Geico Voice Actor Fired After Insulting Tea Partiers

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/04/21/geico-fires-dc-douglas-vo_n_546038.html

Lance Baxter, better known as D.C. Douglas but perhaps best known as the voice of certain Geico commercials (primarily as the tag announcer of a 2007-2008 celebrity ad campaign) has been fired by the insurance company after leaving a voicemail for Tea Party group FreedomWorks.

Douglas asked FreedomWorks in his voicemail what "the percentage of people that are mentally retarded who are working for FreedomWorks and who are following it," or as he has since put it, he "inquired as to their intelligence level."

In the voicemail, Douglas also questions how FreedomWorks will "spin it when one of your members does actually kill somebody, wondering if you've got a PR spinning routine planned for that or are you just gonna take it when it happens."

but now I'll have to be a fan of the voice over.

What a stupid reason to fire someone!

seek to have you fired.

Can you imagine our side doing the same?


And funny, but they never answered about the PR. I'm kinda curious, too.

that got fired. It was the tagline announcer. (The guy that states "15 minutes could save you money on car insurance..." or however it goes.)

;)

He probably violated a subjective conduct clause in his contract.

The guy lost his job stating what we all fear about the serious fringe teabaggers.

Fixed!

"I had long concidered switching to Geico, but now that I know Lance Baxter, better known as D.C. Douglas has been fired for Tea Party comments I'll stick with what I have even if that means I pay more."

because the insurer quit advertising on Glenn Beck's show over his comments advocating sedition.

The voiceover guy is not without sin, especially in using a term disparaging the intellectually challenged. GEICO had reason to drop him for him for that alone, and he knows it--which is why he has said that he doesn't blame GEICO. He also says that the loss of the gig is no big deal, as he has plenty of other work. For more, check out his blog: http://www.dcdouglasblog.com/

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Why would anyone agree with a warmongering asshole that did his best to destroy America? That just goes for Repukes.

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A Republic is simply a state which has form of government where the populace (or some part of the populace) chooses its leaders or representatives in government. Rome was a republic, France is a Republic. India, Russia, Australia, Turkey, Germany, and Switzerland are also Republics though they have government systems not identical to our own. What is your point other than to bash on Linclon for not allowing the southern states to secede as written in the Constitution?

A Republic still exists here in the Unites States even though Bush and the Republicans tried to derail that system with voting machines and using the SCOTUS to install him into offiice in 2000.

Your "When a government moves against the will of the majority?" Faux news talking point is out of date by 18 months.

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Douglas!

1951 - Columbia University business student Warren Buffet makes his first purchase of GEICO stock....

1996 - Warren Buffett purchases outstanding GEICO stock, making GEICO a subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway, Inc.

http://www.geico.com/about/corporate/history/.

"In the voicemail, Douglas also questions how FreedomWorks will "spin it when one of your members does actually kill somebody, wondering if you've got a PR spinning routine planned for that or are you just gonna take it when it happens."

Someone actually put himself out there to ask that question.

you don't want to irritate potential or current customers.

If you are a two time Super Bowl winning quarterback, you still want to follow the league rules on conduct. That's a lesson Big Ben learned this week.