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Blogger gets James Severin to admit he thinks poor people are smelly
By adamg on Thu, 02/28/2008 - 8:48am
David Schrag posts a transcript of his on-air takedown of the blabmeister, and then fisks Jimmy Severino's tirade against him (after he'd bounced him off the air, natch).
Via Michael Pahre.
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The Best and Brightest
I admire the caller's tenacity and appreciate his efforts to deflate Jay but he's forgetting the Doctrine of Pundit Infallibility or DOPI for short. Its simply impossible to make Severin concede he's wrong, this is the guy who called 2004 for Kerry and 2008 for Romney. This is the guy who went around bragging about winning a Pulitzer prize when he had won no such thing. Severin would never win a reality based debate but thats not what his show is. Its more like a bird vomiting up partially digested food into the mouths of its helpless young... well that and a pathological obsession with Hillary's backside.
Not totally impossible
Several years ago Severin was going on and on about a poll published in the Globe. I completely forget the topic of the poll, but Severin was through the roof complaining that the poll was totally invalid because half the respondents were black. I called up then, too, and pointed out that the poll had used a method called oversampling, which allows the analysts to get finer detail on subgroups that would ordinarily not have enough respondents for such number crunching. For example, this poll was able to distinguish between older blacks and younger blacks, or male blacks and female blacks, or something like that. The results of the poll were carefully presented to show that when views of the entire population were discussed, the results were weighted so that they accurately represented the population at large and were not skewed by the oversampling technique. A while after my call, Jay did a little tease at the top of the hour with the old "once I thought I was wrong, but I was mistaken" joke, and then admitted that he had incorrectly characterized the polling methods.
My aim in these calls is not really to get Severin to admit he's wrong, but to get at least a few of his sycophants to realize that he is, in fact, an idiot.