# Anthony Cumia of "Opie and Anthony" fired for "racist tweets"

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**Created:** [July 5, 2014, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anthony-cumia-of-opie-and-anthony-fired-for-racist-tweets/692381 "2014-07-05T00:02:23Z")\
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**Author:** ![Rucksinator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/898d66/32.png) [@Rucksinator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rucksinator)\
**Post date:** [July 5, 2014, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anthony-cumia-of-opie-and-anthony-fired-for-racist-tweets/692381/32 "2014-07-05T03:41:44Z")

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> [@Ibn\_Warraq](#):
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> It’s worth noting that the pictures hardly support his story that he was taking pictures of Times Square and that some woman, was caught in a corner angle punched.
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> They show a woman in full frame who’s clearly already agitated and angry with him.
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> She’s also wearing a short dress and looks like she was dressed for a night clubbing.
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> It’s possible that his story is true but it seems much more likely he was taking pictures of her and she, understandably got upset.

OK, in my last post I said that she didn’t look very angry. Looking again, the expression on her face seems to be partially covered by a hand saying “no, no, no. What do you think you are doing?”

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