Geithner is a tax cheat and media's OK with it. He's THEIR tax cheat.

http://news.aol.com/political-machine/2009/01/14/i-predict-geithner-nomination-fail/:

I Predict Geithner Nomination Fail...
And here's why:

Where Are My Keys?:

When you call out Obama during a rope line, the Media jumps into your history, and finds a tax lien you didn't know you had.

If you are nominated for Treasury Secretary, and have four years of taxes you knew you owed, but didn't pay, the Media yawns.

Comment at Instapundit

A plumber owed $1,000 in taxes that he didn't even know about... ...and it was headline news!

American Thinker:

In this case, we have a rich, well-educated nominee of Obama's who knowingly failed to pay his taxes, paid some when he was caught out and failed to pay others which he knew were barred from prosecution because of the passage of time, and paid those only now when it was certain the issue of his tax cheating would arise at his confirmation hearings for Secretary of the Treasury.
Just as the media attacks have made it extremely hard for the intelligentsia to rally around Caroline Kennedy Camelot Schlossberg, now - thanks to the foaming-at-the-mouth attacks and illegal, privacy-violating investigation of one Joe the Plumber - we're going to lose a supposedly brilliant treasury secretary nominee.

(Of course if he is brilliant, how can he be so dumb at this tax stuff? Maybe he's just corrupt? Now I feel better.)

Or, hey, try this out: the Toledo Blade and all the lefties could apologize to Joe the Plumber for making an issue out of his tax liens...

....

Naaah, that could never happen.