dog the bounty hunter is done............
he said the N word, sharpton is on it his carrer is over
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5jFt-j4489gjzoSmH7Ap_Of-_xLLwD8SL0JTO0
TV Bounty Hunter Apologizes for Slur
By JAYMES SONG - 1 hour ago
HONOLULU (AP) - Television bounty hunter Duane "Dog" Chapman has apologized for repeatedly using a racial slur in a profanity-laced tirade during a private phone conversation with his son that was recorded and posted online.
Chapman, star of A&E's hit reality series "Dog the Bounty Hunter," issued a statement Wednesday apologizing for the comments after The National Enquirer posted a clip of the conversation in which he uses the N-word in reference to his son's girlfriend.
"We take this matter very seriously," A&E spokesman Michael Feeney said in a statement Thursday. "Pending an investigation, we have suspended production on the series. When the inquiry is concluded, we will take appropriate action."
The recording was first posted online by the Enquirer. It was unclear who recorded the conversation or how the tabloid obtained the 1 1/2-minute clip in which Chapman uses the N-word six times.
"There's no problem with how the tape was obtained and Dog has acknowledged its authenticity, and admitted to using the racist language," said David Perel, the Enquirer's editor-in-chief.
Perel declined to comment on how the tape was obtained. He said that doesn't matter because all that matters is what's on the tape.
In the conversation, Chapman urges his son, Tucker, to break up with his girlfriend. He also expresses concern about the girlfriend going public about the TV star's use of the N-word.
In the clip, Chapman also stated he doesn't care that his son's girlfriend is black.
In a statement, the 54-year-old Chapman said he has "utmost respect and aloha for black people who have suffered so much due to racial discrimination and acts of hatred.
"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," he said. "I am ashamed of myself and I pledge to do whatever I can to repair this damage I have caused."
Chapman said, "My sincerest, heartfelt apologies go out to every person I have offended for my regrettable use of very inappropriate language. I am deeply disappointed in myself for speaking out of anger to my son and using such a hateful term in a private phone conversation."
Chapman said the clip was completely taken out of context.
"I was disappointed in his choice of a friend, not due to her race, but her character," he said. "However, I should have never used that term."
Chapman said he is meeting with his spiritual adviser, Rev. Tim Storey, who is black, and hopes to meet with other black leaders, "so they can see who I really am and teach me the right thing to do to make things right, again."
"I know that all of my fans are deeply disappointed in me, as well, as I have tried to be a model for doing the right thing," he said. "I did not do the right thing this time, and hope you will forgive me."
Civil-rights activist Rev. Al Sharpton is among the leaders Chapman contacted. In a letter Thursday to the bounty hunter, Sharpton wrote that as a minister, he would be inclined to meet "despite the racist and grotesque things I heard you say."
Sharpton said he would be willing to meet while traveling to promote a Nov. 16 march in Washington against hate crimes and racial attacks, but would not rearrange his road trip to do so.
"Be assured that I will not sanitize the kind of hate language that leads to the hate action that has left so many people vulnerable in America today," Sharpton wrote.
Sharpton noted he hadn't called for action by A&E, but will not call against it, either.
Chapman's show was in its fifth season and is one of A&E's top-rated programs. The series follows Chapman and his tattooed crew as they track down bail jumpers in Hawaii and other states.
The Honolulu-based bounty hunter first grabbed headlines for apprehending serial rapist and Max Factor heir Andrew Luster in Mexico in 2003
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5jFt-j4489gjzoSmH7Ap_Of-_xLLwD8SL0JTO0
TV Bounty Hunter Apologizes for Slur
By JAYMES SONG - 1 hour ago
HONOLULU (AP) - Television bounty hunter Duane "Dog" Chapman has apologized for repeatedly using a racial slur in a profanity-laced tirade during a private phone conversation with his son that was recorded and posted online.
Chapman, star of A&E's hit reality series "Dog the Bounty Hunter," issued a statement Wednesday apologizing for the comments after The National Enquirer posted a clip of the conversation in which he uses the N-word in reference to his son's girlfriend.
"We take this matter very seriously," A&E spokesman Michael Feeney said in a statement Thursday. "Pending an investigation, we have suspended production on the series. When the inquiry is concluded, we will take appropriate action."
The recording was first posted online by the Enquirer. It was unclear who recorded the conversation or how the tabloid obtained the 1 1/2-minute clip in which Chapman uses the N-word six times.
"There's no problem with how the tape was obtained and Dog has acknowledged its authenticity, and admitted to using the racist language," said David Perel, the Enquirer's editor-in-chief.
Perel declined to comment on how the tape was obtained. He said that doesn't matter because all that matters is what's on the tape.
In the conversation, Chapman urges his son, Tucker, to break up with his girlfriend. He also expresses concern about the girlfriend going public about the TV star's use of the N-word.
In the clip, Chapman also stated he doesn't care that his son's girlfriend is black.
In a statement, the 54-year-old Chapman said he has "utmost respect and aloha for black people who have suffered so much due to racial discrimination and acts of hatred.
"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," he said. "I am ashamed of myself and I pledge to do whatever I can to repair this damage I have caused."
Chapman said, "My sincerest, heartfelt apologies go out to every person I have offended for my regrettable use of very inappropriate language. I am deeply disappointed in myself for speaking out of anger to my son and using such a hateful term in a private phone conversation."
Chapman said the clip was completely taken out of context.
"I was disappointed in his choice of a friend, not due to her race, but her character," he said. "However, I should have never used that term."
Chapman said he is meeting with his spiritual adviser, Rev. Tim Storey, who is black, and hopes to meet with other black leaders, "so they can see who I really am and teach me the right thing to do to make things right, again."
"I know that all of my fans are deeply disappointed in me, as well, as I have tried to be a model for doing the right thing," he said. "I did not do the right thing this time, and hope you will forgive me."
Civil-rights activist Rev. Al Sharpton is among the leaders Chapman contacted. In a letter Thursday to the bounty hunter, Sharpton wrote that as a minister, he would be inclined to meet "despite the racist and grotesque things I heard you say."
Sharpton said he would be willing to meet while traveling to promote a Nov. 16 march in Washington against hate crimes and racial attacks, but would not rearrange his road trip to do so.
"Be assured that I will not sanitize the kind of hate language that leads to the hate action that has left so many people vulnerable in America today," Sharpton wrote.
Sharpton noted he hadn't called for action by A&E, but will not call against it, either.
Chapman's show was in its fifth season and is one of A&E's top-rated programs. The series follows Chapman and his tattooed crew as they track down bail jumpers in Hawaii and other states.
The Honolulu-based bounty hunter first grabbed headlines for apprehending serial rapist and Max Factor heir Andrew Luster in Mexico in 2003
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Why do they always meet with "spiritual advisors", after a screw up?
Be a man,.....admit you said it, and if you ARE upset about your son being involved with a person of another race, say so, and stand by it.
These types are spineless wimps.
How the heck did that white trash family ever get on TV anyway?
I don't watch garbage like that, so I know very little about it.[xx(]0 -
I can't stand him anyway - his show sucks ass - good ridance! 0 -
Isn't he a convicted murderer? 0 -
Wow, I have really disliked ths guy.
Then I felt he was sold out by our .gov over the flap with Mexico and that POS Andrew Luster.
Now he's been sold out by his own son, because he doesn't approve of an inter-racial relationship (a parent's prerogative IMO) and said so, and said why.
Now this guy DARED (gasp) to use a word that blacks use to describe themselves ON TV, IN MOVIES, and ON NEARLY EVERY POS "music" CD that is popular among "dey peeps"?
The worst thing he could've done is call Al.
Screw Al.
What he shoud've said was "That is a private conversation and was not meant to be made public. Someone wiser than I said. 'Those without sin cast the first stone.' "
Black folks...want to not be offended by the dreaded "N word"?
Quit using it and quit allowing your comedians, movie stars, "musicians" and athletes use it.
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You can hear the audio on this site....
Heard it this morning...
http://mj.933flz.com/pages/mainfeed.html?feed=204719&article=28659300 -
He's just trailer trash anyway.
Hope he vanishes forever.
Doug0 -
A private phone conversation between him and his son somehow makes it to the Enquirer and then big news...
Cant help but wonder how and why..0 -
everyone makes mistakes. How many people have had private conversations that they would not want publicized? I could care less that he said the "N" word...it is becoming as normal as someone saying a-hole or something similar. I'm so tired of the black/white PC BS!!! 0 -
Thank You GOD
his wife's ta ta's gross me out. [xx(]0 -
Yep - don't care a wit. 0 -
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I am not a fan, but he did go to Mexico, at great risk to life and limb, before he had a TV show, to capture a serial rapist and murderer who had bragged "I'll never be extradited from here. I can do whatever I want."
I think he's a tool, but that took balls.
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quote:Leave it to the Democrates and minorities to strip you of your Freedom of Speech so they can have it!
I have never used the "N" word to refer to a black person, but this double standard crap isn't going to cut it! Fine then, the next time I hear a Colored person call me a "Honky" or a "Cracker" I think I'm just going to go whine to the Media. Oh, I forgot, that won't work cause they are all a bunch of Liberals anyway. Fine then, I'll just give'em two to the head! And what would that change, NOTHING!! I remember back in elementary school this little say, "Stick and stones will break my bones, but words will never hurt me!" It is true! Gees people, get over it! I still have never heard of anyone dying from "Excesive Name Calling" Frickin' crybabies! Yes I know that it is not polite, but there are a lot worse things that people could be doing. So no one will get their panties in a wad, the whole two to the head was JUST sarcasim, to highlight how people get carried away!
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quote:Originally posted by BlackRoses
You can hear the audio on this site....
Heard it this morning...
http://mj.933flz.com/pages/mainfeed.html?feed=204719&article=2865930
Thanks BR, i was hopeing someone would post that link.
IMO, a private call is just that."PRIVATE". I don't condone it, but to each his own. Evidently freedom of speech is dead. Thanks again for the link...
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"so they can see who I really am...."
Looks like he's already taken care of that little problem.
Who on earth is slow enough not to know that anything we say or do, might be seen or recorded?
Shucks, when I was about 12 years old, my brother, a friend and I filled our Scout Master's mailbox full of high quality, fresh roadside mud....after having looked around real good to insure no one saw us.
By the time we got home Dad knew all about it, and had a stoutish hickory switch ready. That's a lesson I've always remembered. (Another one was when we shot up the farm fuel tank with our new .22 single shot rifle....didn't make the tank leak, but Dad was pretty mad. Turned out it was rented from the fuel supplier.)
Sahagan0 -
I heard somewhere, "He who exalts himself will be humbled, but the humble shall be exalted". 0 -
quote:Why do they always meet with "spiritual advisors", after a screw up?
Be a man,.....admit you said it, and if you ARE upset about your son being involved with a person of another race, say so, and stand by it.
The Dog is a supposedly "born again" christian after spending time for a bad crime. He prays before every bust and then uses the foulest language a person could use on some of the people busts..
Here is his history, sounds like a real nice guy..
? Raised in Denver, Chapman is the oldest of four children of Wesley and Barbara Chapman. He dropped out of school in the ninth grade.
? Arrested 18 times for armed robbery, Chapman was sentenced to five years in prison for murder in 1977. He maintains it was his companion who was the killer, but under Texas law he was also convicted of murder. He served two years and was paroled in 1979.0 -
I was glad to see Dog go to Mexico and catch this Luster creep.
Then, his show came on tv. I watched about five minutes of it, he was just another piece of white trash to me. Changed the channel.
Turned it on again a few years later, the guy looked grotesque. Had grown his hair real long, had beads and big feathers braided into his hair.
He and his white trash wife and inbred-looking sons jump around acting like some real bad asses. I am not impressed, I could kick any of 'ems ass.
Somebody must be impressed with this crap, because evidently the show gets good ratings.
As for this debacle, lots of people use the N-word. Who cares, besides discredited race pimps like Sharpton.
The guy didn't want his son marrying a black person, I don't blame him. It is certainly his perogative as a father.
What a tempest in a teapot.
But, his career on A&E is toast, 1911a1 you are right.0 -
What's an "n word"? Ninja? 0 -
NO! 0 -
I won't voice my opinion of Sharpton. I won't voice my opinion of Dog either. I will only say this: Dog barely attracts my attention. But when Sharpton gets what he really and truly deserves, I'll celebrate for a full month minimum.. 0 -
Where is the party gonna be??[:p] 0 -
quote:Originally posted by Classic095
quote:Why do they always meet with "spiritual advisors", after a screw up?
Be a man,.....admit you said it, and if you ARE upset about your son being involved with a person of another race, say so, and stand by it.
The Dog is a supposedly "born again" christian after spending time for a bad crime. He prays before every bust and then uses the foulest language a person could use on some of the people busts..
Here is his history, sounds like a real nice guy..
? Raised in Denver, Chapman is the oldest of four children of Wesley and Barbara Chapman. He dropped out of school in the ninth grade.
? Arrested 18 times for armed robbery, Chapman was sentenced to five years in prison for murder in 1977. He maintains it was his companion who was the killer, but under Texas law he was also convicted of murder. He served two years and was paroled in 1979.
I agree with you Classic 100%. As a Christian, I am not perfect, not even close, but the dogs language and behavior was not consistent with that of someone truly following Jesus Christ. I still slip up sometimes and use words I shouldn't, but to claim the name of Jesus on national TV in front of millions of people, and in the same breath use filthy language,constantly, in my opinion, made a mockery of Christianity. Saying this, God is willing to forgive anyone who is willing to submit their life to Him, whether they be a armed robber, or murderer, or whatever.0 -
Being a white man over 40 in this country is a hanging offense. No free speach for us. 0 -
Quite possibly this is exactly what the Dog needs. The privilege of free speech in America is reserved primarily for liberals. 0 -
quote:Originally posted by BlackRoses
A private phone conversation between him and his son somehow makes it to the Enquirer and then big news...
Cant help but wonder how and why..
Isn't wiretapping still illegal in this country? [:0][:0]
rider0 -
Where is the party gonna be??
Classic, how about someplace in Georgia? About half way between you and me. I think I can out argue you about other things iffn we gits drunk enuff...0 -
my thoughts are, his wife is the dog, nothing worse than a loud mouthed woman who spews lies, her threats to people kill me, she has zero authority to anyone but the person on the bond
i was a bond agent, and bounty hunter i know the rules of the game very well, while he mostly does stay within the guide lines his methods are questionable, they are very unnecessary, over dramatized, not to mention dangerous, and give the thousands of other bounty hunters who make arrest everyday a bad name, his arrest of luster, while deserving and appearing noble was not only illegal but a violation of ethics, him apologizing to sharpton will be his down fall, he should have stood up like a man0 -
I've read that one of the basic axioms of science is that when something is studied, the very act of studying it causes it to act in a manner outside it's usual behaviour. So, the study always possesses some error....unless of course, you're studying a rock.
So in that vein, it's my firm conviction that anytime a television camera is put in front of a person, that person becomes someone else.
And that someone else is always false. Either bigger (braggadocio) or smaller (false modesty...both braggadocio and false modesty are lies) than real life, saying things to ingratiate rather than to inform....
It's a real funny world, ain't it?
Sahagan0 -
Good.
Now maybe A&E can find something worth watching to fill the space that stupid show took up.
Sorry, But I have no use for the type of horse sheit "Dog The Bounty Hunter" portrays. Talking all about how God has been so good to him, then saying a prayer just to fill the next 20 minutes of the show cursing like all get out.0
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