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T Fowl posted:A caller from Canada called in and said the same thing pretty much and they shot him down and called him an idiot. They think people want new content mainly because the old poo poo is just that, old poo poo. What they don't realize is there is a large number who would prefer to hear something else later in the day and actually listen to a 4 hour show and want more in their day. Jokes on them I guess. I exclusively listen to old O&A on youtube because their new stuff is terrible.
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spudsbuckley posted:Yeah, i'm listening to this now and it's not even remotely funny despite Ron's attempts to rip on it. I imagine Ron may have seen Glenn Beck as fair game since his show was making fun of rape victims a few days before he told the story of his dad being raped as a "some of my best friends are black" style excuse to justify his previous actions. Also gently caress Glenn Beck.
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Jun 3, 2014 05:39
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Oh god, please let Anthony get fired. That would seriously be the best thing to happen to the show in forever.
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Jul 3, 2014 18:55
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Droopy Goines posted:No that would be bad because ant is the funniest person on the show. The show has been stuck in the same rut since they went back to satellite only. It's in desperate need of a shake up and this could be it. I get that Ant is funny but he's also the cancer that kills the show almost every day with his racist and political drivel.
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Jul 3, 2014 19:27
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Jezebel did a pretty solid slam piece on the history of Ant's racism. Even squeezed a few licks in about his dating a 17 year old. http://jezebel.com/opie-anthony-host-has-a-long-history-of-racism-1599685595
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Jul 3, 2014 20:40
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Cromulent posted:Right, but the reason why it's not massively blowing up and everywhere is because there's a lot of reading involved. "VIDEO: National DJ calls woman a N***** C*** to her face!!" generates more clicks than "Radio DJ says racist things" then a series of 15 tweets and 45 minutes of show audio. His tweets were no worse than he's said on any given day. I'm really curious as to what your definition of blowing up is. Does there need to be a congressional hearing?
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Jul 3, 2014 21:25
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How Much Art posted:Anthony Cumia @AnthonyCumia · Oh my goddddd. This makes up for him never really getting called out. Literally years of over the top racism condensed to make him look like the worst person ever (and he is)
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Jul 3, 2014 22:25
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onemillionzombies posted:Anthony is totally going to sue Sirius if he's fired and it'll be great. Yeah, no matter how you slice it, ironically this is going to be the best thing to happen on the show in years.
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Jul 3, 2014 22:55
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Kevyn posted:I just find it hard to believe that nobody, whether it be Opie or Jim or management, sat Ant down at some point over the last five years and said "look man, even if this poo poo doesn't get us fired, it's causing us to hemorrhage listeners by the thousands. What are you doing?" I'm pretty sure the average O&A listener (angry, straight white male) eats Ant's poo poo right up.
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Jul 4, 2014 00:49
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You guys saying he gets along with certain black people are forgetting that Black Exceptionalism is basically a necessary component for racism. "Oh, he's one of the good ones!"
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Jul 4, 2014 04:25
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gouge away posted:I honestly didn't expect this from Sirius, and while I think his views are vile and boring, I just wanted him to go back to being funny, not to be fired. I've been waiting for that for at least 4 years. Wasn't coming, this is honestly better for everyone involved except for maybe Anthony's wallet.
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Jul 4, 2014 14:21
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Geez, I really didn't expect it to go this far as the story didn't even really blow up considering it didn't even make the Opie Radio Funny Mofos Daily! (yes, he's still doing that. http://paper.li/opieradio/opieradio-funnypeeps CRINGE)
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Jul 4, 2014 14:52
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The Dave posted:Some people believe this crazy idea that you have the freedom to say what you want, regardless of it's nature. Some of those people also believe that there are no circumstances that allow a party to physically attack the other. It's not a crazy concept, nor is your point of view of the situation confirmed. You totally have that freedom, and the media totally has the freedom to report on your publicly aired racist tirades and your boss totally has the freedom to fire you when you are a public figure in his company. Literally no one is defending the woman who attacked him and nothing will happen to her because Ant refused to press charges.
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Jul 4, 2014 15:13
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The Opie and Sam show for sure.
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Jul 4, 2014 15:40
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A Fancy Bloke posted:You kid, but Anthony drove me away when he started going on daily 45 minute racist, right-wing rants when Obama got elected. I'm actually a lot more likely to listen again with him gone. I'm kidding about nothing, Sam Roberts is probably the most likely candidate for the job given that he now has multiple radio shows. And I'm in the same boat as you, I'm cautiously optimistic but I would start listening on a daily basis again if this ends up being beginning of a new era where the show is funny again.
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Jul 4, 2014 15:53
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This is just so god drat funny. Just like how Bobo's fugitive bit ended, you simply could not have made up how Anthony's radio career ended.
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Jul 4, 2014 15:58
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Chris James 2 posted:A black man being elected and then re-elected President literally slowly drove a radio personality insane until he finally snapped, publicly harassed a black woman, got beat up, got laughed at, went on a racist tirade on Twitter, and then got fired. This needs to be a god drat movie.
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Jul 4, 2014 16:05
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Morter posted:Not that it's related, but I'm sure if I scour/lurk reddit long enough, I'll find a photoshopped Die Hard pic of Ant with a "I hate &$;;-:s" sandwich board. Quick and dirty, I'm not sorry. 
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Jul 4, 2014 16:16
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The Heckler posted:Scorch... wins? The Opie and Scorch Show
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Jul 4, 2014 16:30
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Post your favorite non-racist memory of Anthony: Anthony doing Angry Vince over 8 Track Porn @ 47:20: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZjIvF3XQhZM Ahh, 2007/2008, when they were still trying to be a comedy show. Tomahawk fucked around with this message at 17:09 on Jul 4, 2014 |
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Jul 4, 2014 17:06
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Some of the best quotes from the Reddit thread:quote:Social leftism is a cancer. A thought-policing, domineering, ideologically fascist cancer. And it proves itself so every day. quote:this is loving bullshit. gently caress sirus, gently caress liberals and gently caress blacks. ive been listing since 2000 im so loving pissed quote:This is why I hate niggers. They cant handle hearing the truth about them being savages, so they cry racist whenever someone addresses the issue. Sub-human primates.
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Jul 4, 2014 17:43
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MONKET posted:Welp holy poo poo just found out about the news like 5 minutes ago. R.I.P. to your career you loony scarface gun-toting italiano. It wasn't really about expecting Ant to pull something like this because he did all the time. It was more about waiting for someone to finally call him out on it.
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Jul 4, 2014 21:35
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MONKET posted:I don't think he's been nearly as racist. At least when he went off on a tirade he pulled out the "black on black crime statistics" card, here he's literally just calling black people animals. He's well past the point of no return. I guess you missed when he carted that old gem out afterwards trying to pretend that he was trying to save the black community from itself and that he's not a racist.
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Jul 4, 2014 21:43
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BottledBodhisvata posted:Notable for being the first to do so. It's kind of shameful journalism that none of these Gawker people even went through the trouble of trying to contact him for a statement out the gate. I guess maybe they took his tweets as his statement? Yeah, how come nobody tried to get the racist lunatic in the midst of a live Twitter tirade's side of it?!?!
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sba posted:You guys are doing some hardcore SJWing in here If you're looking for unapologetic racism you should try Reddit
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How Much Art posted:That I gotta give him credit for. The man does not waver You can take that back, he's deleting all of his tweets as we speak.
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Jul 5, 2014 05:03
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Aaaaaand zero https://twitter.com/AnthonyCumia You can press a button to delete all of your tweets but I imagine that's a process and that's why we saw them going in "chunks" This keeps getting better. He refuses to back down until its too late. Edit: actually, it looks like he only has retweets left, hmm
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Dazh posted:This is the kind of reactionary outrage over semantics that holds back progress. hahahahahahahahhahahaha
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BottledBodhisvata posted:Glad we've decided that only those with acceptable viewpoints get to share them. I'm really sorry that your millionaire racist hero pissed off his private company. I'm really sorry there's no constitutional amendment guaranteeing that white nationalists get a satellite radio show. Freedom is dead, etc. America 1776-2014. However, I think there's still hope. If you check out Stormfront and FreeRepublic you'll see that maybe, just maybe, freedom of speech can still exist. But only if we fight for it. You, me, the pests. Let's take this country back!
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Cromulent posted:You're really becoming obnoxious with your smug glee. Nobody here is going off the deep end defending Ant and his views, quit acting like they are. BottledBodhisvata is the guy that threw a temper tantrum when Donald Sterling got in trouble and the Duck Dynasty guy got in trouble. He complained about the Duck Dynasty dude's rights being violated before being kindly reminded that you can still be fired for being gay in the majority of states in America, which he did not even know. He's weirdly concerned about protecting the hate speech of millionaires and thinks this is a SLIPPERYSLOPE and doesn't seem to be aware of any actual stuff worth getting concerned about in the world so I'm gonna make fun of him ok.
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Jul 5, 2014 16:40
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BottledBodhisvata posted:Yes, we were outraged at PRISM but completely blase about doing the same thing about Sterling. gently caress, this is LITERALLY what Jim Norton brings up whenever this topic is broached. We're a nosy culture who delight in getting caught up in lynch mob, we don't value each other's privacy so why the gently caress would the government value ours? Yes, warrantless wiretapping is LITERALLY the same thing as your girlfriend recording a conversation you're having. Like, I'm really not sure what you want? Should we stifle the speech of people who are offended at stuff? How come their speech isn't as legitimate as the speech of a millionaire racist? I'm worried about your trampling of their rights. Tomahawk fucked around with this message at 17:13 on Jul 5, 2014 |
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Jul 5, 2014 17:11
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mcmagic posted:Untrue. He didn't use the word friend of the family but that is only semantics. He said the exact same thing as he said on twitter multiple times. Just listen to that horrific eugenics rant. Thats right off Stormfront. woosh
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Interlude posted:Whatever is convenient to tar the bigot with, apparently. I don't think a lot of creep shots are taken with large, $6000 cameras with good lighting and composure but what the hell do I know. Clearly Anthony Cumia was taking the photograph of a black prostitute on a major street for sexual purposes. That fits right in with what we know about him. Street Photography is for insufferable, unemployed millennials not heroic realist millionaires.
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Apoplexy posted:Yeah, but gently caress that guy. He deserved to have his poo poo taken away from him. Why the gently caress are you giving a poo poo and taking up arms to defend an old racist millionaire gently caress in his 80s who was banging a mixed-race girl in her 20s? He clearly doesn't need any help from you. I'll just repost this quote from the GBS thread to explain Bottled's weird logic Gum posted:First they came for the Gays, and I did not speak out—
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Jul 5, 2014 20:22
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TL posted:Oh god, there's a GBS thread on this? That sounds awful. It was pretty much the same thing as this thread except most people didn't really know Anthony and were just laughing about some racist guy who got beat up by a black woman so hard that he lost his job
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Mad Doctor Cthulhu posted:Rich Vos and his wife Bonnie defend Anthony. AUDIO: You Won't Believe How This Comedian Whose Career Depends On His Relationship With The Show Feels About Anthony Getting In Trouble
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Mad Doctor Cthulhu posted:Rich Vos and his wife Bonnie defend Anthony. I like how Rich is trying to argue that if you called a white person an animal it wouldn't be racist as if Anthony had only innocently commented "that woman who attacked me was acting like an animal" instead of "savage violent animal fucks prey on white people" and "they're not people".
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Gianthogweed posted:drat. Without Ant the show is going to suck. Jimmy and Opie aren't going to be enough to carry the show. If Patrice were still alive the show could still be salvageable. I suppose they could bring on Louis CK or Bill Burr to fill the void though. Pretty tough shoes to fill though, racist rear end in a top hat that he was, he's a quck witty funny gently caress. Patrice was the only guy who I honestly could say could replace him handily. The show wasn't really doing too great WITH racist lunatic Ant these past few years sooo... I'm looking forward to the shake up. Hopefully they figure things out enough for me to become a daily listener again. And yeah, they're not getting Louis CK or Bill Burr or even Colin Quinn. They'd be lucky to get Rich Vos to co-host 5 days a week at this point. (alright, maybe that's going a little too far) Point is, if they replace Anthony they're going to end up with a non-comic like Sam. Tomahawk fucked around with this message at 22:50 on Jul 5, 2014 |
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