Was Anthony always a conservative?
2 2016-08-12 by pjwils
I'm listening to the 2004 archive and Anthony proudly declares he didn't vote in the 2004 election and doesn't care who won.
Was it the prospect of a black 'socialist' president that pushed him to the right?
38 comments
11 Clibanarius 2016-08-12
The racism is what did it. Well, racism and the fact that NIGGERBAMA STOLE ALL HIS DARN MONEYS!!! HARD-EARNED MONEY HE MADE BY BEING A TALKY PERSON 4 HOURS A DAY, 4 DAYS A WEEK. THAT'S HARD FUCKING LABOR MAN. AND NOW HE DOESN'T EVEN HAVE THAT BECAUSE OF ONE OF OBAMA'S AGENTS STARTING A FIGHT WITH HIM ON THE STREET WHERE HE WASN'T CREEPSHOOTING HER WHILE SHE WAS ON HER CORNER PROSTITUTING HERSELF
11 UnwarrantedArrogance 2016-08-12
Melinda left him for a black man. THAT'S the straw that broke the camels back. Why does nobody ever bring this up?
4 [deleted] 2016-08-12
Oh shit I never knew that. Well obviously that's it, the love of your life leaves you you're going to need some way to justify it to yourself.
7 sanfrancisco69er 2016-08-12
He was the one to leave Melinda. I think taxes and guns is what pushed him to the right. Racism is just an obvious conclusion to come to.
1 UnwarrantedArrogance 2016-08-12
Thanks for playing along. NOT
0 Clibanarius 2016-08-12
Melinda? No, she left him when he was at the casino. He was at the poker table being a piece of shit with no self-control and probably rage issues, and she announced that she was leaving. Like, really leaving. This was after she realized that she likely never loved him at all and was just into his radio fame. Lol.
0 sanfrancisco69er 2016-08-12
He was being a "real piece of shit" by just playing poker with what was mostly his own money? Idk, if you think that was a "go-girl" situation for her and he was a big "racist scumbag" for not giving her whatever he won at the table...youre kind of a huge faggot, lol, despite the fact that O&A suck now.
5 Clibanarius 2016-08-12
He was being a piece of shit because he is a piece of shit. I imagine he was being a huge sore loser and drunken ass at the table, like he's mentioned being in the past.
2 truthie 2016-08-12
Imagine the grown man you're dating having his manservant bring a pillow to a crowded poker table so he could scream into it. No woman on earth could be attracted to such a pathetic character.
0 sanfrancisco69er 2016-08-12
You'd be surprised some of the shit that a lot of chicks would overlook for money
1 truthie 2016-08-12
Except she didn't is the point.
0 sanfrancisco69er 2016-08-12
Except I'm sure she did. Like most girlfriends she was probably off playing slots and not even watching them play blackjack, and if they broke up at a casino, I'm sure it was for another reason, shes a girlfriend not an angry radio listener, but I'm not totally caught up on his dating history like many on here. I just highly doubt having a personal assistant was part the she reason she dumped him, and being all animated playing blackjack was kinda funny, not all girls need a "le gentleman" type.
1 truthie 2016-08-12
Except she didn't is the entire point of these comments, and the reality of what actually happened.
Yeah the manservant part wasn't the point of the last comment, obviously. It was the grown man screaming into a pillow while surrounded by other grown men that was clearly the problem. Not sure why you're being such a fag about this.
1 sanfrancisco69er 2016-08-12
How the hell do you know what she did? And > He was at the poker table being a piece of shit with no self-control and probably rage issues, and she announced that she was leaving. Like, really leaving. This was after she realized that she likely never loved him at all and was just into his radio fame. Lol. isnt a faggy comment? She was dating shock jock Anthony from The Opie & Anthony Show, you really get all "girl power" for her because you want to think she walked off after one time he got animated playing blackjack? Speculate what you want about an irrelevant radio host's relationships 20 years ago but thats kind of a gay comment. A lot of people get pissed playing high stakes blackjack and their girlfriends dont leave them for it, especially when they were in it for the money in the first place, lol.
6 Abarf 2016-08-12
Anthony has always been fiscally conservative and socially liberals thus leaning towards the right but nowhere near the left.
:Small government :leave people alone :lower taxes :ease of gun laws :pro choice :gay rights :very strong military
If anything since tacs started he seems to be airing some pretty left views for Anthony Cumia.
I seem to think that people who tend to lean right while trying to obtain fame and fortune feel that they need to pander to liberals in order to rise.
Just like how Norton thinks going left like Big Amy is going to fix his career and make him famous.
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5 AsunaKirito4Ever 2016-08-12
Anthony in the Bush years was always odd. He rallied against the rights religious agenda, talked about how much of a disaster the Iraq War was along with Bush's poor foreign policy and anti-terrorism plans, and others. But he also completely hated the left for being anti-war (though in hindsight it was justified) and their supposed leniency against terrorists. He was definitely more balanced than he was today.
2 pjwils 2016-08-12
That's what it seems like. It seems like as he's become more blinkered and fixated on certain topics as he's become older... maybe the booze has something to do with it.
1 AngeloMacon 2016-08-12
He used to rail against Rudy a bunch when they at WNEW too, and didn't seem to hate Clinton.
0 mulatamongrol 2016-08-12
So Anthony was an early alt righter then?
4 Lux_cs 2016-08-12
He didn't vote in a similar way I wouldn't vote if it was Jeb Bush vs. Hillary.
4 [deleted] 2016-08-12
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6 DHFearnot 2016-08-12
He's actually on the anti-climate change against science bandwagon now.
2 Clibanarius 2016-08-12
Yep, which cements him as a pure retard. That anti-science shit is just indefensible on every single level. There's not even the smallest kernel of truth behind the global warming denialism shit.
2 AsunaKirito4Ever 2016-08-12
He's also heavily into Lost Cause stuff now, which seems odd for Anthony. You would think he'd be completely fine with the Civil War being about slavery as its only Southerners who wish to whitewash their past and appear to be non-racist with the whole "Heritage Not Hate" angle. Northerners with Southern sympathies tend to do it precisely because of how racist the Southerners were.
3 TheScarletR 2016-08-12
He's always been right-leaning as far as I know. Maybe his age, or maybe the fact that he was accumulating great money pushed him further right. I don't really understand the race stuff, unless he always felt that way and just toned it down for the show until he didn't care anymore.
2 thatskelp 2016-08-12
With great money comes great douchebaggery.
3 NitratePrint 2016-08-12
No one else was more left wing before Obama was elected?
3 booderdooders 2016-08-12
He became conservative when he entered into the >50% tax bracket. He became racist when he decided all that money was going to blacks.
2 Fat_People_Hydra 2016-08-12
He's still transitioning.
1 aprosbro 2016-08-12
I dont remember Ant saying jack shit political or talking about guns until he built his mcmansion
1 philtheprince 2016-08-12
When he was still with Melinda and before the compound (2005?), there was one morning he announced he was going to buy a shotgun, because he was worried about home invasions.
At the time, I got the impression he didn't own any other guns.
1 chippersonlyle 2016-08-12
Yeah but not always a blowhard cunt.
1 xxmikekxx 2016-08-12
At wnew he never talked about politics & did the same Bill Clinton blowjob jokes as everyone else. So it's surprised me in 2000 when he said he was a republican & voting for GWB.
Also, he didn't own a gun for a long time. I think he bought his first one after he bought his Long Island house which was way into XM days
1 SpaceEdge 2016-08-12
He really became a right wing nigger hating gun right before Obama got elected. It was downhill after that.
8 Suuuuuuuuuuuuure 2016-08-12
The stupidest part is that Obama turned out to be a boring centrist, essentially Bill Clinton, except less successful, and less horny. Yet Anthony was so determined to prove that he was somehow a radical when in fact Obama was just a slightly darker member of the good ol boys club. To hear Ant ramble on, you'd actually think we just had 71/2 years of President Sharpton.
-8 dwc151 2016-08-12
Centrist? You're fucking retarded.
0 Clibanarius 2016-08-12
No, he's just not being a retard. Anyone with perspective can see Obama is a centrist AT BEST. Obama isn't even a centrist, though; he's center-right with absolutely no ability to enact anything but the most basic of right-leaning policy because the Republicans hate niggers.
-2 dwc151 2016-08-12
I know using these words makes you feel smart, but you make no sense. Not a bit.
0 Clibanarius 2016-08-12
Having someone as dumb as you state that someone as smart as me is as indecipherable as I am is a huge boost to my self-esteem this afternoon, thank you.
5 Clibanarius 2016-08-12
He was being a piece of shit because he is a piece of shit. I imagine he was being a huge sore loser and drunken ass at the table, like he's mentioned being in the past.
2 truthie 2016-08-12
Imagine the grown man you're dating having his manservant bring a pillow to a crowded poker table so he could scream into it. No woman on earth could be attracted to such a pathetic character.
-2 dwc151 2016-08-12
I know using these words makes you feel smart, but you make no sense. Not a bit.