Welcome to the Obama state-run media

The corrupt liberal media has reared its ugly ahead again.

Imagine if a Bush cabinet nominee failed to pay his taxes or hired an illegal alien to work for him. The outrage from the liberal media would be deafening. Imagine the wall-to-wall coverage of the "scandal" on ABC, CBS, CNN, NBC and MSNBC until the nominee dropped his or her bid for a cabinet post.

But this is 2009 and the corrupt liberal media is propping up the shaky Obama administration, which has been plagued by incompetence and scandal during the transition.

Instead of calling for the immediate withdrawal of Obama Treasury Secretary nominee Timothy Geithner, the corrupt liberal media is working with the Obama transition team to bury the story and get Geithner confirmed by the Senate.

We're in a whole new era, folks. There will be no criticism allowed by the state-run media once Obama takes control of government next week.

The state-run media will work with the president and his minions to provide only essential information that the proletariat needs to continue its allegiance to the state.

There are a few voices of dissent. Cliff Kincaid, editor of Accuracy in Media, is appalled that the corrupt liberal media has excused Geithner's failure over a period of years to pay a variety of taxes and to make sure those he hired as domestic help had legal status in the U.S. The media is parroting the Obama excuse that it was an "honest mistake."

In a column, Kincaid says, "Based on the documents that have come out, he [Geithner] is either a tax cheat or a dummy when it comes to his basic personal finances and tax matters. Do we want either one as head of the Treasury Department?"

From Accuracy in Media:

Kincaid suggests poor coverage of the scandal by NBC News may be related to the fact that Jeffrey Immelt, chairman and chief executive officer of NBC parent company General Electric (GE), is on the board of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, whose president is Timothy Geithner.

"It is also interesting to note that a subsidiary of GE, GE Capital, is getting some of the federal bailout money that Geithner, if he is confirmed, will have a role in managing," Kincaid notes. He asks, "Conflict of interest, anyone?"

He adds, "Another member of the board of the New York Fed is Lee C. Bollinger, the president of Columbia University, who serves on the board of the Washington Post Company. This is the media conglomerate whose media properties include the Washington Post newspaper, Newsweek, and Slate."

"Connections like this help explain why Geithner's tax problems won't become a scandal or even much of a controversy for major elements of the media," the AIM editor concludes.

Read Kincaid's full column, "Why Are the Media Protecting Geithner?," at the Accuracy In Media Web site.