NEWS: Not Cool, Dog.

CELEB: Not Cool, Dog.

A&E has suspended production on "Dog the Bounty Hunter" issuing the statement:

I know that's very vague. Here's the deal. Dog was on the phone with his son, Tucker who also works in the family bail bond business. Unlike Alec Baldwin, Dog did not call his offspring a "little pig" but instead demanded that Tucker break up with his black girlfriend, Monique.

Now here is where it gets tricky. It's not like Dog is racist or anything, heavens no. Dog doesn’t care if Monique is black or Mexican. (That's very big of him!) All that Duane Dog is saying is that no son of his is going to bring a black girl around the family business because she will overhear them using the N-word. Monique will then tattle on Dog Dad and the empire that he's worked so hard to build will be destroyed.

You can hear his nonsense for yourself on this audio clip.

If you're a self-respecting person with a job and you don’t want the person in the cubical next to you to hear the audio, read this:

Man, Dog is hardcore. He doesn't care that his son is in love. He's not budging on this one. He must at all times maintain his right to use the N-word!

I don’t know who is worse, Dog or the idiot on the TMZ.com message board who wrote:

Yeah! No fair! Let's all stamp our feet! White people don’t get to do anything fun anymore!

I know most people are probably not surprised at Dog's true nature and will ask me what is the point of bringing this up? I guess I'm a horrible judge of character. I actually got teary-eyed the few times I caught episodes of "Dog the Bounty Hunter." After Duane Chapman apprehended his criminal he always soothed the souls of the neighbors looking on in horror. He would do what he called "a healing" which consisted of instructing the onlookers to forgive the person in handcuffs. I thought it was strangely beautiful, this gravely-voiced muscle man with fried hair, getting all spiritual on people's asses.

As far as the A&E Network waiting for the investigation to be completed before they decide on Dog's fate...what's to decide? We heard the audio. Dog says the N-word in his personal life and now we all know that. How awkward will it be next time he has to handcuff a black dude on the show? He's done. (If I find out that my favorite drug counselor, Jeff VanVonderen of A&E's "Intervention" says things like "damn wetbacks" in his spare time, I'm going to kill myself.)

Dog's black pastor, Tim Storey, told TMZ.com that he was shocked at Dog's use of the N-word.

And then he probably came home and said, "Honey, I helped some little N-words today. Gall dang it, they can be cute."

Dog reached out to Al Sharpton (because it's the law now, I guess) but is still waiting to hear back. In the meantime, Dog repented over the phone today to Pastor Storey.

Imus? You wish, Dog. Imus is just an old man who thinks he's a shock-jock. Besides he only said "nappy-headed ho". You said the N-word. You're among the ranks of Michael Richards and even Mel Gibson now. Maybe you guys should all get together and do a healing.

gah.

i really hope a&e has enough sense to make that suspension permanent. i never liked his show anyway.

he doesn't want to lose everything he built over a word?

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OOPS!!!

a company i used to work for did all the little ads and those things that pop up in the corner of the screen for dog. kinda sucks they'll be out some work!

i hate to say it, but....freedom of speech. The guy can say whatever the fuck he wants. He's obviously sorry, which goes into it too, but shit. Suspending a guy for something he says that has absolutely nothing to do with his job?

oh god, not the freedom of speech thing again.

i agree. i just look at the guy and his 'clan' and think "white trash trainwreck with money"

Oh did I say freedom of speech? I meant right to bear arms.

Especially when it's not an issue of freedom of speech. At all.

i know right? when was the last time you saw duane chapman wearing a shirt with sleeves?

oh wait, bear arms.

Was the call made during filming of the show? How did it get recorded? Who tapped his phone lines? DAMN YOU BUSH, NOT DOG TOO.

When, exactly, did A&E become an governmental entity?

omfg, are you saying the National Enquirer tells the truth?!

A parallel.. I get fired from my job as a secretary/makeup artist because I dance around nude in my room with my curtains open (or shut); mind you, I'm not in the public eye like he is, but what goes on in the home should have nothing to do with your job.

Doesn't matter to me. It's ridiculous for people to get suspended/fired for things they say outside of their workplace. Dog's workplace is TV. This was said over his private phone to a member of his family in complete confidentiality.

BUT A&E has to make commercial revenues off this guy and so it's not really that they are so high and mighty and concerned with racism...etc. They will lose money so it's just a business decision. I don't think they give a fuck about free speech and on the other hand who says the N-word. I don't think their hearts and opinions factor in. Just my opinion.

You honestly think Dog's target audience gives a shit that he's racist?

Besides, a savvy TV businessman could turn this into a big ratings stunt if he wanted. Dog goes to sensitivity training, Dog meets with black leaders, Dog cries in the arms of his pastor, Dog begs Jesus for forgiveness, etc. TV-watchers love that kind of sappy crap. Just look at Extreme Makeover: Home Edition.

Is he being racist? Maybe a little, but he's mostly just being stupid.

OK, let me start by saying that I do not use the word "nigger" in my everyday life, and I am in no way racist.

HOWEVER, Why in a discussion about that word is everyone too P.C. to type it out. Saying the word "nigger" in a discussion about the word itself, is OK, it doesn't make you a racist. I'm not trying to turn this into a thread about the abysmal state of political correctness we are now living in, but it just fucking irritates me.

/rant

That being said, why would a non-racist be using a racial slur in everyday conversation? To me that's kind of like an athiest that prays to god.... it just doesn't make sense.

I don't think the audience cares...but the advertisers might pull out. That's all I meant.

This could lead to the most awesome celebrity racist rehabilitation ever: Dog vs. the KKK. The real KKK, not the pussy version.

Nigga nigga nigga.

Listen to some Nas... like his new album, for example.

Simple ignorance.

That's understandable. But I think most of us crackers avoid using it because we don't want to have to launch into the standard two-paragraph disclaimer about not being a bigot every time we do. Using "n-word" is a laziness thing as much as anything else, for me personally. Same number of syllables, sounds about as stupid either way.

See? Ignorance.

I'm of the opinion that blacks assimilating the word "nigger" is a good thing. It essentially strips it of meaning, so that the crackers and the honkies lose what was once a very powerful weapon. Gay people did it with queer and fag, and blacks would benefit (and do) from the same with nigger.

Ya, I don't think they'd pull the show if they felt the advertisers would stay. This has nothing to do with freedom of speech and everything to do with making smart (as they see it) business decisions.

Guess Dog was right about losing it all. And I am SURE he knows it's all about the money for them, just as it is most likely the same to him (well, that and "being famous").