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.

Michelle Malkin, Neal Boortz, Glenn Beck, Other Right Wing Commentators Using Swine Flu to Promote Racism against Illegal Mexican Immigrants

The conservative right wing nutjobs like columnist Michelle Malkin, radio show hosts Neal Boortz and Michael Savage, as well as the lunatic Glenn Beck need to be put in check sooner rather than later for spewing racist hatred by stating illegal immigrants are responsible for carrying swine flu across the Mexican border and infecting innocent Americans. Lost in all Michelle Malkin's babble is the fact that she is the product of an immigrant family and her lack of empathy for immigrants is insulting and hypocritical, to say the least. These people have sunk to a new low and that's just pitiful. There is no evidence to support such scurrilous claims but this has not deterred these morons from spreading these accusations faster than the contagion itself.

Here is a sampling of the racist accusations:

"Illegal aliens are bringing in a deadly new flue strain. Make no mistake about it," blares Michael Savage.

"I've blogged for years about the spread of contagious diseases from around the world into the US as a result of uncontrolled immigration," writes Michelle Malkin.

"What happens if there's a rash of deaths in Mexico... and if you're a family in Mexico and people are dying and Americans are not, why wouldn't you flood this border?" announces Glenn Beck.

There is more. These idiots are also trying to convince their audiences that Islamic terrorists have somehow been able to do what has eluded scientists elsewhere in the world, the ability to concoct a deadly new flu virus, and then miraculously introduce it into the Mexican population.

"What better way to sneak a virus into this country than to give it to Mexicans....then spread a rumor there there are construction jobs here, and there they come," says Boortz.

Savage — "make no mistake about it" — believes that radical Islamic countries planted the virus in Mexico knowing that humans make the "perfect mules for bringing the strain into America." Source: The Huffington Post

Their comments are idiotic and deeply divisive at the same time. They owe the Mexican people an apology. Why would the terrorist groups single out Mexicans instead of Americans if they were able to create this new bio-terrorist flu? Geez, I guess these morons didn't bother to think of that little detail. Here's another gem. Isn't Mexico City, the epicenter of this outbreak, hundreds of miles from the US border? Lastly, didn't the eight students from New York City contract the disease after a trip to Cancun, Mexico? Who are the real idiots now? Michelle Malkin, Neal Boortz, Mike Savage and Glenn Beck are spreading something far more vile than swine flu -- deep-rooted hatred and that's a very dangerous thing.