"O'Reilly is not going to go to that extreme because he's afraid to as he has to project himself as independent. "
I suppose that we disagree upon the meaning of the word "extreme". Frankly truth is quite extreme to some and obviously that applies to orielly.
I agree with you - I meant extreme to the left or extreme to the right. He should really have made a better so called "3 week investigation" than he did where he was only looking at documentary evidence and did not interview all 264 vets and credit their eyewitness. He shouldn't have bragged that he investigatede the matter when he didn't do "due diligence" (on that point, he is like the MSM).