Shocker: Another Bogus CBS Report

Michael Fumento shreds CBS and their most recent "scoop" that vet suicide rates have surged. Amazing the network that gave us Dan Rather and his fradulent documents would stretch the truth in pursuit of a not-so-hidden agenda, isn't it?

THERE'S "startling" and "stunning" news of a "hidden epidemic" of veteran suicides. So claimed CBS News in two reports last week.

Most of the airtime went for heart-rending interviews with wives of vets who had killed themselves. But CBS also provided statistics that it said showed that "veterans were more than twice as likely to commit suicide in 2005 than non-vets."

Problem is, we have absolutely no way of verifying the CBS data nor how the network claims it collected the info. CBS News admits to collecting the data itself, rather than relying on an independent outside party. It also concedes its rate is "much higher" than that in an uncompleted Department of Veterans Affairs study.

So somebody isn't telling the truth. And the evidence is overwhelming that it's CBS.

One hint of an agenda is the two "veterans' activists" CBS interviewed for the segments - hardly disinterested parties. One is also very much an antiwar activist, a fact that CBS failed to disclose. In all, the networks stacked three commentators hyping its claims against one (from the VA) questioning them.

But the most devastating evidence of the network's nefariousness lies in out- side studies, both individually and combined. For example, CBS put special emphasis on vets of the current wars.

Read the rest.

Oh, and if you're inclined to dismiss Fumento as a disinterested observer, think again.

Michael Fumento is a former paratrooper who has been embedded as a reporter three times in Iraq and once in Afghanistan.