Jay Severin: Fearmonger

[JABBS]

"I want to know who the 30% is."

-- Conservative radio host Jay Severin, on President Bush's popularity, May 8

The sad thing, though, is that even though Severin said he doesn't consider himself among the 30% -- he disagrees with Bush when the president strays from the "conservative" viewpoint -- Severin nonetheless told his listeners to continue voting in droves for Republicans.

Why not show disastisfaction by voting for opposing candidates? Severin fears a world where the Democrats control Congress. Rather than offering his listeners a rational, let alone balanced, view, he turned tonight to fearmongering.

"Do you want a Senate Majority Leader Dianne Feinstein?" Severin asked, apparently overlooking Harry Reid (D-NV), a pro-life Democrat, the current minority leader. "Do you want a Judiciary Committee headed by John Conyers (R-MI)?" he asked, switching from one house of Congress to the other without batting an eye.

Severin then listened to a caller upset that Democrats were opposing Gen. Michael Hayden, nominated earlier today to replace Porter Goss as head of the CIA. Neither the caller nor Severin noted that a host of Republicans also oppose Hayden. That would diminish the fearmongering-as-policy debate.

"Who do the liberals want? Dennis Kucinich? Jesse Jackson? Oprah Winfrey?" Severin mocked.

Witness what conservative talk radio becomes when two-thirds of the country oppose the president, and three-fifths want to see Democrats regain control of Congress.

Bereft of ways to defend their party's leadership -- which they admit they disagree with -- all conservatives have left is name-calling. All they can do is jeer and mock, creating fictional versions of Democrats in order to disagree with them.

Real Democratic ideas? They aren't interested. It's bad for ratings to offer rational, let alone balanced, arguments on the issues of the day.

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This item first appeared at JABBS.

[MADem]

1. Mister "Boston"....who lives in NEW YAWK!!!!!

Screw him. He's a damned fool. Stupid AND desperate...what a combo!

[TheCowsCameHome]

3. Mr. Makebelieve scammed his listeners in Boston for years.

All the while he was on WTKK he claimed to be "one of us" in the Boston area. Truth was he was broadcasting from his home in Sag Harbor, NY.

But the asshole that replaced him is even worse - Michael Graham, a true-blew Republican tool.

[endarkenment]

2. Where is that asshat spewing bile from now?

he left his awful "Dull and dimmest" FM afternoon Boston talk show when he went syndicated. So where did he end up? Not that I care - I stopped listening to terrestrial radio. Young Turks is far more interesting - but that dickwad burned me up sometimes.

[The Jacobin]

5. He has some kind of national show

Because he now broadcasts that show at least on KRLD in Dallas, Texas in the evening (erm, sometime). I only catch a few minutes of his show that run before or after the Texas Rangers broadcast which is on the same station. He sounds like a more polished Michael Savage.

[jackster]

7. yep, a polished Michael Weiner

he is. Remember that he was on one of the teevee political shows with Rachel Maddow for about 3 minutes this past year or so.

I'm so glad Boston has progressive talk radio now so that I don't have to listen to his lies anymore during my afternoon commute. I can imagine what the other drivers were thinking when they say me pounding the steering wheel and shouting at the top of my lungs at him some days.

My favorte one - that you should get the level of healthcare equal to your ability to pay. He does NOT want us regular folks seeing the docs he uses!

[TheCowsCameHome]

9. He once said that the tax rate should be no more that 5%

How does this jerkoff propose to operate this country?

[WilliamPitt]

4. Water: Wet

[MannyGoldstein]

6. Nuke 'em all, says Severin

Severin is very disturbed and very disturbing. At various points, I've heard him call on the military to nuke Iraq and Afghanistan, and call for the execution of all POWs we take on the battlefield in Iraq.

A sick idiot.

[TheCowsCameHome]

8. He talks tough like all the RW shills, but never donned the uniform

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

10. Kucinish or Jackson as head of CIA? Hmmm, I like it.