Seems more like a straight-up loser than anything to me. But who am I. I'm surprised that so many find disrespect like that to be so funny?

Mostly because the woman who was interviewing him was acting like an entitled hosebag. Whether the kid was in the wrong on the show or not, she didn't have the right to talk down to him like that.

BTW, major update.
http://uk.reuters.com/article/intern...D6370020080116
The myspace page they quote in the story isn't even the actual kid. Opie & Anthony had an interview yesterday with someone they thought was the kid from the video. Then this morning, admitted they got pwned, big-time. They called the guy back, had some fun with him, and got him to drop the accent. Turns out the guy just put together a bogus myspace, claiming to be the kid that threw the party, and the news-people bought it.