The only questin is: Did O'Reilly's company pay stations to carry his show? I don't know much about the radio business, but from what I gather, that is an unusual situation.
Further, if it is true, and the O'Reilly side was crowing about their initial cleareance of stations, then O'Reilly has been caught in a lie. Even if he didn't know that his syndicators were doing it.
Remember, he's the guy who hammered George Clooney and other celebs who didn'tknow where the Sept. 11th charity money was going.
If Drudge has his story straight, this should dent the credibility of O'Reilly. And don't think that it would not have come out except for Drudge. If true, I'm sure we would have heard about it somewhere else.