Fired GEICO Voiceover Guy Lance Baxter Returns to Take Sexist Shot at Freedomworks Employee

by Tommy Christopher | 5:35 pm, August 26th, 2010

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Lance Baxter, the voice actor who was fired by Geico for a nasty voicemail he left in Freedomworks’ inbox, is following up his “Teabagger Boogie” with a new ad that takes aim at the Tea Party group’s president, Matt Kibbe. He starts out by scoring a few amusing, if simplistic, points on the Tea Party, but it soon becomes clear this is an exercise in personal score-settling when his Kibbe character says he thinks his subtle, side-burn-fueled attempt to get laid “is working on Tabitha.”

Who is Tabitha, and why is Lance Baxter flashing her picture as Matt Kibbe’s object of lust?

“Tabitha” is Tabitha Hale, director of interactive media at Freedomworks. While she does have an online presence, especially on Twitter, she’s not really an “out front” person at Freedomworks. Taking shots at her isn’t really the same as mocking Kibbe, or pun-friendly founder Dick Armey.

Despite my complete disagreement with just about everything she says, Tabitha Hale is also a friend of mine. She is incredibly hard-working, smart as a whip, and tough as nails. She probably got an exasperated laugh out of this spot.

It says a lot about Baxter that he’s willing to dig so deep to launch such a crass attack on Hale, namely that this has become more about bitterness over the way Freedomworks helped Geico find out about his actions, than any grievances with the Tea Party. It completely undercuts any legitimate points he might have made.

Hale was also part of Right Wing News’ conservative new media spank bank earlier this summer, which, for my money, was as sexist as Baxter’s crack, but at least they meant it in a nice way.

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MKibbe

I believe Tabitha Hale is the person who splashed the Geico stupidity all over the internet. It was her work that led to all the right hate blogs to disseminate it. He doesn’t even use her last name, but you just did. Anyway, she is fair game.

But lets tackle your “sexisy” angle. Joking about two people getting together is “sexist”??? Really? So 90% of celebrity news is sexist. Any and all jokes or humorous asides made by you regarding Clinton are sexist? Seems like you just want to stoke some fires. But good on ya for being SO politically correct. We know how important that is to the conservative movement.
Constantly

DC douglas is the epitome of a libpussy and his voice work sucks
tatboy

WOW… this guy is a loser.
lonestar77

Haha. Tommy calls this guy an “ism”/”ist” but is unbable to do it without attacking a conservative for the same thing. Typical far-left lunacy. Kind of like Cuomo comparing present day jihadists to Christians of almost A THOUSAND years ago. This is why the MSM is a punchline.
lonestar77

Tommy wrote:
“As much as I love this guy & think he’s really awesome & handsome & cool & neat and he makes really good Tom Collins’, he made fun of my friend so I have to say something bad about him, BUT, this conservative group over here did the same thing so nanny, nanny boo-boo.”
shootfromthehip

This is a great and funny video.

I wish the MSM would take a hint and start doing some actual reporting on the corporate backing on the Tea Party instead of buying into their fake storyline about how its all “grassroots.”
Cubby

“Who better to lead us than a Washington insider with over a quarter century’s experience as a congressman and lobbyist?”
jk76

the sideburn/wolverine lines were funny as hell, the rest of it was barely amusing, but i’m no left wing huffPoS commenter, they might LAWL it.

I don’t think it was sexist, I mean if you can make a joke about picking up chicks and then use a chick, one that I guess is out front (i don’t follow Dick lawl)…what’s can you do. It was about Tea Party movement and FreedomWorks.

Kudos for sticking up for your friend (or crush? hmmmm)…now back to your ListServ =p
MKibbe

Now that I’ve seen Tabitha’s inane post, it’s obvious you two concocted this for some silly outrage/controversy play that fizzled fast.

But In re-reading your intellectual leap-frog experiment, I noticed you missed mentioning his second video that had even more good points in it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMUVFctJ2Xw

Really is worth linking to, as well. Perhaps you can find something silly in that one to be outraged about, as well.
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