Michael Vick's book tour has been cancelled because of death threats against him over his dogfighting ring.

I'm not going to pretend to have much sympathy here, given my general dislike for animal abusers, although I'm also disinclined to condone the death threats themselves.

That said, does anyone believe that if Kobe Bryant or Ben Roethlisberger wrote a book, that there'd be anything approaching the same reaction to their book tours? Ditto arena shows by Chris Brown or movie premieres featuring Sean Penn?