I found out I was only upset about a misrepresentation of his comment.

What ever happened to that bit about not bearing false witness? O’Lielly said that the slaves were “well fed and had decent lodgings provided by the government”, but he has no way to know that. And what was the purpose of the statement, if not to defend the treatment of the slaves, which he repeatedly denied later … but he’s a serial prevaricator; see Al Franken’s book “Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them”.