17 thoughts on “Doing Voice Overs For GEICO Is So Easy”
It appears Andrew Breitbart believes a person’s job is a legitimate target when they become a hyper-partisan. That is a very dangerous tactic to endorse, Rand. Would you want leftwing moonbats calling rockwell PAO when you had worked there and complaining about some of your statements? This guy is over the line, but, it’s a very dangerous tactic to go after their employment.
From the article…Upset by the recent gay and racial slurs slung by Tea Party members at Congressman Barney Frank and Representative John Lewis during the Health Care Reform Weekend, Mr. Douglas left his opinion of FreedomWorks’ staff and followers on their company voicemail and included his phone number.
Did I miss something here? I thought Breitbart offered something like a $10,000 reward for anyone who could produce actual evidence of any gay or racial slurs slung by Tea Party members. To my knowledge, no one has been able to produce anything, and this event definitely was attended by folks looking to document exactly that kind of thing.
Sounds like Mr. Douglas was just killed by friendly fire.
I see that you haven’t changed, Jack, and you’re demonstrating why I banned you. You’re still making sh!t up. Can you point to where I “endorsed” his losing his job?
Maybe D.C. Douglas can now get a job doing voice-overs for Progressive insurance.
/spittake rofl
I will endorse his loosing his job. If I had hired him to preform service for a company of mine and had he then pulled a stupid prank like he did and it reflected poorly on my company I’d fire his a$$. Logic so simple even a caveman could follow it, but of course that still leaves out leftist mental midgets like jack.
“Can you point to where I “endorsed” his losing his job?”
Are you happy he was fired?
Are you happy he was fired?
The fact that you have to ask that question simply proves how full of …jack lee… you are.
If I had hired him to preform service for a company of mine and had he then pulled a stupid prank like he did and it reflected poorly on my company I’d fire his a$$.
When I was young, a very wise man explains it thusly: regardless of whatever position you’re hired into, your primary job is to protect the reputation of your employer. Your position just reflects how you fulfill that responsibility.
I’m happy he’s fired, what does that make me jack?
Are you happy he was fired?
That’s the wrong question, since happiness has nothing to do with it. The proper question is, if he’d been working for [person you’re asking], would [person you’re asking] have fired him for this offense?
So far at least two commenters have already indicated they would have done so, and I’ll make three.
What’s it to you, jack?
You guys 🙂
Never a disappointment.
Uh, several bloggers have gotten fired for comments they’ve made on their blog sites. People have gotten fired for stupid stuff they posted on their facebook and myspace pages. I could say that liverwurst is the absolutely most disgusting food spread known to man and yet, my boss could be a liverwurst fiend and fire me for thinking so badly of it. Particularly if I worked for a liverwurst factory. Public comments can and often do affect your private life — tough cookies.
Josh,
People get fired for things on Facebook, Twitter comments, hell if you are in a small town, bar talk often gets around. That’s a fact of life.
What’s troubling to me, is this guy got stupid, did something, the people he did it to, found out where he worked, went public and had people slamming his employers.
Is it good practice to do that? Lefties used to picket people at their homes, and I always thought that was a bad practice. Is it good practice to look up the employer of every person who mouths off, and take it to their boss?
Is there a limit?
Sometimes when you say things that some people don’t like, some people will not like you. If you are in a business that kind of requires people to like you (or at least not dislike you) that can get a bit tricky. He had a right to say what he wanted to say, his employers had the right to judge whether the things he said would hurt their bottom line or not.
I remember the controversy around Rush Limbaugh trying to buy into an NFL team. Some people didn’t like the idea of him being an NFL owner because they didn’t like what he said on his show. The NFL decided it didn’t want to deal with the controversy, so he wasn’t allowed to be an owner. Was it fair? No, but neither is life sometimes.
Yes Dave, my expectations of you are low enough you’ll never disappoint me either.
Chris
I actually agree with most of what you said, the part that troubles me
is this guy was sort of a nobody.
Lets say some guy , “Bob Jackson”, a lawyer at some medium sized Grocery chain in peoria, writes to the Chicago Tribune a Letter to the Editor, denouncing ACORN and election Fraud, and says “Only a pinhead doubts that ACORN stole the election in Florida”.
Now Bob is writing in his letter as an individual, but ACORN looks him up
finds out he works at Smith Groceries and starts people calling Smith and denouncing this guy.
Bob gets fired.
Is this a good tactic? Is this the sort of thing to endorse?
Rush Limbaugh is a public figure, he sells controversy, his image is what
he sells, his books, his tapes, his show. He gets up and gins up the story
because it’s Media. Rush lives in the world of Alec Baldwin, Tom Cruise and the Barbie Twins.
But “Bob Jackson”? He’s some cube dweller at a nowhere company, expressing his opinion. Maybe poorly, maybe badly, but, that’s what he’s doing.
Is it a good idea to embrace tactics where you identify the employment of your opponents, and go after them to total annihilation?
Bill, now I’m upset.
I always strive to do better.
However, the current postings here really don’t need me nor anybody else to point out the glaring mental errors being shown, so it’s hard for me to do much else.
It’s a shame, I’ve just finished 72 hours of finance modelling work that has left me in need of a good snark. I think I’ll go and play poker instead.
It appears Andrew Breitbart believes a person’s job is a legitimate target when they become a hyper-partisan. That is a very dangerous tactic to endorse, Rand. Would you want leftwing moonbats calling rockwell PAO when you had worked there and complaining about some of your statements? This guy is over the line, but, it’s a very dangerous tactic to go after their employment.
From the article…Upset by the recent gay and racial slurs slung by Tea Party members at Congressman Barney Frank and Representative John Lewis during the Health Care Reform Weekend, Mr. Douglas left his opinion of FreedomWorks’ staff and followers on their company voicemail and included his phone number.
Did I miss something here? I thought Breitbart offered something like a $10,000 reward for anyone who could produce actual evidence of any gay or racial slurs slung by Tea Party members. To my knowledge, no one has been able to produce anything, and this event definitely was attended by folks looking to document exactly that kind of thing.
Sounds like Mr. Douglas was just killed by friendly fire.
I see that you haven’t changed, Jack, and you’re demonstrating why I banned you. You’re still making sh!t up. Can you point to where I “endorsed” his losing his job?
/spittake rofl
I will endorse his loosing his job. If I had hired him to preform service for a company of mine and had he then pulled a stupid prank like he did and it reflected poorly on my company I’d fire his a$$. Logic so simple even a caveman could follow it, but of course that still leaves out leftist mental midgets like jack.
“Can you point to where I “endorsed” his losing his job?”
Are you happy he was fired?
Are you happy he was fired?
The fact that you have to ask that question simply proves how full of …jack lee… you are.
When I was young, a very wise man explains it thusly: regardless of whatever position you’re hired into, your primary job is to protect the reputation of your employer. Your position just reflects how you fulfill that responsibility.
I’m happy he’s fired, what does that make me jack?
That’s the wrong question, since happiness has nothing to do with it. The proper question is, if he’d been working for [person you’re asking], would [person you’re asking] have fired him for this offense?
So far at least two commenters have already indicated they would have done so, and I’ll make three.
What’s it to you, jack?
You guys 🙂
Never a disappointment.
Uh, several bloggers have gotten fired for comments they’ve made on their blog sites. People have gotten fired for stupid stuff they posted on their facebook and myspace pages. I could say that liverwurst is the absolutely most disgusting food spread known to man and yet, my boss could be a liverwurst fiend and fire me for thinking so badly of it. Particularly if I worked for a liverwurst factory. Public comments can and often do affect your private life — tough cookies.
Josh,
People get fired for things on Facebook, Twitter comments, hell if you are in a small town, bar talk often gets around. That’s a fact of life.
What’s troubling to me, is this guy got stupid, did something, the people he did it to, found out where he worked, went public and had people slamming his employers.
Is it good practice to do that? Lefties used to picket people at their homes, and I always thought that was a bad practice. Is it good practice to look up the employer of every person who mouths off, and take it to their boss?
Is there a limit?
Sometimes when you say things that some people don’t like, some people will not like you. If you are in a business that kind of requires people to like you (or at least not dislike you) that can get a bit tricky. He had a right to say what he wanted to say, his employers had the right to judge whether the things he said would hurt their bottom line or not.
I remember the controversy around Rush Limbaugh trying to buy into an NFL team. Some people didn’t like the idea of him being an NFL owner because they didn’t like what he said on his show. The NFL decided it didn’t want to deal with the controversy, so he wasn’t allowed to be an owner. Was it fair? No, but neither is life sometimes.
Yes Dave, my expectations of you are low enough you’ll never disappoint me either.
Chris
I actually agree with most of what you said, the part that troubles me
is this guy was sort of a nobody.
Lets say some guy , “Bob Jackson”, a lawyer at some medium sized Grocery chain in peoria, writes to the Chicago Tribune a Letter to the Editor, denouncing ACORN and election Fraud, and says “Only a pinhead doubts that ACORN stole the election in Florida”.
Now Bob is writing in his letter as an individual, but ACORN looks him up
finds out he works at Smith Groceries and starts people calling Smith and denouncing this guy.
Bob gets fired.
Is this a good tactic? Is this the sort of thing to endorse?
Rush Limbaugh is a public figure, he sells controversy, his image is what
he sells, his books, his tapes, his show. He gets up and gins up the story
because it’s Media. Rush lives in the world of Alec Baldwin, Tom Cruise and the Barbie Twins.
But “Bob Jackson”? He’s some cube dweller at a nowhere company, expressing his opinion. Maybe poorly, maybe badly, but, that’s what he’s doing.
Is it a good idea to embrace tactics where you identify the employment of your opponents, and go after them to total annihilation?
Bill, now I’m upset.
I always strive to do better.
However, the current postings here really don’t need me nor anybody else to point out the glaring mental errors being shown, so it’s hard for me to do much else.
It’s a shame, I’ve just finished 72 hours of finance modelling work that has left me in need of a good snark. I think I’ll go and play poker instead.