“So stupid that a caveman might do it.”\u00a0<\/p>\n
That’s not the slogan of Geico Insurance, but it could be the tagline for its former voiceover spokesman Lance Baxter, a.k.a. “D. C. Douglas.”\u00a0<\/p>\n
According to reports<\/a>, Baxter called Tea Party-supporting Freedom Works last month to sarcastically inquire about the number of staffers who were “mentally retarded” and how the organization would react when a Tea Partier “killed someone.”\u00a0 Geico has dropped Baxter as a spokesman, and in true whining leftist form, he is apparently threatening to sue it<\/a>.\u00a0 According to Baxter, he left the voicemail with Freedom Works because of the alleged (but still unsupported<\/a>) “recent gay and racial slurs slung by Tea Party members at Congressman Barney Frank and Representative John\u00a0 Lewis during the healthcare reform weekend.”\u00a0<\/p>\n Memo to Mr. Baxter:\u00a0 millions of Americans have joined the Tea Party movement and participated in its gatherings, but no person has produced evidence in support of your allegation.\u00a0 Further, we don’t recall you expressing the same concerns about violent left-wing protests<\/a> such as anti-globalization rallies or movies about assassinating George W. Bush<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n That was very stupid of you, Mr. Baxter.\u00a0 So stupid that a caveman would do it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" “So stupid that a caveman might do it.”\u00a0 That’s not the slogan of Geico Insurance, but it could be the tagline for its former voiceover spokesman Lance Baxter, a.k.a. “D. C. Douglas.”\u00a0 According to reports, Baxter called Tea Party-supporting Freedom Works last month to sarcastically inquire about the number of staffers who were “mentally retarded” […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1146,1143,1145,1144],"class_list":["post-4888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-dc-douglas","tag-geico","tag-lance-baxter","tag-spokesman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4888"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4888\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4901,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4888\/revisions\/4901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}