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Is missing Chinese leader-to-be Xi Jin-Ping still with us?

Posted: Sep 13, 2012

-run media, which said he gave his condolences to the family of a long-time Communist Party official who died last week."

Not to say he's actually alive, but this reminds me of when our Vice President Dick Cheney simply disappeared from view in October 2001, a few weeks before passage of the Patriot Act in November 2001, and reappeared at the State of the Union Address in 2002. The official story was that he had gone to a "safe place" during a time of national emergency.

Media speculation about this grew until a few days after the passage of the Patriot Act, when all discussion in hte media that mentioned him in any way stopped. Think about it: During that period, starting a few days after the Patriot Act's passage, the media went from increasingly intense speculation about what had happened to the Vice President of the United States, who was known to have severe heart disease, to absolutely NO MENTION OF HIM AT ALL--newspapers, web, TV, radio. Nada. How's that for journalistic integrity? (Perhaps I shouldn't sneer. We may have brave journalists rotting in prison even now, but I hope they would have been let out long ago under gag orders. Surely someone stood up when it mattered, though?)

During the next months I periodically did web searches that lead to sites such as November-issue magazine tables of contents listing articles about him, but with the articles themselves missing, and to political discussion groups like ours here that had been gutted and closed down, all posts, not just the ones mentioning him. Including one called www.isdickcheneystillalive?.com. When I first saw it, it was totally gutted, but a few weeks later there was a post halfway down the empty page saying, "Dick Cheney is still alive.," which I guessed might be the site owner checking to see if it would be allowed to remain.

I did find two seemingly casual posts on the web from supposed Washingtonians who claimed to see him at two different private parties during the holiday season, easy to discern as apocryphal as any real appearance would have caused a virtual snow flurry of posts.

BTW, "we" are much better at removing information from the web now. As is China apparently.

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Huh! This is about missing Dick Cheney? - NM

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