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O’REILLY: ‘We held back some of this conversation... we didn’t feel it had any relevance to the conversation this evening. We are not out to get Jesse Jackson. We are not out to embarrass him and we are not out to make him look bad. If we were, we would have used what we had, which is more damaging than what you have heard’...

‘We held back some of this conversation... we didn’t feel it had any relevance to the conversation this evening. We are not out to get Jesse Jackson. We are not out to embarrass him and we are not out to make him look bad. If we were, we would have used what we had, which is more damaging than what you have heard’...

O'Reilly has been in the last 6 or 7 years mostly about making sure that he gets the special guests from the left and from the right. The reason for that is to get higher ratings. Once he surpassed Larry King, he needed to do something to keep rising in the ratings. If he can only get guests from the right, then both FOX and O'Reilly would not get as many viewers from the left as they would like in order to get the higher ratings they seek.

If O'Reilly were to report the complete truth on both Obama and Jackson, then they could expect to kiss those two goodbye as special guests. O'Reilly cannot afford to be confrontational with any guests who he would like to get back for future shows. To get higher ratings which include whatever viewers they can get from the left, O'Reilly and Fox are sacrificing confrontation; getting at the truth is confrontational to democrats and that's why there are many liberal senators and congresspeople who will not agree to appear on FOX. And, O'Reilly and FOX know especially well that with the campaign season in full swing, they can't demean, confront, or challenge the guests that they need from the democrats.

O'Reilly and FOX have lately been mostly about kissing the democrats' butts than confronting those lefties about the truth. Ratings are more important to O'Reilly than reporting the truth. O'Reilly is all about ratings, as witnessed by his bragging on a monthly basis when the ratings are reported. O'Reilly is not about getting to the bottom of the story or getting at the truth. and unfortunately, neither is FOX.