Wednesday, April 28, 2004
Jay Severin: Tool?
Blogspace is abuzz about Jay Severin's comments about, well, killing Muslims. The transcript on the Boston Globe website seems clear that this is in fact what he said, framing the comment quite well. But it was just one statement, and anyway I've never heard his program, and he claims to have misspoke.
But, again speaking as someone who has never heard his show, reading the transcript, Severin strikes me as a real tool. Threatening to hang up on callers who won't answer yes/no questions, his whole "three strike" spiel and complaining that Muslims are loyal to their faith first and country second (ask Christians where, if it came down to it, their ultimate loyalities lay and you'll get a similar answer). And he referred to himself in third person, in a non-ironic mode. Sounds like a candidate for tool-hood to me.
Blogspace is abuzz about Jay Severin's comments about, well, killing Muslims. The transcript on the Boston Globe website seems clear that this is in fact what he said, framing the comment quite well. But it was just one statement, and anyway I've never heard his program, and he claims to have misspoke.
But, again speaking as someone who has never heard his show, reading the transcript, Severin strikes me as a real tool. Threatening to hang up on callers who won't answer yes/no questions, his whole "three strike" spiel and complaining that Muslims are loyal to their faith first and country second (ask Christians where, if it came down to it, their ultimate loyalities lay and you'll get a similar answer). And he referred to himself in third person, in a non-ironic mode. Sounds like a candidate for tool-hood to me.
