Duane "Dog" Chapman's tape-recorded tirade has cost him his TV show.

[Bluebear]

"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." ...

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.

http://www.bizjournals.com/pacific/stories/2007/10/29/daily47.html?jst=b_ln_hl

[Lone_Star_Dem]

1. I knew that losing the sponsors would do it!

I posted something about it earlier today when I heard that Yum Brands had dumped him.

They would over look the bigoted tirade if he was still found to be marketable, but when the money started to be pulled it was over for him.

He's dead to A&E now.

[alittlelark]

2. What is frightening is that ppl acually watched that drivel

I saw the show 1 - 1 1/2 times It was beyond lame.

The crap that passes for 'entertainment' today amazes me.

[Az]

32. In a world where 24 hour news channels broadcast only the most sensational things

people feel inundated by crime and fear. In such a society a dominant theme becomes a desire to see crime punished. Take a look around at all the shows on the air dedicated to punishing or catching criminals. Its either crime based shows or reality shows at times. Thats what passes for entertainment in America these days.

[WindRavenX]

3. Fuck him and I hope he never gets airtime again.

Even before this tirade,his show was a mockery of justice and he was an all around scum.

[MilesColtrane]

4. So, can we say that Dog has screwed the pooch? n/t

[Beerboy]

13. I believe you've summed it up quite well. n/t.

[IndianaJones]

5. why everyone comin' down on the Dog. nt.

[Occulus]

6. HIS SON sold it to the Enquirer.

If anyone would know why his father deserved to be publicly slammed like this, it would be one of his children.

That one of his children felt it necessary shows how truly bad this guy's behavior has been, now and in the past. I think we can also assume his son's fkeelings toward his father, and again, his son is someone who would know better than any of us.

I think that might be why, but that's just me.

edit: And if his son taped the conversation in which the racist asshole used a slur in relation to his son's girlfriend, doesn't that mean that his son expected just such a slur to be used in the conversation, that he had the foresight to record it?

[IndianaJones]

8. Apparently he was just angry about his sons girlfriend. nt.

[magellan]

9. From what I gathered of the conversation

...he was angry because he wanted to be able to continue to use the 'n' word around the house, and was worried his son's girlfriend wouldn't take it well so she was uninvited. He had the logic right, he was just too full of himself to understand that he was the one who needed to adjust his attitude.

[Beerboy]

20. I don't care who you are,

:rofl:

[Beelzebud]

24. Because he's a racist fucking pig, thats why.

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[Th1onein]

10. I think this is absolutely wrong.

I don't like the guy. I think his show is stupid. But he has the right to say what he wants to say in private. I think this is totally wrong.

[IndianaJones]

15. You think what is wrong..the attention or losing his show? nt.

[Th1onein]

52. I think that when you say something in a PRIVATE phone call

to someone whom you can reasonably believe will not publicize the content of that PRIVATE conversation, it should be kept private. This was obviously a family matter and should have stayed there. Shame on his son for publicizing it, and shame on the network for cancelling his show.

Flame away.

[MichaelHarris]

23. are you saying

he can be a racist hate monger and still sell Slim Jim's and Taco Bell to the children via his TV show? Talk about rewarding bad behavior.

[marmar]

40. And sponsors have the right to pull their ads from a show featuring a racist asshole....

n'est pas?

[Bluebear]

41. Yes, he absolutely has that right. And the network has the right to fire him.

[jeffrey_X]

50. tell that to all of the African Americans who work on his show or work at A&E

eom

[Islander Expat]

11. His Son probably just saved his fucking life

Because sooner or later some bad ass was going to shoot that clown.

[MichaelHarris]

12. I just listened to the tape

and you can almost hear the born again Christian-ness in his voice.

[Beerboy]

16. I heard a sound-bite, and there was nothin 'bout Jesus

through all the beeped-out N words.
I'm not saying you didn't hear what you heard, but I heard it differently. I didn't hear Baby Jesus!:-(

[MichaelHarris]

22. I was messing around

I saw an interview with him a few years back and he was telling everyone that he became a born again Christian.

[Cha]

48. I'm not going to hear the tape but

I got what you wrote..dog is a born again Asshole wrapped up as a Christian..The Real Christians must wanna denounce these devil worshippers.

[misanthrope]

14. NEWSFLASH: Dog the Bounty Hunter is a supreme redneck...

...NO! Say it ain't so! Next thing you'll tell me is "the Earth has one moon."

[Beerboy]

18. Are you funnin?

Aw shucks!:D

[Disturbed]

19. Boo hoo. He lost a TV Show.

He was doing alright before that show. He has a lucrative biz. He & his family won't starve.

[lurky]

17. Ha Ha!

[LTR]

21. I don't have a problem with Dog saying that stuff in private

Private conversations are just that. Though an instant celeb like him should be careful about what he says, even in private conversation.

However, in some cases, this kind of talk does become an issue. In the particular case below, it is a BIG FREAKIN' PROBLEM! And much bigger than Dog:

When Ohio officials shortchanged some African-American precincts of voting machines during the 2004 election, lines grew long and tempers short. But one person untroubled by events was John Tanner, the head of the voting branch in the Justice Department's civil rights division. He even wrote a letter to the Ohio officials defending the decision to send machines disproportionally to white precincts.

When, the following year, the Georgia Legislature passed a stringent voter ID law that would have effectively disenfranchised many poor people lacking driver's licenses, many lawyers in Tanner's office saw it as an effort to suppress minority voting. But not Tanner. He quickly decided not to challenge the law.

Despite these questionable actions, Tanner largely escaped notice until a recent conference in Los Angeles, where he opined that voter ID laws might disenfranchise elderly voters but not minorities, because they "don't become elderly the way white people do. They die first."

http://blogs.usatoday.com/oped/

[KT2000]

25. The reality of reality TV!

This is hilarious. He developed a tv personna, or rather schtick - born again Christian, compassionate with the criminals.

Now A&E is faced with his real person being smeared all over the media. Not only that - the guy's son is the one who busted him!!
A&E sure didn't plan on something like this sprouting from one of their reality shows.

With all the phony reality shows on tv now, this could get pretty entertaining. Family and estranged partners of all sorts using media to blow the cover of the reality stars.


:popcorn:

[soothsayer]

26. how's he going to support all them kids?

[pinniped]

27. Are they gonna charge the wannabe NSA spy with illegally recording a phone call?

?

[Lone_Star_Dem]

28. Hawaii is a one-party consent state.

No laws were broken.

[ima_sinnic]

29. where's that defender of "1st amendment rights" who wasn't happy w Phelps

lawsuit?

I actually used to like Dog, in a golly-gee aw shucks kind of way--he was doing a public service and was good at it, tracking down scumbags who jump bail and live in the community feeling free to be lawbreakers and unconscienable swine who cost people money b/c they're too irresponsible to face the music for their own crimes. Not to mention that they might also feel free to continue doing whatever it was they were busted for in the first place, whether dealing crack or stolen weapons or whatever. He was actually kind and compassionate to the people he brought in, looking out for their kids and trying to help them in other ways. His xtianity and uber-macho 80s throwback mulleted appearance were both kind of a joke, along with that picture of * in his office, but I thought he was an interesting character.

Having been married to a black person, though, I found his attitude about his son's girlfriend outrageous and disgusting. I was always happy that my family (lily white) always went way beyond race, it was never an issue or even noticed, even at extended family reunions. Must agree with poster somewhere above who says his son was wise to his shit and wanted him exposed.

[baseballhead]

30. I really think

what he said was awful but I think the kid selling it to the National Enquirer was worse.

[Maraya1969]

33. He was basically calling his son's girlfriend a n**. If I was his son I would

be disgusted with him and want to sell him out for hurting the person I loved too. He didn't just say those things in a vacuum. He said them in response to a person who was or will be a member of the family.

I think he deserves everything he got.

[Solon]

35. If I were his son, they would never find his body. n/t

[coffee_strong]

31. Give it 6months

He'll make a new comeback just like Imus did. His new show will be something like' "guess who's not coming to dinner"

[BleedingHeartPatriot]

34. His son sold the tapes to the NE, huh? As I lament the dysfunction in my family, something

often comes along that makes us look like The Brady Bunch.

MKJ

[NNN0LHI]

36. Well now Imus has a new sidekick for his new radio show

Like two peas in a pod.

Don

[coffee_strong]

37. For him to be so worried

he must have REALLY used that word ALOT!

[NeedleCast]

38. I wonder how many of us

Would find ourselves under the microscope of public scorn if someone made a tape or video recording of us at our worst? I'm not condoning the language he used but I bet if I asked for an honest show of hands about who here hasn't said something stupid or hurtful or even hateful in a moment of anger I'd be looking at a room of people with it's hands down.

Don't be too quick to throw bricks on this one. Let he who is without sin and all that...

Just sayin'

[Bluebear]

42. The "n-word" as they say, has never crossed my lips. Ever.

For him to be so concerned about the girlfriend hearing the word around the office, he must of used that word a great deal!

[Twenty3]

47. True, but...

What you say is true, but I didn't hear a moment of anger in the recording, and that didn't sounds like what he was describing, either.

He was telling his son to ditch the girlfriend, because they "use that word" around there and he's not willing to lose everything because "some f*ing n* heard us say n*"

Apparently, "Hey, I know! Let's stop using that word!" was not an option.

[NoPasaran]

39. Crap! More Sopranos reruns on A&E I suppose

[judaspriestess]

43. awww, we don't get to be graced by the presence of the

blond version of the missing link?? I'm devastated

[blues90]

44. I can't believe people actually watch this crap

I saw a few minutes of this freak on night when my wife fell asleep and the VCR tape she was watching ended and this show suddenly popped on the screen . all I needed was to see him and I guess his wife and shut it off .

I say glad it's gone but i just know someone will come up with some similar crap to take it's place .

I hate TV , I've hated it since the late 50's other than some movies on cable or a few other series .

No worries about a writers strike when it comes to most of this crap is there ?

[MaxPlancker]

45. Seems there are several issues here

#1. I never knew he was racist.

#2. From the few times I had seen his show there were no indications he felt that way.

#3. This only came to light via a private phone call that should be no one else's business.

#4. The call was sold to the Inquirer by his son. This is wrong on many levels. Dishonest, sleazy, greedy, and underhanded among other things.

#5. If not for that call there would be no issue.

#6. How do I not respect his privacy yet expect that mine will be respected?

#7. How chilling would it be for discourse if there were no private conversations?

To me this is less about what he said but that what he said in private was made public. To be clear I absolutely do not condone what he said, but no one should have to censure private speech.

[Bluebear]

46. He has every right to free speech, but the advertisers have every right to pull out of sponsorship.

>#5. If not for that call there would be no issue.<

But there it is.

[DS1]

49. So A&E Michael Vick'd the Dog?

:yoiks:

[lateo]

51. Good riddance to bad rubbish.

Anyone who watched that hyper mullet laden drivel is a human turd.

[treestar]

53. Puts some holes in some of the corporatism theories

These big corporations did the right thing.