Posted on 08/08/2006 8:59:04 PM PDT by woofie
Keith Olbermann Countdown with Keith Olbermann MSNBC July 28, 2006
Dear Mr. Olbermann,
We are deeply dismayed by your ongoing use of the Nazi "Sieg Heil" salute, both on your program and in public appearances -- including the recent Television Critics Association press tour -- while holding up a mask of Fox News commentator Bill O'Reilly.
While we understand that your aim is to entertain your audience by taking pot shots at Mr. O'Reilly, your repeated use of the Nazi salute has resulted in many complaints from our constituents, including Holocaust survivors and their families who find the use of this gesture offensive and repugnant in any context.
The Nazi salute is more than just a remnant of history, but serves as a calling card for modern-day neo-Nazis and white supremacists. We believe that the use of gestures and imagery associated with the Nazis even in jest only serves to trivialize the Holocaust and denigrate the memory of the six million Jews and others who died as a result of Hitler's Final Solution.
As a respected and well-known media personality, your actions have consequences and can set a standard for others to emulate. We are especially concerned that young people viewing your program might take their cues from your free use of the "Sieg Heil" salute.
In light of these concerns, we hope that you will reconsider your use of the Nazi salute in the future.
Sincerely,
The Anti-Defamation League
Of course I'm not, but someone close to you should.
...the ADL, and their stated claim that doing what John Cleese did...
But the ADL didn't mention Cleese, did they? You did. You equated the performance of Cleese in Fawlty Towers with Olbermann's sad display. If you can't distinguish those two contexts, you're really quite dense, and I simply don't have the training I would need to help you remedy your cognitive shortcomings.
The entire thread is about Olbermann's behavior and the ADL's response to it. Your equation is obvious.
Hold your breath.
Are you frowning?
Knock it off!
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Hey he's just catering to his audience in a free market society.
And the market has spoken.
O'Reilly: 2,102,000
Zahn: 605,000
Grace: 580,000
Olbermann: 452,000
It might be the pot calling the kettle black. These lefty socialists have all of the makings to be just as fascist as the Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei. It was Hitlar who believed that the state was superior to the individual and used Himler to create an Aryan Race Project to institute an new faith. Such a faith was to replace the Christian faith with a faith in the "pure blood" of Nordic and Germanic mythology. The cult of the warrior elite surrounded those in state leadership. Hitler as the prophet of the Germanic people was given a godlike position. Christianity was discouraged as a practice that would not yield its full devotion to the fuhrer and for its insistence in the sinfulness of mankind. The Christian cross was replaced with the swastika to as Hitler said, "the red expressed the social thought underlying the movement. White the national thought. And the swastika signified the mission allotted to us the struggle for the victory of Aryan mankind and at the same time the triumph of the ideal of creative work which is in itself and always will be anti-Semitic." (Mein Kampf) This is the same Utopian ideal that the Left embraces and one that deludes such mental disasters as Olbermann.
The tragedy of the Left is that they fail to see the parallels in their Cult of the State to the most bloodthirsty regime to ever inhabit the Earth.
O'Reilly does have a few bits of propaganda in common with the Nazis. But hmmm...what a mess.
O'Reilly: Liberal Jews Are All Big-City Newspapers Have Left
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1671430/posts
Don't forget that pic of Hitlery kissing Mrs. Arafat.
Doesn't suprise me in the least. the Nazi's were after all a LEFT-WING group of Socialists.
I think this is a case of projection, where Mr. Olberman is projecting his own Nazi beliefs onto someone else in order to see his own beliefs.
I do however wonder if Mr. Olberman was a "right=wing nut job" if he would still have a job?
I'll bet not!
Shhh....Don't mention the war.
That was the absolute most obvious giveaway of Hitlerys anti-semitism, especially after Suha said Israelis are poisoning Palestinian kids. Hitlery couldn`t contain herself after hearing that and had to kiss her. By the way, that Nazi salute thing with Hitlery is no joke. 6 years ago she marched in a parade about 2 blocks from me when she was running for Senator, and this woman does not wave, OK? And I watched her for about 30 minutes (while me and some friends heckled her). She extends her arm and that`s it. She doesn`t go straight out rigid with the arm, she doesn`t make it obvious, but she comes pretty damn close. It`s all a power trip with her.
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