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GEICO voice actor fired after insulting tea parties
washingtonpost.com ^ | April 21, 2010 | David Weigel

Posted on 04/21/2010 10:03:25 AM PDT by Free ThinkerNY

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."

(Excerpt) Read more at voices.washingtonpost.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: again; consequences; dcdouglas; geico; karma; lancebaxter; loser; teaparty
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To: surfer
"I am sure PROGRESSIVE will hire him now..."

Now THAT is funny. :-)

21 posted on 04/21/2010 10:16:37 AM PDT by newheart (History is an outbreak of madness--Ellul)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Another Hollywood ‘actor’ who thinks everything they say (even if written by others) is a total “Moses on the Mount proclamation.

If there is a modern day Sodom- it is Hollywood.


22 posted on 04/21/2010 10:16:50 AM PDT by ridesthemiles
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To: Incorrigible

Progressive is owned by $0r0$.

Pray for America


23 posted on 04/21/2010 10:18:17 AM PDT by bray (REPEAL CONGRESS!!)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Lance is a dumbf***.


24 posted on 04/21/2010 10:18:41 AM PDT by verity (Obama Lies)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Was it good for you, Lance?

Oh my Gawd, it was so totally worth losing my job to stick it to those conservatives, although, I didn't Really stick it to them, um, you know, Bawney, I mean there's only you, um - and the guys . . . .

25 posted on 04/21/2010 10:21:01 AM PDT by colorado tanker
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To: Old Teufel Hunden
"Have you ever read about Progressive's founder and former CEO, Peter Lewis. There's a reason he named his company, "Progressive"..."

Okaaaay.... so, what's the reason???

26 posted on 04/21/2010 10:22:22 AM PDT by jackibutterfly ( Palin is so under obama's skin, he hears 'Hail to the Chief' when he sees her.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

....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....

Hilarious!!! GuyPwned: 15 minutes could have saved him 15% of more on the headaches cause from re-iterating leftist lies!

Care for a crisp?


27 posted on 04/21/2010 10:22:58 AM PDT by Voter62vb
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To: Free ThinkerNY

I’m sure GEICO just saved $15,000 with a 15 minute phone call.


28 posted on 04/21/2010 10:23:28 AM PDT by VanShuyten ("a shadow...draped nobly in the folds of a gorgeous eloquence.")
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To: Old Teufel Hunden

Hey, hey, hey! What’s with all the Flo hate on this thread? LOL

I won’t buy insurance from Progressive but I like Flo. And I’m not alone!


29 posted on 04/21/2010 10:23:46 AM PDT by Incorrigible (If I lead, follow me; If I pause, push me; If I retreat, kill me.)
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To: tgusa

Maybe Shep Smith can help.

He’s the biggest drama queen out there.


30 posted on 04/21/2010 10:25:36 AM PDT by Col Frank Slade
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To: Old Teufel Hunden

Have you ever read about Progressive’s founder and former CEO, Peter Lewis. There’s a reason he named his company, “Progressive”


Did not know this. I knew that Warren Buffett (GEICO owner) is a mouth-breathing, bed-wetting, Liberal One-World Govt Globalist.

Thank God I got USAA...


31 posted on 04/21/2010 10:25:41 AM PDT by UCFRoadWarrior (JD Hayworth for Senate ..... jdforsenate.com)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Now who’s the moron, Lance? More liberal projection. Apparently he’s whining all over his website. Pathetic.


32 posted on 04/21/2010 10:26:07 AM PDT by steelyourfaith (Warmists as "traffic light" apocalyptics: "Greens too yellow to admit they're really Reds."-Monckton)
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To: Incorrigible

right there with ya buddy!


33 posted on 04/21/2010 10:26:21 AM PDT by Hegewisch Dupa
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To: Incorrigible
Sorry to advise that Progressive Insurance is owned by an enormously wealthy uber-lib and that his political leanings are probably where the SOB came up with the name for his company.

I like the Flo character too, and have some friends who work for Progressive (their HQ is in an eastern suburb of Cleveland, OH), but would personally not buy their insurance since some portion of the premiums will find its way inevitably into the coffers of the DNC (and worse).

On the other hand I'm very glad to see Geico canned their asshat voice over guy.

34 posted on 04/21/2010 10:27:06 AM PDT by katana (If I don't know, I'll tell you. If I do know, I'll REALLY tell you!)
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To: Old Teufel Hunden

She’s a dyed-in-the-wool Obamaphile. Her name is Stephanie Courtney. She used to have her own website that was just loaded with Obamalove. I don’t think it’s online anymore. I used to think her “Flo” was okay for a cute geek girl, but the Obamaphilia kinda ruined it for me. But I guess it makes her a good fit for Peter Lewis and Progressive.


35 posted on 04/21/2010 10:27:11 AM PDT by chimera
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Losing your job to an uninformed political ideology is so easy even a caveman can do it.

= = =

Did the voice guy identify himself as the Geico voice guy? (”This is DC Douglas, the Geico voice...” How else would anyone know who he is on a voice message?) If so, he is establishing his credentials on his employer’s name.

The name “Geico” means a lot, and Geico has spent a lot of advertising money to gain name recognition. Geico wants the name Geico to mean inexpensive insurance, not nutjob political ideology. Geico was completely in the right to fire this guy. And DC Douglas has no right to blame anyone else.


36 posted on 04/21/2010 10:27:49 AM PDT by kidd
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To: Old Teufel Hunden

That’s one reason why I dropped them. I don’t know if they are any better, but I like the name of my current insurance company better (Liberty).


37 posted on 04/21/2010 10:28:34 AM PDT by chimera
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To: jackibutterfly
"Okaaaay.... so, what's the reason???"

He is a progressive. Peter Lewis is a real lefty. Right up there with George Soros. Don't do business with him. Your money will go to causes you don't want it to go to...
38 posted on 04/21/2010 10:28:42 AM PDT by Old Teufel Hunden
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To: Free ThinkerNY
Photobucket This is the one who got his panties in a wad.
39 posted on 04/21/2010 10:31:06 AM PDT by RetSignman (Tea Parties ..."We have seen the Patriots and they are us")
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To: Free ThinkerNY

He has a big problem. There is NO Proof of the supposed remarks at DC. Unless ofcourse it was him, since we KNOW Dums are nasty and violent.


40 posted on 04/21/2010 10:31:45 AM PDT by Marty62 (marty60)
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