As anyone who’s ever listened to his podcasts or radio shows will know, Anthony Cumia isn’t exactly backward in coming forward, and in his second book, “Spare Me” (Post Hill Press), he continues with his scathing attacks on the people and issues currently vexing him.
From the flat-earth fanaticism of Owen Benjamin (“In my opinion, Owen is very smart and mentally ill”) to his longstanding feud with actor and comedian Bill Burr (“It was a personal thing between Bill and his wife and me. It’s not as sordid as it sounds.”), Cumia revisits some of the more high-profile spats he’s recently waged (and even won).
He also addresses everything from the 2021 Capitol riot to Black Lives Matter and how Donald Trump will fare in November’s Presidential election. “The thing that I’m most afraid of is that the election will be stolen from him again — not with ballots or faulty voting machines but by the mainstream media going full fucking force against him again and influencing the minds of Americans — who unfortunately, have an average IQ of ninety-eight,” he writes.
Cumia saves his most blistering criticism for the final chapter, however, when he lays waste to what he regards as the scourge of cancel culture, something, he says, he’s endured first-hand.
When he was fired from SiriusXM in 2014 for what the company called “racially-charged and hate-filled remarks” on social media, Cumia started his own Compound Media Network instead. “I literally had to make a broadcast company just so I could talk about s–t that I was not allowed to talk about on anyone else’s platform,” he writes.
“How insane is that?”
Indeed, as far as Cumia sees it, the entire country is now being held hostage by special interest groups. “They are a small f–king percentage of the population, but they have all this power to ruin your life,” he writes.
The key, he concludes, is to keep fighting the fight. “You don’t have to agree or disagree with anyone’s opinions. But you should agree that people shouldn’t be canceled and lose everything just for voicing their f–king opinion. “In closing: f–k them!” — Gavin Newsham
