Fellow Fallen Insurance Company Spokesman Defends Gilbert
GottfriedS  When Gilbert Gottfried was fired from the role of
the Aflac duck for making terrible tsunami jokes, he was just
the latest in a long line of insurance spokesmen to get fired
amid public outrage. (Well, there's another one.)  Last year,
voiceover actor DC Douglas was fired as the voice of Geico's
television campaigns after he left a prank voice message on a
Tea Party organization's website. Now he has some thoughts in
Salon about the plight of the insurance company spokesman who
becomes the center of a firestorm. Most useful in times like
these where the time between tasteless tweet to hasty firing is
fast approaching zero, is this:  Imagine a stranger coming up to
you and saying, "Dude, I heard what you said about that thing
and I disagree! I found it as offensive as Janet Jackson's bare
boob at a Super Bowl half-time show! I'm going to get all my
friends to call up Applebee's and get you fired!"  Operating
from a place of anger is a Charli