Yeah but in this instance they had already been offensive on someone's answerphone during one episode of an ongoing series that would be broadcast anyway; there's a big difference between that and hiding behind the comissioner's catch-all "we can't make that, people will find it offensive" phrase (which I'm fairly certain just means they don't want to, however right or wrong that decision is).

I would have expected that section to be edited out of the show in the same way that a sitcom with a bomb/similar episode might get moved around the schedules if something sensitive happened that week. In that "well it's done now, but let's not make life more dificult for ourselves' sort of way. I can't imagine it making nearly as big a spash in the news if the producer had just said "er, no, that's not made the cut and we'd better apologise NOW".