“Opie And Anthony” Host Goes On Racist Tirade On Twitter After Alleged Attack

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This went viral. All of a sudden people who had never even heard of him knew he was a racist prick.

Yeah, but if you've never heard of him, you probably aren't a subscriber of Sirius. And even if something goes viral, it will die down and be forgotten eventually. I mean, its these kinds of scandals that make shock-jocks. I may just be too cynical, but I just don't see Sirius suddenly developing a concern (or respect) for public opinion on this issue. I think its more likely they already wanted to cut costs and this just gave them a way to do it, all the while getting positive publicity.
 
It's just funny seeing this dude pull a Colbert, all like "hey guys, look at my black friend. See I'm cool! There's no problem here!"

Oh, is that the meaning of the Colbert image? I thought it was just funny because of the juxtaposition of a laughing Colbert to the irritated expression of the other person.
 
I mean, its these kinds of scandals that make shock-jocks.

Shock Jocks aren't a form of entertainer that are particularly in demand, though. There aren't really any new ones coming up, and all the old ones have mostly died out after Stern fled the scene and terrestrial radio began tumbling towards cutural irrelevance shortly thereafter.

The best analogy I can think of right now is that the audience for "Shock Jocks" is the pop-culture equivalent of people who stick with flip phones because they don't want to take the time to figure out how smartphones work.

"Shock Jocks" are, more than anything, a 90s phenomenon that's survived into the 21st century due to its followers being complacent and overly habitual. Anyone who is still good at that particular art has learned how to adapt those skills to other media, or they've dead-ended. For example: Seth McFarlane woulda been a great shock jock. Luckily (for him, at least), he never got stuck in radio. Jimmy Kimmel WAS in radio, but translated those skills to a much more lucrative, attention-getting medium.

Shock Jocks in the 21st century are like refugees from an alternate universe where Jerky Boys never stopped being platinum-sellers.
 
Shock Jocks aren't a form of entertainer that are particularly in demand, though. There aren't really any new ones coming up, and all the old ones have mostly died out after Stern fled the scene and terrestrial radio began tumbling towards cutural irrelevance shortly thereafter.

The best analogy I can think of right now is that the audience for "Shock Jocks" is the pop-culture equivalent of people who stick with flip phones because they don't want to take the time to figure out how smartphones work.

"Shock Jocks" are, more than anything, a 90s phenomenon that's survived into the 21st century due to its followers being complacent and overly habitual. Anyone who is still good at that particular art has learned how to adapt those skills to other media, or they've dead-ended. For example: Seth McFarlane woulda been a great shock jock. Luckily (for him, at least), he never got stuck in radio. Jimmy Kimmel WAS in radio, but translated those skills to a much more lucrative, attention-getting medium.

Shock Jocks in the 21st century are like refugees from an alternate universe where Jerky Boys never stopped being platinum-sellers.

Talk radio hosts in general aren't in demand. The audience for listening to someone speak on the radio for hours is way down.

Anyone that has been doing talk radio for decades, since the 90s at least, has had to change in some way. They either became more incendiary or much less so. Holding onto any career, especially entertainment, for decades is hard. And radio is a dying medium so it's unlikely any new big radio hosts, let alone shock jocks, would make a splash. But they do still try.

O&A would do a bit every October called Jocktober, where they would play audio from shock jock shows around the country and make fun of them. Eventually they would play old audio of themselves and make fun of that. And I remember them specifically calling out old fans that complained how the old show was better (the one from the 90s to early 2000s) and using these old bits as proof that the good old days didn't exist.
 
Shock Jocks aren't a form of entertainer that are particularly in demand, though. There aren't really any new ones coming up, and all the old ones have mostly died out after Stern fled the scene and terrestrial radio began tumbling towards cutural irrelevance shortly thereafter.

The best analogy I can think of right now is that the audience for "Shock Jocks" is the pop-culture equivalent of people who stick with flip phones because they don't want to take the time to figure out how smartphones work.

"Shock Jocks" are, more than anything, a 90s phenomenon that's survived into the 21st century due to its followers being complacent and overly habitual. Anyone who is still good at that particular art has learned how to adapt those skills to other media, or they've dead-ended. For example: Seth McFarlane woulda been a great shock jock. Luckily (for him, at least), he never got stuck in radio. Jimmy Kimmel WAS in radio, but translated those skills to a much more lucrative, attention-getting medium.

Shock Jocks in the 21st century are like refugees from an alternate universe where Jerky Boys never stopped being platinum-sellers.

To this point, they used to be shock jocks, but that died after Sex for Sam scandal. Since then, they've had a better format as topical discussion/interviews. However, Opie still pines for the shock jock days. He loved it. But, it's douchey and lame IMO
 
Nothing racist about his Twitter tirade. I hope he sues their ass dry.

Time to bail!

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Nothing racist about his Twitter tirade. I hope he sues their ass dry.
...And to the right, we have an illiterate individual that might not understand what is or isn't racist. A relic on his own time, this individual appears to have posted and moved on from the thread in record time. Will we see him again? Probably not. Still, we can all enjoy his obtuse view of how such loaded words work, and wonder how he came up with his conclusion.
 
...And to the right, we have an illiterate individual that might not understand what is or isn't racism. A relic on his own time, this individual appears to have posted and moved on from the thread in record time. Will we see him again? Probably not. Still, we can all enjoy his obtuse view of how words work, and wonder how he came up with his conclusion.

Riveting.

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Shock Jocks aren't a form of entertainer that are particularly in demand, though. There aren't really any new ones coming up, and all the old ones have mostly died out after Stern fled the scene and terrestrial radio began tumbling towards cutural irrelevance shortly thereafter.

The best analogy I can think of right now is that the audience for "Shock Jocks" is the pop-culture equivalent of people who stick with flip phones because they don't want to take the time to figure out how smartphones work.

"Shock Jocks" are, more than anything, a 90s phenomenon that's survived into the 21st century due to its followers being complacent and overly habitual. Anyone who is still good at that particular art has learned how to adapt those skills to other media, or they've dead-ended. For example: Seth McFarlane woulda been a great shock jock. Luckily (for him, at least), he never got stuck in radio. Jimmy Kimmel WAS in radio, but translated those skills to a much more lucrative, attention-getting medium.

Shock Jocks in the 21st century are like refugees from an alternate universe where Jerky Boys never stopped being platinum-sellers.

Glen Beck started as a shock jock.



Shame about Baily Jay, I just hope Sarina Valentina doesn't hang with racists.
 
Glen Beck started as a shock jock.

On the flip, I think Tom Leykis started as a legitimate political analyst - and then swerved to being Jabba the Douche for a couple decades.

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Talk radio hosts in general aren't in demand. The audience for listening to someone speak on the radio for hours is way down.

Anyone that has been doing talk radio for decades, since the 90s at least, has had to change in some way. They either became more incendiary or much less so. Holding onto any career, especially entertainment, for decades is hard. And radio is a dying medium so it's unlikely any new big radio hosts, let alone shock jocks, would make a splash. But they do still try.

Absolutely correct.
 
It was getting there, although Ant was as sharp as ever, Opie was basically phoning it in and more or less pouting for the last year.

http://podbay.fm/show/504257078/e/1404630060?autostart=1

Penn Jillette talks about it in his podcast. First thing he talks about. It's pretty fair, I guess.

Preferring him to have racists rants rather than shooting someone is a false dilemma. I expected better from Penn, whatever.

"Never seen any evidence of Anthony's racism"...someone didn't even google.

and no Penn, Anthony several times mentioned the 1st amendment and retweeted others screaming 1st amendment. Penn is giving his friend the benefit of the doubt even at the expense of readily available evidence.
 
Preferring him to have racists rants rather than shooting someone is a false dilemma. I expected better from Penn, whatever.

"Never seen any evidence of Anthony's racism"...someone didn't even google.

and no Penn, Anthony several times mentioned the 1st amendment and retweeted others screaming 1st amendment. Penn is giving his friend the benefit of the doubt even at the expense of readily available evidence.
This is what Penn always does lol

I think it's a combination of the way he lives his life somewhat ignoring popular culture plus the fact he's a nice guy who would never say anything bad about anyone if he can help it.
 
Uhhh, what do you consider racist?

Obviously it's only racist if you're burning crosses* and hanging them from trees.

*It's only racist when you do that IF you're wearing KKK regalia WHILE shooting at their house AT night while screaming "Go back to Africa Nigger" and even then we don't have the full context.

Bottom line is...we don't know if it's really racist, or that he's just saying the most hurtful thing he can think of. Besides did you see the picture above? He actually has a black friend so is he really racist, or was he just being funny? I mean let's not be quick to throw that word around, might ruin someone's career. I propose the government sets up a new branch called RIA or Racism Inquiry Agency; obviously it should be like 90% white, but they'll be tasked with verifying if something is truly racist, or if it's simply offended people pulling the race card when in reality THEY'RE being racist for pointing out false racism.
 
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