Duane Dog Chapman is the host of a popular reality TV show. It's the one where cameras follow him and his team of fellow bounty hunters as the go in pursuit of fugitives. The show has been kind of successful so D Dog has gotten kind of well known. That can be a good thing and a bad thing. One of the bad things is that people pay attention to everything you say. Especially when you say stuff that you'd rather they hadn't heard. Like the time Doggy Duane C went Tourette's during a tape recorded conversation and used the N word about as many times in the course of 5 minutes as Christian Batman Bale uses the F word!A premedicated plot!
To refresh your memories one of DDC's sons was seeing a black chic. This caused some friction between Duane Dog and his kid. Since Doggy D occasionally uses racially charged language around the office, he didn't want the chick around lest she get the wrong idea and go blabbin'. As the Dogman pointed out later - after the shit had hit the fan - though he was cool enough to get away with using the word others in the office might not have as much street cred. His exact words, as recorded by his son, are "It's not that she's black it's that we use the word n***r sometimes here. I'm not going to take a chance ever in this life of losing everything I worked for, for thirty years, for some f****** n***r who heard us say n***rand turned us in to the Enquirer Magazine." We know this because his son taped him as partof a premeditated plot to fix the old man good. He admitted to it.
That statement is highly ironic considering how the story broke - in the National Enquirer. It wouldn't be the last time. Not that Duane would go Imus again. He was careful about preserving his 30 years work, by preserving what was left of his image. He went on talk shows, wept like Jimmy Swaggart, gave half assed explanations for himself, and said that he wanted to be buried at Mt Vernon Cemetery as a way of standing up and being counted amongst the down trodden - long after it can do him any harm or them any good. He made all the required mea culpa's with such ferocious desperation that the public let him off with it just to end his disgraceful display of self abasement. So Dog had the bases covered. There was still that big mouthed ignorant wife of his.
the big bad bunny
For those unfamiliar with the Dogs Duane's wife is a lady named Beth. I say she's a lady because she has as much to be called that as any other female celeb these days. It's still pushing it though. She's a stocky blond woman who looks like Pamela Anderson after a dose of steroids and training with the Russian Ladies Shot Put Team. She's also got a mouth like a drunken sailor having a fit of swearing sickness. A few years back there was some incident wear a plane got grounded because Beth's mouth went off like a weapon of mass destruction. Duane and Beth were traveling by air to or from something - probably a little of both. Duane is juiced so settle's comfortable into his seat for the trip. The stewardess described him as a perfect gentleman - a perfect little drunken gentleman in a mullet.
Beth was less lady like. When something happened abroad plane that she didn't like she began screaming ans shouting and hollering like she'd just recognized one of America's most wanted. Dog wakes up from his drunken stupor and asks what the fuck is going on before he realizes his better half has malfunction in public again. So he tells her to shut the fuck up and stop embarrassing him in front of people. Meanwhile a freaked out cabin crew has grounded the plane!
So when you got a big mouthed belligerent wife and an office of people who talk like their in a Klu Klux Klan, the race talk language is bound to reoccur again. It's pretty much like keeping a loaded gun with a faulty trigger around the house. Sure enough there's trouble again, as the Blunderbuss has fired!
The whole thing started innocently enough with Duane and Beth getting some renovations done on their bail bonds office. So they hire a gentleman named Bob Talmadge. Talmadge is a pro carpenter so he specializes in these home improvement deals. So he set to work on the Dogs' Edgewater Colo building. At first everything was good. Duane dropped by and thanked the guy for making what D Dog described as a "hole in the wall" into a "nice" office. Then Big Mouth Beth got into the act.
The cure for big mouths - say it with *st*r*sks
Beth dropped by after the job was completed. Beth really didn't feel like paying the dude for services rendered, and since the work was already done she decided that maybe the renovations weren't so great after all. In fact she said that they sucked! She also decided that he'd been stealing stuff while on the job. So she fired him instead of issuing him a check for his work. She also called him a bunch of bad names like "m*th*rf*ck*r!" Here's a little tape of Beth's little tirade.
don't be an obscene fucker!
So you can tell right away that Beth is no one you want to get on the wrong side of. What you can't tell on the tape is that Beth goes on to describe Mr. Talmadge with a word in some dispute Beth called him a "bean sucker". Beans are one of the stables of Latinos. So some, including some Latin American community leaders, want her called on it and the Dogs finally put off of the air. Marcos Gutierrez - head of the Bay Area Hispanic/Latino Anti Defamation League commented that "for some one who sells themselves on TV as a protector of the people this is outrageous." Meanwhile Alex Nogales - president of the National Hispanic Media Coalition - speculated that Beth's big mouth could case trouble for, and even spark hate crimes against, Latinos & Hispanics. He's even petitioning to get the Dogs taken off of the air.
Beth has something to say in her own defense. While she admits to calling the poor man a "bean sucker" she meant in a good really cool way. She claims it had to do with the man's prioson record, and nothing to do with Latinos. She also insists that she really has lost stuff around the apartment: gloves, brushes, etc." So what she wants to know why people are making a big deal out of her actions.
