Android : Android WebView failing in simulator with ERR_CONNECTION_TIMED_OUT

I want to have a 'Help' function in my app that links to a help page that is off my blog.

I have created a very trivial fragment to host the webview -- but when it displays, it comes up blank and then after a while will display

Webpage not available. The webpage at could not be loaded because: net::ERR_CONNECTION_TIMED_OUT.

To make sure there wasn't an issue with my page I replaced it with http://google.com and got the same error.

Here's my entire fragment:

public class HelpFragment extends Fragment {

public HelpFragment() {
    // Required empty public constructor
}

@Override
public View onCreateView(LayoutInflater inflater, ViewGroup container,
                         Bundle savedInstanceState) {

    WebView webView = new WebView(getActivity());
    webView.loadUrl("http://google.com");
    return webView;
}

}

I have uses-permission android:name="android.permission.INTERNET" in my manifest.

This is in the simulator -- I don't have a real device to test on at the moment.