Whitehouse Fears Google

One of my biggest beefs with Bush is the non-public way in which he conducts the affairs of state. He doesn't make appearances in public. He doesn't answer unscripted question from reporters. And he spends two to three months running the country in private from his ranch.

Is it any wonder I'm not surprised that the same administration which doesn't allow comments on its blog is actively trying to insure that the content of whitehouse.gov doesn't show up on google?

Take a look at this:

http://www.whitehouse.gov/robots.txt

This file, more than 1800 lines long, lists all the areas of the whitehouse.gov website which are not to be indexed by search spiders.

Apparently, Rove fears the work of googling monkeys.