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GEICO Fires Voice Over Guy For Insulting the Tea Party
Three Fingers of Politics ^ | April 21, 2010 | Stupac

Posted on 04/21/2010 8:27:06 AM PDT by Superstu321

PRWeb.com is reporting that voice over actor D.C. Douglas has been canned from GEICO for calling FreedomWorks and saying some very not nice things:

Los Angeles actor, D.C. Douglas, says he was dropped from the upcoming GEICO “Shocking News” campaign after a group of Tea Party members harassed him and the insurance giant over a private voicemail the actor left for FreedomWorks. Matt Kibbe, President and CEO of FreedomWorks, posted Mr. Douglas’ cell phone number in a blog post on biggovernment.com, instructing readers to “Feel free to contact (him)… call his employer too. Let them know that you…are now in the market for car insurance.” The next day, GEICO held auditions to replace Mr. Douglas’ voice on the campaign….

“I called as a private citizen to make a complaint,” explains Mr. Douglas. “Racism and homophobia are my Achilles heal, but unfortunately my message included inappropriate words and I am sorry for that. However, telling their members to harass my employer to get me fired is an egregiously disproportionate response to my actions.”

So this D.C. Douglas guy is upset that the TEA Party is racist and homophobic, yet he feels it OK to call FreedomWorks and ask “how many people that work there are mentally retarded?” He’s doing exactly what the Tea Party is supposedly doing, calling names. I went over to this fool’s website and I found this lovely graphic:

(Excerpt) Read more at threefingersofpolitics.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 2010electionbias; bloggers; dcdouglas; democrats; freedomworks; gaystapotactics; geico; hatespeech; heterophobia; hollywoodleft; hollywoodreds; homosexualagenda; idiot; lancebaxter; lavendermafia; liberalfascism; liberalhatespeech; politicalcorrectness; retardedinsult; teaparty; violence
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To: ex 98C MI Dude

Laz would hit anything with a body temp above ambient...........


61 posted on 04/21/2010 8:58:11 AM PDT by Red Badger (Education makes people easy to lead, difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.)
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To: Red Badger

Aaahhh. Flo is a horror show! I would jump out of a speeding car to get away from her.


62 posted on 04/21/2010 8:59:16 AM PDT by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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To: Superstu321

“However, telling their members to harass my employer to get me fired is an egregiously disproportionate response to my actions.””

Heat/Kitchen.


63 posted on 04/21/2010 9:00:22 AM PDT by Rebelbase (Don't think of work as 5 days on, 2 days off. Instead think 4 nights on, 3 off.)
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To: dead; Heavyrunner; cripplecreek

She reminds me of my first.........well, never mind................


64 posted on 04/21/2010 9:00:26 AM PDT by Red Badger (Education makes people easy to lead, difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.)
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To: Superstu321
The gecko himself (itself?) is pretty lame but the guy who does the voice is great...*great* accent.But then,I am a bit of an Anglophile.And “Flo” is OK too.I’d never buy insurance from either company though because they're both leftist operations.
65 posted on 04/21/2010 9:03:52 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Host The Beer Summit-->Win The Nobel Peace Prize!)
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To: RichInOC
Career-limiting moves: They’re so easy, even a...GEICO spokesman...can make them.

Har!! Funniest comment today.

66 posted on 04/21/2010 9:03:57 AM PDT by laotzu
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To: ErnBatavia

This guy should have taken Bill Clinton’s advice. “Be aware that words have consequences.”


67 posted on 04/21/2010 9:03:58 AM PDT by Terry Mross (Founding Fathers.....grave....rolling over.)
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To: ErnBatavia

Amen! This is a basic concept learned in childhood. I’m constantly telling my teenage sons this. At some point, we finally get it. This guy apparently didn’t. That being said, the best way I’ve noticed liberals fight is to talk over and belittle those that disagree with them instead of quietly agreeing to disagree and move on like most adults.


68 posted on 04/21/2010 9:04:05 AM PDT by Millicent_Hornswaggle (Retired US Marine wife)
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To: definitelynotaliberal

Thanks.


69 posted on 04/21/2010 9:11:21 AM PDT by EggsAckley ( There's an Ethiopian in the fuel supply!)
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To: Superstu321

Sometimes good things do happen!
This jerk got what he deserved, what he asked for.


70 posted on 04/21/2010 9:11:47 AM PDT by brownsfan (The average American: Uninformed, and unconcerned.)
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To: Superstu321
The guy that does the robot in the Geicko commercial?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zN51Ra_5NE

71 posted on 04/21/2010 9:12:41 AM PDT by Blue Highway ("Judge me by the people with whom I surround myself" Barack Obama, Oct 15, 2008 Presidential debate)
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To: Red Badger

I find all of this “Flo from Progressive, hit it or not?” talk on this thread highly disturbing.

If any of you bring up Erin Esurance I am going over to Hot Air for the rest of the day...


72 posted on 04/21/2010 9:13:07 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Superstu321

Now if we can just do that with Juan McLame.


73 posted on 04/21/2010 9:26:49 AM PDT by StopObama2012 (CLICK ME to expose Osaudi)
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To: Nick Danger; bmwcyle; StarFan; Dutchy; alisasny; BobFromNJ; BUNNY2003; Cacique; Clemenza; Coleus; ..
Is this the gecko or the announcer?

Neither. He's a minor figure. In one series of ads, he's the guy who says, "Susie Schmockmeyer is an actual GEICO customer, not a celebrity. So we hired a celebrity..."

Thanks for that info, Nick Danger. Also, bmwcyle posted a photo of D. C. Douglas in #26... thanks, bmycyle.

74 posted on 04/21/2010 9:29:07 AM PDT by nutmeg (The bigger the government, the smaller the citizen)
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To: Blue Highway

No... see posts 55 and 26.


75 posted on 04/21/2010 9:30:17 AM PDT by nutmeg (The bigger the government, the smaller the citizen)
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To: Superstu321
The reason Geico probably fired this moron is because he used the Geico gecko in his teabagging graphic on his website. Dumbass.


76 posted on 04/21/2010 9:36:18 AM PDT by VeniVidiVici
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To: nutmeg

Thanks for the ping!


77 posted on 04/21/2010 9:36:34 AM PDT by Alamo-Girl
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To: JDW11235
“Regarding “homophobia”. Exactly what is that?

Best example of "homophobia" is the use of the word "gay" by homosexuals to describe themselves.

Self-loathing and self-hatred prevents them from calling themselves homosexual, so they use the word "gay" to make their perversion not only acceptable to the public but more importantly as acceptable to themselves.

78 posted on 04/21/2010 9:41:39 AM PDT by N. Theknow (Kennedys: Can't fly, can't ski, can't drive, can't skipper a boat, but they know what's best.)
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To: Anitius Severinus Boethius

Tell that to a lib and they’ll have a deer in headlights reaction just before their heads explode.


79 posted on 04/21/2010 9:43:56 AM PDT by mrmeyer ("When brute force is on the march, compromise is the red carpet." Ayn Rand)
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To: Superstu321
This tells me that GEICO lost customers overall when they dropped advertising for Glenn Beck.

They don't wont a repeat.

80 posted on 04/21/2010 9:45:05 AM PDT by GeorgeSaden
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