Dog the Bounty Hunter's Racial Slurs Result in Pulled TV Ads on A&E Network

This week, Duane "Dog" Chapman - also known as Dog the Bounty Hunter - and his son Tucker had two telephone conversations in which "Dog" used the "n-word" several times. In what appears to be a successful attempt to get back at his dad, Tucker subsequently sold the taped conversations to a media tabloid, which made the private conversations public, posting them online.

Although "Dog" has issued a public apology, has taken full responsibility for his regrettable language and has many people rushing to his defense - or at least offering excuses for why he talked to his son the way he did - advertisers are not ready to let "Dog" off the hook that easily.

In a Nov. 3 press release, Wayne Perry, president of SiCap Industries, said the company wanted to launch their 2008 television spots on A&E, particularly on the "Dog The Bounty Hunter" program. But not any longer. Perry said that Chapman "was a hero of mine until I heard a tape of him spewing racist remarks as if it meant nothing. I'm disgusted by him. He used the (N-word) multiple times in the most hateful way you could ever imagine. That's when I decided to dump his show from our marketing plans." SiCap Industries makes Sinus Buster capsaicin nasal sprays.

The press release also says that Yum! Brands, Inc., parent company of several brands, including KFC, Long John Silver's, Pizza Hut and Taco Bell, has also pulled their ads, referring to Dog the Bounty Hunter's remarks as "despicable."

Numerous radio and television stations have release the taped conversations - or at least the most newsworthy portions in which "Dog" directs racial epithets toward Tucker's girlfriend, who is black.