What's really interesting about Michael Reagan issuing death threats and soliciting a contract for murder on his nationally syndicated radio show is the fact that it has received almost no coverage in the mainstream press. When Don Imus referred to members of the Rutgers women's basketball team as "nappy headed hoes", every major media network dedicated hours upon hours covering it until he was eventually fired. When Rush Limbaugh made a comment about black quarterbacks not being as good as white quarterbacks on ESPN, he was forced to resign after the resulting media firestorm. The comments made by Imus and Limbaugh were at worst inappropriate and in poor taste. Both Imus and Limbaugh had the right to say these things under the protection afforded to them under the First Amendment. What Reagan did by soliciting a contract for murder is a felony and far beyond anything that Imus and Limbaugh did to warrant the media coverage they received. Essentially what the mainstream press is saying through their coverage is that making politically incorrect statements over the airwaves is more news worthy than somebody soliciting a contract for murder over the airwaves.
