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Voice over artist D.C. Douglas admitted that he was a doofus for leaving a invective laced message about the tea party that led to his firing recently by GEICO.
From the Washington Post
Is it possible, in this great land of ours, that people of differing political beliefs can exchange insults, make stupid remarks, get fired, make wildly overreaching claims — and both sides wind up giggling about it? Is it so easy to have a sense of humor about absurd political theater that even a caveman could do it?
Well, if only anyone around here was that smart.
Veteran voice-over artist and bit actor D.C. Douglas got canned this week from one of his most profitable gigs — being an announcer on some Geico Insurance ads — after the dulcet-toned Californian phoned in an insult to FreedomWorks, the Washington activist group that organizes many “tea party” events, back during the health-care debates. Offended at the racist and homophobic insults attributed to protesters during that debate, Douglas left a voice mail asking how many “mentally retarded” people worked for them and how they would spin it “when one of your members does actually kill somebody.”
Then he left a stage name he often works under and his home phone number.
No, really.
“I was a doofus,” he said Friday from his home studio in Los Angeles. (He has also called that astute move “stupid” and “certainly not constructive.”)
FreedomWorks President Matt Kibbe released a recording of Douglas’s call Tuesday and encouraged supporters to call Douglas at his home, then to call Geico.
From Salon.com
The now-former narrator for GEICO ads, DC Douglas, just lost his gig with the insurance company after he used his deep, voice-over-quality tones to make fun of the Tea Parties. Salon interviewed Douglas by e-mail.
Was GEICO right to fire you?
I will say it was well within their rights. Whether they made a “right/moral/ethical” decision is not mine to say. Not sure which your question is implying. I hold no animosity towards them. I certainly wouldn’t want any outside group telling me how to run my business — left or right. However, an extreme right-wing attack machine — FreedomWorks — decided to do just that with GEICO over a voice-mail message.
The now-former narrator for GEICO ads, DC Douglas, just lost his gig with the insurance company after he used his deep, voice-over-quality tones to make fun of the Tea Parties. Salon interviewed Douglas by e-mail.
Douglas also likens what FreedomWorks did to McCarthyism in an effort to gain sympathy for what he did. In the meantime Douglas created his own parody video of the tea party which can be found here.
Douglas and Matt Kibbe on Geraldo on April 25th.
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9 Comments for Fired GEICO Narrator Admits He Is a Doofus
Oh, there we go, let’s get some hard-hitting coverage by Geraldo. *eyeroll*
You’d think the “MSM” would be able to get this posterboy a job somewhere, with all of the ‘friends’ they have. How about the regime’s campaign-arm, Organizing Doofuses in America, putting him to work? Then Obama really COULD trumpet a ‘created or saved job’.
Or he could do a little hand-modeling, like #1 says, over at MSNBC. Chrissy Matthews doesn’t seem to be getting that tingle up his leg anymore like he used to. Right up this guy’s street, being unseen by the camera, performing his work. Or possibly making use of his “oral talents” in a similar fashion … behind the scenes.
ROFL!!!!!! Serves the jerk right!
This guy is a poster boy for the arrogant, sanctimonious, patronizing Left.
Note that no conservative ever bothered him before this event. AC/DC Douglas started the whole thing and now is crying because the tea-partyers hit back!
How typical of all those left-wing bullies.
As usual, all you drooling Righties are OUTRAGED when your idiocy is pointed out, but you stomp on the rights of any American who isn’t a tool of Glenn Beck.
Gonna be a long 6 years for you paranoid dolts…better load up the panic room and get that Bible you’ve never read, because the day when bigoted a-holes like you could force their will on the minorities (who will soon be the majorities) of this country are nearly over. Too bad you’re so violently against equality for all citizens…you could’ve come along for the prosperity. Now you’ll just have to stay in your mommy’s basement, lamenting you’re total lack of intelligence, friends, or moral conviction. Try to keep your heads from exploding when Obama gets re-elected.
The new McCarthyism is PC, where instead of the “Communist” smear, the “PC’ers” just as unconscionably attempt to smear their opponents as “Racists” and “Homophobes.” “Racist” is the new king of smears! The hatefulness and destructive legacy of McCarthyism pales beside modern day “PC,” which daily grows infinitely more vicious and destructive than McCathysim ever was. Will we ever learn? Unfortunately, that Douglas’s blatant attempt to smear the Tea Party movement backfired is a prime example. Say something that a few people take exception to and you get fired, you life is ruined, your livelihood taken from you, even as those who employed PC here crow gleefully at their successful use of PC! RIP free speech. Viva la victimhood! Viva la glorification of the poison pen! Viva la ad hominem! ETC.!
Goobye Emerson and self-reliance. Pettiness now reigns in America! Insult an American and he or she will wilt, fall apart, throw him/herself on the floor in a fit, cry out in anguish! Or at least call for a lawyer and a psychologist to help him or her get over having been insulted!
From no child left behind to no child having to grow the inner strength necessary to endure an insult, or face a bully, or in any way fend for him/herself, or even to compete.
Notice, D….. “Gentleman” – that’s a stretch – that prissy little AC/DC Douglas is indeed the poster boy for arrogant, ignorant, patronizing, pusheads such as yourself. You both sound exactly alike.
What D.C. Douglas did was just plain wrong! He’s entitled to his personal opinion, and nobody can force him to like the Tea Party Movement, but the T.P. Movement is RIGHT, popular, and a true force to be reckoned with today. Mr. Douglas is jealous and made the mistake of performing his puerile little stunt on a RECORDED MESSAGE – i.e. he got caught! That’s the only reason the liberal know-nothing Mr. Douglas is regretful now! I’m glad he was stupid enough to get caught. GEICO shouldn’t use such a person knowingly as any kind of spokesperson! FREEDOM WORKS is a great organization, and can and does certainly suffer their share of “insults!” But what Douglas did was petty, puerile and pathetic – and very unprofessional. As stated here, CERTAINLY he can find a job at MSNBC with those credentials!!!
I agree with you C. Roy
As one will notice—-libs can never make a statement without using foul lanquage and name calling—-I guess their brains only on one track—
they are so afraid of the Tea Party that they loose all rationality—-
Their mouths are in the same place that their you-know-what is and all they spew is cr**!!!!
I hope you have nice hands, because I suspect your days as a “voice over” guy are over
Consider hand modeling