AP Story on Ex-Alabama Gov. Siegelman's Return to Prison Almost Comple

August 4th, 2012 2:58 PM
The Associated Press carried two stories on Friday about the attempt by and ultimate failure of former Alabama Governor Don Siegelman to avoid going back to prison. In the first, ahead of that day's hearing, AP reporter Bob Johnson failed to mention Siegelman's Democratic Party affiliation. In the second, Johnson managed to get Democratic Party references designed to raise what appear to be…

BET Founder: Election of Obama ‘Greater Than the Emancipation Procla

June 4th, 2008 1:37 PM
BET founder Bob Johnson, despite his consistent support of Hillary Clinton, placed an unequivocal importance on Barack Obama’s election as President during a segment on Wednesday’s "American Morning." "I believe that if Senator Obama leads this country the way he ran the primary, it will become a historic event for African-Americans, probably greater than the Emancipation Proclamation, which was…

BET Founder: 'Liberal Media' Want Obama to Win

April 18th, 2008 11:47 AM
The continuing left-wing furor over George Stephanopoulos's perfectly valid question about Barack Obama's associations with a known terrorist reminded me of something I wanted to blog earlier in the week before it erupted: an admission of a leftward bias on the part of the media from BET founder Bob Johnson.Interviewed by the Charlotte Observer Tuesday, Johnson said that the "liberal media" want…

CNN’s Martin Takes Hillary, BET Founder To Task Over Obama Comments

January 14th, 2008 1:28 PM
Roland Martin, a CNN contributor and talk radio host out of Chicago, blasted Hillary Clinton and some of her supporters on Monday’s "American Morning" over recent comments they made about Martin Luther King, Jr. and Barack Obama. Martin, responding to Clinton’s comment that MLK’s dream " began to be realized when President Lyndon Johnson passed the Civil Rights Act of 1964," countered by bringing…