The New York Times has written a couple of very mild, very timid pieces about Bill O'Reilly's bullshit war stories—nothing like the scalding pieces the NYT wrote about Brian Williams's bullshit war stories—but O'Reilly isn't exactly reacting with gratitude:

Mr. O’Reilly’s efforts to refute the claims by Mother Jones and some former CBS News colleagues occurred both on the air and off on Monday. During a phone conversation, he told a reporter for the New York Times that there would be repercussions if he felt any of the reporter’s coverage was inappropriate. “I am coming after you with everything I have,” Mr. O’Reilly said. “You can take it as a threat.”

Robyn Pennacchia says liberals shouldn't get their hopes up: Fox News is not going to fire O'Reilly for lying...

I mean, he wasn’t fired for trying to sex up his producer with a falafel and calling her in the middle of the night to tell her stories about “tiny Balinese women” who were impressed by the size of his dick, his fondness for Thai sex shows and penchant for threesomes with “Scandinavian Stewardesses.” He wasn’t fired for lying and saying he had Peabody awards when he did not, in fact, have Peabody awards. I am going to say that as long as Bill O’Lielly’s ratings hold, he is not getting fired.

To be fair, unlike Brian Williams, his job is not actually to deliver facts. If it were, he would probably be in serious trouble every few weeks. Bill O’Reilly is not around for truth-telling purposes. He, like most people on Fox News, is there to provide comfort for scared, old, angry white people, and he does that job very well. These people are not going to be all that phased by this. Sometimes—quite often in fact—that comfort comes in the form of lies and lots and lots of bullshit. Williams’s lies are a betrayal, because people actually thought he was trustworthy. Bill O’Reilly’s lies are the equivalent of your grandpa telling you he walked ten miles to school every day, uphill both ways and in four feet of snow.

If Fox News fired white people for lying, it would be a test signal.