Posted on 01/17/2008 10:53:03 AM PST by neverdem
Four days after he made an unmistakable allusion to Obama's teenage drug use and even referred to him as Sidney Poitier, Clinton supporter Bob Johnson apologized to Obama for those remarks.
"I'm writing to apologize to you and your family personally for the un-called-for comments I made at a recent Clinton event," Johnson said in a statement. "In my zeal to support Senator Clinton, I made some very inappropriate remarks for which I am truly sorry. I hope that you will accept this apology. Good luck on the campaign trail."
On Sunday at a campaign event for Clinton in South Carolina, Johnson, the founder of BET, said this: "As an African American, I am frankly insulted that the Obama campaign would imply that we are so stupid that we would think Hillary and Bill Clinton, who have been deeply and emotionally involved in black issues, when Barack Obama was doing something in the neighborhood that I won't say what he was doing but he said it in his book... When they have been involved, to say that these two people would denigrate the accomplishment of civil rights marchers, men and women who were hosed, beaten and bled, and some died... To say and to expect us now all of a sudden to say we are attacking a black man. That kind of campaign behavior does not resonate with me or..."
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At Tuesday's Democratic debate on MSNBC, Clinton said she took Johnson at his word. "Well, Bob has put out a statement saying what he was trying to say and what he thought he had said. We accept him on his word on that."
When NBC's Tim Russert asked whether Johnson's comments were out of bounds, Clinton replied, "Yes, they were. And he has said that."
Well, not until today.
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Peter Paul remembers Bob Johnson from the Streisand Brunch, the day after the Aug. 12, 2000 Hollywood Gala. He was apparently a big Lie-brary donor.
My question is, whom would you rather have for president- someone who did blow and smoked pot, or someone who ate fried squirrell out of a popcorn cooker?
That at the fact that he was probably catching all kinds of complaints from the BET audience and advertisers might have started to notice. For people like Johnson, I don't think that people like the Clintons matter as much as the bottom line does
Bob Johnson has nothing to apologize for. He is a man of great achievement. Obama has achieved nothing substantive in life. He was a champion rabble-rouser and exploited the race of the father who abandoned him to gain power. He has an abysmal record in the Illinois legislature and he has done nothing in the U.S. Senate. He gleefully described his frequent use of drugs in his first book, and left himself wide open for rightful criticism. Who is this putz that he can’t be criticized?
Drugs? I thought Johnson was talking about Obama’s community organizing.
Looks like everything in Obama’s book is off limits. Soon everything about his life will be too. The MSM won’t let anyone speak badly of the anointed one.
The Clintons do not want this drug “thing” to get legs, to the extent that the Obama camp will begin bringing up Bill’s decades of repeated illegal drug use in the past............
...just the opposite, Johnson like so many others, was used by the clintons..told what to say and when, now when it gets hot and apologies are required, Johnson does the "sorries", keeps his job, and the clintons slither along
I have never really watched BET, but if he runs that like he runs the Bobcats then it must suck as well. The Bobcats have not and will not ever gain the following that the Hornets had around here. And speaking of arrogant, "BOB" named the "BOB"cats because he liked his name being part of the team name.
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