BET founder Bob Johnson has blasted Democratic presidential candidate hopeful Barack Obama for his “distortion” of recent comments made by New York State Senator Hillary Clinton. Bob told the Associated Press that said he was insulted by the way Barack’s campaign twisted Clinton’s words concerning the Civil Rights movement. “That kind of campaign behavior would not be reasonable with me for a guy who says ‘I want to be a reasonable, likable, Sidney Poitier,’” Bob said.

Hillary recently said that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream of racial equality was realized only when President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Some black leaders have taken this remark to mean that Johnson deserved more credit than the slain civil rights leader for the passing and enacting of paramount civil rights legislation.

“To me, as an African-American, I am frankly insulted 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; I won’t say what he was doing, but he said it in his book - when they have been involved,” Johnson said.

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