[chessplayer]

A black man on the news last night said the proposed caveman show is racist and an insult to blacks.

[showme_the_Glory]

Because it makes the cavemen look schmart?

[Logophile]

Questions are being raised about whether the Cro-Magnon characters will reinforce racial stereotypes.

Of course they are. Whether it is a sitcom, the weather report, or a documentary about hummingbirds, the professional racists will raise questions about racial stereotypes. That is what they do; that is what they have done for a long time; and by now, they are very good at doing it.

[k omalley]

And all this time I thought the cavemen were white!

[bannie]

I do NOT understand why this would be an insult to blacks!

Have they given these guys color???

[Mister Da]

Barney & Fred must be turning over in their graves.

[Radix]

I do not watch sitcoms, but the premise that the caveman from those senseless commercials might make a good show, is as unfathomable to me as are the salaries paid to the folks who came up with the stupid spots in the first place.

[Issaquahking]

Per Wikipedia...

The Government Employees Insurance Company, usually known by the acronym GEICO, is an American auto insurance company. GEICO is a wholly owned subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway and, as of 2006, provided coverage for more than 10 million motor cars, trucks and other motor vehicles owned by more than 7 million policy holders. GEICO writes private passenger automobile insurance in the District of Columbia and in all U.S. states except Massachusetts.


If that tickles your funny bone, Las Vegas has a show called Defending the Caveman

[L98Fiero]

“A black man on the news last night said the proposed caveman show is racist and an insult to blacks.”

Someone has a very low opinion of himself. Part of the problem with that culture.

[Tanniker Smith]

Questions are being raised about whether the Cro-Magnon characters will reinforce racial stereotypes.

Isn't that the point of the Geico commercials?

Maybe they should've tried "Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer"

[VOA]

“A black man on the news last night said the proposed caveman show
is racist and an insult to blacks.”

To quote the rather-white caveman in the commercial with the talking-head
lady with her psycho-babble comment:

“Uh, What?”

Anybody that thinks the GEICO caveman concept is racist and insults
blacks has real dangerous powers of imagination and a boatload of
paranoia.

Well, maybe the guy has a point. I’ve yet to see the GEICO cavemen do
a drive-by shooting, so maybe the insult is that the GEICO CAVEMEN
are shown as being more cultured that some of our gang-banging fellow citizens.

[OESY]

CAUTION: This commercial has been judged to be offensive to liberals and
other smelly pot-smoking alternative life-style hippie-types, but I repeat myself.

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[Old Professer]

It’s reassuring to know that at least one of the cavemen is gay, explains a lot.

[OESY]

"Mock my words, those caveman programs are about us, aren't they?"

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[ninonitti]

Some of the jokes are about their sexual process

That wouldn't be something like "sexual prowess" would it?

So easy a caveman can edit it.

[Taffini]

maybe someone should point out the dudes are white. Maybe his TV needs adjusting—he sounds confused or has eye problems

[x]

Cro Magnon man and Neanderthal man were European (and Middle Eastern), right?

If the series gets canned, does that mean ABC goes with the gekko?

[OESY]

And here I thought it was LBJ who had the War on Poverty.

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