The Press We Have, Not the Press We Wish We Had
The press we have:
1. Are arrogant @ssholes who sneer at our soldiers, John Kerry-style, with the ‘don’t you know who I am?” idiocy. With no consequences.
2. Who make up stories and tell lies about how our soldiers mocked a disfigured woman, used human skulls as helmets and used their Bradleys to run over dogs—none of which he could or would prove.” With no consequences.
3. Spew racist, bigoted misogynist hate. With no consequences.
4. Spew such unhinged hate toward the military that anyone with a shred of decency would turn away.” With no consequences.
Like the rest of us, these liars, haters and misogynists have a right to lie, hate and be bigoted, but do we really need to give these clowns MORE Constitutional rights and protections that the rest of us enjoy?
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Thanks for the link.
I’ve exchanged a good number of emails back and forth with Mr. Calvan and he does seem like a decent person, he just screwed up and then blogged about it.
He’s reposted his blog, he copy/pasted his own post from the the version I saved and reposted it (he had deleted his entire blog, so he had to go to my page to recreate his own post) and he’s re-opened comments, plus he made a new post admitting he now realized his behavior was asinine and apologizing, so he deserves credit for that.
However, LGF has posted questions about the veracity of his reporting in Iraq and Dan Riehl has some evidence that seems to indicate Mr. Calvan padded his resume at the SacBee, so he’s not immune to all criticism from here on out just because he apologized for the post in question.
I have some follow-up posts about this stuff on my blog, plus an unsolicited email defending Calvan from a fellow reporter from the SacBee and some of Calvan’s emails.
Comment by docweasel | October 31, 2007
doc, thanks for the update on the Calvan thing. I had your link (and the others) saved for a while and only yesterday put together a post, so have not really kept up to date on it.
I thought it was interesting that someone like Calvan, who writes for publication, would be shocked to discover that his blog posts were also part of the public domain. Live and learn, eh?
I think it’s hilarious that Calvan had to use your post to recreate his deleted post!
You’ve done yeoman’s duty on this subject—thanks!
Comment by qcexaminer | October 31, 2007