On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 2:33 PM, Mark J. <[email protected]> wrote:
> Lance "D.C. Douglas" Baxter has been saying "15 minutes can save you > hundreds of dollars on your car insurance" in Geico ads for years, but > when he called up tea party organization Freedom Works, called them, > among other things, "mentally retarded," and they put his voice mail > on their web site, well, there goes your steady gig: > > > http://voices.washingtonpost.com/right-now/2010/04/geico_voice_actor_fired_after.html The Post story says he asked how many mentally retarded people they had on their staff, as oppose to calling them mentally retarded, for what that is worth. One of the commenters says that Freedom Works also put Baxter's home phone number on their web page and encourage their members to call him - can anyone confirm that? I pretty much ignore the Tea Partiers and would not even know much of anything about them except for the periodic appearance on TDS, I am surprised anyone is really taking them seriously or spending much time on them (we did run into a gaggle of them protesting in front of a nearby mall on a recent Chevy's and movie night my family was on and were entertained watching them for 10 minutes). But I am interested in the ethics or common practices of web sites or organization in making phone numbers or other kinds of personal information public like that. I suppose we should assume that any information we release is public, but if a group I belonged to started doing things like that I would not be involved with them anymore. -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en
