Posted on 04/30/2009 1:41:58 PM PDT by raccoonradio
Jay Severin, the fiery radio talk show host on Boston�s WTKK-FM, was suspended today after making derogatory comments about Mexicans.
Heidi Raphael, a spokeswoman for the station, said Severin had been suspended indefinitely. She declined to comment further.
George Tobia, Severin's lawyer, said it was not clear how long his client has been suspended.
(Excerpt) Read more at boston.com ...
So Mexicans are more clever and industrious than Americans is your point.
I understand why your reading comprehension scores were so low in High School.
My point was that if fake urine is as available as fake SSN#, why then is it that only non-Americans benefit?
It was sarcasm to point out that Mexicans pass the drug tests, not because they are More clever, but because they do not take illegal drugs.
At least not when looking for a job.
I’m outraged. I just sent an e-mail to Jay and to WTKK.
Thanks for posting this, rr.
Read the responses.
For every legal Mexican, as I said, there are 300 illegal Mexicans. The legal ones work no harder than anyone else. Ya want examples of green card crimes? Let me know, they are endless too.
BTW, if ya thought I was going to pay you 20x more money immediately, you'd work a littler harder? lol...
Some of these poor people coming up from Mexico are tuned into freaking slaves by greedy employers. Surprised? Some of these poor slobs think employee benefits mean a 5 minute break.
I've had a belly full of the, "They're all hard working, better than American" BS.
-PJ
Many criminals are clever and industrious.
Can’t stand the man. I only listened occasionally several years ago, but stopped because he was just silly.
I’m going to e-mail them, too. Oh no, they have Curtis Sliwa on subbing for him.
Stinking lies.
You reek.
I don’t need to read the responses, I was replying to your response which had nothing to do with legal immigrants. The person you were responding to was talking about legal immigrants, not illegals. While I hate illegals, yes I hate them, I will not vilify legals, regardless of which country they come from. If you are tired of hearing about illegals, fine, address your remarks to people talking about illegals, in the meantime my original comment to you stands, and I will add that you sound like an a**hole of the first order. Thanks for listening.
I know! As soon as I realized he was filling in for Jay, I turned off the radio.
If he had said the same stuff against Dick Cheney, he would be a hero to all liberals and be up for a promotion.
Hmmm, Sliwa just announced that Severin will be back tomorrow.
Hey asswipe you don’t know a damned thing about me. GFY
LOL!
Doggoned shame when you can’t share your feelings.
I thought that’s what Liberals were all about - us opening up and sharing our inner selves with everyone....
Yup, I tuned in and it was Curtis “Raspberry Beret” Sliwa
though I don’t know whom will fill in for Jay in the near
future—depends how long he’ll be benched.
Thursday, April 30, 2009
WTKK benches Severin for the swine flu rant
by Mark Schnyder
WTKK 96.9FM announced today that it suspended station’s afternoon talk show host Jay Severin for calling Mexican immigrants “criminaliens” and emergency rooms “condos for Mexicans” during a discussion about swine flu this past Monday(4/27).
Severin wasn’t on the air on Thursday as nationally syndicated personality Curtis Sliwa(heard on WTKK from 10pm-1am) was subbing for the suspended host and hosting the 3-pm-7pm show from his NYC studio.
According to an audio clip of a Monday show obtained by Boston Globe, Severin complained that the US wasn’t doing enough to prevent the spread of swine flu. He then said “tonight we will let the usual 5,000 criminaliens that come across the Arizona border ...” referring to Mexican immigrants.During a conversation with a caller who was a healthcare worker complaining about immigrants receiving health care, Severin said emergency rooms had “become essentially condos for Mexicans.”
(Ed. Note : WTKK suspended Severin in the wake of outcry in the Hispanic media after he made his on-air comments on Monday’s show. But what makes this case seem strange is WTKK’s management which stood by its syndicated morning foul-mouthed bore Don Imus and his pack of laughing hyenas when they got into trouble over making racial jokes about Rutgers University women’s basketball players in April 2007, but two years later they’re distancing themselves from Severin and muzzling him for an indefinite period of time. Normally when a station or radio company suspends a personality for offensive content, it immediately issues a formal apology to the offended listeners/parties. Strangely, WTKK( or its parent company Greater Media) is yet to issue one. As you recall, Severin and Imus got into a well-covered public spat at last month’s “Kiss Me, I’m Imus” event at the Wilbur Theater where Imus threatened to shoot Severin.(BRW 3/19). I smell a rat...or is it a swine?)
Severin who posts on the station’s blog almost daily didn’t make any comments today.
I’m sure Jeff will be back, at least as a fill in host for Howie, etc.
Though the Herald claimed he would be out again (today, Fri).
We’ll see
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