{"id":545970,"date":"2010-04-28T11:16:05","date_gmt":"2010-04-28T15:16:05","guid":{"rendered":"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d834519bc269e20133ed05038f970b"},"modified":"2010-04-28T11:16:05","modified_gmt":"2010-04-28T15:16:05","slug":"jon-stewart-looks-at-mascots-gone-bad-after-firing-of-geico-guy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/545970","title":{"rendered":"Jon Stewart looks at mascots gone bad after firing of Geico guy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><embed allowfullscreen=\"true\" allownetworking=\"all\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" bgcolor=\"#000000\" flashvars=\"autoPlay=false\" height=\"248\" src=\"http:\/\/media.mtvnservices.com\/mgid:cms:item:comedycentral.com:307927\" style=\"margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 8px; float: right;\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"297\" wmode=\"window\"><\/embed><\/p>\n<p>Without Jon Stewart&#8217;s brand of in-depth investigation, I never would&#8217;ve known that the Pillsbury Doughboy engaged in some questionable behavior with a strudel or that the helping hand from Hamburger Helper had a Nazi past. On Stewart&#8217;s late-night Comedy Central series, <em>The Daily Show<\/em>, those and other secrets came out during a segment on the voice actor from Geico who lost his job recently after questioning the mental capacity of conservative FreedomWorks members. Stewart figured it was as good a time as any to look at spokescharacters (purportedly) going off the rails. There was that Tony the Tiger mauling incident, and the Michelin man&#8217;s sex trafficking charges. (Great mug shot!) Check out the clip, really, it&#8217;ll explain everything.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014Posted by T.L. Stanley<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Without Jon Stewart&#8217;s brand of in-depth investigation, I never would&#8217;ve known that the Pillsbury Doughboy engaged in some questionable behavior with a strudel or that the helping hand from Hamburger Helper had a Nazi past. On Stewart&#8217;s late-night Comedy Central series, The Daily Show, those and other secrets came out during a segment on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3984,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-545970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3984"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=545970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545970\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=545970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=545970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=545970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}