So, when does Olbermann apologize to Floyd Abrams?

The First Amendment Advisory Council of the Washington-based Media Institute, has called on MSNBC anchor Keith Olbermann to apologize to their fellow Advisory Council member Floyd Abrams.

While they are not challenging Olbermann’s right to criticize Abrams over his stand on the Citizen’s United Supreme Court decision, they took strong issue with what they said was Olbermann’s likening of Abrams, who is Jewish, to a Nazi collaborator during a Jan. 21 commentary on the decision, which allowed direct corporate and union funding of radio and TV campaign ads. Abrams simply represented “a client whose position you dislike in Citizens United,” they said…

“Floyd Abrams is the foremost First Amendment advocate of our time. He also is Jewish. For any Jew to be compared to a Nazi collaborator is vile, but in the case of Floyd is simply beyond comprehension,” they wrote. “But your offhanded inclusion of this ugly epithet points to a deeper problem that has degraded public discourse – the breakdown of civility….