RW Radio Bigot Jay Severin is dead... (*cough*)

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Star Member Dennis Donovan (17,730 posts)
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RW Radio Bigot Jay Severin is dead... (*cough*)
https://www.theblaze.com/news/ready-former-blaze-radio-host-jay-severin-dead-at-69

Longtime conservative political operative, civics connoisseur, and radio personality Jay Severin has passed away after battling cancer. He was 69.

Severin became a giant force in political talk in New England before spending years as a host on TheBlaze Radio Network's national platform.

"Jay was one of the rare talents that could not only see beyond the headline, but had the empathy to understand how it affected the listener," Glenn Beck told TheBlaze. "He was a good man, and I'm a better one for having known him."

Tom Shattuck, podcaster and senior editor of the Lowell Sun, paid tribute to Severin after news broke of his death on Thursday, calling him "the Boston talk titan."

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Controversies and termination from WTKK

In April 2004, when a caller said United States citizens should "befriend Muslims living in the United States," Severin replied, "the vast majority" of those Muslims "... are not loyal to the United States and are ready, when the time comes, to take over this country ... You think we should befriend them. I think we should kill them." On 25 April 2004, Severin said his comments were directed at terrorists, not Muslims in general, and stated, "I certainly regret any discomfort that may have been caused by the misunderstanding of my remarks." The Council for American Islamic Relations (CAIR) unsuccessfully called for Severin's dismissal.

On 30 April 2009, Severin said Mexicans were "the world's lowest of primitives". He said "Its [Mexico's] millions of leeches from a primitive country come here to leech off you and, with it, they are ruining the schools, the hospitals, and a lot of life in America." Severin was suspended until June 3, 2009, at which time he apologized by saying (in part), "My remarks were hurtful, unkind and wrong. For these remarks and for failing to meet the standards you are right to expect of me, I am sincerely sorry."

In March 2011, Severin said, "I slept with virtually every young college girl I hired to be an intern or an employee for my firm." Following this statement, Severin was fired from WTKK. Greater Media said, "Severin was let go because he did not maintain an appropriate level of civility and adhere to a standard that respects our listeners and the public at large....it had become clear at several points in the past two years that Jay was either unwilling or unable to maintain our standards on the air. It's for that reason we have made the decision to end our relationship."

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Cross gentl... oh, **** that shit.  Those pitchforks poking your arse are going to be a bit uncomfortable thru eternity, Skippy.

Star Member captain queeg (3,340 posts)

1. Endorsed by Glen Beck. Nuff said.

RhodeIslandOne (4,359 posts)

3. So long, asshole.

Star Member panader0 (20,369 posts)

6. My sweetheart Jeannie works as a business manager for three radio stations.

One carried Rush Limbaugh's show. I complained many times about it, but she had no control
over programming. Eventually, when Rush's ratings and advertisers slipped, the stations format
was changed and the show was eliminated. Many people went nuts, called in to complain, or
showed up at the station, some armed, to say it was a conspiracy, etc.
The IQ of the area went up overnight.

Star Member milestogo (8,702 posts)

8. when is limpballs going to die?

That's the one I'm really looking forward to.

Star Member DFW (38,253 posts)

9. We really don't need posts like that

The radical right monitors this board and will use posts like that to show that we are just as unfeeling and heartless as they are.

And the answer to your question is "all things come to those who wait."

 

Soxfan58 (2,615 posts)

14. Satan

Needed a kindred spirit in hell.

 

[SVPete]

Star Member DFW (38,253 posts)

9. We really don't need posts like that

The radical right monitors this board and will use posts like that to show that we are just as unfeeling and heartless as they are.

Like any non-noob DU-member doesn't know this? DU-folk cannot restrain themselves from displaying their inner ugly every time someone they hate is seriously ill or dies. The "right-wing" discussion sites on which I participate respond to the deaths of people with whom they vehemently disagree with a degree of class that few DU-members could muster. And when I've been a Mod (e.g. when Teddy died), I'm a bored hawk - watchful but not having to take corrective action.

[Zathras]

Soxfan58 (2,615 posts)

14. Satan

Needed a kindred spirit in hell.

Don't worry DUmbass. Whenever one of you DUmbasses shuffle off this mortal coil Satan will have company.