TO BE FAIR, IF PRAISING MILITARY HEROISM SERVED THE CURRENT DEMOCRATIC NARRATIVE, KEN VOGEL WOULD HAVE BEEN ALL OVER IT: Politico Reporter Sneers At Jim Webb For Mentioning His Combat Record.

UPDATE: Webb’s son: People are criticizing my dad, Jim Webb, for killing a man. Here’s what they’re missing. People? Well, stupid people. “In fact, seeing the reaction to my father’s story in recent days has highlighted for me the almost stunning level of ignorance that the general public has about war. CNN introduced him as a ‘war hero,’ and yet people were surprised and even uncomfortable when they were given a glimpse of what that might have entailed. . . . This country has been at war for almost 15 years, and as I think about the ridicule leveled at my father in the past 24 hours, I can’t help but imagine what these same people must think about the service of my own generation. In their eyes, did we simply spend some kind of twisted ‘semester abroad’ in a place with plenty of sand, but no ocean? Or conversely, do they ignorantly dismiss our experiences, as they have my father, as those of cold callous killers?”

They voted for Obama. Does that answer your question?