In April 2010, actor Lance Baxter, known to many as the voice of the GEICO Gecko, left a voice mail for the "tea party" organization Freedom Works that asked how Freedom Works will "spin it when one of your members does actually kill somebody, wondering if you've got a PR spinning routine planned for that or are you just gonna take it when it happens." Baxter was immediately fired by GEICO.
There’s no statement yet on Baxter’s blog (or the Freedom Works site), but it’s no great inferential leap to see his question as prescient: Assassin Jared Lee Loughner clearly hewed to the delusions of the racist Right. ...
America 2011: Eliminationist rhetoric and political murder