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Archive Home > 2011 > March > 16 > Aflac dumps actor over tasteless tweets

Aflac dumps actor over tasteless tweets


March 16, 2011

COLUMBUS — Aflac Inc. fired Gilbert Gottfried, the abrasive voice of the insurer’s quacking duck in the U.S., after the comedian posted a string of mocking jokes about the earthquake and tsunami in Japan on Twitter.

The tasteless tweets are particularly problematic for Aflac because it does 75....

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