Meet Bobby Calvan: Knight Ridder reporter and major league A-Hole
This is fantastic. This creep thought he could take down his arrogant, obnoxious post about dealing with the US soldiers at a checkpoint, but he was sorely mistaken.
The Americans, however, are the absolute worst. I had a testy exchange Tuesday with an American soldier at an entry checkpoint into the Green Zone.
The pomposity and arrogance of this turd is incredible. He removed this post because he was being mocked far and wide across the blogosphere (well, at least the conservative blogosphere)
Here’s more,
He took offense at my response.
Then he looked at the second ID of my companion. It was a badge issued by our newspaper. He said it wouldn’t do. Besides, he asked, what is Knight Ridder?
“I never heard of it,” he said. He probably would have never heard of McClatchy, either. (We use Knight Ridder because it already had a bureau in Baghdad before the chain was bought by the McClatchy Co.)
If only the soldier said, “Oh yea, now I remember, McClatchy, your the morons who wrote that tear jerker the other day about the bear market for ditch diggers.”
Read the whole thing. This reporter thought he could pull his obnoxious post and avoid the wrath of angry bloggers. He was sadly mistaken.
Hat Tip: Michelle Malkin
October 25th, 2007 at 7:13 pm
Thanks for the link.
I’ve also posted some emails I exchanged with him, where he seems genuinely contrite, but then he took down the entire site.
I also posted an email defending him from someone claiming to be a colleague, from the SacBee server, so maybe its legit, who knows.
Anyway, thanks for linking.
October 25th, 2007 at 7:29 pm
My pleasure, thanks for busting his sorry ass.
Kevin
October 25th, 2007 at 7:41 pm
Like most everyone in blogland, I find Bobby Calvan’s blog post to be disrespectful and insulting to the brave men and women who are in harm’s way. His behavior toward that soldier was reprehensible and then to gloat in such a public display demonstrates a lack of professionalism, deccency and class.
But what goes around comes around. As a means of pressuring Mr. Calvan and his employers into publicly apologizing to the soldier who was the recipient of the brow beating, I have registered the domain http://www.bobbycalvan.com and have posted Mr. Calvan’s blog entry in its entirety as well as replies and more importantly, the contact information of his employers at The Bee and The McClatchy Company.
You can help the Bobby Calvan apology campaign by posting the http://www.bobbycalvan.com link on other message boards. I’m not receiving any monetary gain, just saw an opportunity to make a point for only $10 and took my shot.
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If you have story ideas or thoughts you’d like to share with Mr Calvan he can be reached at bcalvan@sacbee.com. One can only imagine the amount of work and pressure he is under and as such he may not be able to respond to each and every one of your emails.
In case of such an event, you can direct your thoughts and story ideas to the conglomerate that employs Mr. Calvan. I am certain they will pass along your comments and questions. Operators are standing by.
To reach the folks at The Bee:
The Bee: 2100 Q St., Sacramento, CA 95816 | P.O. Box 15779, Sacramento, CA 95826 | (916) 321-1000
Joyce Terhaar, Managing Editor: 916-321-1004
Mort Saltzman, Deputy Managing Editor: 916-321-1012
The Bee’s Public Editor, Armando Acuna, investigates complaints of unfairness, unbalance or inaccuracies in The Bee’s news reporting. His conclusions are his own. To make a comment,
Send mail to P.O. Box 15779, Sacramento, CA 95852;
Call him directly at (916) 321-1250;
FAX: (916) 556-5690; or
Send e-mail to publiceditor@sacbee.com
Likewise, the folks at the Bee may very well be overwhelmed with fire coverage (our thoughts and prayers are with the Californians) and as such they too might not be able to respond to your thoughts and suggestions. Just in case, here’s how to reach the corporate head honchos that Mr. Calvan so thoughtfully alluded to in his blog.
The McClatchy Company
2100 Q Street
Sacramento, CA 95816-6899
916-321-1855
contact@mcclatchy.com
Financial/Investor Inquiries
Elaine Lintecum, Treasurer
916-321-1846
elintecum@mcclatchy.com
General Inquiries
Peter Tira, Communications Director
916-321-1941
ptira@mcclatchy.com