Jay Severin, Right Wing Radio Host for Boston's WTKK-FM, Suspended After Calling Mexicans "Criminaliens," "World's Lowest Primitives"

Comments about Mexicans and swine flu by WTKK radio host Jay Severin have prompted a flood of complaints to station management. (Suzanne Kreiter/Globe Staff/File 2001)

Right wing talk show host Jay Severin, of 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 mean comments. He was suspended indefinitely from his afternoon drive-time show. There is an ugly movement underway within the right wing community to smear the Mexicans for this flu outbreak -- Michelle Malkin, Michael Savage, Glenn Beck, Neal Boortz and others. It is mean spirited and amounts to hate mongering and racism.

In one of his broadcasts this week, Severin said: "So now, in addition to venereal disease and the other leading exports of Mexico - women with mustaches and VD - now we have swine flu."Later, he described Mexicans as "the world's lowest of primitives."

"When we are the magnet for primitives around the world - and it's not the primitives' fault by the way, I'm not blaming them for being primitives - I'm merely observing they're primitive," he said. He added that Mexicans are destroying schools and hospitals in the United States. He also criticized their hygiene. "It's millions of leeches from a primitive country come here to leech off you and, with it, they are ruining the schools, the hospitals, and a lot of life in America," he said.

He added: "We should be, if anything, surprised that Mexico has not visited upon us poxes of more various and serious types already, considering the number of criminaliens already here."

In a previous broadcast this week, Severin argued that the Obama administration wasn't taking sufficient action to seal the border. "The usual 5,000 criminaliens that come across the Arizona border will probably be 8,000 tonight, and maybe tomorrow it will be 12,000, because even Mexicans are going to be trying to get out of Mexico at a greater rate." Source: Boston Globe

If this isn't racist then I don't know what else is. This should not be tolerated and he should be fired from his job and not merely suspended for making such comments. Apparently he is no stranger to controversy. During a 2004 broadcast, he compared U.S. Muslims to a fifth column and when a caller suggested that the United States should befriend Muslims, Severin responded: "You think we should befriend them; I think we should kill them." He is also a fraud, who like Rush Limbaugh, seem to forget that people remember their shortcomings as well. He falsely stated that he had won a Pulitzer Prize and that he earned a master's degree from Boston University. All the advertisers should pull their commercials from that statement until he is fired, not apologize, fired.