Les AuCoin Collection

"Shibboleths and Senator Bradley" radio episode

An audio recording by Oregon Congressman Les AuCoin on steering clear of shibboleths with a new election year approaching. AuCoin defines a shibboleth as a "lazily arrived at opinion, usually false, that a person hasn't bothered to examine critically or doesn't want you to." A shibboleth "peddled for years by the political right," according to Senator Bill Bradley, is the way that "extreme conservative groups, whose survival depends on keeping citizens perpetually irate with authority, discourage people from accepting that they might be in the minority on a particular issue." AuCoin states that this shibboleth claims "that choices that appear to be made democratically are in fact the authoritarian will of [the] government." This is one episode from AuCoin's biweekly radio show on Jefferson Public Radio (JPR), which ran after he had retired from office. The majority of episodes feature his commentary on current political events, often focusing on issues important to southern Oregon where JPR is based. This episode aired from December 2001-2003.

AuCoin, Les

Dec 2001-2003

Jefferson Public Radio

AuCoin, Les

Oregon--Politics and government

Public broadcasting--Oregon

United States

1 audio file (2 min., 43 sec.)

PUA_MS147_JPR_075

This recording is provided here for research purposes with the permission of Les AuCoin and Jefferson Public Radio. All rights reserved.

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