Back, and as oddly entertaining as ever

While putting along this morning in another snow-enduced gridlock, I stumbled upon Opie and Anthony, who are apparently the new morning show on Buffalo's 103.3 The Edge. I know I noted they were working again a while ago, but it's only recently that I've been able to hear them myself.

And, of course, they were up to their old envelope-pushing ways.... latching onto the story of Al Sharpton finding out through the media who the whites that owned his ancestors were. Lovely stuff, but O&A, naturally, started testing the limits of what they could get away with....

"Now, you know Rev. Al is going to parlay this into some kind of lawsuit."
"Yeah, he's probably going to sue them for reparations, or something."
"You'd think he'd have looked into this earlier, being the champion of freedom that he is."
"You know, I think if he's going to get the money, he should have to go back to work for the family that owned his great-great grandfather."
"You can't be serious."
"No, really... aren't reparations supposed to be payback for the work you were doing as a slave?"
"I think so..."
"Well, in order to get the money, they should have to go back and work as slaves."
"Except they're getting paid, now."
"Yeah, so it's like a normal job."
"Except they call it something horrific."
"Well, yes..."

Then after the next bit where they argue that the old slave owners should counter-sue the reparations suit by saying they never wanted to free the slaves in the first place, and thus still own them.

As I'm sure you can imagine, at this point a very very angry woman called in, accusing them of racism. Their rebuttal, though they never really said it in these terms (their unwillingness to back down in the face of anyone who disagrees by taking an even more extreme position, all in the name of comedy, is how they tend to get themselves in trouble), was basically, "You can't possibly think we're serious, can you?"