The Chicago Tribune swings at Bob Johnson "Now, wait one cotton-picking, bootylicious minute"

[wndycty]

The writer makes some good points about Johnson and how he made his fortune, which makes him look like a hypocrite for going after Obama:

-snip-
Johnson made his fortune through a cable channel known in black America for showing so many rump-shaking music videos (videos with scantily clad women shaking their derrieres in the camera) that many people over the years have come to apply the term "bootylicious" to the genre of videos his channel showed.

Furthermore, many of those bootylicious hip-hop videos shown by his channel featured young male rappers whose subjects tended to run the very narrow gamut of guns, drugs, cars and women. (Did I mention drugs?)

Watch long enough and you'd likely see a "gangsta" light up a blunt, a marijuana stogie. This was the fare many black kids across America grew up on as they watched Mr. Johnson's channel.

For that reason, even though Johnson became that rarest of rare creatures, a black billionaire after he sold his channel to Viacom, there's ambivalence about him among many black Americans who viewed much of the programming on his channel as adding to many of black America's problems.

So casting even veiled aspersions on Obama over his youthful use of drugs will no doubt make many people who know Johnson's story and BET say "Now, wait one cotton-picking, bootylicious minute."
-snip-

http://www.swamppolitics.com/news/politics/blog/2008/01/obama_attacked_by_big_bobcat.html

[Bicoastal]

1. This may be off topic, but...

...wasn't Bob Johnson one of the names of that guy from "Space Mutiny"?

[jpgray]

5. Yes! Though I preferred Smoke ManMuscle

[Bicoastal]

9. Rib Steakface!

[annie1]

2. he's a mess. how unfortunate he surfaced. :(

[wndycty]

16. Not only did he surfuce the Clinton's put him on there for a reason. . .

. . .and he did what they asked.

[babylonsister]

3. That ain't the half of it:

I don't know what his agenda is, and that's worrisome, at least to me, but not to Clinton apparently.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=132&topic_id=4055810

[Colobo]

4. BET: Uncle Bob's Cabin.

[Radical Activist]

6. Is BET running the new Public Enemy video?

From the new album. I don't know.

[loveangelc]

7. I heard BET would not show a political music video because it was "too intelligent" for its target.

[alittlelark]

8. do you have a link?

[loveangelc]

10. yes

http://www.sohh.com/articles/article.php/7519

[alittlelark]

11. Your 2005 link does not say anything

it only the poses the question that it 'might have been said'.

Embarrassing link.

[loveangelc]

12. 1st, what does the date matter? 2nd, you only see what your eyes want to see.

you're sad.

[Tarheel_Dem]

13. Bob Johnson? What a credit he is to the race.....

Under his leadership, BET dropped news & political commentary. Apparently, keeping the black community informed wasn't as prosperous as rump shaking. He's a disgrace, just ask Tavis Smiley.

[BluegrassDem]

14. BET his horrible...Johnson oughta be ashamed for creating that junk

There's nothing on there worth even looking at. Just a bunch of crap videos and idiocy. There's no news at all. There's nothing informative for the black community. He's made billions off of peddling smut. As far as billionaires go, give me Oprah any day!!

[janetblond]

24. I agree .. Bob Johnson is a DISGRACE!

Bob Johnson is a disgrace to the public and his race!
BET smut peddler of:
gangsta rap,
boyz in da'hood videos which display scantily clad women dancing in sexually provactive ways bordering on porn; women who are referred to as b*tches and hos, songs full of vulgarities which demonstrate no respect for black women or the black community in general.
This is the man who brought us the "N" word on a silver platter via his network, BET!
He's got some NERVE turning against his own. Black against black!
SHAME on Bob Johnson!
Shame!
And ... I'm very disappointed in Hillary.
What on earth was she thinking?
My god, woman!! Have some respect!
What a mess!
An UNNECCESARY mess ...
Democraps playing the race card?
Oh NOOOO!!
And this is only January!!

[gdaerin]

15. I read that, very well written, this guy is pathetic!

[cali]

17. Gee, where are all the Clintonites

who were defending him yesterday?

[bigdarryl]

18. there talking about this exact thing on black radio as we speak

[Bodhi BloodWave]

19. Out of curiosity, any ideas how someone from Norway might be able to listen in? n/t

[wndycty]

20. Streaming. . .

. . .when we are talking about Black radio we are not talking about one station. I would assume you google and stream Radio One, Tom Joyner, WVON-AM, Michael Baidsen, Al Sharpton, etc.

[Bodhi BloodWave]

22. Thanks, time to start searching for a few streams then :)

[Didereaux]

21. those 'racist' bastards! Cotton picking? Bootylicious! those are black terms'

yeah thats sarcasm children ... well in part anyway

[Tarheel_Dem]

23. Ed Schultz is talking about this now....

I usually listen to Thom Hartmann in this timeslot, but I didn't switch over because John Kerry's his guest today.

[live love laugh]

25. I don't know what Johnson said but BET played/plays the same videos as MTV. -eom-