What you say is true.
I would like to compare this to what John Rocker said. Now, from what I can tell the mainstream/elite media hasn't said a thing about DeGenova while the Rocker story was shouted from the highest mountain. What Rocker said was stupid but what DeGenova said in IMHO was a thousand times worst. He can say what he wants but why isn't the mainstream/elite media digging into his mindset of anti-Americanism and treasonous open-border promotions.
The media went ballistic on Rocker didn't they? Maybe because this DeGenova guy is coming off as a sixties style counterculture "intellectual" (socialist) they're laying off of him. Wouldn't suprise me if many in the George McGovern press agree with him.