The mini-scandal over whether Sen. Norm Coleman received gifts of men’s haberdashery has a name — “Suitgate” — and it’s gaining national attention, and not just on the blogs. Yesterday MSNBC interviewed the Star Tribune’s Patricia Lopez about the issue, which was exacerbated this week when Coleman spokesman Cullen Sheehan refused to directly answer questions about whether campaign donor Nasser Kazeminy purchased suits for Coleman. In footage excerpted by MSNBC, Sheehan repeated — 12 times in three minutes — that the senator has “reported every gift he has ever received.”

Meanwhile, MinnPost’s Eric Black writes that he, too, received a tip about Kazeminy’s alleged gifts to Coleman; he asked Sheehan who denied it, so he left the issue alone. But “I now understand that to have been a technical, but not candid, answer.”

He goes on to give background on Kazeminy’s history with Coleman, as both a friend and donor (in those capacities, gifts have included funds and at least two trips for Coleman and family members — to Paris and the Bahamas). Black also reminds that “no one has reported any allegation that Coleman has used his official position to benefit Kazeminy.”

And: The Wall Street Journal gets in on the action.