Still missing on WTKK.
Posted on 09/16/2005 4:37:01 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement
He's called Bill Clinton ''a traitor" and Al Gore ''Al Whore," but until now, Jay Severin's radio audience has been largely limited to Boston. That will change in January. Today Infinity Broadcasting will announce that it has signed the sharp-tongued former political consultant to do a radio show in a series of syndicated markets beginning next year.
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Jay is a fraud who has embellished his resume....
He looks like a rabid right winger in Boston but that doesn't take much
I stopped listening to Jay back during the 2004 election cycle.
His incessant negativism about Bush losing really got on my nerves, as did his harping about his 20 years of professional political consulting experience which gave him great insight into the probable outcome.
Then his constant ragging on Bush for the war in Iraq. He's mad because he thinks we just should have nuked Iraq rather than lose one soldier, and that at least we should have left after Saddam was deposed.
Too bad, because he is extraordinarily articulate, and can be quite witty. He would be a joy to listen to if he weren't such a pill.
Jay's favorite color is brown. That's probably because his head is so far up his butt, that's the only color around. But I guess the Infinity Broadcasting people have money to throw away.
I haven't listened much to Severin lately nor radio in general. These days, its all satellite radio and podcasts.
In fact, if anybody out there subscribes to Adam Curry's "Daily Source Code,", Adam sounds an awful lot like Jay Severin. That is, with respect to voice and speaking style, not politics.
He also changed his name from Jimmy Severino to Jay Severin. He was still Jimmy when I knew him at Vassar in the 1970's. I wonder if he would own up to that now. He was not a preppy, ( he was just a townie from Poughkeepsie, NY) but always pretended he was. He was obsessed with preppies and if you weren't, he didn't want anything to do with you.
No Jay Severin for me, thanks just the same. Jay's annoying, a martini bar kind of guy.
Howie Carr knows Boston's politicians and hoodlums (often one and the same). He actually broadcasts from Boston, unlike Jay. Howie is a regular guy, no pretensions. And very funny.
Michael Savage in drag. Just my opinion.
Me too! I had only started listening to him in June of 2004 but between the Bush-bashing and the Iraq War bashing, I couldn't stand listening to him anymore...
When he was on in NYC a whileback..I'd switch over during one of Hannity's 7 minute commerical breaks..Jay is good, but when he starts going on about his darn dogs...
he was just a townie from Poughkeepsie, NY
Boy, this just reeks.
Jay broadcasts from the Boston area too. He is always doing live broadcasts from local restaurants and bars.
That's easy when they consider Mike Barnicle, the plagiarist, a moderate.
I'm willing to bet Jay won't play in the heartland.
He comes across as an arrogant twit who gets all superior-acting, nasty, and sarcastic when people disagree with him.
Also, that "thank you" bit to those who serve(d) in the armed forces comes across as self-centered, like they're doing it for him.
He lost me when Jeannie Garafaolo (?) lost her show for vociferous disagreement with partial birth abortion, and his statements were that it's his job to do his thing and not to stick his neck out for others.
Ya know, it really wouldn't matter where he does his broadcasts. He'd still s*ck. I couldn't get past his "I'm such a stud" routine.
Didn't this guy use to be on in the New Jersey/New York Area? Maybe on WOR?
I'm also a Howie fan and I heard the snide comments about Jay today but didn't realize until reading a post to today's Howie Carr thread that it was about Jay. It's pretty funny.
> He comes across as an arrogant twit who gets all superior-acting, nasty, and sarcastic when people disagree with him.
Superior-acting and nasty is absolutely right. Severin, in his effort to whore himself to a national market, tried come across as an independent thinker who wasn't afraid to trash the President. But when it turned out he wasn't the next David Brudnoy, he stuck to what he does best...sarcastically trashing anyone who disagrees with him.
Adios.
Don't get me wrong. I actually like funky Poughkeepsie. But it's not Greenwich, Connecticut if you get my drift.
I listen to Howie, too, except for when he has dopey recurring topics like "Disgusting things you found in your food at a restaurant." He is at his best when talking about local political stuff, no doubt, and he has a certain self-depricating ("I didn't come here to be made sport of" and "I beg your pardon" when people critique him) charm that is sincere and whimsical. The weekly segments with Sandy (police blotter) and Chris Wallace are generally stellar.
The NY Post, Page Six I think, mentioned a few weeks ago that he had children.
Is Bob Grant still on? I haven't been back East for a long time.
Yes, that is the NY Post piece.
It seems that Scot Lehigh and Jay Severin have a history between them. Oftentimes, if I am listening to the radio midday, I will switch between Howie and Jay. I recall a few seismic verbal shots Jay lobbed towards him on a few occasions.
Jay's unique anti-Hillary observations are entertaining.
Jay is absolutely terrific when someone can steer the conversation to Hillary. He calls he every kind of sick puke you can think of...on the air!!!!
His shows in the past year have shown a lot of opportunism, tho - I would actually tune into IMUS on MSNBC early on the mornings when he was to appear - and he would sound like a Kerry/Imus suck up to the extreme. I was disappointed, to say the least.
Howie is da bomb.
Former Bostonian here. I listened to Jay sometimes, but he was a creep, which fit the depravity of some Bostonians. During one broadcast, Jay shared a stage with Laura Ingraham. He kept complimenting her on her looks. I sensed that Laura was put off by it. How? She normally is quick to reply during broadcasts, but she wasn't whenever Jay talked about her appearance. Instead, she was silent. I felt uneasy for Laura about it.
After that broacast, I mainly tuned into Jay's competitor, that candy-a$$ed ruffian named Howie Carr.
Someone used that term ("candy...") yesterday during a phone call to Carr, IIRC. :-)
I haven't listened to Howie in over three years, which is when I left Boston. However, back then, his show's intro contained a sound bite of a caller who referred to Howie by that description. Funny stuff.
Oh, OK. He has altered his intro since then.
Long time no see, somer! How are you doing? All is well in Las Vegas! I may visit the old campus for an afternoon in the early spring!
How are you doing ? I met a couple of 25 year old Vassar grds on the Metro North train coming back from Poughkeepsie a few weeks ag. They were praising Fran Fergusson for her anti-war statements. They looked downright puzzled when I said that her stance had alienated some grads."When you're older, you might feel differently" I said. No doubt they were snickering about what I said later on.
Still missing on WTKK.
this guy pissed me off when he said he would vote for Nader then Bush then demonizes Iraq war etc etc etc
Yes, I think he was on against Bob Grant when he was on WABC.
By the way, does anybody know whatever happened to Jay Diamond?
There was this chatter in today's Boston Herald gossip column:
Yakker’s empty words
WTKK's Jay Severin was caught embellishing his resume yet again. Severin, who claimed – falsely – to have won a Pulitzer Prize and who allowed himself to be introduced – falsely – as a graduate of Harvard Law School also claimed – falsely – to have a master's degree from Boston University.
Barry Nolan, CN8's roving reporter, said he brought the latest Severin subterfuge to the attention of Jay's agent, George Tobia, who told him that Jay ''skipped the graduation ceremony but remembers getting his diploma in the mail.''
Oh, that's rich!
''Then he told me that I was right, Jay had no master's. He said Jay had never turned in his thesis, even though he thought he had,'' Nolan told the Track. ''I told him that I found that rather hard to believe because everyone knows that the minute you hand in that thesis you do a Funky Chicken down Commonwealth Avenue, run to the bar and buy everyone a round of margaritas!''
Severin just inked a deal with Infinity Broadcasting to be syndicated in 10 markets beginning in January. A press release announcing the deal on Infinity's Web site originally reported the non-existent master's degree from BU. An updated version reports only that Jay is a graduate of Vassar College.
Vassar once only educated women. But as far as we know, Jay has never claimed to be one of those.
I'll miss Jays serving up big Happy Meals (tm) of $#!T to Boston Liberals.
He pi$$ed me off badly by being on the wrong side of the Elian Gonzalez situation
I believe her name is Renee ...
http://www.ultimatetaxi.com/jan4c.htm
4 Jan 1997
Age 42 this December (11 years younger than Jay), according to ZabaSearch.
Now another question is, who is Jay's old friend Professor X?
This guy is a schmuck
he bashed Bush during the election, said he was going to vote for Nader but wanted everyone else to vote for Bush. Then Reagan (God Bless him) passed away and he said that we should all vote for Bush. Fair weather friend at best
lol, he sounds like a metrosexual trying to be a republican.
One Michael Savage is enough, thank you.
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