"Instant Karma's gonna get you."
--John Lennon song
DBKP has just learned that Tucker Chapman, the son of Duane "Dog" Chapman who, many contend, sold out his TV star father, has been arrested for violating multiple terms of his parole.
Drugs and associating with know felons are reportedly the causes for his return to the slammer. An earlier mention of blackmail could not be substantiated at this time.
Tucker Chapman sold the tape to the National Enquirer of his father uttering a racial slur during a perceived private phone conversation.
"Dog the Bounty Hunter" was pulled from the A & E Networks line-up, the show suspended, and in the aftermath, many of the shows fans were none too happy with Tucker Chapman and his girlfriend, Monique Shinnery.
A spokeswoman for the Bounty Hunter and his family this morning confirmed the arrest, which was first reported by TMZ. The TMZ report said Tucker Chapman is at the Oahu Community Correctional Center.
Mona Wood, spokeswoman for Duane and Beth Chapman, said the couple is currently in Los Angeles and will return to Honolulu this week and are not planning further interviews.
Duane Chapman said after he learned that his own son sold the taped conversation to the Enquirer, that "he still loved his son."
Excerpts from TMZ report about Tucker Chapman follow:
Here's what went down: Our sources say two weeks after the tape surfaced, Dog learned Tucker was using drugs and threatened to expose him to his parole officer. Then the tape dropped -- interesting timing.
After that, we're told, a parole officer made Tucker check in to a rehab facility, which, we hear, Tucker walked away from.
Sources tell us Tucker's parole officer executed a surprise home inspection this week, and didn't like what he found. The PO then brought Tucker in on Friday, revoked his parole and sent him to the slammer. Among his alleged violations -- associating with known felons, failing a drug test and walking away from a rehab facility.
TMZ also released a statement it said received from Dog Chapman: "I am heartbroken that this has occurred, but I am relieved that my son in now in a place where he can no longer hurt himself. To my bruddahs in the system: please don't hurt my son as he knows not what he does. I love my son and wish him the best."
Last week, A & E announced that the popular "Dog the Bounty Hunter" was back in production and new episodes would be airing later this year.
The Bounty Hunter has been about second chances and he was ready for his. Production was supposed to restart this week, according to TMZ.
So, "Dog the Bounty Hunter" is back in production.
And, Tucker Chapman is back in jail.
And that's as it should be, according to many fans of the TV reality series.
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Paris Hilton New SpokesCeleb for Tipsy Elephants
And no, boozing elephants does not mean alcohol-swilling Republicans. Evidently short and sweet statements can get you praise or your show taken off A and E. Witness Dog the Bounty Hunter and the power of uttering the N-word in a private conversation.
Word out from Gauhati, India is that Paris Hilton is catching praise from conservationists for helping "highlighting the problem of binge-drinking elephants in northeastern India." Paris' hard work on behalf of the 'elephants gone wild' consists of two "celebrity endorsements", a la Hilton.
Six wild and inebriated elephants raided a farm in the Indian state of Meghalaya. Too drunk to notice the pole they were in the process of uprooting was electrical, the pachyderms met an untimely and shocking demise.“There would have been more casualties if the villagers hadn't chased them away. And four elephants died in a similar way three years ago. It is just so sad,” Hilton was quoted as saying in Tokyo last week. She was in Tokyo to judge a beauty contest.
“The elephants get drunk all the time. It is becoming really dangerous. We need to stop making alcohol available to them,” the 26-year-old socialite said in a report posted on World Entertainment News Network's Web site.Sangeeta Goswami, head of animal rights group People for Animals, told The Associated Press: “I am indeed happy Hilton has taken note of recent incidents of wild elephants in northeast India going berserk after drinking homemade rice beer and getting killed.”
“As part of her global elephant campaign, Hilton should, in fact, think of visiting this region literally infested with elephants,” Goswami said.
Kudos to Paris for caring about the plight of the homemade rice beer swilling elephants in India.
Britney should take note.
Source - The San Diego Union Tribune - Paris Hilton's efforts to save binge-drinking elephants are praised by conservationists
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Video Clip: Hannity & Colmes appearance
Is N-word OK to For Some to Use, Taboo for Others?
Dog the Bounty Hunter appeared on FoxNews' Hannity & Colmes last night. Say what you will, but everyone seems to be willing to show the Dog some love. Even Tamika Mallory, Decency Initiative at the National Action Network, who'd called earlier for Duane Chapman's show, Dog the Bounty Hunter, to be pulled off the air was even-handed. It was reported that the show's sponsor, Yums, had pulled its advertising from the popular TV series.
Mallory, part of Al Sharpton's National Action Network, was entirely reasonable by saying that their organization is against any use of the "N-word", whether it's by black or white entertainers. During the clip, there were no overt calls to remove Dog from the airwaves. Arts & Entertainment Network announced earlier in the day that they had canceled the show, after announcing suspension of the series' production on Thursday.
The entire story has sparked debate about the use of the N-word at all, by black or white entertainers. Can a word be OK for one group's usage, and taboo for another?
Chapman's spiritual advisor also had some sensible words, saying that he's been trying to get Dog to clean up his language for the last year.
What's a Bounty Hunter to do?
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Dog the Bounty Hunter segment on Hannity & Colmes.
Was the segment "rehabilitation" as has been heard in some quarters? Was it reasonable? Read for yourself and judge.
Partial transcript: Dog the Bounty Hunter's appearance on Hannity & Colmes.
Transcript excerpts from Fox News:
DOG:DUANE "DOG" CHAPMAN, "DOG THE BOUNTY HUNTER": I'm not take a chance on some (EXPLETIVE DELETED). I don't care if she's a Mexican, a (EXPLETIVE DELETED), whatever. It's not because she's black. It's because we use the word (EXPLETIVE DELETED) sometimes here. I'm not going to take a chance ever in life of losing everything I've worked for, for 30 years, because some (EXPLETIVE DELETED) heard us say (EXPLETIVE DELETED) and turned us into "Enquirer" magazine. Our career is over. If Lyssa was to date a (EXPLETIVE DELETED), we would all say (EXPLETIVE DELETED) you. And you know that.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
COLMES:Joining us now, Reverend Tim Storey, a longtime friend and spiritual adviser of the Dog's, and the director of the Decency Initiative at the National Action Network, Tamika Mallory.
We welcome you both.
Let me begin with you, Tim. You've talked to Dog about this. What is he telling you?
REV. TIM STOREY, DOG'S SPIRITUAL ADVISER: Well, I talked to him probably about seven minutes before I came here. And he's in the same place he was. He's sorry. He's wrong. He's wrong-wrong. He knows he's wrong.
COLMES: Why did he do it? Why does he use this kind of language?
STOREY: Well, you know, the amazing thing, when I first heard the tape, I thought, "It can't be real, because I don't know that side of Duane." I've known him for seven years. I'm a black man. I'm his minister. I never saw racism in him. So when I heard it, I was shocked, and I was offended. So I challenged him, as a black man and as a minister, on why he did this. So just know, I was shocked at first, as well.
COLMES: How much time do you spend around him? How much time have you been with him over the years? And how much exposure have you had to the way he really speaks?
STOREY: I'm with him quite a bit. You know, I talk to him once a week, and we chat. He's been on the road with me, speaking at different events, inner-city events. I never saw this side of him. But I will say, I do not think that this is who the man is. I believe that he shot his big mouth. He's wrong. He's double wrong. It's offended and hurt a lot of people.
COLMES: Now, here's what I don't get. Before we get to Tamika here, he says he's not speaking out because of the woman being African-American, but because the people in his entourage use bad language and he doesn't want to be caught using that language, acknowledging that that's the way he speaks.
STOREY: I challenged him on that. He said, you know, Tim, I've been raised in the prison system. I've been around people who say that word. I've even been with him with people who come up, where hip-hop guys would come up or inner-city guys and say that. But I said, "Dog, it's — it's still wrong. You can't use the n-word in private, public," and he's getting that. He is remorseful. And he's wrong.
COLMES: Alright. Tamika, what I don't understand is he says, "I use this word. My people use this word. I don't want to be around someone who's going to call me on it." And yet his minister here says, "I've never heard him the word." What do you make of it?
TAMIKA MALLORY, NATIONAL ACTION NETWORK: Well, I mean, obviously, he uses the word. He says he uses the word, and that is one of the reasons why he claims he doesn't want this woman to be around. So he does use the word. But the bottom line, the Decency Initiative and the National Action Network are against the use of the n-word, period, no matter who says it, why they say it, or what they mean when they use it.
COLMES: Well, even when African-Americans use it, you don't support that African-Americans should ever use that word.
MALLORY: That's right.
COLMES: And some people will give blacks a pass because using that language in a totally different context, but you don't agree with that either?
MALLORY: No, we don't. And, in fact, we have taken a position against the use of the word and against entertainers who use the word, and so, no, we are totally against the use of the word.
SEAN HANNITY, CO-HOST: Hey, Reverend, it's Sean Hannity. Thank you for being with us. Appreciate your time tonight.
want to get into this in a little more specifically. I saw a quote that you had where you said you don't think he is a racist. Now, you've heard the comments; you've spent some time with him; you've talked to him. He's apologized profusely. Why did you come to that conclusion?
STOREY: Because I really have been around him. I've seen his temper. I've seen him blow up. I've seen the things he's done, but I've also seen, after he's arrested somebody of all races, talking to them in the back of the car trying to change their lives.
He's got a black minister. If he's a racist, why does he have a black minister? This was seven years ago. He could have anybody do his wedding. he could have had Robert Schuller do his wedding. He had a black minister perform his wedding.
HANNITY: But you also are quoted as saying that he is somebody that you have been to inner-city neighborhoods with on a fairly regular basis, because he wanted to reach out and help inner-city kids, is that true?
STOREY: That's true. That's true. We were in San Diego and in Los Angeles. We're about to do it in Florida. This is something he has not been paid for. He wanted to do it because he wanted to change lives. This is a case of a man shooting his big mouth and making a very bad decision here.
HANNITY: Because everyone — there's nobody who would defend the use of this word. It's morally reprehensible, deplorable, and he even said in his statement here, "I did not mean to add yet another slap," he said, "to an entire race of people who have brought so many gifts to this world." And he went into even more detail here.
Do you think this is a case of — is this somebody throwing around the f-word, the b-word, the a-, b-, c-, d-, e-, f-word? I mean, is this somebody that just uses vernacular as a curse word, or is there some real racial antipathy here because his son was dating a woman of another race?
STOREY: This is a guy saying a lot of words he should not say. I've been on him for a year, because when I put him in churches, he'll say, "How could this guy lead a prayer, and then say M-F, blanky, blank, blank." I've been saying to him, Duane, for a year, "You've got to stop talking this way." And, really, I think it's a guy just shooting words everywhere. He's wrong. He knows it. We're going to work on it. Today is a new day, but he's still hurt a lot of people, but he wants to change.
HANNITY: All right, let me ask, Tamika, if I can, to ask you one question here, because I read his statement in its entirety, and I assume by now that you probably have, as well. And he said, "My sincerest, my heartfelt apologies go out to every person that I have offended with my regrettable use of inappropriate language. I am disappointed in myself for speaking this way out of anger to my son in a private phone conversation here." And he said he wants the opportunity to go out and make things right again.
Is this an opportunity for the National Action Network and Al Sharpton to go out there and help somebody that immediately is seeking redemption and forgiveness to help him achieve that goal?
MALLORY: No, we're not trying to help him at all. It's up to his — the network that owns his show to decide whether or not what he has done violates their standards and policies. It's not up to us to help him. I mean, he's called. He's reached out to us, and so have many other people, but, you know...
HANNITY: And a lot of people use it. I've — it's an offensive bit of language. He is recognizing it. We see it in rap music. We see offensive language a lot on the streets, and I think we've got to reevaluate the coarsening of our culture this way. But I wanted to know if Reverend Sharpton would support some forgiveness in this.
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All in all, there were some common sense suggestions by both sides in the exchange. Very unlike a lot of TV News confrontations.DOG THE BOUNTY HUNTER ROUND-UP:
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Dog's son, Punk put him in the doghouse.
Duane Chapman, aka Dog the Bounty Hunter's, son, Punk, sold the old man out for 30 pieces of silver.
Television bounty hunter Duane "Dog" Chapman's son taped a private phone conversation in which the reality star used a racial slur repeatedly, then sold it to a tabloid for "a lot of money," Chapman's lawyer said Thursday.
"I guess because of whatever level of anger he had of his father, he felt the need to express it in that manner," attorney Brook Hart told The Associated Press.
Tucker Chapman could not be reached for comment; no one answered the telephone at a Honolulu number listed under his name.
The National Enquirer on Wednesday posted on its Web site a clip of a conversation in which Duane Chapman, star of the hit A&E series "Dog the Bounty Hunter," repeatedly used the N-word in reference to Tucker's girlfriend.
Chapman later apologized to his son and the woman, then learned about how the tape got into the tabloid's hands, Hart said.
A & E now says Series "Not Canceled", Only "Suspended"
A&E has suspended production of the series, saying the network takes the matter 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.
--From CNN
and the National Enquirer.
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The coverage yesterday of Duane Chapman, star of TV's Dog the Bounty Hunter and the 'N-word'-spiked tape from his cellphone conversations about his son's black girlfriend seemed familiar. Dog wasn't the first to put his foot into his mouth. Here's a quick look at media celebrities who did it before Dog.
Arts and Entertainment Network immediately announced that production of "Dog the Bounty Hunter" had been suspended. Later news clarified that the show hadn't been canceled, only pulled off the air. Chapman said that he was "sorry" and wanted to meet with black leaders to "make things right". The rehabilitation began for Dog.
There is a template for this type of incident:
1-commit a faux pas;
2-discovery of said remark;
3-media amplification;
4-public remorse by the personality;
5-meetings with "leaders" in the offended community
6-drop out of sight for awhile; sometimes enrolling in some sort of counseling.
7-and finally, rehabilitation.
Sometimes it works, sometimes not.
Dog was only the latest media personality to fall victim to political correctness. Some of the incidents listed below are people saying in public what is said more privately. Some are reprehensible. All are revealing looks at what the personality says when the microphones are switched off.
The physically-difficult act of inserting the foot in the mouth is much more easily done in the media spotlight.
1-Don Imus
Shock jock Imus had his 'Imus in the Morning' show canceled by CBS for his "nappy-headed hos" remark. Imus followed the template will soon be back on the air.
2-Kramer (Michael Richards)
Richards' use of the 'N-word' at a comedy club in an on-stage tirade wasn't so funny. The former "Seinfeld" star is staying out of sight and hoping the public forgets the image he presented that night.
3-Jimmy "The Greek" Snyder
Former bookie and NFL analyst Snyder said in 1988 the black athlete is "bred to be the better athlete because, this goes all the way to the Civil War when ... the
slave owner would breed his big woman so that he would have a big black kid." Snyder later apologizes for the comments but his career as a broadcaster was over.
4-Howard Cosell
"Look at that little monkey go!"
In September 1983, referring to wide receiver Alvin Garrett of the
Washington Redskins; the statement was denounced as racist, but it was
pointed out that Cosell had regularly used the same term to describe
small players of all races, as well as his grandchildren.
5-Ken Hatfield
Any major college football coach could be fairly lumped into the 'media personality' category. Rice University football coach Ken Hatfield has found himself in a
swirl of controversy for recent comments attributed to him about
homosexuals in The Chronicle for Higher Education, a weekly newspaper
for college administrators and faculty members.
In a story about gay athletes in the Nov. 1 issue titled "The
Loneliest Athlete," Hatfield is quoted as asserting homosexuality
clearly conflicts with his religious beliefs and that he would
consider removing a player from the team if that player said he was
gay.
The article's author, Jennifer Jacobson, writes: "(Hatfield) says that
while he would not necessarily kick a player off the team for being
gay, he probably would think hard about it."
6-Mel Gibson
Gibson, arrested for speeding last year and obviously intoxicated, berated the arresting officer with anti-Semitic slurs. It was an odd look at history, but Gibson put his worldview on display. Gibson received universal condemnation after apologizing and entering rehab.
7-Halle Berry
Halle Berry has apologized after allegedly making a Jewish joke –
which was then edited out for broadcast – at a taping of The Tonight
Show with Jay Leno last Friday.
Berry was involved in a segment with Leno in which she showed
computer-distorted photos of herself. According to the New York Post's
Page Six, Berry showed one image in which she had a large, distorted
nose and said, "Here's where I look like my Jewish cousin!"
When the program aired later that night, the word "Jewish" was cut,
and a laugh track was inserted in its place.
After she made the remark, Leno said, "I'm glad you said it." Berry,
41, then said, "Oh my God, have I just like ruined my career.."
David Brooks, writing in the New York Times last year in "The Death of Multiculturalism", detailed the apparent passing-away of Political Correctness. In it, he lists some of the reasons for its demise. He remarks about the Democrat Party's move away from a champion of PC.
In 1994 multiculturalism was at its high-water mark, and Richard Bernstein wrote ''Dictatorship of Virtue,'' describing its excesses: the campus speech codes, the forced sensitivity training, the purging of dead white males from curriculums, the people who had their careers ruined by dubious charges of racism, sexism and ethnocentrism.Brooks' noting of the shifting of emphasis among Democrats is worth noting.
Then two years later, the liberal writer Michael Tomasky published ''Left for Dead,'' which argued that the progressive movement was being ruined by multicultural identity politics. Democrats have lost the ability to talk to Americans collectively, Tomasky wrote, and seem to be a collection of aggrieved out-groups: feminists, blacks, gays and so on.
Goodbye, Jesse Jackson. Goodbye, Gloria Steinem. Hello, Harry Truman.There are other media personalities that have revealed more of themselves to the public than they would have wished. We couldn't list them all. The ones we listed were the ones that occurred to us.
They won't be the last.
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AUDIO-Dog the Bounty Hunter and the N-Word UPDATE
Video Report from CNN including portions of the tapes and footage of Duane "Dog" Chapmen.
Audio Tapes:
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UPDATE:
Dog the Bounty Hunter's star, Duane Chapman, was doing damage control after his show was pulled from the air by Arts and Entertainment Network.
Chapman met with his spiritual adviser, the Rev. Tim Storey, who is black and hopes to right the fast-sinking ship he finds himself on.
Dog also hopes to meet with other black leaders in an effort to introduce the real Dog to them and learn what he can do to make things right.
The whole thing started over audio tapes released by the National Enquirer which had the Bounty Hunter repeatedly using the "N-word". He was talking to his son about his son's girlfriend, who is black.
Chapman can also be heard saying in the tapes that he doesn't care if the girl is black, but that he's worried about public opinion of the matter being used against him and the show.
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UPDATE:
* -Listen to Duane Chapman Audio tape.
* - Duane Chapman, star of "Dog the Bounty Hunter" apologizes for the tape in which he says the "N-word" repeatedly.
* - In the tapes, Chapman says he doesn't care if his son's girlfriend is black.
* - Chapman's pastor (who is black) says Chapman is sorry.
* - Arts and Entertainment Network has pulled Dog the Bounty Hunter off the air.
* - Some are calling Chapman a racist for his comments.
* - Story and more tapes from the National Enquirer.
UPDATE [Saturday 11-03-07 730 am] Dog the Bounty Hunter: Pro and Con on Hannity & Colmes. When is It OK to say the N-word?" Who can say it? Who can not?
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Dog the Bounty Hunter Show Canceled Over use of "N-word"
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Looks like Daune Chapman who stars in the show as the colorful Dog, the Bounty Hunter wasn't so keen on one color. Dog was treated the way many of the people he stalked were: handcuffed. Only it was public condemnation at tapes of voice mails he sent his son, liberally laced with the "N-word".
****UPDATE:
Listen to Duane Chapman Audio Tapes and UPDATE Here.
More from Penny Parker, at the Rocky Mountain News:
Looks like Denver-born bounty hunter Duane Dog Chapman is in deep doo-doo after the National Enquirer obtained a racist rant the reality star unleashed against his son, Tucker, who is dating an African-American woman.Centennial State newspapers are a-buzz over the scandal. More from the Denver Post:
In a vicious voicemail, Chapman's tirade is liberally laced with the "N" word along with expletive deleteds not fit to print in this newspaper. In the rants (the Enquirer says it has obtained two undated tapes), Chapman berates his son for his relationship with Monique Shinnery out of concern that Shinnery, who is black, will set him up because of the language the Dog uses.
In a story posted on TMZ.com Wednesday, part of the eight-minute tape demands that Tucker break up with Shinnery or be fired from the family bail bondsmen biz. Chapman, who spends most of his time in his Hawaii home, maintains a bail bonds business in Denver.
Television bounty hunter Duane "Dog" Chapman apologized Wednesday 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.
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 also said in the tapes he didn't care if his son's girlfriend was black. The Honolulu-based bounty hunter first grabbed the media spotlight for apprehending serial rapist and Max Factor heir Andrew Luster in Mexico in 2003. Those were happier days.
His A&E show "Dog, The Bounty Hunter" was cancelled after news of the tapes surfaced.
Its just as well: it's hardcuffing a perp with your foot in your mouth.
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