GEICO fired Lance Baxter
Lance Baxter, who includes a voice you may have heard because he’s carried out a great deal of voice-over perform for GEICO, won’t be doing those commercials anymore. Baxter acknowledges that GEICO has fired him following it became identified that he left a voice mail for that “tea party” organization Freedom Works that asked “what (are) the percentages of people that are mentally retarded who work for the organization and are members of it?” He also asked how Freedom Works will “spin it when one of your members does actually kill somebody?”
Baxter has an acting career under the name D.C. Douglas. He’s written a long blog post about what happened (fair warning, there’s profanity and obscenity inside the post and it includes audio with the voice mail; although the blog seems being crashing so you could not be able to obtain to it anyway). In it, Baxter admits that what he mentioned was stupid. But he also continues to create the case that Independence Functions and other organizations within the loosely connected tea party movement have been guilty of encouraging hate speech.
It wasn’t difficult for Flexibility Operates to figure out who Baxter was, by the way. He included his telephone number within the voice mail. Soon right after, Freedom Operates President Matt Kibbe wrote about it on BigGovernment.com, and encouraged anyone who was offended to contact GEICO.
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