DOG off TV

Surprised?

Published on November 3, 2007 By Dan Greene In Current Events

I guess November is lets be a racist month and release it to the public. You would think that celebrities and people who have or do have the cameras in their face all the time, you know from being celebrities that they would know the words not to say ever.

Like the N word, in this instance, in a personal conversation with Dog's son where he says he doesn't want his son's girlfriend around because his family and he use the N word, where is just slips out. Right.

The link at the end of the article is to the page with a recording with numerous use of the N word. After the Michael Richards debacle, which happened last year, in November, you would think it ironic, based on the substance of Dog's conversation, about not wanting to trade everything he has worked for over the course of 30 + years for being labeled a racist, and that he basically perjures himself to us now, by his very choice of words.

I thought Dog was entertaining TV, but that's it. You have to know as an entertainer you golden rule to success is not to offend your audience with racial slurs. You don't see too many successful doctors prescribing arsenic. Unfortunately for Dog this wasn't even a public event, or a slip of the tongue in the line of his duty. It was a supposed personal conversation with a family member.

I am a bit surprised, with his understanding that you can't trust anybody, you know from family members turning in other family members, and from the impact these kinds of statements, whatever the context, have had for the people who use them, that Dog didn't just choose to substitute the "N word" for his use of the racial slurs.

So what does Dog say now that he got caught and the world knows...

"I have the utmost respect and aloha for black people who have suffered so much due to racial discrimination and acts of hatred," the elder Chapman said.
"I did not mean to add yet another slap in the face to an entire race of people who have brought so many gifts to this world. I am ashamed of myself and I pledge to do whatever I can to repair this damage I have caused."

Even for a network's, A & E, numero uno rated program, nobody, even a down and dirty kinda guy like Dog, survives this kinda thing.

By the way Dog's really adopted name is Duane Chapman. Listen to his phone call here...
http://www.nationalenquirer.com/dog_bounty_hunter_racial_slur_tape/celebrity/64325

Comments (Page 1)

Gideon MacLeish

on Nov 04, 2007

Yes, we have entered a truly Orwellian world when our private conversations are routinely turned against us in public.

I just wonder how many of the stone throwers need a little Windex for the walls of their houses.

I'm not particularly a fan of Dog's, and I find his comments disgusting, although in no way out of character from what we've seen on the show, but I find the comments of those cheering his fall as some kind of civil rights victory even more appalling. I think people who make a life out of cheering the failings of others might do well to watch their step lest they hit a piece of ice on their own.

danielost

on Nov 04, 2007

we do have something called freedom of speech. it was a private conversation. so i think as you do we are blowing this way out past pluto.

Dan Greene

on Nov 04, 2007

Private conversations shouldn't cost you your career. They should be off limits to the public. What I find is scary is that this wasn't some public display, this was an angry man battling with his son over a disagreement.

I guess the fact that Dog was using racial slurs wasn't even central to the conversation. He did lose his temper but he didn't go off on a racist rant in public and offend people knowingly and willingly.

I think what his son did to him, if true is really more disgusting than the racial slurs. Sure Dog shouldn't have said what he said but you keep your dirty laundry in the family, you don't sell it to the media for them to tear your father to pieces.

Ridiculous.

dynamaso

on Nov 04, 2007

This made news here in Australia (although I have no idea why). But my thoughts are also that a private conversation, between a father and his son, should in NO WAY cost a man his career. How fracking ridiculous indeed.

Zoologist03

on Nov 04, 2007

But my thoughts are also that a private conversation, between a father and his son, should in NO WAY cost a man his career.

You see when you offend people in America you're transported into this stupid world where people think you're guilty of something. I thought we could say whatever we wanted, whenever we wanted even if it is bigoted, hateful, or just plain stupid. You know, that whole freedom of speech thing. The only thing that should limit what you say is yourself- your intelligence and your taste.

Then again, maybe I'm the crazy one.

~Zoo

dynamaso

on Nov 05, 2007

You know, that whole freedom of speech thing. The only thing that should limit what you say is yourself- your intelligence and your taste

I agree. Like being a parent, running off at the mouth doesn't require a license. And Dog, of all people, really knew how to run off at the mouth. I firmly believe his son is the one squarely in the wrong, not Dog. Oh yeah, sure, his use of the dreaded 'N' word might not be acceptable but for frack's sake, it was a private conversation. I bet you he won't be talking to his son for a long time to come. Of course, the newspaper in question won't blame themselves for running the article. Scumbags...

Having said this, Australian press is no different in this regard though. They have vilified Aussie sports stars because someone has forwarded the press copies of private text messages.

maybe I'm the crazy one

Nah, I don't believe it...

danielost

on Nov 05, 2007

sorry guys you can say what you want as long as you do not purposely try to cause a riot or inflame people.

Trudygolightly

on Nov 05, 2007

I think people who make a life out of cheering the failings of others might do well to watch their step lest they hit a piece of ice on their own.

Excellent adice, and also I have to wonder what kind of person would relish the failings of others versus offering a hand up or an understanding attitude?

Dan Greene

on Nov 05, 2007

I don't think anybody is defending Dog's comments as right. But sure he's got the right to say them. What about the right to have the conversations you have with your children, confidential. I find it ironic that is was a family member who sold him out, and ironic that he was sold out in exactly the same way in which he was trying to prevent based on the substance of the conversation.

I don't expect this guy to win a Nobel peace prize but I don't think he's a total dumb ass either.

Dog if you are reading, you've done the right thing apologizing, but seriously, you are just the same as everybody else who comes and goes in our society for making racist comments. Maybe it wasn't a fair shake, but hey life isn't fair. The lesson to be learned is there is no place where it is right to use the N word. It will only bring you trouble.

"Mark this day on your calander, Dan, I agree."

Yea it's also a day where I find your description of Dog of something similar to Vick, "nothing more than a white ex con thug" or some such, conspicuously absent though nobody would be describing this guy in much different terms, than Michael Vick. Certainly Dog ain't high class akin Michael Richards. Not feeling the need today to point out the color of the skin on his body, and slam him for being a thug or from the inner city?

Gideon MacLeish

on Nov 05, 2007

Not feeling the need today to point out the color of the skin on his body, and slam him for being a thug or from the inner city?

Actually, he's from the Texas Panhandle, but who's counting?

I find it curious, Dan, that you find holding racist thoughts privately and brutally murdering and torturing animals to be morally equivalent.

Dog's comments were meant to be part of a private conversation. They weren't said at a heckler at a public performance. They weren't said in the context of an interview or a radio show. Dog's comments, however heinous people may find them, were private until his son made them public (for money, no less!)

kingbee

on Nov 05, 2007

Private conversations shouldn't cost you your career.

what exactly is dawg's career?

he's a fuckin bounty hunter/bail bondsman. any kinda publicity works to his advantage.

anyone who finds this at all surprising must not have been paying very much attention to the show. he and his wife throw around dat 'bra' and 'auntie' stuff all de damn day bra, patronizing whomever they presume to be islanders while referring to their fellow caucasions as 'haoles'. (yeah, i know they both claim to have native american blood as do so many other blue-eyed blondes when it works in their favor.)

considering a typical episode consists of them 'cleaning up the streets' by returning to custody the very same people whose release therefrom they previously collected a fee to engineer AND they subject em all to cloying sermons on the way back to the slam (inevitably reducing dawg hissself to tears), why shouldn't duane be required to do a lil penitential time hisself? can't think of anything more appropriate than for him to have to ride around oahu about 10 times in the middle seat of an suv cuffed & stuffed betwee jesse and al sharpton.

Gideon MacLeish

on Nov 05, 2007

can't think of anything more appropriate than for him to have to ride around oahu about 10 times in the middle seat of an suv cuffed & stuffed betwee jesse and al sharpton.

kingbee,

You may ask, what exactly is dog's career, but I ask what law did he actually break in using the "N" word? Yes, it's offensive, but if free speech doesn't include the right to say something offensive, it's not really free speech now, is it?

I could care less what happens to Dog's show. Yes, I enjoyed it on the rare occasions I got to watch it, but it's just another TV show, really. I am just surprised at Dan's equation of Dog's comments to Mike Vick's actions. All his comments prove, to me is, he's exactly what you see on TV, only uncensored, in real life.

kingbee

on Nov 05, 2007

what law did he actually break in using the "N" word?

he broke no law of which i'm aware in this instance. nor are a&e, the show's producer or both legally required (except according to specfic contract terms if they exist) to continue taping/broadcasting his show if dawg does or says something potentially embarrassing to them or insulting to their audience.

my guess is this: any of dawg's dozens of kids who sell him out to tabloids prollyy got the idea (if not all the necessary contact info) from dawggy daddy and beth.

shoulda took a lesson from britney, lindsay and paris. don't wanna risk compromisomg your reputation or damaging your career by showing the world your vulva? wear panties.

danielost

on Nov 05, 2007

patronizing whomever they presume to be islanders while referring to their fellow caucasions as 'haoles'. (yeah, i know they both claim to have native american blood as do so many other blue-eyed blondes when it works in their favor.)

what about those blue eyed full blooded Indians in north Carolina, and Montana. not many but a few.

what are you going to call them. then there was the full blooded Indian who went to job core with me. she made me look red and that was before i got my permanent tan.

Tova7

on Nov 05, 2007

I listened to the whole thing. It seems more about Dog controlling his son than about his being racist. But, it sounds from that one tape like Dog is a racist to me.

So?

Doesn't he have the right to be? Is it a requirement now we must hate everyone equal?

Dog's son is a dirtbag for selling the tape. I don't think a bounty hunter should lose his job because he says negative things. I worked with cops and they deal with certain races of people more than others, and its hard not to get negative about them when they see the worst of it every day.

This whole thing makes me sick.

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