[swilhelm73]

Do any of the other channels in Eastern MA carry the Hannity show at the same time?

[ladyjane]

I turned him off the other day. He was carrying on about John Kerry. I couldn't believe it. I figure he's being blackmailed. Either that or...

[zook]

If the phrase "by virtue of" didn't exist, Jay would have nothing to say.

[ThirstyMan]

I listened to Jay this afternoon and I heard him say he wanted and was hoping for Bush to win. It was in his critique of the Meet the Press interview. He has been bashing Bush as you say quite badly on the Iraq war for a long time.
But today his tone was markedly different irt Bush.

[GeronL]

must be one of those pretend talk show hosts

[Burkeman1]

Severin is just saying what should be obvious to even the most obtuse Bush worshiper. He messed up on Iraq and the reasons we went there. Heard him tonight. Weird to read the threads on FR that slobber over Bush's performance with Russert and then hear someone with an open mind actually review that interview. Bush was abssymal as Severin said. I winced all the way through it. And as National Review Online has said and other conservatives in the media. Severin doesn't worship Kerry or even praise him. He is being merely realistic. If you equate honest critique of Bush with disloyatly that is your problem. But fawning uncritical sycophancy is worse than no help at all. Sean Hannity's picture is in the dictionary under the word "sycophant" and I wouldn't listen to him to save my life.

Severin, like myself, will be voting for Bush (though it won't matter in Mass that much I suspect)- but I appreciate the fact that he doesn't ignore flaws and problems for partisan purposes. I like to be treated like an adult.

[Final Authority]

Interesting comment. One has to understand from where Jay is coming from. He was instrumental in Pat Buchannan's campaigns and because of that he was blackballed out of the campaign consultant business. He went to talk radio and TV. Since this summer I have e-mailed Jay telling him that he should confess to being a paid consultant to Kerry or shut up. For a while he did. But he's back. Remember when he was out of the studio for three days with an alleged cold and just coincidently was the same time Kerry fired his staff and brought on others. Jay actually fought off rumors on the air that he had something to do with this. I suspect he was the guy that did the firing. For me it is too obvious, Jay is working for the enemy.

[jwalsh07]

Jay Severin suffers from a form of GI penis envy.

He never put on a uniform so he becomes enamored with some of those that did. He was the same way with John McCain.

It's a fatal flaw in his chracter and one that will never be healed. Listen to somebody else.

[montag813]

Jay Severin has always been a RINO low-life. You people are just figuring this out NOW???

[Aquinasfan]

I'm in favor of boycotting Jay because he's a pro-abortion libertine.

[Stentor]

Jay Severin is a wolf in sheep clothing.

Does he not define himself as a Libertinearian?

[DBrow]

Severin mentioned in passing a week or so ago that he was acting as a consultant in this presidential campaign. I waited for him to go on and say for whom or in what capacity but he never did.

He should come clean, there is growing evidence he is compromised.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

He admits that he has great admiration to John Kerry

Right on jv. I stopped listening to his show the very day last month when I heard him say, "Senator Kerry, I endorse you."

That was the last straw. He as much abandoned his listeners and basically stated that everything he has said heretofor has been a lie. Screw him.

[mewzilla]

We turn on 96.9 FM whenever we're in MA, mostly for Jay Severin. He likes Ketchup Boy??! Oy.

[Final Authority]

Jay just closed the show today by refusing to follow the argument of a caller that indeed all voters have "standing" with respect to the actions of a candidate, sexual or otherwise, by using the argument that although gay marriages are between two people the outcome influences society and that since the government sanctions such contracts and we are the government then we indeed have standing. He was saying that the governed is the government and as such a candidate/elected official must act according to the wishes of the governed. Therefore, in all of the stages of the process, we indeed have standing.

Jay refused to listen, worked around the logic, and closed his show. He is working for the enemy.

With the denials of the relationship Kerry had with Alex I could only think about the times Severin described a method of immunizing a candidate against future attacks by floating falsehoods in advance that could be easily denied but must be plausible to start with so to embarrass the media into backing off in the future. I believe this whole thing was just that. Severin is very smart but someone will betray him. Wouldn't it be something for Kerry not to have to answer any of these accusations in the future due to Severin's actions to preempt such reporting. He is working for the enemy.