GEICO Gecko Fires Actor After Alleged Tea-Bagger Insult
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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.”
In the meantime, if you want to hire him:
Source: Washington Post
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Well, remembering the commercial where he was short of revealing where he comes from, at least now we know the GEICO Gecko is gay, and comes not from Australia, or New Zealand, but from San Francisco!
“F*ck you up the ass, Mate”?
Thanks, but I’ll buy my insurance elsewhere!
I read about this at Gwens-much respect to this dude!
Surely A gekko wouldn’t do that?
I’m curious now- DOES Geico have baggers on staff or something? I hadn’t heard anything about it until this article. Shame about Douglas- but his talent is more useful elsewhere.
Isn’t that a Gekko or have I had too much vodka….again?
GEICO is probably on my list of the “last” insurance companies I would ever consider. During the Fla Keys hurricanes I knew dozens of people who had GEICO. They made it hard to collect on your policy, rather like America’s health insurance companies…
Geico is crap anyway. Their rates are way high, and they like to drop policies the minute someone has a claim. When I bought my truck I financed part of it. The dealer said “who’s your insurance with? Please say it’s not Geico…”
Yeah, Baxter is my hero.