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His real name is James Thompson Severino. He once called Al Gore "Al Whore". He was actually a former Republican Party political consultant, and now he is unemployed.
Jay Severin’s hate speech sparked some deep concern among Mexicans and other Latinos living in the Boston area, prompting a flood of complaints to the station management in recent days about Severin’s comments about Mexicans and the swine flu. When will these radio staions learn their lesson? And when will advertisers learn how not to alienate their consumer base?
Jay Severin's lawyer had this comment to make about the matter: “It would certainly be unfortunate if someone was suspended because some people didn’t like what he said,”
Some of the things that Severin said on the air that "some people" might not like, include these comments:
He described Mexicans as “the world's lowest of primitives.”
“When we are the magnet for primitives around the world -- and it’s not the primitives’ fault by the way, I’m not blaming them for being primitives -- I’m merely observing they’re primitive,”
He stated Mexicans are destroying schools and hospitals in the United States, and he criticized their hygiene.
"It'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,” he said.
He added: "We should be, if anything, surprised that Mexico has not visited upon us poxes of more various and serious types already, considering the number of crimaliens already here."
While talking to a nurse on the air about healthcare provided to immigrants, the nurse said she was glad she didn't work in an emergency room.
"Yeah, well, that's become essentially condos for Mexicans," he said.
A spanish language newspaper "El Diario La Prensa" details his comments even more in this post in Spanish - basically, Severin said it's not Mexicans' fault they're wild, uneducated savages who don't get their kids vaccinated, he's only stating the facts, and one of those facts is that those kids who got the flu in New York got it from illegal Mexicans.
What is happening in this country is that conservative talk show hosts have to compete with each other to see who can emerge as the most outrageous, knowing that outrage creates listeners, and listeners means ratings. Good ratings of course means job longevity. The problem with this thinking is that the radio airwaves BELONG to the American people and not to the corporations that abuse them. These corporations only get the rights to use these airwaves (for free) pursuant to licensing agreements where they promise to be good corporate citizens in exchange for these rights. The American people also have rights. They have the right to airwaves that are free of hate speech and speech which is essentially there to promote bigotry and threaten the safety and well-being of peace loving citizens.
Certain Latino organizations have cautioned that driving immigrants underground will hamper efforts to contain this epidemics like this flu. If anything poses a risk to public health, it’s reckless, hateful pundits that the public should turn their dials away from.
Jay Severin is a hatemonger and he does not belong on the radio. He is also a confabulator. In September of 2005 during an on-air discussion of journalistic standards, Severin described himself as the recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for online journalism: "But since journalism began, and up until the time at least that I took my master's degree at Boston University -- and may I add without being obnoxious, up till and including the time that I received a Pulitzer Prize for my columns for excellence in online journalism from the Columbia School of Journalism, the highest possible award for writing on the Web -- right up to and including that in 1998, you still had to practice journalism to be a journalist." Severin has not been a recipient of a Pulitzer Prize, nor does the Pulitzer Prize have a category for online journalism.
He also has no Master's Degree.
In a brief autobiographical page on his syndicated show's web site, Severin says that he was surprised to learn in 2005 that Boston University had no record of his graduation, stating "... it would appear I have no degree."
His actual professional achievements include these honors:
Placed 66th on trade journal "Talkers Magazine's" list of the 2007 "Heavy Hundred". This list ranks what the magazine considers the most popular, influential, or entertaining talk show hosts from around the country. In 2008, he placed 53rd on the same list.
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