So does he talk like a gecko all the time? What is the lizard’s accent anyway?
Bullshit. I like that word today. That’s just right wingers loving playing the victim. Like how Bo Derek claims that she doesn’t get work because she is a Republican. Vocal Republicans Patricia Heaton, Kelsey Grammar, Bruce Willis and Arnold Schwarzenegger can’t get work because they are Republicans? No.
What you are crowing about is a spokesman complaining about your fellow tea baggers and losing his job for it. A working guy losing his job. And you are crowing about it? For a one off? That makes you a Clothahump. A tea bagger, which is a Republican who is rightly too ashamed to call himself a Republican following having his tongue up Dick Cheney’s rectum for foreign interventions, deficit fandangoes, eavesdropping, torture, etc. all of which Republicans supposedly hate.
Yeah, guy lost his job because he did something stupid: he voiced his opinion. Conservatives like that? Not the conservatism I know.
If I were an executive at Geico, I’d have fired Baxter for doing this (once I confirmed that he actually had done it). He represents the company - part of his job is to not embarass us during his off hours. He intentionally set out to harass Tea Party members so it’s not like this was something that he unintentionally got caught in.
That said, I would have fired him for the same reasons if he had been participating in a Tea Party demonstration.
Regardless, they’re still racist against cavemen.
You’re right. It’s the guy who says “15 minutes can save you 15 percent.”
Oh, don’t you worry your pretty little head on that score.
You’re asking for a cite? In the pit? A) quit demonstrating your mental handicap; B) my cite is just look at them, for the love of Jesus L. Christ on his cross.
Like I’m going to spend my time actually providing you with cites that a bunch of inbred hillbilly closeted homophobe white supremacists are actually inbred hillbilly closeted homophobe white supremacists. If you’re in league with those fuckwits, I doubt you can even read anyway.
Ok, once again: THIS ISN’T THE VOICE OF THE GECKO, IT’S THE ANNOUNCER GUY. Thank you. (This tidbit has now been posted three times. Pay attention!)
It doesn’t help that the thread title says the Geico Gecko was fired. That’s where the confusion is coming from. I wonder how that call went down.
Geico Exec: Well, Lance, I have some good news and some bad news.
Lance Baxter: What’s the bad news?
Geico Exec: The bad news is we heard from some idiots that you were making prank phone calls.
Lance Baxter: Yea pretty funny eh?
Geico Exec: Heh, yes it was, but we can’t have you making waves like that, so we have to let you go?
Lance Baxter: Well that sucks. What’s the good news?
Geico Exec: I just saved 15% by switching my insurance.
Lance Baxter: But… you work for an insurance company.
Geico Exec: I know.
If Kelsey Grammer hadn’t turned out such cinematic masterpieces as An American Carol and the awesome Fame, he’d have a better career. Just sayin’.
I don’t have a dog in this fight, but when I hear “far right”, I envision (at least) cool, sleek, martial uniforms, extreme aesthetics, some over-the-top architecture.
Totally the opposite of that lame yankee patriotic crap.
I’m loving the “If [something that didn’t happen] had happened, then you all would [thing the voices in my head told me would happen]” approach. I’m sure that you could also tell us how we would have reacted if, say, aliens had landed at a Tea Party rally and announced their support for Ross Perot in 2012.
This is especially dumb considering that most people here are saying that he was a jerk and that the company had a right to fire him. How is that disagreeing with you?
Its amazing how some people make the art of being right AND at the same time being an ass look so easy.
thank you.
Bigger ones use a lower octave, in scales.
Baxter was perfectly within his rights to call and voice his political concerns. Maybe he was a dick about it, but that’s the best thing about being in America: we have the Constitutional right to be dicks.
Geico was perfectly within their rights to fire him. The brouhaha over this might hurt their bottom line, and they aren’t in politics, so they’re just covering their asses.
What *wasn’t *cool, though, was the teabaggers calling to get him fired. If I disagree with you here on the SDMB, Clothahump, am I within my rights to try to get you fired? Sure. It’d also be a jerky thing to do.
I’m also within my rights to call up Geico and cancel my motorcycle insurance with them for their firing of Baxter, which is what I’m going to be doing today.
What a total fucking waste of time. Baxter was perfectly within his rights to make the call, and GEICO is equally within its rights to fire him.
That said, I assume that small-government revolutionaries are already poorly disposed to Government Employees’ Insurance Company.
I hope they call for a boycott. I bet GEICO’s business would grow.
He’s not the gecko guy. He’s the voiceover guy at the end of the commercials.
I heard this rumor that the guy wasn’t actually the voice of the gecko. Don’t put much stock in it, though.
So, just where is this lizard from, anyway?
They cut him off in the big reveal at the boardmeeting…
They could use the caveman guy instead.
Guernsey.