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Down the Memory Hole

January 21, 2009 - 1:22 pm - by Stephen Green

I know when it comes to Ye Olde Bush Administration, lots of people would like to pretend it never happened. Including, apparently, whitehouse.gov‘s new webmasters. Slate’s Farhad Manjoo explains:

To test out the new site’s search engine, I typed in “Bush.” I got back just four pages dedicated to the clan—one bio each for Barbara Bush, George H.W. Bush, Laura Bush, and George W. Bush. That last page recounts the 43rd president’s achievements in just a few short paragraphs—it says nothing about Iraq, Katrina, Gitmo, Scooter Libby, Alberto Gonzales, or anything else you might’ve lost sleep over these past eight years.

Let’s assume for now that the oversight is just due to transition difficulties. Or maybe Tim Geithner’s involved and a few “common mistakes” were made.

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4 Comments, 4 Threads

  1. 1. rbj

    Didn’t you get the memo? History started yesterday. Day one of year one of The Obamassiah.

    January 21, 2009 - 1:40 pm   Link to this Comment
  2. 2. Alsadius

    When I searched for “Bush” at http://www.whitehouse.gov, I got 103 hits. For comparison, Clinton is also 103, Reagan is 96, Carter is 98, Coolidge(to pick a random dead one) is 91, and Obama is 149. Also, looking at cached versions of the page, the site that’s there currently is identical in content to the version that was up while Bush was still in – look at http://74.125.95.132/search?q=cache:4Xvsqt00KiUJ:www.whitehouse.gov/president/biography.html+site:whitehouse.gov+george+bush+biography&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=3 to see what I mean.

    I’m not exactly Obama’s biggest fan, but they’ve done nothing wrong here.

    January 21, 2009 - 2:01 pm   Link to this Comment
  3. 3. Larry J

    149 hits for a man who has only been on the job for a day? Seems somewhat excessive to me.

    January 21, 2009 - 3:47 pm   Link to this Comment
  4. 4. Alsadius

    Not really. It’s basically his personal site, so getting 50 more than most other Presidents is not unreasonable at all.

    January 22, 2009 - 4:38 pm   Link to this Comment