Friday, November 09, 2007

Self-reflexivity

Dog the Bounty Hunter was, so far as I can tell, always a jacka**. A jacka** and a criminal, and frankly, criminally unattractive, a parody of some forms of Whiteness.
That he used the word ****** about his son's girlfriend shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone, including his son. What surprises me is that his son sold a tape that included an expression of fear that someone would sell to the Enquirer a tape that included the expression ******. This, combined with Dr.Phil hosting Reverend Al Sharpton discussing Dog's tape along with Hiphop Master P, is one more sign that we are living in the desert of the real.

2 comments:

Erin said...

I LOVE LOVE LOVE Dog the bounty hunter. He is a thug in many ways, yes, and he shouldn't be calling women these names, but I think he is a good guy.

abebech said...

Oh man, Erin, now I might have to rethink my knee-jerk reaction!
Still, I think the weirdest part is that he knew it would be a problem, said it was a problem, and lo and behold, there it was as he'd predicted. Either he's really prescient or really really dumb.