September 5, 2004

Lucky Man

This is the lead to an article in Xinhuanet, a Chinese online publication from the Xinhua News Agency, the official state and worldwide news agency in China.

Hours after deciding to undergo heart bypass surgery, former US president Bill Clinton said he considered himself "very lucky." "I feel really blessed, you know, a lot of people who have a heart attack never get an advance warning," he told CNN's "Larry King Live" Friday evening.

Probably the most sympathetic, informative and human coverage of this story in any media outlet. This heart disease stuff really can and does strike without warning. Bill is indeed a lucky man. And even communists have a sense of humanity from time to time. Maybe it's the flip-side of their political cult of personality, but they do care about people in a way that the mercenaries in U.S. media don't. Most media here just wondered whether Clinton's recuperation and inability to campaign for John Kerry woud change the presidential elections. But wonder of wonders, even Dick Cheney has a heart.

 Posted by glenn

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