TYT Reaction: Geico VO Actor Fired For Bashing Tea Party

[ihavenobias]

Run time: 05:15 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSGrnS37NLU   Posted on YouTube: April 22, 2010 By YouTube Member: TheYoungTurks Views on YouTube: 306   Posted on DU: April 22, 2010 By DU Member: ihavenobias Views on DU: 1221

 
Summary: Cenk and Ana play the already infamous voicemail left by the voiceover actor at the end of Geico insurance ads where he goes after the FreedomWorks (resulted in his being fired). You can http://theweek.com/article/index/202144/The_Tea_Party_vs_the_voice_of_GEICO|read more here>. Cenk wants to contrast the way the left gets angry versus the right (a video annotation at the end helps explain the point further) and how the right loves to play the victim.

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[20score]

1. K&R!

[Kurovski]

2. Oddly enough, it's probably a career boost.

If I were still the most important casting agent in the universe, I'd be calling him in for an interview.

[ihavenobias]

8. Agreed. n/t

[florida08]

3. and that's the difference

between the two parties. The right wingnuts will do anything to get the result they're after. They did it in Florida in 2000..using death threats and bullying to stop the recount. It worked. Intimidation should not be the reason someone gets fired or stop a democratic process like securing the voter count in an election, but when you have a large group of people who bully with no one standing up to them the result is a weakened democracy. That's what we have.

The half of the country that doesn't vote really needs to engage. The small band of democrats fighting for democracy every day get tired. David can beat Goliath once in a while but not for years and years. The majority of the country may like to be governed from the middle but that's a luxury we no longer can afford...not when we have people out there trying to take away constitutional rights because of their partisan politics. November will tell the tale if the country is paying attention. The quote by Voltaire "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it" has become obsolete. Not convenient anymore.

[indy legend]

7. +1

[JoshieR]

4. I think that they hit the nail on the head.

It does seem like conservatives tend to go nuclear over the smallest insult, real or perceived. Meanwhile, we have people calling into liberal organizations making death threats, calling people "bably killers" and much more profane remarks.

Is it just me, or do conservatives tend to approach politics from more of an emotional standpoing, whereas liberals have a more rational basis for their politics? That may be a screaming generalization, but to me it seems that most, if not all, conservative politics lately revolve around fears of some future issue that may or may not even be probable. (i.e. Government death pannels, taking away peoples' guns, conversion into a pure socialist nation, anti embryonic stem cell research because they believe it will increase the rate of abortion, etc). I find that liberal politics tend to be based on real, substantiated issues for the most part.

[Tutankhamun]

5. I agree, except conservatives don't go nuclear over the smallest little points.

They go nuke-yuh-ler.

[JHB]

6. Yet the conservatives perceive themselves as the rational ones...

...and claim it's liberals who are ruled by emotionalism.

[ihavenobias]

9. The irony is they say WE approach everything from emotion.

Projection at its finest.