Problem with "Straight Talk"? Please!

We knew this line of attack would keep coming after the primary, but the Coors campaign is reacting the way it needs to continue to react: "No Comment." Leave it to one of Denver's two dailies to dig up a story about a tiny lesbian bar in northwest Denver that happens to have the same name as the Republican Senate candidate and his beer company. That allows the Rocky's Gwen Florio to turn such phrases as:

Here at the Coors Bar, the juxtaposition of Coors the taproom, Coors the candidate and Coors the company is head-spinning enough to make one wish for, well, a drink.

And then there are silly paranoid quotes like this from the bartender:

Padilla said he can't stand Pete Coors' "Straight Talk, Honest Answers" campaign slogan.

"Straight talk - that's a subliminal message," Padilla theorized. "He's saying, 'I'm a straight man who doesn't like gay marriage.' "

When the Denver dailies are done with their silly insinuation stories like this one, perhaps they could actually look more closely at the issue of "gay marriage," the logical and historical arguments, as well as determining what the mainstream position is. Note to the writers: check out what happened in Missouri a few weeks ago, when an overwhelmingly Democrat electorate voted for the state marriage amendment by a whopping margin of 72-to-28 percent.

But the best way to get the Post and Rocky to confront their bias on this would be to see if they could find a story about a church with the name "Salazar" in it (or perhaps in the name of the pastor or priest), and then interview some parishioners about the irony of the fact that the Democrat Senate candidate has taken a stance on abortion contrary to the teachings of his own Catholic faith. Don't hold your breath.

Cross-posted at Mount Virtus.