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

Does O’Reilly diddle little boys?

Well, it is true when you go from 2 to 4, it is a 100% increase and I doubt O’Reilly can claim that.

Is Olbermann still doing that Nazi thing?

They don’t.

What you have here are self-selected participants in watching The Factor. Perhaps these people are more likely television viewers than those who might tune in to a show like Olbermann’s. O’Reilly’s viewers might flock to his show because it’s a place where their unpopular opinions are given undue, supposedly serious consideration. Perhaps the simple fact is that people are taken in by the vitriol, and feed on it. After all, people tend to slow down to get a real-good look at car wrecks.

And that’s because I couldn’t find my remote and just happened to have to skip through MSNBC which changing channels.

Hahaha…That’s easy to do when you have so few viewers like Olbermann. A few thousand more people who watch that tripe makes his ratings spike.

“We wish all of you the best over the next four, painful years.”

Wait, he can still choose not to watch, right? Therein lies the difference with the “pain” Cox must endure and the pain the rest of us have had to bear for the last 4 years. And the 2 before that.

How will America survive when we have someone like Keith Olbermann anchoring one news hour on one news channel… wow this whols forcing-yourself-not-to-laugh thing is harder than it seems.

Also, O’Reilly caters to an older audience. Olbermann’s ratings are way up over 2006 in the young demographic, and are now 200k/night behind O’Reilly’s. That means more advertising dollars per viewer for Olbermann than for O’Reilly.

So if you want to cherry-pick ratings to suit your anti-Olbermann agenda that’s fine, but there is a reason Olbermann just got renewed for millions: He’s getting excellent ratings.

O’Reilly averages about 2.4M viewers to Olbermann’s 700K. In football terms, that’s the difference between the San Diego Chargers & the Cleveland Browns.