Posted on 08/08/2006 9:03:01 PM PDT by infoguy
Via Drudge.
The Anti-Defamation League (ADL), a prominent organization that has been combatting anti-Semitism and bigotry for 90 years, has issued a letter to MSNBC Countdown host Keith Olbermann. The letter, dated July 28, 2006, takes serious issue with Olbermann's repeated use of the Nazi salute while badgering Bill O'Reilly. The body of ADL's letter begins as follows:
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.
View the ADL's letter in its entirety here at their web site.
And the repercussions as a result of this letter will be ... ? Anyone?
Keith Olbermann ...
Does this guy not realize that people still suffer from the effects of the Holocaust? The guy has to be a narcissist..
And a putz.
Can't stand him.
And why does MSNBC still have him on?
He's an ignorant, lying, juvenile a$$.
Who are they going to replace him with?-I'm sure the blow-dried big head types are not exactly knocking down the doors to work there;)
Olbermann is just basically not too smart. To compensate he adopted the views of the left so as to get east atta boys.
do you have to ask?
I have yet to see anything on this from MSNBC. Are they stonewalling, or has no one bothered to ask them about it?
And, if he held up a bloody sword while hoisting the mask of O'Reilly, this would be somehow better?
Yeah, well, it got him a gig on MSNBC..
Which means....
Jack.
LOL... yeah.. it would leave a great big hole in that time slot..
What a about Poodle Boy Ron Reagan Jr..
:D
Yes... I applaud the ADL...
Amazing isn't it? You'd think the PC Police would have ticketed him by now.. but I guess he's got the LLL Get Out Of PC JAIL Free Card..
It is a little funny in a way. I've never actually watched him but it sounds like he is trying to all kill apposing views that he can. Kind of reminds me of Germany's brown shirts before the second world war. He seems more like what he is calling others are. That is what is funny to me.
Olbermann is a dick. And under Foxman, the ADL has degenerated from a once useful (if often unfortunately shrill) organization that stood up for Jewish American interests to a liberal mouthpiece. Foxman should start worry about real problems for American Jews. Like the birthrate. And intermarriage. And terrorism. And shrinking synagogue attendance rates for the Reform and Conservative movements.
Not Mel Gibson and Keith Olbermann.
ADL ping.
Olbermann is a wad.
Yes, to me it is bizarre the behavior of some who think it's okay to do this...
You are right, he is exactly what he is calling others..
Yep...
A friend of mine was corresponding with him by email... Olbermann got vicious, it was far, far more than the Hitler salute..
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