Anthony: "I Will Never Apologize"

Anthony Cumia

The Anthony Cumia non-apology tour landed at the late-night satirical talk show Red Eye on Fox News Channel over the weekend in his first TV appearance since he lost his radio gig, according to The Inquisitr.

Satellite radio provider SiriusXM fired the outspoken Cumia, the co-host of the Opie & Anthony Show, after a racist and obscenity filled Twitter rant following what he claims was a mugging.

The tweets have since been deleted.

In defense of what went down on social media, Anthony Cumia told the Red Eye panel that he was in Times Square taking photographs at 4 am when an altercation with a woman occurred. He admitted that in retrospect that he should have cooled off first before sending out the tweets. “I defy anyone to be that angry, especially after an assault, and come off reasonable,” he added.

Under questioning from panelist Andy Levy, Cumia insisted his tweets weren’t racist. “I was talking about people [who] instantly go to violence … I walked down the street. She called me a white m—-r f—-r and started punching me in the face … so I addressed her and others [who] act like that.”


Cumia also said that SiriusXM acted in a hypocritical fashion in terminating him because he’s been engaging in the same freewheeling commentary and earthy language on the radio network for 10 years. “To fire me for something on social media is kind of hypocritical, I think. There wasn’t even any outrage. No one approached SiriusXM and said ‘Oh my God, you’ve got to fire him.’ It was such a kneejerk reaction in this day and age …”

Cumia added that he would never offer up an apology for his social media rant, even if it would mean reinstatement by SiriusXM.

Anthony Cumia is launching a podcast starting August 4. Opie is likely to continue broadcasting Opie without Anthony with show fixture and popular comic Jim Norton taking over the co-hosting duties.