In other words, their employers knew exactly what they wanted from these guys. They got it, and only after it arrived with a bonus hailstorm of criticism, did they stop the show — but not the paychecks. The show was canceled because Infinity Broadcasting needed to protect its corporate butt; if local religious leaders and broadcasting critics had all been on vacation that week, the two idiots would still be making pooh-pooh jokes on the air as we speak.

…Where is the reprimand against Infinity Broadcasting? (my emphasis) Or its mogul, Mel Karmazin? What’s his punishment? He hires “Opie & Anthony,” pays them to play with explosives, and when they blow things up, all he has to do is pay off the rest of their contract?

Read the rest of Keith Olbermann’s Salon piece. He nails it. That’s been my point. O&A are easy to point to and scream – “that’s wrong!”, but look behind the curtain folks. Look behind the curtain.