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Severin set to break out of Boston
Boston Globe ^ | September 16, 2005 | Geoff Edgers

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at boston.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: radio; severin; talkradio; talkshow
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Jay lost me when he said "You go girl" in support of Cindy Sheehan. I heard Hannity (whose show was aired in place of Jay's as it generally is in Severin's absence) mention Jay on his show today, too.
1 posted on 09/16/2005 4:37:02 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement
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To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan

Jay is a fraud who has embellished his resume....

He looks like a rabid right winger in Boston but that doesn't take much


2 posted on 09/16/2005 4:38:05 PM PDT by misterrob
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To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan

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.


3 posted on 09/16/2005 4:42:03 PM PDT by Maceman (Pro Se Defendant from Hell)
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To: misterrob

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.


4 posted on 09/16/2005 4:49:30 PM PDT by Lunkhead_01
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Believe it or not, the day after the 2004 election, Severin went into a joyous monologue, pretending that he was on the Bush bandwagon all along. It was as if the previous 6 months of negativity (regarding a certain Bush defeat) never happened.

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.

5 posted on 09/16/2005 4:55:52 PM PDT by SamAdams76 (What Would Howard Roarke Do?)
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To: misterrob

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.


6 posted on 09/16/2005 5:00:14 PM PDT by somerville
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To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan

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.


7 posted on 09/16/2005 5:02:44 PM PDT by LibFreeOrDie (L'chaim!)
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To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan

Michael Savage in drag. Just my opinion.


8 posted on 09/16/2005 5:04:43 PM PDT by OldFriend (MAJ. TAMMY DUCKWORTH ~ A NATIONAL TREASURE)
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To: Maceman
I stopped listening to Jay back during the 2004 election cycle.

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...

9 posted on 09/16/2005 5:10:24 PM PDT by CatQuilt (GLSEN is evil)
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To: Maceman

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...


10 posted on 09/16/2005 5:13:15 PM PDT by ken5050 (Ann Coulter needs to have children ASAP to pass on her gene pool....any volunteers?)
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To: somerville

he was just a townie from Poughkeepsie, NY


Boy, this just reeks.


11 posted on 09/16/2005 5:18:35 PM PDT by Chickensoup (Mmmmmmm! Mmmmmmm! Good!)
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To: LibFreeOrDie
He actually broadcasts from Boston, unlike Jay.

Jay broadcasts from the Boston area too. He is always doing live broadcasts from local restaurants and bars.

12 posted on 09/16/2005 5:19:08 PM PDT by Maceman (Pro Se Defendant from Hell)
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To: misterrob
He looks like a rabid right winger in Boston but that doesn't take much

That's easy when they consider Mike Barnicle, the plagiarist, a moderate.

I'm willing to bet Jay won't play in the heartland.

13 posted on 09/16/2005 5:23:01 PM PDT by TC Rider (The United States Constitution © 1791. All Rights Reserved.)
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Less flattering article on Severin, also in today's Boston Globe here: Severins Phony Pulitzer.
I don't listen to him anymore. He pretends to be broadcasting from Boston but actually broadcasts from a Long Island Studio. He claims to be this huge Libertine Ladies man, who solicits unattached nymphomaniacs to attend the live broadcasts (usually in Boston area bar rooms) that he comes up from Long Island to do every 6 to 8 weeks. Yet he is said to be happily married with children. He apparently changed his name. He has Cindy Sheehan on his show and fawns over her. What else is he making up?
14 posted on 09/16/2005 5:24:17 PM PDT by BansheeBill
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I couldn't stand listening to him anymore...

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.

15 posted on 09/16/2005 5:25:51 PM PDT by grania ("Won't get fooled again")
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Jay broadcasts from the Boston area too. He is always doing live broadcasts from local restaurants and bars.

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.

16 posted on 09/16/2005 5:31:43 PM PDT by LibFreeOrDie (L'chaim!)
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Hmm...If it is several top 10 stations I wonder if one of those is Dallas. He would be a huge departure from the normal fare on the station Stern will be departing. Heaven knows they have not indicated any progress in replacing him.
17 posted on 09/16/2005 5:33:39 PM PDT by sharktrager (http://hookedonphoniks.blogspot.com)
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To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan

Didn't this guy use to be on in the New Jersey/New York Area? Maybe on WOR?


18 posted on 09/16/2005 5:36:57 PM PDT by nickcarraway (I'm Only Alive, Because a Judge Hasn't Ruled I Should Die...)
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To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan
He used to be synidcated and I heard him on a Portland station, and later I think he was on WOR in NY and I'd pick up the AM signal...I think that this was the mid-90s. I liked him...and I wrote last year to a local station to take a liberal (Lionel) off and replace him with Jay, I wanted to hear Jay's commentary during the election season.

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.

19 posted on 09/16/2005 5:38:41 PM PDT by MRMEAN (Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of congress;but I repeat myself. Mark Twain)
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To: grania

> 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.


20 posted on 09/16/2005 6:12:42 PM PDT by cloud8
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