THAT ANNOYING SIDE OF SEVERIN

Editor Note: Jay Severin is a Boston talk host for WTKK 96.9FM.

A large part of Jay Severin's audience called by him as the "best and brightest" occasionally have to hold their noses when Jay retreats back to his young liberal years and the anti-Vietnam War protest template.
We held our noses on Thursday when Jay decided to endorse the words of Ted Kennedy regarding the Iraq War.
Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld appeared before a Senate committee and was challenged by Kennedy.
According to Rumsfeld, Kennedy's view of the Iraq War is 180 degrees from the truth. And according to Kennedy, everything in Iraq is wrong, soldiers die for nothing, there is no winning strategy, and we should simply withdraw and repeat what was done to Iraq in the first Gulf War, namely to abandon it to its own fate.
Kennedy called for Rumsfeld to resign and Rumsfeld retorted that he has tried to resign several times and President Bush has refused the resignation.
Now, let's get back to the bottom line issue. Either Kennedy is right or Rumsfeld is right. There is a clear choice here. Is Kennedy speaking nobly from the heart about Iraq or is he just trying to rack up more anti-war, anti-Bush points. Is Rumsfeld, the guy largely in charge of the war, lying to us all while gleefully enjoying all those American soldier casualties.
According to Severin, it's Kennedy who speaks the truth and it's Rumsfeld who speaks with forked tongue.
Sorry, Jay. We love you, but you are, oh, so wrong on this one. We're amazed that Severin can't instinctively sense that in siding with Ted Kennedy, something has to be short circuiting that usually reliable Severin logic.