Great Utube responce from D.C. Douglas.
That guy is such a whiny douchebag. He blames it on the martinis, which is the same dodge that bigger name actors who said something stupid will use right before they check themselves into “rehab”. Then he crawls up on the cross to say that he was “blacklisted”. He wasn’t blacklisted; he was fired from one job for doing the equivalent of vandalizing a politicians office by spray painting his name and contact info on the wall. Even juvenile delinquents have more sense than to leave their name and phone number at the scene. Then he goes on to claim that the original call was making some deep political point about health care reform or something, when in fact all it really consisted of was him passive aggressively calling people murdering “retards”.
He’s a douchebag and his response is just further evidence of his passive aggresive douchebaggery. Now, I don’t support Freedom Works in any way shape or form. The tea partiers are a bunch of douche bags, too, but let’s not make a drunken phone call into some rallying point for truth, justice, and the American way.
Besides, the guy was drinking an appletini with a caramel floater. Nothing says “I’m a douchebag” more than “I’ll have an appletini”.
Did I mention the guy is a douchebag?
You want to be a spokesman and get paid handsomely for it? It probably means you have to restrain your speech in some ways - anything from your true feelings of the product in question, certain jokes, and strong political rhetoric.
This shouldn’t have been a mystery to “Geico Guy”, and if Geico doesn’t want this association anymore that is their right.
That was well done… and funny as hell…
for those of us playing along at home - what’s the back-story here?
Frothing version: Famous Hollywood actor in a move representing all liberals leaves first ever nasty message on the voicemail of a group he disagrees with. In typical moronic liberal fashion, he leaves his name and phone number.
Normal version: Idiot leaves nasty voicemail message, including his name and phone number. Oh, and he does the voiceover for those GEICO commercials, but you have probably never heard of him.
In both versions he gets fired.
Aforementioned two-bit actor got all fired-up over the Tea Party protests, got drunk and left a “provocative” voice mail message for Freedom Works, asking, among other things, if they had a plan in place when one of their members shoots somebody.
His association with a GEICO ad campaign is eventually posted on the Breitbart website, at which point the GEICO company decided pissing off a good portion of their customers isn’t a good quality in a spokesperson. They fire him and keep the lizard and the cavemen.
He gets all cheesed off about this turn of events. Don’t ask me why.
Well, who wouldn’t get peeved at a lizard taking priority in the lay-offs?
I assume the lizard was pretty stoked about the revelation.
Well stated! And yes, you did mention that he is a douchebag, but I don’t you mentioned the fact that he is a douchebag often enough.
You’re thinking of the “dude, you’re getting a Dell” guy 
You forgot the part where the right wing media echo chamber had a field day triumphantly reporting on his firing (which he referenced in the video linked).
Agreed. While I agree that calling an organization you disagree with and taunting them like he did is kinda douchey… said organization assembling its minions in order to get him fired is a grade-A, rocket fuel douche move.
What’s more, I can’t believe that so many on the Right- who proclaim so loudly that they’re being repressed by the Left- are so ecstatic that he got fired.
Call him a dick. Don’t try to get him fired. You might be next.
A spokesman is a person whose name is associated with a product - not a guy doing voice-overs. Commercial contracts I have seen say you can’t work for a competitor for a certain amount of time, not that you are not allowed to get drunk.
Someone who is a personality endorsing a product - like Tiger - is a different story.
Now, I can’t blame them for firing him given that he rented air time and used the Geico name in his rant. Oops - he used his name and left a message on an answering machine.
I’d love to hear the screams of protest if an employer fired a tea scum bagger for being photographed carrying around an Obama = Hitler sign.
Nice to see you guys support the free expression of opinions.
So, um, what? Do you think this guy’s douchebaggery should be applauded? He made a stupid prank call, and now he’s trying to make himself look like some political prisoner. He’s a douchebag. I agree with the guy that the tea partiers are douchebags, but the linked video makes him more of a douchebag by claiming he was “blacklisted”. There’s douchebags on every side of this story. Reading about it is like walking around in a Massengill factory.
What I don’t get is people rallying behind this guy as if him asking “how many retards work for you?” is deep political thought. Trust me, you do not want this guy as a standard bearer. There’s a pit thread about this where people are actually calling for posters to boycott Geico, and now others are falling over themselves to praise a vinegar and water youtube video. That’s absurd.
Wow, Monkey, you so cleverly referenced douche-bag so many times, I’m surprised you didn’t link to this coup de gràce.
That would’ve knocked it out of the park for the peanut gallery.
Whatever happened to the freedom of expression Teabaggers are always whining is being taken away from them?
So some guy (whom I’d never heard of) calls up FreedomWorks (which I’d also never heard of) and leaves a rambling, insulting message on their voicemail. I can’t find the original recording, but was there any more to it than that? Shouldn’t the whole affair have ended right there?
It seems to me that FreedomWorks went out of their way to find out who the guy was, and to put pressure on his employer to fire him. When I call a company, I usually get the disclaimer that it may be recorded for customer-service purposes. How does this fall into that category?
Not exactly, the guy left his name and contact number. They published it online, and then internet users did the rest. He requested that FreedomWorks contact him, and now people are claiming that they hunted him down. What the Hell?
You can listen to the original call at this youtube link. I don’t think FreedomWorks had to go out of their way to find him when he says “please call me back at this number”. They simply called him back. Hell, he called their PR department; of course, they are going to make fun of the message on their website. Freedom of expression and all that. That’s when the shit hit the fan.
My main point, however, is that he should not be held up as some martyr who lost his job due to fighting the good fight. He asked for this and now he’s playing it like he is some deep political thinker. Regardless of how much I find FreedomWorks loathsome, I have zero respect for this douchebag*.
Just listen to the linked call, and remember that FreedomWorks never actually contacted Geico or Fox News directly. They just published a recorded message and their fans did the rest.
*My freedom of expression allows me to use the word “douchebag” as many times as I want, but unlike Mr. Baxter, I’m willing to pay the consequences
Why “of course”? A guy made a stupid call to them. Do they have a habit of putting all the stupid calls they receive on the internet? It sounds to me like this was private dumbassery until FreedomWorks decided to make it public. That’s a vindictive and douchillanimous move on their part.
Is there any expectation of privacy when you call an organization like this?
No. Not even the merest whiff of expectation of privacy. It’s the PR department of a PAC. He left a recorded message for people who’s very job it is to publish stuff that makes the other side look bad.
I said “of course they did”, because this is their job. It’s what they do. Besides, are you really arguing for Baxter’s freedom of expression while arguing that FreedomWorks doesn’t have the same right?
And please remember, I think everybody is a douchebag in this. I just feel that the hatred for the teabaggers is blinding some posters from the fact that Baxter does not deserve to be defended.