I sent the original post (about Cheney's hypocrisy) by beaconess to Eric Zorn at the Chicago Tribune. He was impressed, asked if I wrote it, and if it was online somewhere. I sent him the link, and 3 days later here's his column in today's Trib. Great job Beaconess, and Skinner for putting it on the front page!
Snip:
In the late 1990s through early 2000, Cheney, now 35, traveled the country using her status as a lesbian to sell beer.
The Coors Brewing Co., long a controversial company in the gay community for its support of ultra-conservative causes, hired her to head its gay and lesbian outreach program.
A large part of her job was visiting bar owners and distributors--at times in the company of "International Mr. Leather"-- and convincing them that the Coors company had changed completely since the 1970s when gays began boycotting its products.
And, indeed, as the Tribune reported four years ago when Cheney's father, Richard, became the Republican vice-presidential nominee, "with her help, Coors lured gay drinkers so successfully that religious conservatives denounced the brewer, claiming the firm undermined traditional family values."
She was as out as Sammy Sosa in the clutch.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/ericzorn/chi-0410190273oct19,1,4672631.column?coll=chi-news-colbeaconess original thread here:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=132&topic_id=1071160