Voice Actor Fired By Geico, Lance Baxter, Blames FreedomWorks (VIDEO)

The voice actor who was fired by Geico after leaving a disparaging voicemail for the tea party PAC FreedomWorks, spoke to Fox News' about Geico's decision to let him go.

Lance Baxter, also known as D.C. Douglas, told Geraldo Rivera that he regretted calling the group mentally retarded, but that he did not regret comments asking Freedomworks how they plan on reacting when a member of their group turns violent.

Baxter urged those who support him not to direct their anger at Geico, but at FreedomWorks.

FreedomWorks posted audio of Baxter's message, along with the actor's telephone number. In a separate interview with Fox that pas part of the same segment, FreedomWorks president Matt Kibbe, accused Baxter of posing as a victim.

Rivera pointed out that Baxter was something of a victim and had suffered for his remarks. Kibbe responded, saying that he thought it was fair to judge Baxter for his remarks.

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Comments

[jade64]

05:15 PM on 05/19/2010

Love D.C. and ALL his work!

[jockmama]

01:28 AM on 05/19/2010

I think I'm going to let my Geico policy lapse, and switch to a company who supports freedom of speach.

[jade64]

05:15 PM on 05/19/2010

"speach"? wow, I think you need to go back to school!!

[D.C. Douglas]

05:01 AM on 05/08/2010

Here is my take on the events, post whirlwind. Geraldo video also included. http://www.myvoiceoverguy.com/voice-over/cleaning-circus/

[bl8ant]

03:40 PM on 04/27/2010

a lot of commenters seem to think what he did was stupid. before this media blitz, did you have any idea or even think to care who the voice of the announcer on some random geico commercial was? i think he is playing this very well, and if i can land him a voice acting job for any of the clients i work for, i certainly will.

on a side note, i like his politics. up yours, republicans and tea baggers, you don't deserve the freedom you have.

[creasedemon]

01:23 PM on 04/28/2010

Very American of you

[bl8ant]

03:31 PM on 04/27/2010

derogatory? sounds like truth to me. this lie they are spreading about not being racists etc makes me sick.

[lilacluvr]

10:50 AM on 04/27/2010

Why did FreedomWorks feel the need to post this guy's audio and telephone number? Did this group other people's phone calls and telephone number or did they single this guy out because of who he was and who he worked for?

[Joseph Shaver]

12:24 PM on 04/27/2010

Because Andy Breitbart was grasping at any straw to take attention away from the abhorrent racism and ethnocentrism at the heart of the Tea Party movement

[gs-425]

08:21 PM on 04/27/2010

yea we're still waiting for that alleged 'abhorrent racism and ethnocentrism' to show. Any idea of when that is coming?

[creasedemon]

01:25 PM on 04/28/2010

Still waiting for the "abhorrent racism and ethnocentrism at the heart of the Tea Party movement". Anything yet?

[D.C. Douglas]

05:00 AM on 05/08/2010

I'm pretty sure it was my GEICO connection. They waited 3 weeks until the morning after I posted on FB that I recorded a new campaign. (GEICO pulled ads from Gelnn Beck and ended up on FreedomWorks Blacklist)

[FirstSpeaker]

10:31 AM on 04/27/2010

It seems to me that he has only himself to blame. Actions have consequences, at times ones that we fail to anticipate.

[VotingPresent]

10:19 AM on 04/27/2010

How long before this guy has his own show on MSNBC?

[lilacluvr]

10:51 AM on 04/27/2010

You did notice he was on Fox Channel - didn't you?

[gomezrules]

09:35 AM on 04/27/2010

So this clown leaves lots of evidence that he's completely unhinged, and he's whining about why it cost him his job? And to all the usual leftist hypocrites here who defend him and disparage the group he left his messages with, I just wonder how they'd be reacting if he had left such a message with, say, the DNC? But I'm sure the usual leftist hate sites can always use a spokesman. Adding yet another loon to the stable seems logical!

[Skyeblue]

09:51 AM on 04/27/2010

Au Contraire. I don't think he was whining. He took responsibility for what he said. I think the most important part of his comments were that he wonders who is funding FreedomWorks and the Tea Party. He is right to ask! We should all know who funds them, the ACLU, or ANY organization that is politically vocal! He specifically said that he absolutely understood that Geico is a business and did what they had to do. He never made an anonymous phone call. Please, don't call him a whiner! Call him someone who admits he did something stupid, and call him someone who is concerned about the activities of a group who is not telling where the funding is coming from!

[gomezrules]

10:00 AM on 04/27/2010

And I say yet again that if this guy, or anyone else, had directed such a 'message' at any leftist based group or organization, YOU and yours would not be so charitable towards them. THAT'S the difference.

You give him the benefit of the doubt for 'just doing something stu.pid'. He 'took responsibility for his actions'. 'BUT, he had the right to ask''. Give me a break! You'd be calling for his prosecution if he did such a thing to someone or something your side holds dear. Imagine if some one made such calls to the HP and left messages along this vein. Oh yeah, that would be dismissed as just a 'stu.pid remark' while 'taking responsibility for his actions'...Yeah, right!!

[sisyphus93]

10:25 AM on 04/27/2010

Wrong. We do not have a right to know who funds private organizations, even if they are politically vocal.

[rightwing927]

09:05 AM on 04/27/2010

To all you posters claiming this is a freedom of speech issue, try taking some time out to understand constitutional protections. The bill of rights protects against government infringement, not private parties or employers. This guy did something that Geico viewed as a potential to damage it's brand and reputation. As a result, they rightfully fired him. Freedom of speech does not mean freedom from consequence.

[Joseph Shaver]

09:08 AM on 04/27/2010

Good Lord, is it Furlough day at the Troll detention center/Your mom's basement? These knuckledraggers are coming out of the wordwork today

[gs-425]

09:23 AM on 04/27/2010

When the lack of a response....I hear insults and ridicule work well.

[sisyphus93]

10:27 AM on 04/27/2010

None of these clowns cared a whit about the First Amendment when Prop. 8 passed and left wing groups tracked down the names of individuals who contributed money to the campaign and did everything they could to destroy those individuals' livelihoods.

All this bellyaching is more than a little hypocritical, but coming from them, not at all surprising.

[Joseph Shaver]

12:23 PM on 04/27/2010

Thats because proposition 8 was hate-filled garbage intended to spitefully deny people the same happiness the rest of us enjoy. For Tea Partiers who promote freedom and liberty, its funny how you don't get either if you're gay, brown, or non-christian.

[Russ Kirk]

08:52 AM on 04/27/2010

The baggers made me do it defense. I don't think so.

[DAV2008]

08:54 AM on 04/27/2010

Hey numbnuts what happened to freedom of speech.

[Joseph Shaver]

09:05 AM on 04/27/2010

I don't think its a defense. I think he's pointing out the hypocrisy of a group that would use and condone invectives like n****r and f****t against elected representative, who are so thin-skinned that all they do is play the victim card in the media if someone even calls them Teabaggers. If you can't stand the heat get out of the kitchen. Also, if youre a phony astro-turfing circus sideshow, orchestrated by Dick Armey and Andrew Breitbart, you probably shouldn't expect to be taken seriously

[LetsGoSteve]

09:37 AM on 04/27/2010

What is wrong with a portion of our society, standing up and voicing its concern about a federal government, which has racked up nearly $13,000,000,000,000 that will be passed down to the next generation?

[blueken]

08:47 AM on 04/27/2010

So accordin to the Supreme court, corporations have freedom of speech, but employees, not so much. How come the tea party isn't defending his right to free speech. Someone once said, the test of free speech is that we tolerate those who don't agree with us.

[creasedemon]

10:06 AM on 04/27/2010

He has a right to free speech. He also has a right to the consequences of his free speech.

[blueken]

11:31 AM on 04/27/2010

So a corporation holds the economic strong hand over it's employees. It's emplyees have no power other than leaving the company. In this economy, a tough choice.I'm sorry, but for the last 20 years corporations have been getting all the breaks, while the employees are getting broken.

[DanMan2012]

08:45 AM on 04/27/2010

Upscale Harvard northerners that don't incite: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSQIYStgBYY”

[sisyphus93]

10:30 AM on 04/27/2010

Excellent. This should be reposted often. I'm not surprised someone flagged this abusive. So many of the malcontents posting on HP will not tolerated anything that upsets their fantasy world-view.

[DanMan2012]

11:34 AM on 04/27/2010

Censorship at it's finest when the light is shown upon them.

[royofan]

08:22 AM on 04/27/2010

Amazing comments, where in this whole scenario were liberals slandered at all? Basically your all upset that GEICO listened to their conservative customers? Wow, what a dumb company to listen to the wants and needs of it's customers.For shame GEICO, for shame.

And i'm sure you won't go and listen or watch the video, but there is a story pretty recently posted on Andrew Breitbart's site about all the hate-mail FreedomWorks received after GEICO let Baxter go.Swearing, vitriol, violence being threatened, whomever left the hate sure should be proud of themselves.

[Joseph Shaver]

09:01 AM on 04/27/2010

I see more hate and vitriol in the regular articles and comments sections on Breitbart's site than I'm sure was ever received by Freedom Works. What amazes me is, with all the horrible things the Teabaggers say about people, is that they get their panties in such a wad if someone even looks at them cross-eyed. Breitbart and Palin should have a tie breaker for "Most think-skinned, perpetually persecuted, victim-complex in Politics". Glenn Beck is third of course.

[ScaryBob]

09:19 AM on 04/27/2010

Well, GEICO and this guy both can express their views and hire or fire anyone they want, but I can also decide not to get insurance from GEICO either. Which is now a done deal.

[sisyphus93]

10:31 AM on 04/27/2010

Yeah, but that's only because your type considers any opposing opinions to be hate speech.

[Tazru]

07:33 AM on 04/27/2010

I wonder how much Night Blindness this "new" HP layout will cause.

Stark White and Electric Blue, right in your face. Does anyone know what the supposed advantage is to the blinding "new" fashion in web design?

I can only look at these "new" web designs using Greasemonkey and scripts to ease the assault on the eyes.

[Needawinner]

08:06 AM on 04/27/2010

Agreed. What happened to the good ol' days?

[Tazru]

08:32 AM on 04/27/2010

Actually, this "new" web design looks like it is from the 1990s.

[IkkoIkki]

08:25 AM on 04/27/2010

ain't that the truth. whoever thinks black type on a white background is good, is just simple