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'Dog the Bounty Hunter' is Coming Back to TV
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by Jarrett Martineau | May 14, 2008 at 07:57 pm
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But the question remains, does this dog deserve a second chance?
Bounty hunter Duane "Dog" Chapman's TV show will return to the air this summer, months after it was pulled when the reality star used a racial slur in a profanity-laced tirade.Filming has begun on the fifth season, according to executives with A&E, the cable network that broadcast "Dog the Bounty Hunter." Reruns of the show will start June 25, with new episodes, including ones from the fourth season that have not previously aired, coming a few weeks later.
The show features Chapman and crew chasing down bail jumpers in Hawaii and other states. It was pulled from the air in November when Chapman was heard in a taped phone conversation using a racial slur in reference to his son's girlfriend, who is black.
The Chapman family, A&E executives and a representative from a civil rights organization were part of a carefully choreographed press conference Wednesday to announce the relaunch of the show.
The message: Chapman deserves a second chance.
"It's not about ratings," A&E spokesman Michael Feeney said. "We know his heart. We know him and know he's not a racist."
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at 22:55 on May 14th, 2008
"I'm not gonna take a chance ever in life of losing everything I've
worked for for 30 years because some fucking 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 'fuck 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 fucking scum ni**er without a soul. We don't mean that
shit. 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."
-Duane Chapman
His rationalization about how he uses the word is ridiculous. It makes my blood boil. It reminds me of how people rationalize using "gay" or "faggot" in a pejorative sense, saying "well they aren't referring to homosexuals." If I ever here the word faggot, it makes my head snap in the direction it came from. Such an awful word.
at 07:16 on May 15th, 2008
... But will viewers return to the show? (I always found it boring anyway)