Coors Dynasty of Colorado

Having just read part two of Bella Stumbo’s “profile” on the Coors family, I can only conclude that she graduated maxima cum laude from the Hatchet, Bludgeon and Snide Innuendo School of Journalism (“Coors Dynasty: Diversity, Tolerated, Up to a Point,” Part I, Sept. 19).

I’ve been mildly annoyed at Stumbo’s lack of objectivity in the past, but never have I read anything as crassly self-serving as the number she did on that family in Colorado.

I don’t know the people, and I don’t agree with most of their political and religious beliefs. But despite Stumbo’s vicious verbiage, they appear to be a sincere family whose members have endured the same kinds of problems as thousands of others of us.

Certainly, there are other family businesses turned over to succeeding generations. Just as certainly, these are sons and daughters whose actions disappoint and cause estrangement from their parents.

Stumbo’s treatment of (family matriarch) Holly Coors manages to hit an all-time low. The beginning of her account of the interview deceives the reader into believing that perhaps she feels a faint spark of sympathy for her subject. Wrong.

Flushed with feminist zeal, Stumbo squelches compassion and attempts to paint a woman, from a generation whose inbred values were firmly based on success as a wife and mother, as an insecure and intellectually vacant human being. Come on! After 48 years of playing by the only rules she was taught, the woman had been abandoned by an insecure philandering husband who couldn’t face growing old.

In devoting the enormous number of column inches to Stumbo’s slyly insinuating report, The Times does itself a disservice.

PEGGY TAORMINA

Glendale