I'll give O'Reilly one thing, he's got a brain behind that massive conservative ego. Not like George Will or anything, but he's far brighter than the average FOX commentator. And he's more pragmatic than most knee-jerk conservatives which is probably why he is a registered independent.
But he tosses softballs to conservative guests and hammers the liberal ones so it's clear where his politics lie. He still backs Bush, despite his comment:
"If the Americans go in and overthrow Saddam Hussein, and it's clean, he has nothing, I will apologize to the nation, and will not trust the Bush Administration again."
"If [Hussein] has 8,500 liters of anthrax that he's not going to give up, even though the United Nations demanded that he do that, we are doing the right thing. If he doesn't have any weapons, then we are doing the wrong thing." -- Bill O'Reilly
The nation still awaits that apology.