Different but similar

FTR

Don't care about Nugent, or whatev he said. Or any of the following folks...

but... looking at this...

"Martin Bashir, Alec Baldwin, the NBC producer and two reporters who manipulated the Zimmerman 911 tapes...."

Bashir -wished scatalogical debasement
Alec Baldwin - actual racist words, right?
NBC producer, reporters - caught in a lie
Dan Rather - caught in stupid lie +

There are distinct lines they had to cross.

Nugent - not scat'. overtly racist, nor untruthful. Not comparable.

My 2¢