Bill O’Reilly’s commentary on the Brian Williams scandal lacked the venom with which the longtime host of The O’Reilly Factor, aka the “No Spin Zone,” often blasts the “pinheads” in his cross hairs.

Bill O’Reilly left Fox News this week for a long-planned vacation to Italy and the Vatican, with his fate in the hands of a Murdoch family calculating the risks and rewards of keeping him on or ...