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Looking to get its duck in a row, Aflac plans to hold auditions to find a replacement for Gilbert Gottfried as the voice of the company’s screeching feathered mascot. As you’ve surely heard, Gottfried was fired after making dumb jokes about Japan. Aflac has handled the difficult situation pretty well—i.e., with some humor as well as contrition. Over on Facebook, the duck—who has 236,000 fans, some 228,000 more than the company itself—wrote that “Gilbert Gottfried’s insensitive comments about the tragedy in Japan have left me speechless.
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