Dog the Bounty Hunter gets pulled after racist incident

cornbb

Waahahahahaha. I'm glad. They guy is a turd.

BBC News wrote:

A bounty hunter has had his show pulled from US TV schedules after he used a racist term repeatedly in a phone call.

The A&E network said Dog the Bounty Hunter, starring Duane "Dog" Chapman, would be off-air "for the foreseeable future", but had not been scrapped.

The National Enquirer released a recording of a conversation involving the star, repeatedly making derogatory remarks about his son's girlfriend.

He issued an apology but several civil rights leaders want his show ditched.

They have written to A&E, branding his comments "a vicious attack on... interracial relations, as well as an incitement to violence".

Chapman's programme sees him and colleagues trying to find people who have absconded in Hawaii and other US states.

'Ashamed'

In the phone call, Chapman was heard talking to his son Tucker, urging him to break up with his black girlfriend.

He used the offensive "N-word" six times in the first 45 seconds of the five-minute clip, the Associated Press reported.

In his apology, Chapman said he was ashamed of himself and "should never have used that term".

And he added he was "disappointed" in his son's choice of girlfriend "not due to her race, but her character".

The 54-year-old's lawyer, Brook Hart, said Chapman was not a racist and promised the word would never be used again by the star.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7076653.stm

Sinfonia

Mark Fuhrman
Michael Richards
Randy Marsh
Dog the Bounty Hunter

mikemac

Double standards tbh

Most American rap artists use language like that, where's the outrage?

P_1

From what I've gathered he didn't use the dreaded N word in his show but rather in a private conversation he was having with his son.
This strikes me as more wthch hunting by the PC brigade.

JohnnyStones

The man's a murderer!!
What do people expect?

Hopefully his show will get canceled

Mr.Micro

I have occasionally watched Dog pursuing the bad and ugly . He has a chequered past personal life I believe . He is not much different from the people he pursues (bail jumpers etc), his constant moralising and his virtuosity does not ring true so is alleged racism is true to form .

cornbb

pithater1 wrote: »

This strikes me as more wthch hunting by the PC brigade.

Ah yes. The "PC brigade". Coined to somehow sound derogatory, it means "not racist". A first cousin of "bleeding heart". Copyright After Hours 2007.

Pj!

The man's a dickhead. Should never have got a tv show in the first place. Who watches that rubbish anyway?

Genghiz Cohen

"Hey! It's that N|gger-Guy"

*Term used only as a reference to a south park episode, no offense was intended, if however you have been offended, please go here, but if you are offended that easily then you shouldn't be on a public forum, or even be in public at any time, ever.

pickarooney

So who was wire-tapping/recording his phone calls without his knowledge? Or do we not care about such peripherary details?

Pj!

pickarooney wrote: »

So who was wire-tapping/recording his phone calls without his knowledge? Or do we not care about such peripherary details?

No

Ciaran500

His son sold the recording to a newspaper.

JohnnyStones

Ciaran500 wrote: »

His son sold the recording to a newspaper.

Which son he's got about 50

*i know the son he was talking to on the phone obviously*

What's in the cat is what's in the kitten;)

SCUM
:cool:

thefinalstage

Pfft! Its amazing how pissed off people can get over a simple word. It just means black, people!

Terry

thelastangryman wrote: »

Pfft! Its amazing how pissed off people can get over a simple word. It just means black, people!

It's a derogatory term used to denigrate people with dark skin.

Pigman II

I read the transcript of what Mr. Dog said and in whilst he doesn't come across as particularily racist he acknowledged that he used the word a lot and if it came out it would hurt his tv career. He seemed more worried about green than black.

Anyway you should expect this sort of stuff from a bounty hunter. They're the scum of the universe. The only one you can trust is Boba Fett.

Kali

Genghiz Cohen wrote: »

"Hey! It's that N|gger-Guy"

damn beaten to that one

TheMilkyPirate

Terry wrote: »

It's a derogatory term used to denigrate people with dark skin.

Yet alot of them use it themselves. Black people are some of the most racist people on earth in my opinion. And i'm not hatin', Personally i love black people.

Outer Bongolia

hasn't he suffered enough?

MooseJam

doesn't he sport a mullet, another terrible call

Terry

baraca wrote: »

Yet alot of them use it themselves. Black people are some of the most racist people on earth in my opinion. And i'm not hatin', Personally i love black people.

That's quite a generalisation there.

Yes, there are some black people who are racist (Chris Rock springs to mind, with regards to his underlying anti-white sentiments in his stand-up routine), but not all black people are racist.

I will also agree that many black people use the race card far too often, but you can't tar them all with the same brush.

With regards to black people and their use of the word "N***er", many of them feel they are liberating themselves by using it and sticking it to whitey.

However, the continued and ever growing use of the word "cracker" in reference to white people will lead to a backlash.
That's just my opinion though.

Outer Bongolia wrote: »

hasn't he suffered enough?

Hehe.

TheMilkyPirate

Terry wrote: »

That's quite a generalisation there.

Yes, there are some black people who are racist (Chris Rock springs to mind, with regards to his underlying anti-white sentiments in his stand-up routine), but not all black people are racist.

I will also agree that many black people use the race card far too often, but you can't tar them all with the same brush.

With regards to black people and their use of the word "N***er", many of them feel they are liberating themselves by using it and sticking it to whitey.

However, the continued and ever growing use of the word "cracker" in reference to white people will lead to a backlash.
That's just my opinion though.

I didn't mean for it to sound like all black people are racist if it did

Your point about the stand-up is mostly what i was getting at. Watch def comedy jam except imagine all the comedians are white and there white jokes are black jokes. Aint so funny now is it and that's what i find so stupid.

It's funny when a black man makes a racist comment about a white man (not in all cases) but turn it around and your instantly evil or a member of the KKK.

Cracker? Never heard that one must look it up

longshanks

baraca wrote: »

Yet alot of them use it themselves. Black people are some of the most racist people on earth in my opinion. And i'm not hatin', Personally i love black people.

yeah, every home should have one....

or

but i couldn't eat a whole one

JohnnyStones

baraca wrote: »

I didn't mean for it to sound like all black people are racist if it did

Your point about the stand-up is mostly what i was getting at. Watch def comedy jam except imagine all the comedians are white and there white jokes are black jokes. Aint so funny now is it and that's what i find so stupid.

It's funny when a black man makes a racist comment about a white man (not in all cases) but turn it around and your instantly evil or a member of the KKK.

Cracker? Never heard that one must look it up

You never heard a black person call a white person a 'crazy' cracker?

that's their new name for whites
We stole 'honky' back:)

lynnlegend

is it not racist to pick on people for being racist or what would the proper term be

longshanks

racistist

Terry

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=cracker

TheMilkyPirate

Yo! Wassup cracker?! break yoself cracker!

Nah, Doesn't have quite the same ring to it does it.

lynnlegend

longshanks wrote: »

racistist

but if every one is equal and every ones opion is equal then how come cracker isnt the c word like n/gger is the n word or are black people more equal and senseativethen every one else

SirLemonhead

Go with christ bra!

Sinfonia

lynnlegend wrote: »

but if every one is equal and every ones opion is equal then how come cracker isnt the c word like n/gger is the n word or are black people more equal and senseativethen every one else

Even after black people in the USA were liberated from being enslaved en masse, they were treated unequally for years. In the 20th century. It's called segregation, and it was in accordance with US law.
I think it's fair enough that they should be more sensitive.

eroo

MasterOfSolos wrote: »

Go with christ bra!

hush Beth!:D

JohnnyStones

eroo wrote: »

hush Beth!:D

Hehe Must look for a pic of her; stick it in the b00bz thread:)

Mike...

His site takes ages to Load...just read his wikipedia page, he has a load of kids "durty-doogg", he also derved time for murder and is wanted by the Mexician Police...Read the online petition,it's a good laugh

tallaght01

He parades his prisoners on TV, which I understand is in contravention of the Geneva Convention. But no-one gets worked up about that.

magick

i am the dwwwwwwwwwwwwwag the big bad dwwwwwwwwwwwwwag

Outer Bongolia

Yep!

Sam Vimes

MasterOfSolos wrote: »

Go with christ bra!

should have bear maced the girlfriend tbh

stratospheres

His wife is fat.

Trode

Might want to rethink that thread title guys.

cornbb

Trode wrote: »

Might want to rethink that thread title guys.

Gotta draw in the thread viewers, y'know.

lynnlegend

SumGuy wrote: »

Even after black people in the USA were liberated from being enslaved en masse, they were treated unequally for years. In the 20th century. It's called segregation, and it was in accordance with US law.
I think it's fair enough that they should be more sensitive.

so they can call us crackers but we cant call them any thing becaues it might hurt there feelings hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

Hypocrisy is the act of condemning another person for an act of which the critic is also guilty.

EdgarAllenPoo

I saw the South Park p!$$take of this and they saw an episode of it. Christ on a bike how do shows like that get made.

I'm surprised it took this long to get the boot, he must be a complete idiot to say stuff like that on camera.

cornbb

Here's a transcript of the tape, in case anyone wants to read it and judge for themselves:

Duane "Dog" Chapman: I don't care if she's a Mexican, a whore or whatever. It's not because she's black, it's because we use the word ni**er sometimes here. I'm not gonna take a chance ever in life of losing everything I've worked for for 30 years because some ****ing ni**er heard us say ni**er and turned us in to the Enquirer magazine. Our career is over! I'm not taking that chance at all! Never in life! Never! Never! If Lyssa [Dog's daughter] was dating a ni**er, we would all say '**** you!' And you know that. If Lyssa brought a black guy home ya da da... it's not that they're black, it's none of that. It's that we use the word ni**er. We don't mean you ****ing scum ni**er without a soul. We don't mean that ****. But America would think we mean that. And we're not taking a chance on losing everything we got over a racial slur because our son goes with a girl like that. I can't do that Tucker. You can't expect Gary, Bonnie, Cecily, all them young kids to [garbled] because 'I'm in love for 7 months' - **** that! So, I'll help you get another job but you can not work here unless you break up with her and she's out of your life. I can't handle that ****. I got 'em in the parking lot trying to record us. I got that girl saying she's gonna wear a recorder...

Tucker Chapman: I don't even know what to say.

EdgarAllenPoo

That's some mighty fine gibberish right there.

Ciaran500

o_O

WTF.

Terry

Terry wrote: »

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=cracker

http://youtube.com/watch?v=5x24w0dlO6k

Fighting Irish

cornbb wrote: »

Waahahahahaha. I'm glad. They guy is a turd.



http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7076653.stm

A turd thats rich, and he should be allowed to say what he wants

cornbb

Fighting Irish wrote: »

A turd thats rich, and he should be allowed to say what he wants

He is allowed to say exactly what he wants. Trouble is, he's too stupid to keep his mouth shut even though he knew it would get him in trouble, according to the transcript above. And what has being rich got to do with anything?

bacon?

i was on a date the other night. i told a crap joke, and she then told me 3 n*ger jokes, just out of the blue :eek:

weird situation.

MikeHoncho

This makes me sad. I love Dog. He is my brah. I think its one of the funniest things on Television. They take it all so seriously like they are army commandos but they usually just end up arresting the guy in his boxers over his bowl of cheerios when he's stoned of his face. Then there is always the obligatory Jesus talk. Funny stuff.

He shouldnt have done that though (hes just a boy).

Terry wrote: »

I will also agree that many black people use the race card far too often, but you can't tar them all with the same brush.

Have heard people of previous generations saying "touch of the tarbrush" in relation to mixed race people. Id say it wasnt implied here but its amazing how a comment like that could be viewed in the wrong context and could make someone seem racist.