(Boston) Jay Severin suspended for comments about Mexican immigrants

[Eugene]

Source: Boston Globe

Severin suspended for comments about Mexican immigrants

By David Abel
Globe Staff / May 1, 2009

Jay Severin, the fiery right wing talk show host on Boston's WTKK-FM radio station, was suspended yesterday after calling Mexican immigrants "criminaliens," "primitives," "leeches," and exporters of "women with mustaches and VD," among other incendiary comments.

Heidi Raphael, a spokeswoman for the station, said Severin had been suspended indefinitely from his afternoon drive-time show. She declined to say which of his comments - made since an outbreak of swine flu was linked to Mexico in recent days - sparked the suspension.

"I can assure you that the station has not been using the remarks for which he has been suspended in on-air promos," she said, declining to comment further.

In an e-mail, Severin, a bombastic voice whose views often mirror those of fringe conservatives and who rarely lacks something to say, referred questions to his lawyer. "I am simply not at liberty to discuss it at this time," he wrote.

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Read more: http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2009/05/01/severin_suspended_for_comments_about_mexican_immigrants

[bbernardini]

1. OH NOEZ! We're violating his constitutional rights!

He said he's "not at liberty to discuss it". That's a violation of his constitutional rights, my friends. Life, LIBERTY, and the pursuit of happiness!

</Limbaugh>

:sarcasm:

[obliviously]

2. It sounds like

they are getting ready to put him in syndication. The suspension is advertising. He is of the same caliber as some of the other talk show hosts.

[DAMANgoldberg]

3. How many more of his type...

does the marketplace need. I have heard him before, he dosen't bring anything new, exciting, or different to the radio table.