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 ...
Hard to believe that one of the commercials shows Flo allwoing the customer to take the price gun and “Name your own price”. Sounds very free-market, instead of prescribing what you need coverage for and demanding that you like it. (Like Obamacare will).
No. The guy at the end of the commerical who says something to the effect “that you can save 50%...”
;^)
I guess I should have had a /sarc tag.
Hey! they don’t call it Progressive just for grins.
Pro bono or pro boner?
Not him. That’s some British bloke.
Article on Progressive owner:
http://washingtonisbroke.com/content/Progressive-Insurance-Cancel-your-policy
Another:
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2003
Here is an old freep thread on the owner.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1375232/posts
I’ll keep my Geico which I switched to recently from Allstate due to cost. The asshat that they had the balls to fire would probably get a bonus from Progressive.
If that is Liberty Mutual, there are a great company. I’ve been with them since 1976.
Just a guess . . .
He was probably fired for using the term ‘retard’ and not for suggesting that someone in the tea party movement would kill someone.
Dittos on GEICO’s spokeslady. I’m a Flo-phile too :)
He has no case. If he posted on his blog that he is the voice over for Geico and then also ranted about what he did to freedom works Geico is a buisness and doesn’t want any controversy to interfere with their profits. Dude should’ve realized that there are many other voice over actors who need a job.
NO this guys does the voice at the end telling you how much you save.
I left him a comment...you could too.
Were these "Tea Party Members" or did he fall for the antics of infiltrators, and is now paying for it?
-PJ
Apparently you are not aware of what "Progressive" means. (hint. It ain't conservatism ...)
“Progressive but I like Flo. And I’m not alone!”
Oh yes you are....
>> Sometimes you have a headline that makes the rest of the story superfluous, but here’s the background...
LOL - ain’t that the truth.
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