Aflac Wrong To Quack Down On Gottfried

As documented in the movie “The Aristocrats,” by telling a nearly mythic dirty joke comedian Gilbert Gottfried turns around a booing audience angry that he’d made a 9/11 crack soon after the tragedy. He won’t be able to pull off the same trick after Aflac, the insurance company whose iconic duck Gottfried has voiced for years, fired him Tuesday over jokes he tweeted about Japan. But would Aflac have been better off ignoring the comments?

The offending jokes have been deleted from Gottfried’s account and followed up with a mea culpa.

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