I don’t think O’Biley is lying. I just think he is not as informed as he like us all to believe.
If that's true, I think that it is intentional. "Ignorance is bliss" in his support for Obama. He wants to be misled because he believes by not really looking for the truth, and "believing" the propaganda, gives himself 'plausible deniability.' It's not an honest way to go about presenting the news.
I disagree. Anyone who presents themselves as an investigating reporter, or news reporter, or whatever he (pretends) claims to be, must, as part of the job, read from a wide variety of sources and no doubt hires staff to do research as well.
Since he has no other job, he can spend (and most likely does) hours every day reseraching, reading, looking stuff up, getting his staff to search for news, background info, sources, and so on.
He’s choosing carefully to say and present what he does. It absolutely cannot be out of sheer ignorance. He’s a forktongued propagandist and slimey self promoter who is knowingly misleading and lying to the public.
If volunteers and laypeople like those on FR know a billion times more than he does, he has no excuse for supposedly being ignorant. He’s choosing his words carefully. He and his fellow “conservative” or “independent” talkers are a major part of the problem.