It took 329 days and the re-release of Bill O’Reilly’s naughty pulp novel “Those Who Tresspass” to get O’Reilly to admit he was wrong and to apologize, but he still let Bush off the hook.

Previously O’Reilly said he would never trust the Bush administration again if WMD didn’t turn up in Iraq. They haven’t, yet unsuprisingly he seems all too willing to accept the president’s current claims that it was the intelligence was faulty after years of hearing the diametric opposite of that statement. Who’s spinning now?

“I was wrong. I am not pleased about it at all and I think all Americans should be concerned about this.”

Update: Viewers of The GMA interview indicate that this may be less of an apology to the American people than a rare case where Bill isn’t on his own show, is pinned down, and ends up being forced to admit the truth.

No mention of the apology on his radio show, no mention of it on his TV show. He’s burying it. We’ll give it a few days to breathe, but it’s clear O’Reilly has admitted he was wrong but we still may be waiting for the apology he owes us.