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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: Ralph Wiggum on April 21, 2010, 01:40:06 PM
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sabra (1000+ posts)
Wed Apr-21-10 11:42 AM
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GEICO voice actor fired after insulting tea parties (http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x4351813)
Source: WP
Sometimes you have a headline that makes the rest of the story superfluous, but here's the background. Actor Lance Baxter, otherwise known as "D.C. Douglas," currently known as the man who informs you how much GEICO can save you on car insurance, left a message last month with FreedomWorks in which he asked the group how many "mentally retarded" people it had on staff and what it would do when a tea partyer "killed someone." On April 14, FreedomWorks put his voicemail online.
Today, Douglas reports he's been dropped from GEICO's campaign. His dramatic news release is here; he claims to have been motivated by "the recent gay and racial slurs slung by Tea Party members at Congressman Barney Frank and Representative John Lewis during the Health Care Reform Weekend," and says he's "open to any attorneys taking on this case pro bono."
Read more: http://voices.washingtonpost.com/right-now/2010/04/geico_voice_actor_fired_after.html
Take a wild guess what the hive's reaction is...
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I'm sure the attorneys will just be linin' up to do that case pro bono!
Normally a guy doing this kind of work wouldn't even be an employee, just a contractor. Even if he was an employee, in most states GEICO would have all the ammo it needed to make a firing stick.
:rotf:
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Ain't Karma a real bitch?
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His dramatic news release is here; he claims to have been motivated by "the recent gay and racial slurs slung by Tea Party members at Congressman Barney Frank and Representative John Lewis during the Health Care Reform Weekend,"
Since that didn't happen, this actor lost his job due to liberals lying to the public. Maybe he should think twice before believing anything a liberal says.
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As I understand it, there was a very large communication effort to the company, informing them that the caller was now in the market for car insurance. Large enough for someone to sit up.
15 DUmmies over there made the same joke about "retarded people should be angry for being associated with teabaggers."
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Take a wild guess what the hive's reaction is...
Perplexed. See Warren Buffet (The of Sage Omaha) is GEICO big insurance, thats bad, but sage is good,Wiccans use it. Warren is a liberal, good, but has lots of money, thus bad, but lost a bundle 960M on Goldman Sachs. Oh snap, what am I to think now? :popcorn:
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Perplexed. See Warren Buffet (The of Sage Omaha) is GEICO big insurance, thats bad, but sage is good,Wiccans use it. Warren is a liberal, good, but has lots of money, thus bad, but lost a bundle 960M on Goldman Sachs. Oh snap, what am I to think now? :popcorn:
No no no no you have it all wrong liberals/DUmmies dont mind people who have lots of money as long as those people believe in the same things they do and donate some of it to pols of the liberal persuasion.
Soros = good, owner of FOX = bad
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Too bad it wasn't that damn lizard.
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Since that didn't happen, this actor lost his job due to liberals lying to the public. Maybe he should think twice before believing anything a liberal says.
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Too bad it wasn't that damn lizard.
It's a gekko. :tongue:
(Just for the record, I'm a client of USAA.)
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Too bad it wasn't that damn lizard.
heh
What I can't stand is that silly bundle of money with the eyes thing. The caveman is slightly less annoying. It wasn't at first, but I think they've beaten that woolly mammoth horse to death a while ago.
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I thought the little stack of money was kind of cute.
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It's a gekko. :tongue:
(Just for the record, I'm a client of USAA.)
22 years and counting....
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22 years and counting....
I've been with them for 15 years, even though I'm not a veteran. I'm eligible because the former Mrs. Wiggum's father was in the military. I've never had a problem with them once. (Knock wood)
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I see no one at the Hive made any comments on the profanity, death threats, the N-word directed at black employee, etc that were directed to FreedomWorks staff and volunteers, and also cited and documented on the linked story.
I guess anger is selective.
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I see no one at the Hive made any comments on the profanity, death threats, the N-word directed at black employee, etc that were directed to FreedomWorks staff and volunteers, and also cited and documented on the linked story.
I guess anger is selective.
Their anger is always selective.
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I've been with them for 15 years, even though I'm not a veteran. I'm eligible because the former Mrs. Wiggum's father was in the military. I've never had a problem with them once. (Knock wood)
We've never had a problem with them either (auto and homeowners), and I think their bank is probably the best in the country for ease of use and customer service.
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I thought the little stack of money was kind of cute.
It was, the first four or five hundred times.
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I see no one at the Hive made any comments on the profanity, death threats, the N-word directed at black employee, etc that were directed to FreedomWorks staff and volunteers, and also cited and documented on the linked story.
I guess anger is selective.
While stupidity at the DUmp is common and universal.... :hammer:
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I have been a member of USAA since I was a teenager under dad and still many years later still a member
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So stupid even a caveman wouldn't have done it.
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Meh--my homeowner and car insurance is through GEICO. Better service than I got through my local State Farm agent when I first moved here. In fact, they kept jacking up my car insurance, even though I never had an accident or a ticket. Of course, every time I tried to talk to the agent, she was never in. That's when I switched back to GEICO. I guess the State Farm agent had enough other customers.
Then again, I saw where she moved from her nice office in the local strip mall back into the living room of her house. Go figure.
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While stupidity at the DUmp is common and universal mandatory.... :hammer:
Fixxored that thar fer ya.
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GEICO ads are bad, but the Progressive adverts make me borderling homicidial! Anyway, fired hew was and fired he is. A smart mouth azzhat properly rewarded.
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This is a Gibson Les Paul in the "Gecko Burst" finish...possibly one of the ugliest guitars ever made...
(http://www.gibson.com/Files/images/lps6genh_sm.jpg)