PENNY PARKER: A&E yanks Dog Chapman series after racism claims

By Penny Parker, Rocky Mountain News (Contact)

Thursday, November 1, 2007

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.

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.

When TMZ.com asked Chapman for comment, the Web site was referred to Chapman's pastor Tim Storey, an African-American.

"(Storey) told (TMZ) that he spoke with Dog, who cried for 30 minutes, saying 'I'm shocked, I'm wrong, I repent. Can you believe, Tim, that I'm going to be put in the same category as (Don) Imus.'"

Storey also told TMZ, "I was shocked, because I don't know that to be Duane. I felt that he had to be accountable to what he said. When I asked him what took place, why he said it, he said that he was angry with his son about many things."

That explanation was not good enough for A&E, the cable network that airs his show, Dog The Bounty Hunter, to let its reality star out of the dog house. A&E issued a statement to TMZ saying that it has stopped production on the series, pending an investigation.

Penny Parker's column appears Tuesday through Saturday. Listen to her on the Caplis and Silverman radio show between 4 and 5 p.m. Fridays on KHOW-AM (630). Call her at 303-954-5224 or e-mail parkerp@RockyMountainNews.com.

• November 25, 2007

  5:11 p.m.

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  beautifulmom writes:

  What really burns me up is it seems that white people are always racist but if you will sit around and listen to some black people talk it will burn your ears they are just as racist I know this for a fact and it's sad black people in this area are usually poor don't work sell drugs don't care drink on the corner and white bash I think that everyone should be entitled to their own opinion I mean isn't freedom of speech what this country was founded on doing what they thought was right and fighting for it It seems to me that most black people seem to think they have been wronged and that we should pay we didn't do anything to them and nothing happened to them way in the past but they won't let that go they have black history they have black music channels they have al sharpton the black colledges let on white person say that a black couldn't watch our show or go to our school it wouldn't be good but enough of that i feel sorry for dog and don't think that his show should be taken off for how he feels I think that people get way to much into peoples business