Supporters in Hawaii stand by Duane 'Dog' Chapman

[Pilaf]

Supporters Stand by Dog


Get her, Dog! Before she goes and drinks out of your water fountain again...

Fans and neighbors of the Dog defended the bounty hunter yesterday and expressed hope his A&E reality show is not in jeopardy from his use of racial slurs in a taped conversation.

"What he does in private shouldn't affect the show whatsoever," said Amy Lusk, 23, of Aubrey, Texas, who hoped to catch a glimpse of Duane "Dog" Chapman and his son Leland at his Honolulu Da Kine Bail Bonds office.

"Hopefully, you're wrong," she told a reporter who informed her the show might be suspended. "There'll be a lot of upset people."

A&E suspended the show yesterday after the conversation was posted on the National Enquirer Web site in which Chapman uttered the N-word six times in a talk with his son Tucker about dumping his black girlfriend.

Tori Brown, 24, and her fiance specifically traveled with Lusk to Hawaii to search for the Dog and had made three trips to the Queen Emma Street office, disappointed at the sign that said, "Closed for Halloween."

"We came to give him a hug," she said. "Hasn't he gone through enough stuff?"

She added, "With all that he's had to deal with in Mexico when he's taking a rapist off the street, give him a break."

She referred to his being wanted by the Mexican government after he took custody of Max Factor heir Andrew Luster, who was wanted for rape and kidnapping. Bounty hunting is illegal in Mexico, unless supervised by Mexican authorities. That case has been dismissed.

Lusk criticized the media's exploitation of celebrities' voice mails and said, "Everybody says things they don't mean."

She added, "That's the way our society is. We build somebody up, then we knock 'em down."

Business neighbors of Chapman's bail bond business were shocked at the news.

"Oh, my goodness," said Lani Nguyen, owner of Skippy's Vietnamese Food next door to the bail bonds office. "He very, very nice person."
She said everyone has good and bad in them, "sometime very good with a little bit bad."

"He talk nice with everyone," she said, pointing to photos of herself taken with Chapman. "All family very nice."

Chong Kum Park, who owns the Queen Emma Mart next to the Dog's memorabilia store, agreed. She said Chapman often buys candy for the neighborhood children who hang around the store.

Park said when Chapman's son worked at the office, he had come and introduced his girlfriend, who is black. "Son doesn't work there no more," she said.

"Went to wedding," she said, pointing to the photo of Duane and Beth Chapman's wedding photo on a shelf. "We thought really nice family."

"I like the Dog," Park said.

Brown said if she could send Chapman a message, she would say, "We love you and support you, and that's that."

Here is a transcipt of Dog's conversation with Tucker.

Chapman: Don't care if she's a Mexican, a whore, whatever. It's not 'cause she's black. It's because we use the word "n_____" sometimes here. I'm not going to take a chance ever in life by losing everything I've worked for for 30 years for some f____ n_____ heard us say "n_____" 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 was dating a n_____, we would all say f___ you. And you know that. If Lyssa brought a black guy home ... It's not that they're black. It's none of that. It's that we use the word "n____." We don't mean "you f___ scum n_____ without a soul." We don't mean that s___, but America would think we're meaning that. And we're not taking a chance and losing everything we've got over a racial slur. Because our son goes with a girl like that, I can't do that, Tucker, you can't expect Garry, Bonnie, Cecily, all them young kids ... 'cause I'm in love for seven months, I ... f___ that. ... So I'll help you get another job, but you cannot work here unless you break up with her and she's out of your life. I can't handle that s___. I've got 'em in the parking lot trying to record us. I've got that girl saying she's going to wear a recorder. ...

Tucker: I ... I ... don't even know what to say.


This is my personal favorite part: "It's that we use the word "n____." We don't mean "you f___ scum n_____ without a soul." We don't mean that s___,".

Because we all know that when a family of white trash rednecks with mullets and huge overbites say nigga, it's always for a credible reason.


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[yanna]

That's just insane! It made sense to him to tell him to leave his girlfriend because she wanted to record him saying that word instead of just... I don't know... not saying that word anymore and making sure no one in his staff ever uses it!

Still, I don't like the son or the girlfriend in this. Fucking losers.

[Pilaf]

Dog's more worried about losing his Hollywood career for saying the n-word than his son's happiness. So sad

[litupgirl]

Dog is pure hillbilly trash IMHO.

[Bijoux]

There are far worse things in this world than words of hate ....but this is really bad!

It's not 'cause she's black. It's because we use the word "n_____" sometimes here.
If Lyssa brought a black guy home ... It's not that they're black. It's none of that. It's that we use the word "n____."

What?!?! That dosn't even make sense in my brain! IS that word really used that much in Hawaii? Someones' gotta find that out!

Racist talk or not he is taking drug users, dealer, wife beaters, and runaways off the streets....so I have to applaud him for that, I guess.

[yanna]

To me it's beyond the racial slur. She was the kind of person who had threatened to record her bf famous husband in a way that would harm his career to make a buck. Was he a moron for saying the word? Of course. Do I think he's not racist? Probably is if he uses the word and he did use it to refer to the girl in a derogatory manner. But I still think his kid and the girl are scum.

[KrisNine]

So many people are defending him on other boards...saying that he didn't mean "n-----" when he said "n-----"!! WTF. Unless I'm stupid, that's what he was saying. He said he doesn't want to get in trouble for saying "n-----" because some fucking n----- heard him say it!!

[Pilaf]

What is revolting is that he would fire his own son rather than have a black person in his famiy.

[kingcap72]

Originally Posted by yanna

To me it's beyond the racial slur. She was the kind of person who had threatened to record her bf famous husband in a way that would harm his career to make a buck. Was he a moron for saying the word? Of course. Do I think he's not racist? Probably is if he uses the word and he did use it to refer to the girl in a derogatory manner. But I still think his kid and the girl are scum.

Agreed that they're all scum. But if she knew the type of person that he was and decided to make a buck off it then it was Duane's karma bitch-slappin' him upside the head.

Originally Posted by KrisNine

So many people are defending him on other boards...saying that he didn't mean "n-----" when he said "n-----"!! WTF. Unless I'm stupid, that's what he was saying. He said he doesn't want to get in trouble for saying "n-----" because some fucking n----- heard him say it!!

The way I look at people who defend him are just showing their own ignorance or their own racist tendencies. Sometimes it amazes me how people can see & hear the same things and then walk away with different perceptions based on race, class & gender.

[RevellingInSane]

This man is complete trash. All those who are defending hsi two faces should be slapped on both sides of theirs.

What sealed the deal was his saying he could not have a N going back and telling people he used the word N. He meant it and now, he wants to backtracks. Cancel it and let him and Beth go live their double wide dreams.

[KrisNine]

They make Britney and Anna Nicole look regal.

[pacific breeze]

Originally Posted by RevellingInSane

This man is complete trash. All those who are defending hsi two faces should be slapped on both sides of theirs.

What sealed the deal was his saying he could not have a N going back and telling people he used the word N. He meant it and now, he wants to backtracks. Cancel it and let him and Beth go live their double wide dreams.

I'm not defending anyone, just pointing out that their are TWO SIDES to every story and I'm still waiting to hear the other one. So is A&E or they would have already cancelled the show, and they haven't.

I don't think encouraging physical violence toward people who don't agree with your opinion is very productive, either.

[kingcap72]

Originally Posted by RevellingInSane

This man is complete trash. All those who are defending hsi two faces should be slapped on both sides of theirs.

What sealed the deal was his saying he could not have a N going back and telling people he used the word N. He meant it and now, he wants to backtracks. Cancel it and let him and Beth go live their double wide dreams.

Exactly. So that blows his whole 'I don't mean it as racist' crap out of the water. He called her a ni**er, and then kept using the word ni**er.

Originally Posted by pacific breeze

I'm not defending anyone, just pointing out that their are TWO SIDES to every story and I'm still waiting to hear the other one. So is A&E or they would have already cancelled the show, and they haven't.

I don't think encouraging physical violence toward people who don't agree with your opinion is very productive, either.

Well, they did cancel his show.

And you're right there are two sides to every story. But what version can he give that could clean up what we all heard him say on the tape? That it wasn't him? When somebody who puts themselves out there as some moral teacher, which he did to an extent, gets caught showing their true colors there is no giving them the benefit of the doubt.

[pacific breeze]

Originally Posted by kingcap72

Well, they did cancel his show.

And you're right there are two sides to every story. But what version can he give that could clean up what we all heard him say on the tape? That it wasn't him? When somebody who puts themselves out there as some moral teacher, which he did to an extent, gets caught showing their true colors there is no giving them the benefit of the doubt.

No, they didn't. If you read the entire story in the link that was posted in the other thread, it says clearly that was incorrect. I've already pulled the quote and posted it.

I never bought his act as a moral teacher in the first place. There's no way I could suspend disbelief that much, even for entertainment's sake.

[kingcap72]

Originally Posted by pacific breeze

No, they didn't. If you read the entire story in the link that was posted in the other thread, it says clearly that was incorrect. I've already pulled the quote and posted it.

I never bought his act as a moral teacher in the first place. There's no way I could suspend disbelief that much, even for entertainment's sake.

I answered that in the other thread about the cancellation. When they suspend production and yank the reruns, so they don't have to pay him, then it's pretty much a done deal. True, they may bring him back down the road, but for right now he's gone.

And I didn't buy his act either, but he was doing a good thing catching criminals so it was all good.