"He shouldn't be a disappointment if you've watched him. I think he's angling for "respectability" among the media elite. He wants to be considered one of the big boys and that means adopting the liberal mindset. i gave up on him some time ago."
Orielly whom I find repugnant and repulsive has the same arrogant "i am god" persona as JFKerry. Now that orielly has his bank vault filled I expect he will be more at liberty to expose exactly what path he plans to take his crusade. (crusade is his word)
I agree with your evaluation. O Reilly has troubled me for some time because even when he seems to come to the right conclusion/view on some issue; he usually got there for the wrong reasons. His views on same-sex marriage and homosexual adoption are prime examples.
How many times have we heard him say, "I don't have any friends, nobody likes me, I don't get invited to any parties, etc." He's now probably started believing this croc and is kissing up to the libs so he can get in on some of the parties, etc.