AUSTIN BAY looks at why the Woodruff story has gotten so much attention.

UPDATE: Capt. Alfred Nugent emails:

The point Mr. Bay makes about “Having a personal connection to someone injured or killed on the battlefield is a relatively rare experience for journalists,” explaining the fascination with the Woodruff story is valid. I suspect that in addition, it goes a long way in explaining the Washington Post Editorial Board’s failure of to see just how inappropriate this cartoon was. You’ll have seen the attachments by now on Michelle Malkin’s Site, Link. In the JCS’s 24 star letter they ask they ask “Where do we get such men and women?” Answered rhetorically, and to themselves about the Editorial Board of the Post, I suspect it would be “probably not from your cartoonist’s family, the families of your favorite political party’s leaders and certainly not yours either”.

Indeed. The Post, of course, would never run a racially insensitive cartoon of that degree. Unless, perhaps, it targeted Condi Rice or Clarence Thomas.