I disagree. Nobody earns the right to be a d-bag. It's just something you don't do, and if you do act like one, no matter how great you once were, you are still being a d-bag.
I don't think he is being a d-bag, my opinion. I do think that certain players because of their past are given (and again my opinion rightly so) the benefit of the doubt. This is one of those cases to me.
Rob