I’m afraid that The Asbury Park Press firing of their journalist may have been ill advised. In today’s politically charged environment. there exist only two mutually exclusive memes: cancellation and martyrdom, and I fear that the offending journalist now has grist for his mill to support the oft repeated canard that “the Jews” have all the power a la The Protocols of the Elders of Zion.

I would rather that this journalist not be removed from his employ, but instead be given the opportunity to come before the Board and give testimony as to why he thought his actions would not incur the condemnation of the editors of the Asbury Park Press.

It would be interesting to hear from him whether he acted thoughtlessly because the environment at the Asbury Park Press was such that disdain for the Lakewood community was not merely acceptable, but was indeed encouraged.

One might speculate as to whether the disemployment of the journalist had less to do with the condemnation of his behavior by Mr. D’Ambrosio and more to do with which whistle the journalist might blow and to whom he might point the finger at were his relationship with the Asbury Park Press not be severed.

Mr. D”Ambrozio’s declaration of his dismay that such an incident could happen at the Asbury Park Press is somewhat redolent of Claude Raines outrage in Casablanca, “I am shocked, shocked that gambling is going on here.”