We had not heard about this! Has “other we” (Ken Layne) brought it up? Not enough time to look through the archives, COPY-PASTE: “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.’”
And now he’s been dropped from Geico. MARTYR!
Well, we’re proud that a small portion of our affordable insurance premiums went to your coffers while it lasted, Mr. Crazy Telephone Man. Keep calling people retards. It’s funny, usually. Some people just get all hot and bothered.
(You can listen to the voicemail, if you wish. It’s the soundtrack to the YouTube movie up there of a floating FreedomWorks Logo, all bumpin’ around and such like.)
[Washington Post/Richard Cohen's blog or something]
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Anyone getting tired of the double standard? The right wing can say whatever the fuck they want, and the left get fired and shit? Oh christ, let me rephrase that: today, we are all unemployed lizard people.
He got fired for that? Jeez…
I loved his response to the callback too. I was half hoping it was the Gecko though. Insults in a British accent always rule.
He’s not the voice of the Gecko, correct? He’s the voice that says “GEICO…” at the end, isn’t he?
Never go full retard.
I always saw the Gecko as a Cockney gangster, spewing lines by Brick Top from Snatch.
Wait, he might actually be the Gecko…I’m confused.
Well, the way MSNBC is going through staff, he can always get a gig over there. Unless he looks like one of those Progressive cavemen….
Maybe he can now do voice overs for Progressive Insurance. Wocka, Wocka, Wocka!
That gekko stole my dollar and bought ‘crisps’! That dollar was to help bail out Goldman CEO’s.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GEICO_ad_campaigns#The_GEICO_gecko
Not the gecko.
That’s pretty fucked up of him to make fun of Trig like that.
Not firing someone for their political beliefs is so simple that even a caveman could do it.
‘s tew fukin’ bad ‘at blowk wut did ‘at ‘orrible bri-ish ac-sent weren’ the tossa that wuz fiayd. ‘At wanka sho enuf drove me roun’ the bend.
So easy, Trig Palin can do it.
[re=561733]Moonbatting_Average[/re]: It’s Australian.
FREE the GEICO VOICE. NOW!
[re=561725]norbizness[/re]: do you know what nemesis means?
I keep waiting for the video where a woman in high heels squishes that annoying little lizard.
Today, in Youtube comments: “Geiko may employ this man if they wish to face the boycott. Do you “liberals” think a boycott should be illegal? (Hmm… You did want the law against boycotting health insurance.)”
I think he memorized everything from Glenn Beck, but all the words are in the wrong order.
Myself, I got fired for being retarded.
If it’s the voice guy who introduces that fiddle-playing anti-merkin bastard whose name escapes me at the moment, I’m all for it.
Save the Lizard!
[re=561739]Diana Davies[/re]: no law against it!
[re=561722]bago[/re]:…..sheesh, once the teabaggers get your phone number, and then your work number, they never stop calling.
He can always get a job making radio spots for the Lizard People 2010 election campaign.
“Are tired of mammalian politics as usual? Reptiloid policies are what this nation needs to restore its greatness…”
Dick Armey is in charge of of Freedom Works, so there is at least one. It was a legitimate question.
He could have been a little more coy. “Is this that Dick Armey junk I’ve been hearing about?”
“TP?, you don’t mind being called TP, you know for my paper, I don’t want to call you teabaggers, that would suck. Butt TP?, TP (insert subliminal ‘for my bunghole’) is OK, right, I just want to rectify this, you know clean it up a little, no teabagger party, butt TP?, that’s OK?. Have you cleared that with Dick Armey? He’s cool with TP? I’ll bet you the Dick Armey shrivelled up when y’all figured out what teabagging is, like a month after everyone else, with the name I mean. So I’ll just use TP….”
They had no problem with his collection of dog fighting videos it should be noted.
This guy played Legion and, who is that, Liquid Snake?
[re=561734]gjdodger[/re]: Now QUIT that, right now. You could lose your job over a remark like that! I’m just sayin’. Palin/Dick Armey ’12.
This is great news — if the teabaggers are that sensitive it means the liberals can exact similar retribution. Why, they could make it so Victoria Jackson and John Voight never work in — oh, crap.
[re=561735]WonderWomyn[/re]: for beer?
I love all the comments about how there have been no teabaggers getting caught acting retarded and making death threats. Especially after the FBI’s innovative tactic of pretending to be teabaggers to get the nutters to brag about such behaviour and the resulting criminal charges.
I don’t know whose voice he is in the commercial, but I want to buy him a packet of crisps.
How many teabaggers would be caught dead getting insurance from the Government Employees Insurance Company?
Besides, a government mandate to buy car insurance sounds socialist to me.
Tell the lizard how you feel about this tea-bag abuse;
http://www.geico.com/about/contactus/email/
Why does Geico hate the First Amendment?
I was so hoping you meant the Geico Gecko. Damn.
Well, at least we know that the number of retards working for Geico has just decremented by one.
I can’t believe he left his name.
But there is a double standard here. How come Rahm Emmanuel can call the liberals in Congress, “retards,” and get off with just making an apology to retarded people?
Is it because he was just stating the obvious?
And to those who think it’s a First Amendment, either you haven’t read the First, or you couldn’t figure out what them fancy words mean. “Congress shall make no law…” does not restrict who you can or can not fire.
Yes, you get fired for one questionable behavior, but what do you get if you do something good? A Dairy Queen Dilly Bar.
As reported in the Tucson Daily Star and verified by Fortune magazine, “Warren Buffet, the second richest man on the globe … recently took a trip to Tuscon to visit a Geico call center that had come up trumps in a company sales competition. Budding entrepreneurs listen closely, for as his reward he bestowed on all 500 employees, ice cream. Yes, Dairy Queen Dilly Bars were the sugar-coated reward of choice, and a nice tie up too. International Dairy Queen, along with Geico, is a subsidiary of Buffett’s holding company, Berkshire Hathaway.”
You get the best results nationwide in a competition sponsored by one of the richest men on the planet and what do you get? A cash bonus? A promotion? No, you get a cheap-ass ice cream bar. So you better bet on getting fired if you make a mistake.
How do you think he got so rich?
Voice actors are like the Negros of acting. Also.
[re=561725]norbizness[/re]: I love Snatch
[re=561738]Crank Tango[/re]: also: You stop me again whilst I’m walking, and I’ll cut your fucking Jacobs off.
[re=561813]Shrikback[/re]: Your first time here, I assume?
“And when you got your six pieces, you gotta get rid of them, because it’s no good leaving it in the deep freeze for your mum to discover, now is it?
“Then I hear the best thing to do is feed them to pigs. You got to starve the pigs for a few days, then the sight of a chopped-up body will look like curry to a pisshead. You gotta shave the heads of your victims, and pull the teeth out for the sake of the piggies’ digestion. You could do this afterwards, of course, but you don’t want to go sievin’ through pig shit, now do you?
“They will go through bone like butter. You need at least sixteen pigs to finish the job in one sitting, so be wary of any man who keeps a pig farm. They will go through a body that weighs 200 pounds in about eight minutes. That means that a single pig can consume two pounds of uncooked flesh every minute. Hence the expression, ‘as greedy as a pig’.”
– Brick Top
Voice actors are like the Negros of acting.
They all get killed in horror movies?
[re=561812]LowerdPeninsula[/re]: I, for one, was hoping it was the voice of the eyes-on-pile-of-money mascot. Whoah, wait a second…….
[re=561813]Shrikback[/re]: Will we ever get a wingnut comment that doesn’t contain grammar/spelling/punctuation/syntax/logic errors? You fail at failing.
This is good news for
John McCainErin Esurance.[re=561824]Radiotherapy[/re]: Voice actors are like the
Negrosguys named Lieutenant Johnson that wore red shirts when beaming down with Kirk, McCoy, and Spock of acting.Handsome Lieutenant Johnson is following his tricorder (insert tricorder sounds) and wanders off near those rocks but something isn’t right, it’s a gaseous cloud with sprinkles in it, oh dear, the music crescendos as Lt J (handsome devil) succumbs to w-t-f ever. But you know what, it’s okay, I saved a ton of money on my car insurance by switching to GEICO.
President Beeblebrox: Oh look! A typo flame. Good job!
Oh my god, I left out the word, “issue,” after the word, “Amendment.” I’m guessing you’re angling for a job as my proofreader. Flame away trollbot.
Anyway, no logic issues were found in my post, and logic is the bidness I’m in.
And (breaking an alleged rule here because I can) your use of the word, “wingnut,” you could be projecting like an In-Focus machine. It’s ironic when true-believing fundamentalist leftards believe folks who question the obviously ultramoronic fiscal policy of our current leadership are the brain-damaged ones.
Irony isn’t dead, it’s just pining for the fjords.
In addition, you do realize I used the phrase, “them fancy words,” satirically towards those folks whose understanding of the First Amendment is obviously asskew (and I put the ass in there just for you.)
[re=561833]Shrikback[/re]: Make love! Not war!
[re=561833]Shrikback[/re]: NEEDS MOAR HYPHENS PLEEZ. LOGIC BIDNESS MACHINE RUNS ON HYPHENS!!1!
Diana: All right, I’ll stop. I’ve been on Usenet for far too long, I guess.
It was a pretty easy question, he shouldn’t have had to ask. They’re all retards would be the answer. Well just another reason to stay away from the green lizard and the stuff he sells.
[re=561833]Shrikback[/re]: That’s nice, Norbert, come down for dinner. It’s Mac ‘n Cheese night.
WHAT DUZ A BRITISH LIZARD KNOW ABOUT AMERICA ANYWAYS? IM CANCILLIN MY $900/MONTH POLICY WITH GEICO TOMMORRA. THATS JUST ONE LESS SOCAILISM A MONTH. GOOD RIDDENS
[re=561834]Shrikback[/re]: Wow, what does it feel like the be THE biggest dick on THE Wonkette?*
*Neilist, you’ve officially/formally be deposed, but certainly not for a lack of trying and defending for this title.
[re=561834]Shri(e)kback[/re]:
Short-haired Constitution-spewin’ know-nothings need not apply
Tard, Tard everywhere a tard
Blocking out the scenery wanna pull your card
Bitchin’ this and that bout the Dem-o-crats
Can’t you see the Tard?
Huh, we’ve been thinking about changing car insurance. WELL, now’s the time. Yay for consumer choice!
Fuck Geico. And fuck those Teabagger swine. Every one of them.
I went to their site and wrote:
Pardon me if I am misinformed, but I read that a voice actor from your commercials was let go after a prank call to Dick Armey’s “Teaparty” organization.
My complaint is that the Teaparty is a ridiculous wart on the body politic and anyone who pranks them should get Employee of the Month and a better parking place.
Thank you for your attention.
[re=561834]Shrikback[/re]: needs moar funny, FOGTFO.
Why does FreedomWorks hate freedom?
With all the fuss, I didn’t hear the answers to his questions. Did they answer them or were they afraid to and changed the subject?
Geico should have given this guy a new contract, a raise, a promotion, and should have praised him in a press release sent nationwide. He showed intelligence, depth and savvy in calling out this wacked-out, stupid organization. So what does Geico do? They fire him.
Just how incredibly stupid is that?
Everyone today should cancel their Geico insurance plans and switch to State Farm.
That’ll show ‘em.
I suppose it would be a bit much to buy a car, insure it with Geico, and then cancel my policy just to give ‘em what for? Yeah, thought so.
Oh well, I suppose there’s always that old standby, the Singing Salted-Bag-o-Dicks-o-Gram.
I will gladly pay more for my car insurance than pay any more money to cowards like those that run Geico.
I’m pretty sure I saw that the head of FreedomWorks posted this guy’s phone number as a result of the prank call. WTF is with these Republican fucks posting people’s addresses and phone numbers? (sorry, can’t find the link or the funny at the moment)
Jim, I will say it for you: DO NOT POST PHONE NUMBERS OR ADDRESSES ON WONKETTE!
Sweet Baby Cheeses: They always do that. There was a protest outside the Southern Republican Leadership Conference in New Orleans last week, long afterwards a couple of Jindal’s staffers got mugged. The right, of course, thinks the protest organizers are responsible and the whole wingnut blogosphere is having a shit fit. They’ve been digging up any info on the organizers and posting it to their blogs, getting people harrassed, threatened … it’s crazy. These people are creeps.
Is this some of that “left-wing violence” that I’ve heard so much about? Way to fan the flames, now when one of these Tim McVeigh wannabees, blows up a Federal Building, we know who to blame.
[re=561833]Shrikback[/re]: Actually, I believe the grammar issue was with your use of the word decrement as a verb. Sometimes people fail with they try to make themselves sound smart. http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/decrement
Doesn’t sound very Australian to me…
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