I’ve been saying since I first head the man- O’Reilly is NOT a conservative by nature. He sounds consistently like a liberal who wanted to make money talking who is smart enough to have figured out that making money is not likely as a lefty talker so he adopted a conservative stance but hd/has not the education to know all of what that entails. He gets it spectacularly wrong on occasion and when he does that and gets backlash, he either shuts up about the subject if he simply cannot understand why he went wrong, or he does a little research and discovers what he thought was correct because it accords with his natural liberal mindset was off and then he apologizes and redirects (once) or he hammers down on it and insists that his view is the CONSERVATIVE view and everyone else better come around to his view, and some do.
Only the liberals think BO’R is a conservative.