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.
I do not endorse calling anyone a racist name for any reason. White, Black, Asian or other.
So as long as the one doing the taping knows their taping....?????? then it all good?
I believe so.
Ha ha. :^)
” It is totally disrespectful.”
Not at all, just plain honest!!!!!
Neither he nor I grew up in this PC world of today and I still don’t buy one ounce of todays PC gsrbage.
“Oh, that’s right. No one is talking about putting him in jail, are they? You just can’t appear on a liberal network like A&E if you are caught using racial slurs.”
LOL, I have been wondering if you worked for A&E, It seems to upset you as bad as it did them.
We all have our blind spots and also hate to give up what’s familiar to us, our bad habits. Every time I see him praying in his circle with his family and then see him cursing so badly, it makes me want to cry. He’s offending GOD when he does that. Well, maybe this will humiliate him enough to humble him and he’ll repent of his actions. Some things have to be revealed and repented of in order to put us on the right path. I will pray for him.
Thanks for your thoughts. I appreciate it.
I am a redundancy police cop and you're under arrest!
Ok. Well let’s see, it is a private conversation so that is the first layer of why it is perfectly fine for him to say anything he please.
Even if it were not he simply used words, not threats, perhaps offensive to some, but many words in the English language probably offend a lot of people.
Then there is the fact that if any of the dolts in the media actually read the except they would realize that he was talking about how they all use the word nigger on a regular basis. Why that is who knows. The he is going on defending his right to say nigger because he does not mean it as a racial epithet per se.
Then there is also the fact that this is an excerpt that has not been placed in context at all.
He also is clearly saying that she is a nigger because of character issues not because of her race.
WHAT EXACTLY IS THE PROBLEM?
If a black entertainer was caught using the word cracker would this happen? Oh right they use it all the time in all aspects of life and media.
IDIOCY TO THE EXTREME.
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