What the hell is Arby's thinking??!!??

[Archae]

Getting racist Bo Deitl to do an ad for them?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x6572819

[Panasonic]

1. Who?

[madokie]

2. This guy

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bo_Dietl

[Nye Bevan]

3. Nothing in that link about him being a racist (nt)

[Archae]

7. Plenty of evidence here.

http://mediamatters.org/search/index?qstring=bo+dietl&x=0&y=0

[niyad]

14. all I had to read were the words "fox regular"--'nuff said

[ProdigalJunkMail]

5. most people have no idea who he is

or what he does... he just looks like a slimy character in the ad. i think it was a hideous marketing idea... but most people won't know he's anything let alone a racist.

sP

[RichGirl]

4. What I find annoying about these....

...various restaurants, fast food places, etc behaving badly....is that I never ate there anyway so I can't ban them.

[Cha]

16. That is rather annoying.. but, on the plus side..

look how much nicer we've been to our bodies!

[Capt. Obvious]

6. That's it! Boycott!

Already done.

[Tunkamerica]

8. and

In 2010, in response to the whistle-blower website WikiLeaks disseminating various leaked classified material, Bo Dietl and Bob Beckel called for the assassination of the website's spokesman Julian Assange [4]

[pinboy3niner]

9. He's done a couple of ads for them before

I think this was his last Arby's commercial (posted on YouTube in October)...

[dballance]

10. If Arby's hasn't already fired the person who hired him they should

Why would you want a fat, unshaven SOB as your spokesperson? Not very appetizing at all.

[bigred84]

11. Ohhhh....now I know who you're talking about

I just joined this site and I wondered why people were trashing Bo Diddlely. Then I saw the picture, my blood pressure flared and I knew exactly to whom you referred! This guy has never met a camera he didn't like. He's a publicity & fame whore. I remember him from back when he was playing private detective for all the Hollywood people. I've seen him bloviate on various pundit shows and he makes about as much sense as Donald Trump. Even if I hadn't suffered listening to his bs over the years, I agree with the poster who said that his general appearance & aura do little to wet the appetite.

[pinboy3niner]

12. Welcome to DU!

Archae's Post #7 has a link to more stories on Dietl that are unlikely to improve your appetite.

[niyad]

13. welcome to DU-- still have no idea who this jerk is, have never seen or heard of him before.

apparently I was missing absolutely nothing.

[hrmjustin]

15. Welcome to DU and I hope you enjoy the site.

[Cha]

17. Oh yeah! I knew the name but didn't know why..

The PI stuff..

Welcome to DU, bigred

[Quantess]

18. Welcome!

[MinM]

19. Geico using Gallagher in their ads is another example...

Several complain about Gallagher show at fair
Published: Tuesday, August 03, 2010, 8:30 AM
Updated: Tuesday, August 03, 2010, 12:54 PM

To many people, a county fair is supposed to be about family-friendly entertainment.

But a show by the comedian Gallagher on Thursday night — a performance that was partially taxpayer-funded — was hardly G-rated.

About 2,400 people attended the free show, which headlined opening night for the 2010 fair. Many of those 2,400 left before the performance was 30 minutes old.

Gallagher, best known for wielding a sledgehammer to smash food onstage, started his show with a 45-minute set that included dozens of profanities and off-color jokes, particularly disparaging to homosexuals.

Many of the jokes are not fit for publication in this newspaper. Here are two we can share with you...

http://blog.oregonlive.com/hillsboroargus/2010/08/fruit-smashing_gallaghers_cont.html

Apparently this is par for the course @ Geico...

GEICO voice actor fired after insulting tea parties

[Marrah_G]

20. No clue who he is