Mr. Bill O'Reilly
Fox News Channel
1211 Avenue of the Americas
New York, NY 10036

Dear Mr. O'Reilly:

As but one American, I deem it necessary to take issue with you in the strongest possible terms for the Information Stuporbahn for that dirty little habit you have over recent days of equating what you see as being "dangerous" left-wing websites (in particular The Huffington Post) with Nazi-era propaganda techniques used to attack real or imagined enemies, howbeit without credible proof or substantiation.

(Examples documented by Media Matters for America in this respect can be seen here and here. In other words, "you knew what you were doing.")

Which, for starters, begs the question of whether or not you may be guilty of projection in the psychiatric sense--shifting onto your enemies, real or imagined, the problems you're unwittingly and/or unconsciously bringing on yourself. I call your attention to these very words from your very lips, as transcribed by MediaMatters (emphasis supplied):

First you have to demonize; first you have to create the hatred. Then you can take action. Now the hatred is by left against left. That's what's going on there.

With those words in mind, I would like to bring up @ this time the name of Julius Streicher, a high-ranking Nazi Party majordomo out of Nuremburg who epitomised such an approach by way of the tabloid weekly Der Sturmer ("The Attacker;" motto, "A German Weekly Newspaper in the Fight for Truth"), which Herr Streicher founded in 1923 and continued, practically single-handedly, until just before the Nazi defeat in 1945.

Streicher's forte was anti-Semitism used in interconnexion to sex and/or scandal, with the crudest of pornography incorporated to better appeal to its readers--for the most part, children and the Dregs of Nazi German society (as the Lower Working Classes, for example)--explaining its "written-so-you-can-understand-it" hypersimplicity. Said hypersimplicity reinforced with the cartoons of "Fips" (t/n Philipp Rupprecht) depicting Jews in the most offensive caricatures still used by the Archie Bunker/Alf Garnett crowd to whip up anti-Semitic hate: fat, gross, disgusting-looking, filthy, drooling in their greed, sexually inclined all the more towards pedophilia, usw.

Or, for a change of pace, depicting Jews as the lowest forms of vermin threatening "Aryan Racial Honour" (snakes, rats and monkeys were particular favourites for such anti-Semitic allegory in cartoon form).

Not to mention an arrogant pride being taken in news that Der Sturmer was especially popular among school-aged boys attracted to its crudely pornographic descriptions of homosexuality and prostitution, and their interconnexions (or so alleged) to Jews and Jewry.

All in all, enough to attract readers galore: From an average of 14,000 copies/week in Weimar-era 1927, Der Sturmer's circulation, thanks to impressive marketing techniques including strong-arm tactics involving various Nazi-affiliated organisations, would climb to a peak of 486,000 copies/week by 1935, not counting the many untold millions who glanced @ the latest editions in display cases installed practically everywhere across the Third Reich groups of people would naturally gather (factory lunchrooms, tram and bus stops, railway stations, even local parks were favourite locales therefor).

As if that weren't enough, no less than Adolf Hitler "himself" was so impressed by Der Sturmer's "written-so-you-can-understand-it" approach to exploiting anti-Semitic feelings, it was said that Der Fuerher read every edition throughout every week. And some of the more influential leaders in the regime endorsed Der Sturmer as essential to the cause of "patriotic" anti-Semitism in fawning terms such as these from Gauleiter of Danzig Albert Forster:

With pleasure I say that the Stürmer, more than any other daily or weekly newspaper, has made clear to the people in simple ways the danger of Jewry.

Without Julius Streicher and his Stürmer, the importance of a solution to the Jewish question would not be seen to be as critical as it actually is by many citizens.

It is therefore to be hoped that those who want to learn the unvarnished truth about the Jewish question will read the Stürmer. 

As if that weren't enough, Ernst Heimer, editor of Der Sturmer, thus defended its hypersimplified approach to anti-Semitism in an essay thus published in 1935:

The Stürmer is the paper of the people. Its language is simple, its sentences clear. Its words have one meaning. Its tone is rough. It has to be! The Stürmer is not a Sunday paper. The Stürmer fights for truth. A fight is not fought with kid gloves. And the truth is not smooth and slippery. It is rough and hard.

And make no mistake about it: Der Sturmer's crudity of anti-Semitism was enough to translate into the wholesale genocide of an estimated six million Jews by the Nazi regime in Germany or areas under its control by means including, but not necessarily limited to:

• "delousing" showers as were really gas chambers, followed by cremation;
• firing squads arranged so that the corpses would fall into freshly-dug mass graves;
• overwork on forced-labour gangs (in some extreme cases, reinforced by sadistic abuse from supervisors); and
• use as "guinea pigs" in "medical experiments" of dubious or otherwise questionable merit.

And it was because of Der Sturmer's power in influencing such depravity of anti-Semitic opinion, and its inevitable result, that Herr Streicher was among those high-level leaders of the Nazi regime brought before the Nuremburg War Crimes Tribunal in 1945-46 to answer charges of Crimes Against Humanity and Peace brought by the Four Allied Powers (the United States, Great Britain, France and the then-Soviet Union).

And, in the end, Herr Streicher was sentenced by the tribunal to death by hanging alongside Hermann Goering (who bit into a cyanide capsule before sentence was carried out), Arthur Seyss-Inquart, Fritz Sauckel, Joachim von Ribbentrop, Alfred Rosenberg, Hans Frank, Wilhelm Frink, Alfred Jodl, Ernst Kaltenbrunner and Wilhelm Keitel. (As the gallows trap was sprung, Herr Streicher shouted "Purimfest!", contending all the while that the proceedings were a Jewish plot.)

With that in mind, then, what sense of Decency have you, Mr. "No-Spin Zone," to equate those exercising their right to free expression and speech online to the Nazi regime and its depraved excesses and travesties of power and authority when it's really you as should be guilty of these same charges?

Or what prevents your recognising any sense of Decency, let alone Morals and Common Sense, in that which I have just discussed?

"Actions have consequences." Think about it.

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MEMO TO READERS: You are strongly urged to share this with all your friends, especially such as are so hard-wired into their blind acceptance of Fox News Channel as Holy Writ, so to speak.

Especially so to Mr. "No-Spin Zone" "himself," who deserves this message all the more. Especially because of its citing historical facts as are well-documented, and which should serve as warning to future generations.

Especially in this instance. Remember, "silence=acceptance."