GEICO Fires Voice Over Guy For Insulting the Tea Party

Three Fingers of Politics ^ | April 21, 2010 | Stupac

[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:

[Red Badger]

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

[dead]

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

[Rebelbase]

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

Heat/Kitchen.

[Red Badger]

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

[Gay State Conservative]

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.

[laotzu]

Career-limiting moves: They’re so easy, even a...GEICO spokesman...can make them.

Har!! Funniest comment today.

[Terry Mross]

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

[Millicent_Hornswaggle]

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.

[EggsAckley]

Thanks.

[brownsfan]

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

[Blue Highway]

The guy that does the robot in the Geicko commercial?

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

[Buckeye McFrog]

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...

[StopObama2012]

Now if we can just do that with Juan McLame.

[nutmeg]

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.

[nutmeg]

No... see posts 55 and 26.

[VeniVidiVici]

The reason Geico probably fired this moron is because he used the Geico gecko in his teabagging graphic on his website. Dumbass.

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the ping!

[N. Theknow]

“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.

[mrmeyer]

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

[GeorgeSaden]

This tells me that GEICO lost customers overall when they dropped advertising for Glenn Beck.

They don't wont a repeat.