Anthony Cumia of "Opie and Anthony" fired

[Rucksinator]

Again, I have compiled some of the comments not debating “racism” from the first 2 threads that got merged together and am posting them here:

@Rucksinator

…The weird thing is that he didn’t call the police or make a report. He just claims that it happened. Therefore, people are doubting his version of the story. (IDK that there is another version of the story).

Another angle is that O&A have admitted that years ago they wanted to get fired from their Boston job (for a prank on Mayor Menino*) so that they could take a better job in New York. They complain a lot about stuff at SiriusXM and have implied that their next destination is podcasting, which they have already started.

I like their show and listen to them when I can, so I tend to believe his version. However, something is very fishy about the whole thing.

Thoughts?

@Hippy_Hollow

Then why the living fuck wouldn’t you, you know, call the cops or make a report?

@Rucksinator

Yeah, as I said, the story is kinda fishy. For those that don’t follow the show, he has several cop friends, including “Club Soda Kenny” who is a retired NY police officer that drives either him or Opie to and/or from work every day, as well as “Kieth the cop” who, at least for a while, lived in Anthony’s mansion*. Also, he implied that he was carrying a weapon on him at the time, but he is often complaining about how even his CCW license doesn’t allow him to bring a weapon into NY City. So was he legally able to have a weapon on him where he was? Could that have been why he didn’t call the cops (having a retired NYC cop as a chauffeur isn’t going to get you out of a weapons charge, I wouldn’t think.)
Given the current climate, it seems that nobody is going to dissect the particulars of his story because everybody reporting on it is too busy pointing out how non-racist they themselves are. I was hoping that we could avoid that here.

• This is information that I have gathered by listening to the show when I am in my car, which is now only for a few minutes at a time.

@Ibn_Warraq

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.

They show a woman in full frame who’s clearly already agitated and angry with him.

She’s also wearing a short dress and looks like she was dressed for a night clubbing.

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.

@Rucksinator

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?”