Posted on 11/12/2007 1:44:47 AM PST by Enchante
When The Bee's Bobby Caina Calvan volunteered for a six-week reporting stint in Iraq, he didn't have the faintest notion he would be nominated for an award.
Just a few days into his assignment, conservative blogger Michelle Malkin did the honors, nominating Calvan for "Jerk of the Year."
That was just the beginning of the accolades. In a matter of days, bloggers and their flock of sheep across the country were calling Calvan an "immature human," "a pompous ass," "disrespectful," an "embarrassment," and an "anti-American military" ideologue.
There were more, but you can't print them in the newspaper.
What was Calvan's great transgression?
He got into a spat with an American soldier manning a checkpoint who questioned Calvan's identification before finally letting the reporter and his Iraqi helper back into Baghdad's secure Green Zone.
Calvan then wrote about the encounter in a snarky, arrogant way – including his attempt to "bully" the soldier – on his new personal blog, which was intended to keep his family and friends updated about his work and life in Iraq.
Except the blog wasn't so private, as Calvan found to his everlasting embarrassment and chagrin.
(Excerpt) Read more at sacbee.com ...
So there seems to be no doubt (except maybe among the loony left) that the reporter is an a-hole who grossly disrespected the US military. Yet, surprise, the “public editor” writes this crap on VETERANS DAY to tell us all that its really only the people who are disgusted by this MSM vermin who are to blame....
And they wonder why all REAL Americans loathe the MSM....
This isn't about them. This is about politics and playing games.
yeah, yeah, yeah.....support the troops, hate the war.
F#ck You.
this puts into music and pics what I think of the press. /a>
Ah, I see that LGF has some interesting details and updates on this MSM bozo. Turns out that other entries on his personal blog (since taken down) confirm that (1) he is an insufferably arrogant leftist MSM twit, (2) who looks for anti-military, anti-American stories while whining about everything. This scumbag needs to be flogged with Sean Penn’s wet panties (not that I’m volunteering for that duty!!!).
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=27680_Media_Arrogance_Squared&only
Media Arrogance Squared
Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 9:54:23 pm PST
An almost unbelievable example of media arrogance, as a reporter for the Sacramento Bee complains about an ID check at the Green Zone, belittles the soldier for not knowing who “Knight Ridder” is, then brags about his bravery at his blog: Simply Simpatico | The GALLIVANT.
Since the little weasel has edited his post to remove some of his creepy comments after being mercilessly criticized by commenters, here’s the original; compare to what you now see at the link above......
I’d missed this story when it first happened, but there’s lots of stuff about this arrogant bozo at these links if anyone’s interested:
http://michellemalkin.com/2007/10/25/jerk-of-the-year-nominee/
http://michellemalkin.com/2007/11/11/editors-defend-jerk-of-the-year-nominee/
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/lgf-showcomment.php?c=4413074&n=181
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/lgf-showcomment.php?c=4413017&n=132
...well did this soldier know who he was dealing with? He was a reporter dammit. They have freedom of press - meaning the laws of the common man don’t apply to them...
"My security man was struggling with a smirk on his face. He knew my plan. I was going to bully my way back into the Green Zone."
If nothing else, the soldier will not forget either the reporter or the fact that he works for Knight Ridder. And now, millions of citizens and tens of thousands of people serving in the military are going to know who this reporter is, and that he works for Knight Ridder. Frankly, this is not the way I would like to have millions of people perceive me. This man is a self described "bully." And before I forget, he works for Knight Ridder.
Well, the soldier obviously should have known that the A/H worked for Knight Ridder - the biggest producer of fishwrap in the nation!
Knight-Ridder?? I think I heard of them once..... they’re the parent company for the folks that make “Charmin” toilet paper, right? Nice and soft on the butt, wish we had more of that over here in I-rak.
“Do you know who I am!!?”
This media a-hole is lucky he didn’t get taken down.
It is instructive that the SacBee’s new Exec. Editor is Melanie Sill. The Melanie Sill who was in charge of the Raleigh News & Observer when they ginned up a lynch mob in Durham and framed the Duke Lacrosse players.
IMO, she and her paper were as much to blame as Durham DA Mike Nifong and Durham PD in that scandal. It will be interesting to see how she handles this one.
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Isn't it fascinating, in a morbid sort of way, how The Jackal Pack Media Hive can't lose that arrogant, condescending tone, and attitude, toward the New Media?
I first noticed it years ago, directed at Rush, but it also bled over to anyone in talk radio.
It then was applied to the Web, once the internet came to the awareness of most people, and now it's being directed at bloggers.
The "free press" sure doesn't like freely expressed opinions much, do they?
1. Bobby, there’s one and only one man alive who can get away with the “You know who the hell I am?” act without sounding petulant...and you ain’t Evel Knievel.
2. Miranda warning for the new era...anything you put on the Web for public consumption can and will be used against you in the court of public opinion.
3. Armando...you’re supposed to speak for the public, not parrot Bobby’s bad opinion of the mean readers who made fun of him.
4. Both of you...frankly, a lot fewer people than you think really care who or what Knight Ridder is. Or McClatchy. Or (enter media company here). Get over it.
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No, Knight Ridder is the company that made a black car that talked and was driven by a guy the turned out to be a drunk.
Of course they don't. The weaker you are the more you need to be protected.
The fact that Knight-Ridder would hire her after the Duke reportage speaks really, really poorly of Knight-Ridder.
Hey, he doesn’t need to get back into the Green Zone for safety. Al Qaida will give him a warm welcome to their camp.
>>What I want to know is whether the blogosphere’s trip-wire is just mindlessly sensitive in igniting outrage or was it just a slow week in the conservatives’ Internet neighborhood?<<
Read the closing comment. It says everything you need to know about the Leftie MSM.
My quick read of the entire article left me with the following thought:
So, it is alright for the Media to do it to me (us); but, it isn’t alright for me (us) to do it to the media.
Without direct, unfiltered, unedited, undidacted, copies of the “hate mail” from the “right wingers” it is impossible to tell what the Sac Bee is crying about. But then, censoring the news to project only approved view points to educate the rest of us is what the news is all about is the duty of news reporters. Right?
One question, Armando - are all of the Knight-Ridder SacBee people totally hopeless narcissistic wankers, or is it just you two?
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One question, Armando - are all of the Knight-Ridder SacBee people totally hopeless narcissistic wankers, or is it just you two?
Somehow there has got to be a law that when the Media becomes an arm of a political party...they can at least be held to term limits.
aroundabout; "Of course they don't. The weaker you are the more you need to be protected."
Are you kidding me? Weak? They are the freakin' overlords of every man woman and child in America, including the people in our government. Heck..you might as well say they are the Marxist government. They tell us what to think, what to buy and who to vote for.
I would say the same thing about McClatchy journalists.
Better to belong to the flock than to become yet another useful idiot in socialism's tool chest.
Ping!
BY weak, I was referring to their agenda and the policies they support. They can not tolerate any dissent any more then the left.
Thanks for the ping!!
Notice how these phony scumbag Democrats always have to add something like, “I’m proud of our men and women in uniform.”? Yeah, that sounds sincere.....
I opened this thinking it was another in the series of GW reporting.
Yep, an all expenses paid week-end at a Five-Star hotel in Dubai should do nicely!
Circling the wagons; hopefully soon to be circling the bowl.
But of course he is unbiased towards the war.
Pray for W and Our Victorious Soldiers
Knight Ridder doesn’t even exist any more. His press identification is out of date. It’s McClatchy as of right now, but who knows what it will be the next time he ventures out of the Green Zone? McClatchy’s stock is in freefall.
Sorry..I’m just so mad I can’t see straight.
LMAO! Oh man, you have nailed it, POST OF THE THREAD! If this clown had bothered to search the internet for "Knight Ridder" he would have seen this!
The media has the unmitigated GALL to accuse others of having a "political agenda???"
"They were trying to discredit our reporting coming out of Iraq."
Oh, you discredited yourselves when the whole thing began, you media scum. You don't need us to do it for you. I've watched you and your media cronies twist, distort and outright LIE about Iraq for almost four years now.
Talk about "political agenda." Oh, brother!
This editor’s arrogance is breathtaking. Calvan had basically taken his lumps, apologized, and the whole thing had simmered down...until this a-hole blows it back up with this condescending, sneering column. “Right-wingers?” “Sheep?” Nice, Mr. Acuna, niiiiice. And you wonder why your fishwrap is circling the toilet.
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Knight Ridder doesn’t exist any more as I understand it. They were bought out and merged with McClatchy. They don’t have a separate presence anymore. I don’t understand why he still was trying to use Knight Ridder credentials in the first place. Didn’t McClatchy replace them when they merged or did this guy forget or mislay his McClatchy ID?
Can you imagine the MSM response if the guards had let in a terrorist who bullied his way in without proper credentials and blew up a bunch of reporters in the Green Zone? They’d crucify the poor guard and his superiors. Neither the Public Editor or the Washington Bureau Managing Editor have a clue based upon what the Public Editor wrote. Calvan was a green assh*le reporter these people are experienced assh*les who should know better but don’t.
I suppose all three of them use the same techniques when stopped by a policeman when they are speeding.
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