the audience. the next night he applied. >> i said that bill o'reilly represents the bravery of those other fought in the war. and while it's true he literally said the words, it stands for bravery, it is quite clear from the context, he was not giving his own views but talking about how some other people view or understand the flag. we should not have attributed that view to him. fair is fair and i apologize. >> now we accept his apology and acknowledge courage it took for him to do that. that kind of thing rarely happens in the media these days. case in point. publisher weekly magazi which ignored one of the biggest books of the year killing reagan. i pointed out accurately that killing patton was the biggest selling book of 2014. thus it was inexplicable that killing reagan was ignored. and that happened because of ideology as a staff of publishers weekly is heavily liberal. the magazine responded saying