Conspiratorial rumors of blog bans have finally made their way to Congress -- and have been quickly shot down just like similar rumors that have surfaced periodically in federal and state agencies.
Lisa Hannah, a blogger in Nebraska who runs Smith Watch, a site critical of Republican Rep. Adrian Smith, started the congressional rumor. It had a slightly different twist than previous allegations aimed at government agencies, though.
In those cases -- first in
Kentucky and then in the U.S.
Interior Department -- the government stood accused of preventing employees from reading specific blogs, presumably for political reasons. But Hannah accused Smith of keeping bloggers from seeing his congressional Web site.
Under the hubristic headline
"Does Smith Fear The Impact Of Smith Watch?," Hannah said that when she clicked on a link to Smith's site from her blog, she received an error message, but she could access the site through other avenues. Egged on by a Republican-bashing techie at the Google-owned Blogger.com, which hosts Smith Watch, she reached the conclusion that Smith was targeting her critical blog.
"Adrian Smith fears dissent," she wrote. "He fears truth. He fears anything that shows the REAL Adrian, rather than the false image he continues to try and portray. In other words -- HE FEARS ME!"
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