Conason: What's Obama Hiding? According to Conason: Nothing!

The Obama Blagojevich story will not lie down and die. It now appears that Rahm Immanuel has over 20 conversations with Blago about the appointment of Obama’s successor. So what is the press making of all this?

Well I can’t speak for everyone in the press, but if I can use Joe Conason as a bellwether, every story begins with the assumption that Obama and his team did nothing wrong. In fact, Conason goes even father, claiming that Obama has been “exonerated.”

While the Blagojevich scandal so far has exonerated rather than implicated Barack Obama and his staff, the president-elect's camp has made some unnecessary mistakes in response. Inflated and distorted by hostile critics, those mistakes have risked creating public suspicion where there need be none.

So it seems that the only problem Obama has is one that he has created for himself; his failure to respond “properly.” I firmly predict that this will be the theme of virtually all the MSM’s reports on this issue: the virginal Obama drawn into a tawdry scandal by poor staff work.