Why are OnA Refusing To Comment On Snowden Leaks!?

21  2013-07-08 by waytogo17

I blame Opie. Let's get this thread up voted until they talk about this shit. I don't care if it's "radio heavy lifting." They talked for years about how they say shit you won't hear in mainstream news, but with this shit they are staying silent? Fuck that.

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what really bothers me is how Ant refuses to chime in on the Trayvon Martin case.

hah

Ant's worried because Zimmerman is whiter than him.

You see the Moors conquered Sicily. And the Moors are niggers.

I think he's straight up North African.

Anthony isn't white. He's a dirty Italian. It offends me when he tries to say he's apart of the white community.

I agree. Although he isn't Italian. He's Sicilian. My Italian grandmother (northern Italy, you know where the art, design, fashion, finicky sports cars etc come from.) would never consider him Italian. God rest her soul.

it doesnt involve taxes, black people or guns. simple as that

It does kind of reveal the bullshit of Ant's gun arguments. He's always talking about the erosion of civil liberties and violation the constitution, but when it doesn't affect his guns he doesn't seem to give a shit.

He admitted as much when NYC's stop and frisk came up.

I would love a rant on this rather than the stale topics you mention that Ant had ranted about 1000 times each. As someone pointed out it makes Ant's claim he's just defending civil liberties bullshit, he's just using that to argue things that affect him.

Or the "twitter assholes," Op's kids, or Kim Kardashian.

Exactly! On everything else they are completely incompetent and talking about it will just make the listeners frustrated!

Speaking of which, the last hour of today's show was pretty good.

  • Colorado Caller called in and gave the best refute of Ant's arguing over the trial in some time. Ant didn't really have much to say after the watchman called and said that you aren't ever supposed to pursue.

  • Steve called in and as usual got yelled over by Anthony. He keeps calling and trying to debate them, but Ant and Jim just talk over him and his points get tuned out.

Did we listen to the same show?

"Ant didn't really have much to say after the watchman called and said that you aren't ever supposed to pursue."

Which doesn't matter in the slightest when it comes to the law.

"Steve called in and as usual got yelled over by Anthony."

He should have been yelled at for lying about the bushes.

The best part was when Kenny just chimed in during the call. "Were you there, sir?" "How do you know!?"

That guy from Colorado was an asshole. First he said watch men get thrown in jail for confronting someone. When he got called on that ridiculous statement he back tracked to confronting someone with unprovoked force. No shit. Anyone would get thrown in jail for attacking someone. He's typical for someone on this side of the debate. He danced around the important facts of the case and repeated the same unimportant bullshit that doesn't matter. Not following the suggestion of the dispatcher to a tee? Not important. Following Trayvon? Doesn't matter. All that matters is who initiated violence and whether or not Zimmerman had a reasonable belief that his life was in danger. That's it!

If I'm not mistaken, they did talk about it when it first happened. What are they supposed to do, give a daily update about him living in a Russian airport?

Honestly it'd probably be insanely boring and or uninformed.

Opie brought him up today. Saying "Snowden ain't got nothing on [Big A]"

They probably don't know/care enough.

I doubt they'd be able to add much; lots of yelling about how it's illegal.

mind control

"Let's get this thread up voted until they talk about this"

HAHAHA like they read this shitty subreddit and care. "Uh oh, Reddit says we should talk about something, we better do it!"

Haha you ignorant fuck!

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lol you might be right, but you never know. They used to read Wackbag and talk about it on the air all the time.

Ant doesn't want to say anything that might get his NYC CCW permit taken away

Don't see how it's Opie's fault. You know Ant would love to mention it.

They did make a brief aside to it today when Big A called and didn't say shit. Jimmy called him Snowden.

This just seems like a topic that would infuriate Ant and serve as show fodder for a few days or weeks. It'd be nice if they could talk about it

Haven't got a chance to fully listen to today's show yet. I will check it out. I agree it would make some interesting radio, but they have not touched it really, do u have any idea why that is?

It's been suggested previously on this reddit that they're not allowed to talk about it, although that is speculation.

They do make a few asides at it though, but nothing too insightful. Jimmy retweeted someone a few days ago who made a Snowden joke, unfortunately I can't remember the main gist of it.

That's weird, why would they not be allowed to talk about it? I was under the impression they had few restrictions, at least when it came to talking. I know they can't do the crazy stuff they did at WNEW.

Ant probably knows someone at the NSA

Why would they talk about it? Opie seen Tom Cruises ex wife this weekend. IN PERSON!!! get this apparently celebrities kids have tantrums too........

Quick 5 minutes of the show was killed with that little story is what the Opester was probably thinking.

I think they were trying to get to 7:20 so Ant could talk about his pool party with that one.

Seen or saw?

Your call

Yeah MAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN

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I guess you might be right. But it would be nice to at least hear them say that.

I thought ant would be ranting about terrorists in Syria getting free weapons from the US tax payer. Us citizens are threatened with disarmament while expensive weapons are being sent to savages courtesy of the hard working American people.LOL

I never thought about that, that is a hilarious point. Funny the weird web we all live in these days.

What about the fact my tax dollars go to pave roads in Alabama while my road is shit. Split this country up.

For one, it's a heavily politicized issue. The XM lawyers are afraid of their own farts - you think they're going to let them talk about it and risk getting sued or losing advertisers or being indicted? Paltalk was even listed as one of the companies that was cooperating with the NSA. Even that connection, tenuous as it is, could be enough to make the XM lawyers shit their pants and make them be quiet about it.

Why would it be opie's fault?

Opie and Anthony are CIA.

Wow, I just started a new thread. Didn't see this. SOrry!

What is there to discuss? we're being spied on, great. There's little argument for whether he did or didn't break a law, even shitty laws should be enforced until they get changed so the guy broke the law, said what many suspected already (and lets not pretend that germany or anyone is SUPRISED we're spying on them, that shit has gone on for decades in both directions) etc.. I'm not sure there is much to actually talk about, maybe if snowden relesead some secret documents like wikileaks with content in them

Yeah, so we're living in a 1984-esque dystopian future. What's the big deal?

I don't understand. There is a huge international debate going on right now. I could think of 100s of things to talk about. And Snowden did release actual documents with content on them like Wikileaks. In many ways his documents are much easier to read than previous Wikileaks releases. The Prism Powerpoint slides are a breeze for understanding the NSA's program with helpful diagrams and arrows.

What's with all the downvotes ITT?

Jesus fucking christ. She's sticking her ass in the air as a signal to the males to come and mount her. She's getting into breeding position. It's their sick fucking culture.

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ITT? in the thread? I have no idea. I didn't even know reddit featured voting until like 3 days ago. I am an idiot and I just started visiting this subbreddit/reddit a few weeks ago.

Check out Jay Mohr's latest podcast with Bill Burr. Burr tried to bring it up and Mohr keeps deflecting with a lame joke about some former lead metal band singer who is now a pilot. Bill tried to discuss it and Mohr wanted to do anything but that.

They're told what they can discuss. Obviously Snowden is on their No-No list.

Quanspiracy Momma out.

More like its kinda boring. Not much you can say about it either.

I think it's the broadcasters job to take complex topics and make it interesting, that is why Opie called it "heavy lifting." Bill Burr obviously has no problem making it easy and funny to listen to. I was laughing at what he was saying on the Mohr Stories. I'm gonna check out his MMPC today cuz i know Bill will talk about anything.

Ya but Burr is an idiot, his side is interesting because half of his story is factually incorrect, or full of naivety (his rant on banks loaning money). I haven't listened to his NSA comments, but based on his track record I would not be surprised if that is the case here as well.

O and A isn't a news show. Its an entertainment show. They shouldn't talk about all the current events. That would be boring. They pick and choose events that they are interested in because they then can make it interesting, that's the way it should be.

I guess you're right. But it would be nice to see them mention it. I wonder if they would have mentioned the Pentagon Papers if they were broadcasting then. I know Dave Rabbit who they so lavishly praised on the OnA podcast a few weeks ago probably would have or at least he might of had some one liner poking fun at it.

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That's why Bill Burr is the man. I don't think some broadcasters realize that the info available to average citizens is increasing every day and now that we are (or at least feel) a little more informed the content and level of our discourse has shifted. And I'm not even going one way or the other on the Snowden thing, but it would be nice to actually hear them discuss it, I want to know what their takes are on it.

That's pretty believable. I can't imagine they'd have anything really intelligent to add, nonetheless.

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I am not trying to get Karma. I think people have misinterpreted my request that we upvote this so they actually talk about it. I am just trying all options to get them to talk about it and I suspect someone on the show reads this Reddit so if they see it at the top for a while they might actually pay attention. I don't give a fuck about karma on a fucking message board. Who does? Anyone who does is probably an Idiot who needs to adjust his priorities.

We know what you were trying to do. Wrap a demand in a question and hope no-one much noticed.

What you should have done is say what you meant: for some reason as yet unclear, you want three older men on the radio to talk about something you are interested in, irrespective if they are or aren't interested in it. You clearly see your wants and needs above the wants and needs of the hosts, and are consequently confused and suspicious as to why things aren't occurring as you imagine they naturally should.

They don't talk about plenty of stories, and talk too much about plenty of other stories. Your job here is to deal with it. As a listener, not a producer, that there is the precise sum total extent of your involvement in what is decided to be discussed on any given day.

Also, you sir are an ass. haha.

Yea, it is a demand and a question. They are a hot topic talk show. Snowden is a hot topic for most people. They talk about real issues all the time. Obviously they don't have to listen to my demands. But I a listener and this is a forum for listeners. Someone below mentioned there was talk that they were not allowed to mention it. Are we not allowed to discuss amongst ourselves what we want them to talk about on the show or other things they won't discuss? The same way people on this SubReddit talked about things that went on at the LFTC show that the show themselves admitted today they can't/don't want to talk about or broadcast even if they broadcast some parts of it? I don't know what your gripe is here? The reason I want "three older men" (what a weird descriptor u creep) to talk about it is because they have previously said funny and interesting things about topics I care about and of which the mainstream media does not discuss. They clued me in on the way the MSM acts that I had not fully realized before. So I thought it would be interesting to see what these guys, who have clued me in on a lot of the political correctness in the world, would have to say about Snowden and the MSM's treatment of him.

This is a crazy huge issue and they seriously barely mentioned it even when it first broke! I'm not saying they should spend every hour of every day on it but they haven't even done a 20 minute segment in the first hour where they throw a lot of crap they know most people don't care about.

And when people were trying to bring it up Opie waved it off and if memory serves me correctly mentioned "heavy lifting." I wish they would do more of that and less of some of the lighter lifting they seem to breeze through these days. Please creep_bot sir, please. Please don't get mad at me for having an opinion! Oh please, please let me have this opinion. I am only a poor boy with my words. Please don't scold me for saying what I feel even if I have no power to actually change anything. I get it now, only people who work for Liberty Media get to have an opinion. Better tell that to the New York Post. Better tell them to stop writing about OnA. How dare they have opinions either.

Yeah, keep replying to yourself, that doesn't make you look like a mental case.

Ad hominem attack means you lost, ya no point having, poor at thinking jerk. I'd link to the Bill Burr vs Ant racism discussion where Bill made the same point about ad hominem attacks but Sirius took it down.

Why not take a second to scroll up and see exactly where the childish name-calling started, cuntbubble.

It's an old story that has fizzled to zero. There is no international discussion, you liar. A big plane crashed, a big train crashed, some Egyptians got killed, no-one much remembers Snowden, and no-one with an above room-temperature IQ was much surprised that the state employs spies to spy.

Now keep squabbling on a satellite radio show messageboard about a reddit/imgur slacktivist meme that has passed its sell by date and achieved the square-root of fuck-all.

They'll talk about want they want you delusional fruitcake, what part of this simple, self-evident fact is still causing you any confusion?

Of course they will talk about what they want. It's their show so obviously they decide what they want to talk about and we listen or not. This thread was about discussing why they maybe wouldn't want to talk about it and me expressing my desire to hear their take on it since they are known to discuss or critique the mainstream medias angle on things. It is a fan forum. I am a fan. I bring this shit up here because where else in the world would I bring it up except for the one place that is designated for such discussion? There have been plenty of interesting posts by lots of people talking about XM lawyers, or maybe it would be boring or they have nothing interesting to add and some people have even agreed with me that it would be interesting for them to talk about. I don't see why you are upset at me, well I guess I see why you are upset at me now cuz I said all those things about you which I still think are true but I don't know why you had to be a cunt at the very beginning. I'm just airing out my thoughts, what is the big deal.