Posted on 11/02/2007 6:06:23 PM PDT by Rb ver. 2.0
Duane "Dog" Chapman's tape-recorded tirade has cost him his TV show.
"Dog the Bounty Hunter" has been pulled off the air by A&E, the cable network announced Friday. The network stopped short of saying the show was canceled, apparently leaving open the possibility of a return with new episodes or reruns.
"In evaluating the circumstances of the last few days, A&E has decided to take Dog The Bounty Hunter off the network's schedule for the foreseeable future," A&E said in prepared statement. "We hope that Mr. Chapman continues the healing process that he has begun."
The Wall Street Journal reported Friday that Yum Brands, which advertised Taco Bell, KFC and Pizza Hut on "Dog the Bounty Hunter," had pulled all of its ads, calling Chapman's comments "despicable."
Production of the Hawaii-based reality show was suspended earlier this week after it was reported that Chapman made repeated racial slurs in a tape-recorded phone conversation with his son, Tucker.
"Dog the Bounty Hunter" went on the air in 2004 and was one of A&E's highest rated shows, averaging 1.2 million viewers in primetime.
Chapman, who owns Da Kine Bail Bonds in downtown Honolulu, has apologized for repeatedly using a racial slur to refer to his son's girlfriend, who is African American.
The Associated Press reported on Friday that Tucker Chapman taped the phone call with his father, and sold it to the National Enquirer, which posted the tape on its Web site on Wednesday.
He claims it wasn’t the color but the character of this young ‘lady’.
Do you EVER think outside the box?
Did you listen to the tape? If you did, you might find the answer to that question for yourself.
Good post there at #249
Bounty hunting has a long a useful history, which is why bounty hunters have special privileges that even police don’t enjoy. The right to enter private property without a warrant, for example. Notice that the Dog often doesn’t always excercise that right, and is usually respectful to the property owners, even though he doesn’t need to be.
Yes, he IS working for himself. You say that in a derogatory way, please explain yourself to all of us here a FR who also work for ourselves.
Also explain how he interferes with police work. All the information I’ve seen says the opposite.
All blacks were not being referred to here. My point is that if you find the word to be offensive, be offended when ANYONE uses it. Don't accept being referred to by that term by anyone
I know it’s hard to believe, but not all black people use racial slurs, or accept being called the n-word by anyone, white or black
It's not hard to believe at all. There is a ghetto sub-culture that uses the word with regularity. This sub-culture does NOT represent the larger black community.
You absolutely have the right to call me the n-word if you insist upon it,
My vocabulary is extensive enough that I don't need to refer to anyone with this term
but I too have the right to not associate with you as a result, or to use my own freedom of speech to condemn you to others. With rights comes the resposibility to accept the consequences of one’s actions or words.
I am in absolute agreement.
There, fixed it for you. Where is all your righteous indignation regarding Delaware U? Not surprisingly, not ONE poster on this thread who thinks Duane should pay for the rest of his life for uttering ONE WORD in private has had JACK to say on the "Delaware U - All whites are racist" threads. Nothing! You guys are still fuming cause you got your asses handed to you over the Duke LAX and Jena 6 deals where you came out and blamed whitey first.
I thought this was a free country.
I presume the point is that theoretically the likes of "Big" Al- a gangster- whoops sorry, er' Al Sharpton, should have chided Mr Rock. I wonder what Sharpton's take is on the use of that unfortunate word in comedy.? Certainly Mr Rock knows his audience and his timing is superb.
Again what sets the race baiters off and indeed the tail waggers (watch THAT word buddy),is a direct personal reference. Food for thought though for the knee jerk network censoring Dog,is this.
A Mr Imus bit the dust and he sued the pants of 'em. He collected. LOL
Not free from repurcussions, nor should it be. Merely or allegedly free from government interference.
Thanks for not answering my question with such a pithy statement. It does save time. Some people go on and on without answering the question. You did it in just one sentence.
I hope the kid loses his job. Even if the dad ranted about the girlfriend the son shouldn’t have taped the phone conversation nor sold it.
Dog has spent many years hunting down hard-core scum. Perhaps he notices some qualities in his son's girlfriend that would indicate she's not a good person for his son to marry.
And yes, perhaps years of noticing certain racial breakdowns of the kind of scum he needs to hunt down has made him prejudiced in that area
Private? Dog should have kept his racist thoughts to himself if he wanted them to remain private.
If you are having private conversations with yourself, that might be a sign of more profound problems.
The rule in my house has always been "What is said here stays here".
YMMV
The guy got angry and said something he shouldn’t have. In private. Nothing he’s done in his public life indicates that he hates people of different races. You act as if we should just take it as a given in the 21st century that our speech is going to be monitored, and should adjust our thoughts accordingly. That’s in the hopes we won’t slip up in a moment of anger and say something that’s anti-zeitgeist.
It’s chilling and it’s Orwellian.
Funny to me is the firing of a DC city controller for using the perfectly good word "niggardly" because he wasn't "sensitive" enough to avoid the use of a sound alike word. I suppose using the word niggard to describe someone would be enough to get one fired these days. Don't try to be cute!
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