Comments on: What Jay Severin thinks about the poor

By: Ivo

Ivo — Sun, 22 Aug 2010 01:57:02 +0000

If I meet him on the street I’ll spit into his face…this old grumpy man is a disaster for the Commonwealth…Go back to Long Island you punk

By: david

david — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 14:40:46 +0000

Patrick, I quite agree that politics are situational and I myself have become less liberal and more pragmatic as I’ve aged. But I don’t think that conservatives of any age are justified in feeling the sort of contempt and loathing for liberals that Jay and many of his callers display.

Anyway, I ask everyone to follow the Jay Severin stuff over at its new home: http://severinwatch.com.

By: Patrick

Patrick — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 14:26:20 +0000

Oskar,
To prove your point to Jay, you want him to physically fight your client?
What’s even funnier about your post is the fact that on one hand you are enraged by his lack of respect for Women, but on the other, to insult Jay, you call him a “pussy.” Your post name is a famous author, and you mention your “client” in your post, so it appears you view yourself to be pretty smart. Unfortunately, you’re not analytical enough to not use the colloquial misogynistic term that links being weak with being a woman, fantastic. In all honesty, you could not have tried any harder to make such an egregious oversight.

PS. Oskar (spelling it a K certainly makes you original), I beg you, please please please reply to my post. Work is extremely mundane right now and I could really use some solid comedic relief.

David,
Been a long time, my friend. Joyce’s comment is not only relevant to this discussion, it is relevant to really any political conversation. The comment denotes the very nature of the political animal that is man. Our politics are situational. If I am wealthy and over 30, I am most likely a conservative. If I am poor and under 30, I am most likely a liberal. If I work for a corporation in middle to upper management, I am most likely a conservative, if I am a teacher, I am most likely a liberal. An individual’s political position is self-interested first. Churchill’s famous quote simply lends itself to this mantra.

Moreover, the statement is intrinsically linked with truly the only question that needs to be asked in politics. What is the nature of man? Are we selfish? Altruistic? The answer seems ambiguous. I asserted that I find man to be ultimately selfish, you may disagree, David. However, the idea that another question of a political nature could be posed is simply incoherent, humanity’s nature must be first determined, and then humanity can decide on its next course of action. Folks who determine their political position with out first answering that question are simply regurgitating information that has been fed to them via the media, their parents, etc.

By: oskar Wilder

oskar Wilder — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 16:22:22 +0000

To answer your question, JAY is the bigger pussy. One of my clients is a lesbian who was activated after 9/11 (AF Reserves). Her life was basically destroyed due to the prolonged activation (she eventually filed for bankruptcy and lost everything, in defense of our country). Jay was ranting on dismissively about the ‘well meaning’ gals in the military..and proposed that ‘the strongest woman will never be equal to the strongest man’. Well, put a gun in her hand…and see how that holds up. He also went on and on about ‘homo marriage’. It dawned on my that the only person whom I knew that was serving in the military, was being attacked from two fronts, by Mr. ‘Thank you for your service…I salute you’. She was fighting for our rights, while hers were being attacked by this tool.

I proposed to Jay that he box my client in a charity event (she’s a black belt). Jay responded with an email which was supposedly copied to an attorney..which included a lot of legal-ese (none of it based in the rule of law).

Jay is a total pussy…who lacks the courage of his (changing by the day) convictions.

I sense a pretty hefty drug addiction…and, based upon his rabid defense of the bonuses re: the AIG bailout (funded with taxpayer’s money), his listeners finally have to be waking up to the fact that when he says ‘WE’…he’s not talking about ‘THEM’.

By: david

david — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 21:07:32 +0000

Joyce, how is this quote relevant to the discussion? And would it not be equally pithy to say any man who is over 30 and is not a conservative has no wealth?

By: joyce

joyce — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 20:50:59 +0000

Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains. – Winston Churchill

enough said

By: Amy

Amy — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 19:14:14 +0000

The advantage Jay has is that he’s smarter than the majority of his listeners, because the majority of his listeners are, shall we say, sub-intellectuals. The irony – that he refers to them as his “best and brightest” – is only lost on, well, on them. I am sure that HE knows they are neither best nor bright, but he also knows they keep him employed. It is of no use to argue with him on air, as he will ALWAYS hang up on someone he disagrees with eventually. You can call yourself a skilled debater when you know that you can end the conversation as soon as it gets too heated for you, and he does. EVERY SINGLE TIME. I applaud your efforts, but they’re futile as long as he has 1.) no respect for people with differing opinions and 2.) a disconnect button.

He’s also an astounding misogynist with a SERIOUS Madonna/whore complex. The only women who have value to him are under 25 year olds, or young mommies. He lies by omission about his personal life as husband and father, and pretends to be some sort of player. With that face, that’s quite a stretch.

At least he (truly is) intelligent, though he’s a ridiculous, alarmist blowhard. His colleagues Michael Graham and Michelle McPhee are truly dumbasses. McPhee consistently – and I mean almost once per sentence – uses words incorrectly, and does it over and over with apparent glee. She pronounces the word “condescending” as “con-DEN-send-ing”. Repeatedly. McPee and Graham both have their schtick,and it’s tired and nearly content-free. Disgraceful all around.

By: Alan

Alan — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 15:38:26 +0000

If the article on the following link doesn’t convince enough people to vote for GOP and independent candidates who strongly emphasize the importance of fiscal restraint, government agency consolidation, and a much stricter adherence to our immigration laws, this country will quickly become a disaster! If we don’t elect a convincing number of these candidates in key states in 2010 and if there aren’t enough of them to quickly turn the tide, our national debt will reach a critical point. We’ll no longer be able to “finance” all these insane programs designed to boost the lower classes into the middle class. That’s always been an impossible dream, incidentally. We’ve just witnessed (via the “houses for everyone” program) how destructive such an attempt can be. But wait, it’s about to get worse!

What will actually happen? Most of us will be dragged into poverty! Inflation, the single most destructive tax on a nation, will set us ALL back. People on fixed incomes will suffer the most, be they retired or collecting every handout being offered by the government. Of course, these too-numerous freebies will become MUCH more expensive. Our great leaders won’t be able to borrow enough or tax us enough to pay for them. A growing black market and possibly a revolution will put an end to it if newly elected, fiscally conservative officials fail to do so. That’s the reality of it!

http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fpcomment/archive/2009/03/19/terence-corcoran-is-this-the-end-of-america.aspx

By: Alan

Alan — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 06:31:02 +0000

Obama thinks like most of the people who voted for him? You’ve got to be kidding!

The majority of educated people voted for McCain. Obama got in only because a very high percentage of uneducated lower class slobs voted for him. Did you know that 47% of the people in Detroit are functionally illiterate? Over 20% of American adults function (or malfunction) at the lowest literacy level. This unbiased site and a few others reveal these startling facts: http://www.detlitcoal.org/faq.htm

Of course, barely literate people were likely shown how to vote for Obama by lefty groups like Acorn. They’re much to stupid to know what’s good for America, of course. As long as there’s a freebie…

Your statement tells me you don’t realize just how stupid the people in this country are. They are the ones who put a very inexperienced, big spending, high taxing liberal/socialist Democrat in the White House at the worst possible time – when the economy is tanking! We actually needed to elect either Mitt Romney or Mike Huckabee at a time like this. Fiscal conservatives like Ronald Reagan are far better choices, no matter how healthy or not the economy is.

Government is MUCH to big and inefficient. Just what do you think Obama plans on doing about that growing problem? He’s going to ADD to it, of course! He wants to expand government even more, making people (citizens and illegal aliens) even MORE dependent on government handouts! I’ve got good news for those opposed to this plan, however. There won’t be enough taxes raised to finance it and China will soon stop lending us money.

Airhead America failed because most people who lean left don’t care enough about what’s ruining this country to tune into talk radio. They’d much rather listen to junky music and watch junky TV. That’s where THEY get brainwashed by lefty loonies.

Why do I call them loonies? Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, Barney Frank, and Al Franken are perfect examples of lefty loonies. These clowns are our leaders? Have you ever listened to them?

On second thought, I guess you’re right about most Americans thinking like Obama in some respect. There ARE that many malfunctioning minds in this country, educated and uneducated.

By: Trish

Trish — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 23:46:10 +0000

When listeners never hear the other side of issues and are fed a steady diet of right-wing talk 24/7 for years with no programs of opposing views, it is called “brainwashing” plain and simple. The talk show hosts cleverly demonize and misrepresent Democratic positions and values, play to people’s fears and most negative instincts, inflame and outright lie so that their listeners will learn to think that Republicans are promoting their (the listeners’) best interests when, in truth, it is the exact opposite.

A lack of Progressive talk stations has nothing to do with listeners not wanting to listen to opposite views. It is just that right-wing talk
is the “only game in town” – there are no other talk programs except for NPR on the radio (a totally different format) and while driving, people like talk radio for company. Even if a caller has an opposing view, they would either not get on the air or would be torn apart and made tosound like a fool which is why you don’t hear people who don’t agree with the host calling in.

As for Air America, it didn’t succeed because the signal was so poor and there was no reception after 5 PM; however, it has succeeded nationwide as proven by Ed Schultz, Stephanie Miller and Thom Hartmann to name a few. In order to find their programs, one has to stream from a computer.

Try Jimmy Myers on WTKK on Sundays from 3 – 6 and see how he respects his callers even the ones with whom he disagrees.

The majority of people DID vote for a candidate who thinks like them and his name is Barack Obama.