Media oddly untroubled by Obama Treasury appointee's tax problems

To date, only a few major voices have spoken out to criticize Geithner. And if there’s a reserve of populist resentment over his appointment, it hasn’t yet erupted into the national media, as in previous nomination controversies.

“I was the top item in the news each night,” recalled Linda Chavez, whose nomination to be Bush’s first labor secretary was withdrawn. “I kind of considered it a feeding frenzy and that hasn’t happened this time.”