Dog the Bounty Hunter is now being sued by the woman he called a “nigger” in the taped phone conversation his son leaked to the press which now has him doing the TV chat show rounds opening veins and tear ducts on TV desperately begging for forgiveness.
Well, of COURSE this woman is suing him. Of course she is. It was only a matter of time. When it comes to racism, in America you can milk it for all its worth and then some and this woman is banking on historical national guilt for her paycheck. If this had been any other issue the media would have torn her apart for being a gold digger.
Racism is America’s great shame so if you’re a celebrity in the US and you say something racist in the press, it’s more or less the worst thing you can do for your career in the short to mid term anyway. It’s not the same when it comes to homophobia but racism? Racism is box office poison and cultural viability poison.
What’s alarming about this is that Dog, a walking skin callous with exceptionally dirty and badly cut hair whose career is built on chasing down criminals and tying them up on TV to collect the bounty on their heads is so in the shit right now because of this that he’s actually having to wander around the media sphere with his weird looking hard calloused doll of a wife completely abandoning his character. Tears are what it takes. Real tears. You’ve got to cry a lot to get out of racist guilt and if he cries too much then his brand will be totally diluted.
After all, who could believe that a man who cries and begs for forgiveness over and over on TV could possibly be the kind of man who could feasibly catch or even intimidate a criminal in the harsh desert terrain of Arizona or whatever backwater freak fest white trash small town they’re hanging out in when he comes to get them.
Incidentally, those small American desert towns aren’t really terribly pleasant. I’ve been to like 8 of them. They sell pretty bad food and the people stare at you cause you’re a city slicker. Never been challenged to a duel though. That’s pretty lucky. Suffice to say, from my experience most of the locals aren’t big criers. That doesn’t work in Dog’s favour. [source]
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