CBS’s Bogus Vet Suicide Epidemic Claim
By Michael Fumento:
As you know, there are two federal holidays in November. Thanksgiving is one, “Exploit the Veterans Day” is the other. Say again? Never mind that we vets excel in measurable ways such as education, employment, and pay. Activist groups and the media always have fresh reports ready in November showing how wretched our lives are.
This year the goons were CBS News and a homeless activist group. I’ll deal with homeless group in a later piece; but in the New York Post I take on CBS’s claim that a study they conducted all by their lonesomes (Big red flag there.) shows an “epidemic” of veterans ending their poor miserable lives. (And if you don’t believe that, CBS has some documents on President Bush’s National Guard service they’d like to sell you. )
The CBS suicide claim goes against lots of detailed published reports regarding both active duty service personnel and veterans. For example, the suicide rate among Vietnam vets and Gulf War vets is no higher than among comparable civilians. Why would there be such a high suicide rate among vets in general then, most of whom served during peacetime? And while naturally CBS wants to blame its “findings” on PTSD, I also discuss studies showing that vets with PTSD are less likely to kill themselves. All CBS’s “study” showed us was a crass way of raising ratings.
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NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!
Not SeeBS Again!!!
This is getting “Rather” tiresome with them twisting facts.
November 19th, 2007 at 10:34 pmis that good old anti american socialist wally cronkite the puppet master at cbs? his legacy runs deep in that nest of liars
November 19th, 2007 at 11:39 pmIt would seem that the left wing of the population harps on the negative (as usual) Perhaps a comparison of suicide by veterans against the general population would open the eyes of the blinded,and again the death rate from motor accidents v the death rate from combat and suicide of veterans from the WOT would show what a crock the whole propaganda mission is.
November 20th, 2007 at 3:15 amWe aussies have been in Iraq and Afghanistan from the beginning and we have suffered just a few casualties and no suicides that I know of.The US forces are greatly larger and in the front line more often than the aussies, you must expect some colatteral damage, that is not to say that any death is not worth a comment, but the way the left portrays the deaths is beneath contempt, so just leave it that way.Spit on those who do not support the military, these people who volunteered to fight for their country deserve much much more than has been shown by the population generally.Vote out the surrender monkeys
There’s a whole year of these stories coming up that will have to be tackled. They will try to demoralize the military at every opportunity, because “they’re all about the troops”. Hack job stories like this can be shot down quickly these days with the internet. defeatocrats, the whole world is watching.
November 20th, 2007 at 6:12 amMakes you wonder about the validity of this story too:
NBC and CBS Jump to Showcase Rise in Army Desertions
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/brent-baker/2007/11/20/nbc-cbs-jump-showcase-rise-army-desertions
November 20th, 2007 at 7:31 amThis makes me so mad I want to kill myself!
November 20th, 2007 at 9:51 amThey never stop, do they?
November 20th, 2007 at 11:02 amSimply amazing..The whole defeatocrat strategy is to use the news to plant fake stories, since the majority of America in my opinion will believe anything on the news then they will have them hook, line and sinker. There is no such thing as journalistic entegrity these days. Its all about a left wing bias and misinformation. Doing whatever they can to create more power for their cause even at the expense of our bravest.
November 20th, 2007 at 11:08 amOne more exageration–don’t believe for a minute that this is the last of this kind of shit we will get from the Can’t Be Sure if it’s right network. I can’t imagine why anyone watches this worthless bunch of losers in the first place.
November 20th, 2007 at 12:43 pmMy personal “threat toward reporters level” just reached Red! Reporters be glad you aren’t doing a story on me right now; otherwise one of your colleagues could be doing a story on both of us later!
Here’s where you start searching for answers if you’re a Veteran:
Shedding Some Light on PTSD
https://pat-dollard.com/2007/10/22/shedding-some-light-on-ptsd/
http://www.ncptsd.va.gov/ncmain/index.jsp
November 21st, 2007 at 1:37 am