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It what could be the jump-the-shark moment, several new blogs have popped up…from the government.

Health and Human Services Secretary Mike Leavitt and Homeland Security douche-in-charge Michael Chertoff are getting into the spirit of interweb communication, and along with the State Department, are posting thinly veiled propaganda and party rhetoric. Too truthful? Try the spin version, that Chertoff and Leavitt “discuss issues facing their departments and occasionally sound off on criticism of their policies”. Ahhh, so much more antiseptic and deceptively innocuous, right?

Leavitt says he writes every blog entry himself, while Chertoff comes up with an idea for a blog entry, then someone in the department writes it, and Chertoff heavily edits. In either case, do not expect anything revolutionary, controversial, or different than what these stooges do in their day job for the administration. Their blog is nothing more than an extra platform to say the same shit they do at press conferences and interviews. Isn’t that Fox News’ job? Or Slug Limbaugh and Prick O’Reilly?

The interweb is for teens with bedroom cams, stealing of music and movies, and bizarre and embarrassing pictures to get posted, not regurgitated government positions falsely softened and humanized because they’re on “personal” blogs. As a musician, I was shamed when Good Charlotte started making records, and now that these hurtbags are now my peers in the blog bowl, once more I feel cheapened and neutered by association. The concept of a government blog is an oxymoron.