Most everything is a gray area. But he was asked to pull up his pants. If he did it should be a non-issue. So not sure what happened. As the video shows nothing:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOQI_FhKbw0
As for the guy who dropped the f-bomb. There is one big difference, from what I have read he was never asked to clean up his language. Had he been asked and copped an attitude and the airline tossed him he would be no different. But that fact they just tossed him paints a different story.
Now on CNN:
http://www.cnn.com/2011/TRAVEL/06/16...html?hpt=hp_t2