UPDATED: Olbermann and the O'Reilly 'Sieg Heil'

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...O'Reilly finds the ADL's standards to be too strict: "[H] called the ADL 'an extremist group that finds offense in pretty much everything'; and labeled ADL president Abraham Foxman 'a nut.'" Perhaps it's because the ADL told him to stop peddling one of the "oldest anti-semitic canards"?

But here of some of O'Reilly's statements over the past couple of years, just about Jews. Which is to say nothing about Arabs, civil liberties, women and rape, the use of violence, and other Sieg Heil-worthy comments:

• In 2005, O'Reilly hosted jew-hating white supremacist David Duke as a commentator on Ward Churchill (note: it would be fine if he were on to discuss his Jew hating and if he were opposed by a sufficiently rational voice).
• Christmas 2004: O'Reilly to Jewish caller: "[I]f you are really offended, you gotta go to Israel"
• “There’s a very secret plan…to diminish Christian philosophy in the U.S.A”
• "[Is the outcry over The Passion because] the major media in Hollywood and a lot of the secular press is controlled by Jewish people?"
• "The New York Times is sitting this [conflict] out, absolutely sitting it out editorially. And I believe it's because they don't want to alienate their liberal Jewish base here in New York City. Am I wrong?"
• "George Soros. He's the moneyman behind it. It's a philosophy. Go on the websites and look at it. It's there. It's a secular, progressive..."
• "You have a very big split in the Jewish-American community. You got a lot of Jewish liberals, a lot of Jewish far-left people, who basically feel that, you know, you don’t have a right to go after terrorists because it’s our fault, the United States’ fault. And some say it’s Israel’s fault because we’ve been mean to them, therefore they have a right to do whatever they want — behead people on camera, all this terrible stuff. OK? That’s a far-left position."

This all doesn't necessarily make O'Reilly a Nazi or completely justify Olbermann's Sieg Heils but it would be nice if every letter from the ADL of this nature would include reasons why a person might go so far...

UPDATE (thanks to Josh Holland): SadlyNo! has their own take on the ADL letter, complete with images of some of your favorite characters giving the ol' Nazi salute themselves... (MediaMatters, Forward, ADL)