WEEK drops the ball in Kohn interview

Actually, I didn’t see the actual Live at 5 interview
with Jerry Kohn, the
Libertarian Party candidate for the U.S. Senate. I do, however, have
access to the article on the East Peoria-based station’s Web site.

I’ll touch on the highlights: There’s *gasp* someone on the he ballot
who’s not a Republican or a Democrat. Again, a news article on a
Libertarian Party candidate focuses how odd it is that there’s a third
party. Kohn is asked the obligatory question about Jack Ryan and his
decision to quit the race after embarrassing public-but-sealed court
documents were ordered released.

/”It has nothing to do with Jack Ryan. I think our country is at a
crossroads right now, both economically and politically and we need
to make some changes fast,” said Kohn./

My major fault with the article is that it gives very little idea what
the Libertarian Party platform is.

/Kohn says the U.S. should pull out of Iraq immediately. He also
believes in letting laissez-faire prevail./

That’s it.

Jeff Trigg
got in a comment about how “interest” in the LP is growing, which is a
statement that cannot be verified. What can be verified is his complaint
that the state of Illinois doesn’t treat the Libertarian Party as
legitimate.

I’m a lower-case “L” Libertarian, and I suppose I should be thankful for
any coverage of a candidate who agrees with about 95 percent of what I
believe (I simply cannot understand how the LP believes the United
States isn’t simply defending itself by removing Iraq from the list of
terrorist supporting nations, but that’s another post).

But I would like to see one story … /one/ stinking article … that
simply covers the LP as if they aren’t a novelty act.