being on a diet at the time.