Obama!  So hip!  So modern!  So tech-savvy!  First president to carry a Blackberry!  So . . . 1984?

Seems a little retro for so modern a messiah president, but I’m talking about George Orwell’s novel 1984, not the actual year.  The main character, Winston Smith, worked in the Ministry of Truth, where his job was to scour news archives and change them so the past fit whatever the government’s latest version of it was.

So you can see why I thought of it as soon as I read at CNET that “The White House has silently tripled the number of Web pages that it forbids Google and other search engines from accessing.“  The CNET writer doesn’t seem to think it’s a big deal, nor do the commenters on the article (most of them, anyway) but JammieWearingFool is not convinced:

Can’t have those nasty searches of the White House web sites now, can we? There has already been so many instances of the Obama cult scrubbing websites when embarrassing items are discovered or things disappearing when his actions don’t meet his words, so this shouldn’t be that big a surprise to those who have been chronicling these acts.

Can’t blame him, in light of the history of disappearing web pages and blog postings over the years.  But this news has to be given time to percolate until we can figure out what it really means.

If it is as nefarious as JWF seems to think, however, don’t expect any MSM coverage.

H/T: The Jawa Report.