"I'm still amazed at what happened," he told the Daily News at the time. "The woman wasn't even in the same room. She totally misconstrued what I said. Anybody who knows me knows I don't have a grain of anti-Semitism in my body. Even Abe Foxman, the head of the Anti-Defamation League, said that 'Ronan Tynan had been a friend of the Jewish community all of his life.'"