# Anthony Cumia of "Opie and Anthony" fired **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 5, 2014, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anthony-cumia-of-opie-and-anthony-fired/692407 "2014-07-05T14:05:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 7
**Author:** ![Rucksinator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/898d66/32.png) [@Rucksinator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rucksinator)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2014, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anthony-cumia-of-opie-and-anthony-fired/692407/7 "2014-07-06T02:00:18Z")
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: > [@Anthony Cumia of "Opie and Anthony" fired for "racist tweets"](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anthony-cumia-of-opie-and-anthony-fired-for-racist-tweets/692381/1): > > …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? > [@Anthony Cumia of "Opie and Anthony" fired for "racist tweets"](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anthony-cumia-of-opie-and-anthony-fired-for-racist-tweets/692381/9): > > Then why the living fuck wouldn’t you, you know, call the cops or make a report? > [@Anthony Cumia of "Opie and Anthony" fired for "racist tweets"](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anthony-cumia-of-opie-and-anthony-fired-for-racist-tweets/692381/14): > > 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. > [@Anthony Cumia of "Opie and Anthony" fired for "racist tweets"](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anthony-cumia-of-opie-and-anthony-fired-for-racist-tweets/692381/30): > > 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. > [@Anthony Cumia of "Opie and Anthony" fired for "racist tweets"](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anthony-cumia-of-opie-and-anthony-fired-for-racist-tweets/692381/32): > > 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?” --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anthony-cumia-of-opie-and-anthony-fired/692407)._