Jay Severin: Did I Miss Something?

[EWF]

Tuned into Severin's new show tonight at 7 on 96.9 and it seemed as if it were a "Best Of" program. Jay started out with some bizarre monologue on the guy "Tookie" who was executed in "Cally-phoney-a" last month as if it happened yesterday.
He seemed to have no context or continuity to the program and I finally turned him off to listen to Chris Matthews on MSNBC who was discussing today's breaking story of Jack Abramhoff who apparently "flipped" several congressman in a corruption plea deal.

I hope Severin show gets organized and produced better than tonight's because this show was a disaster of which Jay should be ashamed. Maybe he lost his fast ball being off the air for so many months. Whatever, Jay better improve fast or he will be gone faster than Josh Binswanger.

 

[Infidel]

I think you did miss something. I'm not sure which program you heard, but I've been listening since 7 (it's 9:30 now) and the show sounds fine. I did turn away at one point when he started rambling about Clapton (stick to the politics) but otherwise it sounded like Severin as usual.

So far he's brought up several older issues (like Bono on the cover of Newsweek), probably because he's been off the air for a few months.

 

[EWF]

Still think the program was totally out of sync with the current events of the day which made it seem like a "rewind".


> I think you did miss something. I'm not sure which program
> you heard, but I've been listening since 7 (it's 9:30 now)
> and the show sounds fine. I did turn away at one point when
> he started rambling about Clapton (stick to the politics)
> but otherwise it sounded like Severin as usual.
>
> So far he's brought up several older issues (like Bono on
> the cover of Newsweek), probably because he's been off the
> air for a few months.
>

 

[raccoonradio]

First of all, the show started with the intro of The Laura Ingraham show:
"THIS is the Best of Laura Ingraham", and a rerun from a couple weeks back
started to play. Board op mistake? Picked up nothing from the satellite?
Then abruptly we went into Jay, JIP-ed (joined in progress). He did seem
to be "live", blowing a noisemaker in a belated Happy New Year and he
started about Tookie getting executed "the other day". As in...Dec. 13???

Severin did briefly bring up the Abramoff matter along with "Not all
Muslims are terrorists, but all the terrorists so far have been Muslims"
(someone pointed out What about McVeigh?); he talked of religious extemists,
which brought out a caller who sounded like she belonged on Air America,
saying that all the bills that get passed by Congress are done by
far-right Christians, etc.

Oh: I did hear him briefly talk about l'affaire Scot Lehigh/Globe and basically he seemed to brush it aside, feeling the some people who misquote him or accuse him of
things he really didn't say don't deserve a response from him. I guess it's Jay's world.
We just live in it.

I'll admit I never really listened to Jimmy Severino in depth because he was
up against Howie,and I preferred Howie. Jay seemed pompous to me and
didn't really do self-deprecating humor like Howie and Hannity do. That still
seems to be the case. It's tough to pin him down politically: Republican?
No, he said he's not of either party. Conservative? Not necessarily--he
called himself a "radical Independent". Libertarian? Who knows.

It actually wasn't bad in some ways, and at least I had some political
stuff to listen to (the competition on WRKO is either Taste of Boston
or "Larry Bird's Not Coming Through That Door, Fans"; can't get into
Sully on WBZ.

 

[speculator]

At the risk of suffering the slings and arrows of this regularly rough room, I LOVE Severin, have been a FAITHFUL listener for all six years and consider my appraisal of him to be fair: Brilliant political analyst with the morals of an alley cat. His pomposity is no more than Limbaugh's which is to say, tolerable, becauase what comes out in-between is unmatched in logic and incisiveness...THAT BEING SAID...

He was DEFINITELY not ready for "prime time" last night. He indulged his own ego and selfish impulses - meaning, he's been BUSTING these last few months to comment on everything that's happened and gave into that impulse, and it sounded, as other posters have written, disjointed and incongruous. He should have PREFACED it at LEAST by saying that he's busting at the seams, then pared it down to a list of 5 or 10 things he just has to bloviate on and then run through them. He then should have been timely and on topic.

Severin WILL find his pace, his center, his rhythm. Those of us who love him, will wait him out.

 

[kjlassoc]

I think he's been told to drop the fratboy act. He's coming off less like Mr. Know-it-all. Of course, who knows if he'll find much of an audience being plain Jay.

> At the risk of suffering the slings and arrows of this
> regularly rough room, I LOVE Severin, have been a FAITHFUL
> listener for all six years and consider my appraisal of him
> to be fair: Brilliant political analyst with the morals of
> an alley cat. His pomposity is no more than Limbaugh's
> which is to say, tolerable, becauase what comes out
> in-between is unmatched in logic and incisiveness...THAT
> BEING SAID...
>
> He was DEFINITELY not ready for "prime time" last night. He
> indulged his own ego and selfish impulses - meaning, he's
> been BUSTING these last few months to comment on everything
> that's happened and gave into that impulse, and it sounded,
> as other posters have written, disjointed and incongruous.
> He should have PREFACED it at LEAST by saying that he's
> busting at the seams, then pared it down to a list of 5 or
> 10 things he just has to bloviate on and then run through
> them. He then should have been timely and on topic.
>
> Severin WILL find his pace, his center, his rhythm. Those
> of us who love him, will wait him out.
>