September 16, 2010 10:01 PM UTC

Does the new Buck ad meet Post's fairness standards?

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• by: Jason Salzman

(Either way, so much for that pledge to “stay positive”–six days, folks – promoted by Colorado Pols)

The Denver Post over the weekend ran an editorial stating that a Michael Bennet ad was unfair.

Now Buck is using the editorial in a commercial.

You have to wonder if The Post, since it has yet to endorse in this race, will put the new Buck ad under the editorial microscope, too.

After all, you expect the editorial page, prior to making an endorsement, to be relatively fair to candidates, maybe not like the news department, but still.

Here are two items from the Buck ad that The Post might scrutinize:

Buck calls Bennet a “rubber stamp for his friends in Washington.”

Buck says Bennet is “legislating unemployment.”

The Post wants a “fair and vigorous discussion on the issues that matter to Coloradans,” and it didn’t think the Bennet ad made the cut.

So, what do you think of the Buck ad? Does it meet your standards? Did it come close?

You owe it to readers, and the spirit of fairness on the editorial page, to let us know.