I used to equate Rove with a Republican.
Rove lives to gain that very last electoral college vote by winning that last county that will put the GOP over the top. He knows that the independent voters are not yet behind the Obama eligibility issue and so does O'Reilly.
Despite wimping out on the BC issue, to retain invites to WH parties and interviews, O’Reilly’s interview was so relatively aggressive that he was accused of being a racist by the left and of disrespecting Obama by Oprah. He repeatedly interrupted Obama and told him flat out that his deficit reduction efforts were crap. If O’Reilly hadn't been able to get into the WH for the interview, he wouldn't have been able to hammer Obama as much as he did (while doing a little kissing up to massage Obama’s ego and promote Fox).