January 15th, 2008
BET’s Founder Supports Hillary & Gets At Barack Obama
“And to me, 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 since Barack Obama was doing something in the neighborhood – and I won’t say what he was doing, but he said it in the book – when they have been involved.”
Full Story @ NYTimes
Bob Johnson explained what Hillary meant with her Dr. Martin Luther King comment and had an ambiguous message for Obama. Some people think he is refering to Barack’s pass drug usage when he mentions, “and I won’t say what he was doing, but he said it in the book.” Thoughts on MR. Johnson’s comments?
January 15th, 2008 at 4:57 am
It’s one thing to support Hillary if you believe in her platform but to come at Barack like that is unnecessary.
It’s about to get ugly and at the end of the day I have a feeling another Republican will creep in the office.
January 15th, 2008 at 7:14 am
Wasn’t Bill puffing too?
And since when did people take house nigga number 1 Bob Johnson’s political views serious anyway? Man who sold his soul & BET to Viacom. Look at the shit now.
January 15th, 2008 at 7:21 am
Damn Hillary thanks for playin the petty eddie game! And i know she aint talkin bout drug usage when your husband already admited to smoking that purple urkle years ago! So no telling what type of steriods she was taking when she found out he was getting brains from Monica. Im bout to wild out on her stinkin a$$. Lets not get to dirty bi$h!!
January 15th, 2008 at 7:45 am
bob johnson’s a coon…fuck em…let em shuck and jive…she made the statement and needs people of color to give her a pass…so she called her token friend to show support…but we don’t fuck with bob johnsons ass…besides who needs bob johnson when you got oprah…obama 08.
January 15th, 2008 at 7:50 am
Robert Johnson of BET has done more to diminish and demoralize black culture than any single individual since David Duke.
He owns a large interest in Leeward Islands Lottery Holding Company Inc. This is a company that runs lotteries throughout the Caribbean, and reaps millions from poor people in exchange for… nothing.
Another of his ‘charitable’ companies is Casino and Gaming Entertainment (C.A.G.E.), a video lottery gaming company headquartered in Puerto Rico and operating throughout the Caribbean.
He will roll out a new gaming operation in Barbados over the next three years, under a plan to broaden operations across the Caribbean.
Johnson’s RJL Companies, through CAGE Barbados Inc, will establish 2,500 video lottery terminals (VLTs) in Barbados that it has secured a long term contract to install and manage.
He’s an expert at exploitation.
January 15th, 2008 at 7:55 am
Bob Johnson is quite possibly the biggest sellout to ever walk the face of the earth.
1. How dare he try to imply that the Obama campaign is trying to manipulate the minds of Americans. Bob Johnson created BET, a network responsible for the most negative, self-destructive, sexist, prejudiced, ignorant, and materialistic programming we’ve ever seen. He’s got some nerve saying Obama thinks people are dumb when Johnson created programming that suppresses any type of free intelligent thought or originality, recycling the same minstrel shows year after year.
2. Hillary has got some nerve for letting Johnson get away with it. One of the things that’s so unique about the Obama campaign is that for the first time for as long as I’ve been alive, a candidate is finally talking about bipartisan unity. How the hell can we have bipartisan unity when Hillary is allowing a sellout like Bob Johnson make personal attacks at a man who plans to unite the nation across political, socioeconomic, religious, and yes, racial lines? The answer is: we can’t. This type of bullshit from the Clinton machine is exactly what will keep the same system of bullshit politics in rotation forever. She should have stood up for Obama and at least said something respectable like “I do not agree with nor do I endorse the comments made by Bob Johnson. Had I known what he planned to say, I never would have given him the platform to speak in such an ugly way towards a member of my own party, and I regret that he did”.
3. Come on, Bob. When it’s all said and done, whether you like Hillary or not, what good did it do you, Hillary, or the American people to come after such a positive figure like Barack Obama? You really showed your ass on this one. I think you’re jealous. I think you’re jealous because you had plenty of opportunities with a massive platform in BET to do some incredible things for our people. Instead, you gave birth to a network that perpetuates the materialistic, sexist, and criminal lifestyles that are slowly destroying our race. And the fact that there is a fresh face on the scene with the opportunity, more importantly the intentions, to do something better makes you sick. You missed your shot, and while it may make you feel like shit, don’t take away this opportunity from another person just because you fucked up. In fact, do us all a favor and go kill yourself.
–Darkness.
January 15th, 2008 at 8:11 am
Bogus bob where shall i start you sold the only soap box black folk had to stand on and get thier point across, to a company who can care less than a fu@k about the progression of blacks just take a look a the programming before he left until now…no teen summit now its college hill
the bet news dosent show as much now its hell date .
these are some brief examples of course the CLINTONS have more than likely promised you somethin’ and your independent is your business but for you to persuade our community against our own is a form of treason blacks need to identify and remove themselves from!!!!! YOURS TRULY HIP-HOP
VOTE FOR OBAMA BECAUSE HE THE CLOSEST THING TO YOU OUT OF ALL THE CANDIDATES HE REPRESENTS YOU FIRST WEATHER YOU BE POOR OR BLACK HE REPRESENTS YOU MORE THAN ANY OTHER!!!!
January 15th, 2008 at 8:17 am
#5 damn u broke it down homie couldn’t have said it better myself
January 15th, 2008 at 8:19 am
When you look up Uncle Tom in the dictionary, you get this guys picture. Not only does he have the nerve to down talk the black man, but out the other side of his mouth boost up the whites. How can Uncle Ruckus look at himself in the mirror? This is exactly why I don’t watch BET anymore.
January 15th, 2008 at 8:42 am
I WAS SO EMBARRASED AT BOB JOHNSON’S STATEMENTS. WHAT AN IDIOT. HOW CAN AMERICA UNITE, IF THIS SELL OUT COON CAN’T UNITE. SUPPORT YOUR PEOPLE. HILLARY’S PLATFORM IS NO BETTER THAN BARRACK’S. SHE IS AN ARROGANT CUNT THAT THINKS CAUSE HER MAN WWAS IN OFFICE SHE SHOULD BE HANDED THAT SHIT. AND THEN FOR BOB TO BE ON SOME DRY SNITCHIN SHIT ABOUT BACK INTHE DAY SMOKIN……WTF? WHAT ABOUT ALL THE INFIDELITY, GAY SEX AND DISHONESTY IN CONGRESS AS WE SPEAK ALL DONE BY WHO…THE WHITE MAN. PLEASE…REGISTAR TO VOTE AND MAKE SURE YOU GIVE BARRACK THE POWER TO MAKE THE CHANGE. BOB JOHNSON IS A SELL OUT!
January 15th, 2008 at 9:11 am
He’s a coon and his and all these other faux black leaders do not represent anything about me
January 15th, 2008 at 9:26 am
witness the worlds 1st Billion Dollar SLAVE!!!!! Hopping Bob ass Nigga……..”awe Look he dont wanna work BOSS”
January 15th, 2008 at 9:37 am
Bob Johnson’s comments were stupid and uncalled for. When will politicians (Hillary in this case) realize that it’s okay to run against someone without resorting to a smear campaign? I think the negative approach hurts her more than anything.
#5 Perfect Dark said: “One of the things that’s so unique about the Obama campaign is that for the first time for as long as I’ve been alive, a candidate is finally talking about bipartisan unity.”
That’s one of the things that truly fascinates and excites me about Obama’s platform. I’m VERY surprised that Clinton and Edwards have yet to challenge how exactly he will go about achieving bipartisan unity. It sounds like a very tall task and he admits in his own book that striving for it creates a lot of short-term risk. I wonder if he will get full-support from his advisers as well as the house and senate on this endeavour should he be elected as president…
January 15th, 2008 at 9:57 am
This has got me heated….He’s over there shucking a jiving…I don’t understand why black people love Clinton…all he did was make a mockery of us doing trying to be sterotypical of what he thought a black man was…Cheating on his damn wife…playing a damn saxophone…AND LET’S NOT FORGET THE FOOL BOMBED AFRICA!!!
HE BALANCED THE BUDGET..WHICH IS GOOD AND BENEFITED THE COUNTRY OVERALL….Not Specifically The Black Community….
He moved is office to Harlem…to benefit himself…the rent was cheaper for him…but it made the prices for the locals increase
I am the only black person on this early thats like F*ck Clinton!!!! Wasn’t Mrs Hilary already accused of a little Watergate scandel when her husband was in office…but we don’t hear about that too much!!
Obama 2008 – Miss Mouth
January 15th, 2008 at 10:39 am
This nigga is a straight Uncle Tom. How you gon’ be a black person in America, the land of the slaves, and go out of your way to support a white bitch!! We been told since we jumped off the boat of that we would never amount to anything but “dumb niggers”, and now we got a “nigger” that capable of winning the crackers pride possession and you try to shit on him? Fuck this cracka ass nigga!! I don’t even consider him black anymore.
January 15th, 2008 at 11:35 am
Seriously for being “Black Entertainment Television” Bob Johnson’s old station he created did more to damage the black image then help it. The only good show he had on there (till he canceled it) was the one with Tavis Smiley. BET is a fukkin’ joke.
January 15th, 2008 at 11:41 am
Man bob johnson is the worst I’m not even gonna put caps in his name. He’s the same dude who took Tavis and BET nightly news off the area. Send a N… to try to kill and destroy another brother. Hillary just lost some votes for event being next to this clown. Ole sing and smile Sammy “Rat Pack” shoe to my lou Davis bum!
January 15th, 2008 at 11:41 am
I lived in Charlotte Bob Johnson is a “Down Low” brother.
His wife caught him with a man and took 400 million,google it! I am not saying I am for Obama, but all through out history Whites have used these “Uncle Tom” nigga’s to start shit, to divid us.
We aren’t that dumb anymore…I hope!!
January 15th, 2008 at 11:57 am
OK… my fault i shoulda read the article before i jumped out the gate on Hillary. But note that she can still get it too. I didn’t even know of Bob Johnson until I did some research on’em today, but its now a well known fact he’s a house n*gga! That’s sad.
January 15th, 2008 at 11:59 am
THIS IS THE SAME MUTHER FUKER WHO GOT RICH FROM EXPLOITING WOMEN ON BET. BOB JOHNSON IS FUKIN GAY, HE IS SO BIASED. HILARY KNEW SHE HAD TO GET JOHNSON’S PULL, SO THAT SHE AND JOHNSON WOULD BENEFIT. BOB JOHNSON IS A FUKIN FOOL, WHY WOULDN’T U SUPPORT UR OWN. INSTEAD U SUPPORT A FUKIN LADY WHO DIRESPECTED DR.MARTIN LUTHER KING.SHE KNOWS SHE IS OUT OF LINE, AND NOW SHE IS SUCKING BOB JOHNSONS DICK. BOB JOHNSON IS A DISLOYAL FUCK, AND YES HE IS ENTITLED TO HIS OWN OPINION, AND SO AM I SO ON THAT NOTE BOB JOHNSON IS TRYIN TO GET ON HILARY’S SIDE TO GET CAMPAIN SHINE. FUKIN DICK HEAD. OBAMA IS A LEADER, AND HE EXPERIMENTED WHEN HE WAS HOW OLD, THE FACT IS HE HAS GROWN, AND IS TRYING TO LEAD THIS COUNTRY FOR THE BETTER, IF BOB JOHNSON WANTS TO PULL PEOPLES CARD HE SHOULD CHECK BILL CLINTON, AND HILARY. PEACE YALL.
January 15th, 2008 at 12:02 pm
But again how could you not know he was a house n*gga when B.E.T is one of the biggest sell-outs to the Black community. The youth Watch’n BET nowadays is like taking poison. Lack of substance and education. Something that is much needed in our community.
January 15th, 2008 at 1:14 pm
1.sometimes i just dont like being black….no reason 4 him 2
go at obama
2.Hillary Clinton’s words were and i quote”If it wasn’t for president Johnson civil rights would have never ended because all mlk had was a dream”
3.wow if your black and you dont find that as a form of disrespect your pretty much an idiot
January 15th, 2008 at 1:29 pm
fuck bob johnson for, one, selling bet to viacom on his greedy shit. gonna sell out his people for another couple million when he already rich. and two, for not supporting a worth black candidate to be president over the white lady.
if we have a racial draft ala dave chappele, they can have that nigga.
January 15th, 2008 at 1:46 pm
Bob is full of shit and i think everyone knows it. He sold BET which was the one platform we had to get our point across. I cant think of the last time i watched anything on BET. They need to change the damn name of the station because its not black entertainment anymore. But wait, maybe they shoould keep the initials (Black Exploitation Television)… that sounds about right.
January 15th, 2008 at 1:49 pm
Fuck Bobby Johnson!
January 15th, 2008 at 2:23 pm
wow i’m proud and impressed to see that alot of people here feel the way i feel. i didnt think ya’ll would
he woulda felt sum kinda way had we all supported MTV and turned our back on BET. but we supported him because of the name BLACK ENTERTAINMENT TELEVISION. witout any questions and he led weak minded youth down a negative spiral. then sold to the highest bidder just like a slave.
bob you can have your opinion but whatever u are involved with will get no support from me from here on out
January 15th, 2008 at 3:10 pm
FUCK BET! VOTE BARACK!
January 15th, 2008 at 3:19 pm
Yo on the real that BET dude is a coon for the powers that be…they will do anything and use anyone to fail obama! Dude got BET so he got some power so he thinks….this whole politics shit is twisted and everybody playin their part…fuck it vote for Obama! let the white house get some color!!
January 15th, 2008 at 3:26 pm
ohh yeah!!!was up wit dem rappers??where is diddy vote or die slogan ????r they all for clinton?even the reps?wassupp..???!!!get got so much power yet they are not using it.why?!!maybe they have to stay silence???what yoa think?
January 15th, 2008 at 4:49 pm
I have never eeever gave two shits about BET, but anyway: FUCK Bob Johnson.
January 15th, 2008 at 5:49 pm
Im sorry, but all this “Vote Barack” & “Vote Clinton”, is so f*cking pointless and stupid…Regardless of who wins from the democratic party, they still have to compete with the republican party…And if any of you people think that America is going to vote a female or a black man OVER a white man in the republican party (Giuliani/Romney), in the final election, you’re all really fooling yourselves…At the end of the day Giuliani is going to take the whole thing…And the republicans will come out on top again…Watch…
January 15th, 2008 at 7:21 pm
Coonery lives on…..Esco needs to hurry up with that Nigger Album…Bob Johnson should be lynched along with Magic Johnson, and the rest of these Jungle Bunnies with influence that are quiet as fuck…..
Mi Mi you need to know that the voting shit matters….
January 15th, 2008 at 8:05 pm
#27 u are absolutely right where are the rappers they mouths are closed do to the fact they dont wanna piss off there white friends who they work with to do business deals our people are becoming a joke we say we wanna be equal and we want a better country but when a man comes along a black man who clearly knows what hes talking about we do not support him if not him who then another one will not come along for another 100 yrs maybe