O'Reilly makes no sense. He's responsible for putting Carl Cameron on the air to spread this malicious gossip.
It was BOR who pointed out (albeit waaaaay late) that if the gossip was true, it would have been uncovered a long time ago.
I just wish he'd said that when Camron brought it up. But I attribute that, not to malice, but to the kind of mental lapse that everybody goes through occasionally where they don't think of what should have been said until it's too late. The French call it L'esprit d'escalier.