Posted on 11/02/2007 10:27:18 AM PDT by EveningStar
...It would seem that Political Correctness gone mad has bestowed upon one Alfred Sharpton Jr. more power over media careers than even the FCC...
I’m by no means defending the despicable language of the aptly nicknamed Mr. Chapman. However, on balance, his alleged transgressions are but words, no more, no less...
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Notice he DIDN’T call her a “N”, he just said that since they used the word he didn’t want to subject her to having to hear it from them.
Al, just how can one be more sensitive?
How would you like to be at THAT Thanksgiving dinner...the kid taping the old man then getting him fired.....
I guess once Al ‘’forgives’’ Dog all will be well....
WHERE DID THEY PARK THE KOOL AID TRUCK?
“And now apparently people want to make Dog out to be a poor Victim.”
OK, if he’s not the victim, who is? The girlfriend who NOTHING bad happened to? His carreer is over because he trusted someone.
She’s the victim because he used a bad word to describer her? Man, get real.
Lawyer: Chapman’s Son Sold N-Word Tape
By JAYMES SONG – 17 hours ago
HONOLULU (AP) — Television bounty hunter Duane “Dog” Chapman’s private phone conversation, in which he used the N-word repeatedly, was taped and sold to The National Enquirer by his son, Chapman’s lawyer said Thursday.
Attorney Brook Hart told The Associated Press that Chapman’s son, Tucker, sent the recording to the tabloid for “a lot of money.”
“I guess because of whatever level of anger he had of his father, he felt the need to express it in that manner,” Hart said.
Tucker Chapman could not immediately be reached for comment. No one answered the telephone at a Honolulu number listed under his name.
Chapman, star of A&E’s hit reality series “Dog the Bounty Hunter,” apologized Wednesday, shortly after the Enquirer posted on its Web site a 5-minute clip of the conversation in which he uses the N-word in reference to Tucker’s girlfriend.
Chapman used the slur six times in the first 45 seconds of the clip, which has damaged his reputation and jeopardized his career as a TV bounty hunter.
A&E has suspended production of the series, saying the network takes the matter very seriously.
“When the inquiry is concluded, we will take appropriate action,” A&E spokesman Michael Feeney said in a statement Thursday.
The show, in its fifth season and one of A&E’s top-rated programs, has not been canceled.
A telephone message left after hours for David Perel, the Enquirer’s editor-in-chief, was not immediately returned. But earlier in the day, Perel declined to say how the tape was obtained, adding that it didn’t matter because all that matters is what’s on the tape.
In the conversation, Chapman urges Tucker to break up with his girlfriend. He also expresses concern about the girlfriend trying to tape and go public about the TV star’s use of the N-word.
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.”
Hart said his client is not a racist and vowed never to use the word again.
“I have never seen anything that suggests he judges people by the color of their skin or racial background or anything but on their character,” he said. “Duane lost his composure and made very, very inapprorpiate remarks, for which he truly regrets.”
Chapman said he was “disappointed in his choice of a friend, not due to her race, but her character. However, I should have never used that term.”
Chapman said he is meeting with his spiritual adviser, Rev. Tim Storey, and hopes to meet with other black leaders.
“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.
The TV 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.
Why can’t Dog just say this is the language they used in the joint for someone of low character?
LOL, After reading your comment I don't need to read the rest, you nailed it.
Figures, rather than facing them like a man. Hell, you might break a nail.
He owns his own business. Why would he fire himself?
Man, I agree with you 110%. These people, including some here, get so self-righteous over a stupid freakin’ word. Oops, maybe I shouldn’t have said “freakin’”.
Right on L98Fiero!...I don’t care a tinker’s damn if Dog wants to call somebody a nigger or not....that’s the way he sees it.....he’s done time and has seen first hand race relations when the gloves come off.
Father of Nicholas Chapman, Duane Lee Chapman Jr., Leland Chapman, Zebediah Duane Chapman, Wesley Chapman, Christopher Chapman, James Chapman, Barbara-Katie Chapman, Tucker Dee Chapman, Lyssa Chapman...
One son was born premature and died 30 days after birth. A daughter died in an accident.
“These people, including some here, get so self-righteous over a stupid freakin’ word.”
These are the same people who were regurgitating the Duke LAX and Jena 6 lies until the truth came out...then silence. Silent until the next perceived racial slight, that is. We have our own “blame whitey first” crew right here on FR.
Any idea of how much $$$ he’s losing?
If there is going to be uproar everytime someone uses the “N” word IN PRIVATE, then there should be equal uproar everytime someone uses these words IN PRIVATE:
-Honky
-Spic
-Fag
-Bitch
-Trailer Trash
-Jew (in a derogatory way)
-Towel Head
-Slut
- Fill in the blank........
I think people shouldn’t use the “N” word, but I hate how THAT word is singled out for punishment.
If all words were punished in the same way, everyone would get sick of the political correctness (which would be somewhat of a good thing).
I think this case is VERY different than Imus and Richards... this was a private talk with his son. This was not done for the public ears.
What times we live in.
Yes. Guberment schools have had a deep influence with their white-guilt agenda. Hmmm, what else are they going hog wild trying to normalize lately?
Tell me that Al Sharpton does not call white folks honkeys and crackers.He is a racist but a Marxist racist.
But I bet that Leland and his other brother are going to put a “beat down” on Tucker soon for this. Which he so aptly deserves, selling out your own family to the National Enquirer for a few thousand $$$$, hope the guy likes it when the money runs out, the chick leaves his broke a$$ and he looks around and discovers that he doesn’t have a family any more. What a POS.
Before you know it, some guy will be recorded saying “fag” and have to go to sensitivity training. Oh, wait. ;)
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