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UPDATED: Olbermann and the O'Reilly 'Sieg Heil'
August 9, 2006 |
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The Anti-Defamation League penned a fairly soft plea to Keith Olbermann to quit using the "Sieg Heil" when referring to Bill O'Reilly.
It's offending Holocaust survivors and others, they say. Fair enough. The voices of Holocaust survivors should be heeded with great care and tenderness -- as should the voices of other tragedies.
However, first I'd like to see them. In their words. Then, I'd like for them to be introduced to O'Reilly's words. And THEN we can talk of curbing the "Sieg Heil."
In a beautifully ironic twist...
Evan Derkacz is a New York-based writer and contributor to AlterNet.
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