Bob "Beelzebub" Johnson Calls Barack Obama Bourgie

"I don't think he has that common -- what I call `I-want-to-go-out-and-have-a-drink-with-you -- touch," Bob Johnson on Barack Obama.

Hold on a second while I pick myself up off the floor. Hold on another sec I'm back on the floor laughing.Talking about pots calling kettles "BLACK!." Bob "my kinds don't watch BET" Johnson had the nervie to call Barack Obama "bourgie" ( alternate spelling bougie).

bourgie (boo'-zhee) adj. an adjective form of bourgeoisie or alternate for bourgeois (as used in Marxist analysis, rather than its French origin) usually employed in a pejorative sense. alt. spelling bougie. That new bourgie coffee shop is just full of people drinking double skinny lattes.The Urban Dictionary

Oh look, HIllary Clinton let Bob Johnson come from out of the bunker she threw him in after his wildly popular comments he made about Barack Obama doing drugs from a South Carolina pulpit back in January. He is at it again saying Obama does not have "ze common touch."

[B]illionaire businessman Bob Johnson said Monday that Sen. Barack Obama would not be his party's leading candidate if he were white. "Geraldine Ferraro said it right. The problem is, Geraldine Ferraro is white. This campaign has such a hair-trigger on anything racial ... it is almost impossible for anybody to say anything....So Obama comes in and runs a smart campaign. But that's not the Second Coming, in my opinion, of John F. Kennedy, FDR or the world's greatest leaders." Charlotte Observer

NO seriously, how much does Johnson stand to gain if Hillary is elected, how much does he stand to lose if Obama wins because y'all know the only thing Bob Beelzebub Johnson cares about is money. The man who made his money off of being Black and Black people.

"Bitter-GATE"
Well for those of you who have been under a rock, last week Obama was attending a swanky fund raiser in San Francisco and he went "off prompter". We have previously discussed the dangers of Obama going off script on the podcast ("Barack Obama's Church", March 20, 2008)

Well Barack went off and said that the White working class voters in Pennsylvania are "bitter" and cling to God and guns. OUCH! Well of course Hillary and McCain have pounced on that.
A couple of weeks ago, Obama talked about teenage girls being "punished with a baby". So he has some issues with word choice:

"I said people were bitter," Obama said. "People seemed to misunderstand. Yes, people are angry. If you've been filling up your gas tank, you're angry."You've got to feel some frustration. You've got to feel some anger," he said, "when you get the sense that the ...American way of life for so many people is slipping away." Source

But again, of all the people to speak about Obama being out of touch, Bob Johnson is the LAAAAST person to say a word.

Here is the deal. Obama is the Democratic nominee. Short of a miracle or the apocalypse, Clinton can't beat him in pledged delegates and the Supers are not so idiotic and stupid that they will sacrifice the party to stop John McCain. It isn't necessary considering they may very well be increasing their margin in the Senate and with the help of moderate republicans, they could keep McCain on the ropes of four years. So making lemons out of Bittergate by continuing to make sure that you alienate White rural voters and assist the Republicans in painting him as the second coming of John Kerry is helpful how? Oh yeah, it stops people from talking about that whole " you weren't really fired at on that Trip to Bosnia after all" scandal. P.S. Expect Bob Johnson to go BACK in the bunker.

What Happens When Johnson Tries to Make Money Off Of Someone Other Than Black folk

You see I've previously covered that BET was a success because it was the first and only. You can't take that away from the man, he built a business empire, but so have arms dealers, moonshine men, sex traffickers, and drug dealers (oops did I just say Bob Johnson and drug dealer in the same sentence?...He won't mind, he talks about drug dealers and Obama all the time!) Well anyway, he is having yet another problem with professional sports teams in Charlotte. Things aren't going well apparently:

Charlotte's business community has fallen short in its support of the Charlotte Bobcats, majority owner Bob Johnson said Monday, leading him to ask executives across the region to pony up more money for tickets, suites and sponsorships.

"I am absolutely concerned," Johnson told the Observer in an interview. "I am doing everything I can to make this team work, including writing a lot of checks." Charlotte Observer

Um Bob, you are a good capitalist. Isn't that what you are always saying in response to criticisms that your entertainment empire was built by glorifying B*tches, Bullets and Bling.? Capitalists and entrepreneurs can go it alone without government subsidies, set asides, or guilt money. You'll be fine, you've built businesses in the past without relying on those things...oh sorry, no you haven't. Yes, yes. Keep writing checks. while you are at it, you should buy a Major League Soccer team as well and name that team after yourself too.

A self-made billionaire who founded Black Entertainment Television network -- then became a candidate to own an NBA expansion team in Charlotte. When he went back to the same Charlotte business leaders for help with the $300 million expansion fee, he said, none would commit. That made him question if there was ever enough local ownership interest to make up the other 49 percent in the two Hornets bids. "It really wasn't the reception I thought I was going to get," he said. Source

AAAAW That hurts my heart. Don't worry y'all he is still one of Viacom's largest shareholders, he has plenty of money. Well if you think we are harsh with Johnson on THIS Blog, wait until you read what some Charlotte sports fans have to say:

First of all Johnson is not a billionaire.Second of all, Johnson also proves that a person does not need to be smart to make a lot of money.Johnson needs to stop whining about his losses. No city is going to support a losing team. He got off on the wrong foot by allowing Jordan to run his basketball operations. Just because Jordan could jump high and make players look stupid on the court does not mean that he can run a basketball team. Go ask the Wizards. They have been a decent team since Jordan was "let go". I have not given the Bobcats a dime and I will not be giving them a dime until they get their act together. One more thing - people stop making this a racial issue. Johnson just happens to be a black man who made millions of dollars with BET showing exploitive music videos. Now he is a black man who cannot make any money with an NBA team because he has allowed another black man with no success in the front office to run it. Now he has black and white fans who do not want to spend a bunch of money to watch a sorry product on the floor.
Comment from the Charlotte Observer.

Previous Posts on Bob Johnson's Obama Jabs:
Am I Going To Have to Get An "Obama" T-shirt? - Bob Johnson is Still The DeviL
YouTubers Beating the Crap Out of Bob Beelzebub Johnson
News Roundup-Clinton Obama Call for Truce- Bob Johnson STILL Thinks Black Folks and Everbody Else is STUPID!

Baracky The Movie
We aren't Obama acolytes around here, but I thought this was a hysterical YouTube. I was actually wondering if it was a neutral video until the end because it showed both of the candidates giving as good as they got.

Join Us Tomorrow (Thursdsay, April 17th) For the Podcast

This week on the podcast, (Thursday at 8:00PM CST) We will be talking about this week's campaign developments. The topic will be "Bitter-GATE". We'll talk about Hillary suddenly becoming a duck hunter, Bob Johnson's comments AND we'll also be talking about Tavis Smiley quitting the tom Joyner morning show allegedly because he has been catching fire/ hateration behind his Barack Obama comments. So Join us from 8 to 9:00 on tomorrow night on our internet radio show and podcast,The Black Women's Roundtable. You can participate as a guest by calling 646-478-4750 or join us in the chat room.

Dear Obama Stans...HIllary is Doing This ON PURPOSE

I tried to break this down to Shecodes in emails since the Obama stans have driven all discussion about campaign strategy from the blog with their "Y'all just a bunch of race traitorin' Black wimmin." talk just because we question some of his campaign decisions and criticized his silence on crimes against Black women and girls, but I thought I would share this with the rest of my readers despite the high risk of additional Obama stan incursions.

Now I have already told y'all about the lunacy of "racial transcendentalism"- which quite frankly I find insulting. My race is not some impediment to leap over or obstacle to be avoided or held at arms length.

Anty-way, Black bloggers and Obama stans have been in a tizzy chronicling every single utterance by a Clinton supporter or Billary themselves that may have racial overtones.(Jack and Jill Politics: Here's another one for the ' Isolated Incidents' File)

I have read a dozen posts or more by Black bloggers about "A Pattern Developing". Even if there is a pattern, your focusing on the Clinton's racial slights is doing more damage to Obama than Billary.

How Gina? Well folks, the whole point of Obama's ability to "transcend" (ie., "leap over", "avoid", "ignore") race is that White Obama supporters get a "get our of racial tension free" card. You see to many of them, Obama represented not having to deal with irritating charges of racism. Those of you trying to establish a pattern, if you have to establish a pattern, that means the racism isn't glaring and quite frankly, the object of the discrimination or prejudice is far more likely to detect the offense than those who are not the object.

The easiest example is my recent interaction (ie, cyber brawls) with Black male bloggers who are incapable of seeing their own sexism when you hold it up to their faces... White folks just don't pick up "the pattern." At least not the White people who are on the fringes of Obama's support. The more he whines about race, the more he looks like the dreaded Jesse Jackson or my favorite pompadoured preacher... Rev. AL Sharpton. The more y'all beat the drumbeat trying to make Hillary Clinton into George Wallace, the more you shave off votes from Obama.

Watch. Y'all might rile up Black SC voters, but at what cost? I still think he can pound the crap out of Bob Johnson on a number of grounds- not the least of which is that Bob Johnson had a reputation for paying his workers slave wages.

Commence caterwauling!

Am I Going To Have to Get An "Obama" T-shirt? - Bob Johnson is Still The DeviL

Of all the people to attack Barack Obama and defend Billary's racial street cred, tell me WHY? WHY? WHY? did they have to drag out Bob Johnson, multimedia crack cocaine dealer, hater of working class Black people, and exploiter of African American women and children? They are either desperate, stupid, or out of touch to believe that such a reviled figure such as smut peddling Bob Johnson would provide them cover in the Black community. She might as well have grabbed Don Imus to come stump with her in South Carolina.

Oh yes my people, BOB JOHNSON had the audacity to TRY to attack Barack Obama. Now Y'all know that I am no fan of Barack Obama- I don't thin Obama cares anymore about working class Black folks than any of the other candidates. I also find many of his most fervent supporters well... annoying with their "support Barack or ELSE" mentality, but you could have knocked me over with a feather when these comments by Bob "Beelzebub" Johnson started cropping up on the wires.

"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. SOURCE

Oh the VIDEO is worse!

“to say these two people would denigrate the accomplishments of civil rights marchers… and to expect us to now say we are attacking a black man? I mean, that kind of campaign behavior does not resonate with me, for a guy who says ‘I wanna be a reasonable, likeable, Sidney Portier ‘Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner’?’ I’m thinking to myself, ‘this ain’t a movie Sydney, this is real life!’” SOURCE

Well Bobby J. To me as an African American woman, i am insulted that you think working class Black people and their children, their daughters in particular, are stupid and disposable. If Bill and Hillary are so DEEPLY and emotionally involved in Black issues, then how emotional are they about the degradation of Black woman and girls by YOU?

Your reputation cannot be redeemed. You are what you have always been: A Parasite!

Here is a letter I drafted in response. Feel free to spread it around. This is ridiculous!

Today Bob Johnson, founder of (BET)Black Exploitation Television, made comments about Senator Barack Obama while campaigning with Senator Hillary Clinton in South Carolina, in her quest to become President of the United States. Of all the people she could have stood side by side with today, why Bob Johnson? On the eve of the possibility of electing the first African American or woman as President of the United States, why on earth would Hillary Clinton associate herself with a man that has spent his life’s work trying to profit of the exploitation of African Americans, African American women and girls in particular?

Bob Johnson stands for everything Hillary Clinton OUGHT to be against. This man single-handedly set the cause of African Americans back hundreds of years. His exploitation of Black women and girls is particularly morally repugnant. Hillary Clinton is supposed to be a defender of the American worker, yet Bob Johnson made his billions at Black Entertainment Television by notoriously paying his on air talent slave wages.

To be sitting up in a the pulpit of a Black church grinning and laughing side by side with this multimedia crack cocaine dealer and pimp is the slap in the face of every Black woman and girl in this country.

Instead of repeating Bob Johnson’s comments on Senator Obama wholesale, reporters should be asking him about the circumstances under which his wife and BET cofounder left the company. They should ask him about his “relations” with the female executives at his company. They should ask him why his own sister allegedly sued him and whether Johnson properly paid his taxes. All of these issues are raised in Johnson’s biography, The Billion-Dollar Bet. Bob Johnson is not an African American leader, he is a bottom feeder.

Let us not forget that for SIX YEARS Bob Johnson skirting broadcasting rules to broadcast some of the most vile disgusting depictions of African American women in cable television history. BET’s “ Uncut “ featured such cultural gems as:

“What That Thing Smell Like”, by Black Jesus
Shake It Like a Pitbull, by Cold Cannons
F@#king, by David Banner feat. Jazze Pha -
“P#$$y Licker“, DJ Slim -
“I Got That Drank“, Frayser Boy feat. Mike Jones and Paul Wall -
“Let Me See You’re @$$ Drop“, Joker the Bailbondsman -
“P#$$y Poppin'“, by Ludacris feat. Shawnna and Lil Fate

This is not okay. Would Hillary Clinton sit in a church pulpit with Larry Flint or Hugh Hefner? Then why is she sitting in a pulpit with Bob Johnson? Or is she only concerned about the degradation and exploitation of White women? Does her brand of feminism extend to Black women and girls too?

When Hillary Clinton sits side by side in an African American church with a noted misogynist and smut peddler she sends a clear message: she’s not overly concerned about the damage this man has caused African American girls and women. Does Senator Clinton care about our daughters? I don’t know. The Senator should seriously reconsider the company she is keeping. Bob Johnson is no friend of Black America or Black women and children!


Message to Obama/Clinton Stans Visiting the Site for the First Time
For all of the Obama supporters coming to read this post, we ain't fans of his either in fact we find his most ardent supporters insufferable, yet we tolerate them anyway for entertainment purposes only. We mainly are unhappy with him for his complete and utter silence about a case in West Palm Beach, Florida- Dunbar Village. Obama has no problem speaking out on behalf of young Black male criminals like the Jena 6 and Genarlow Wilson- Black women who are victims of crime...not so much. He, Hillary Clinton, and John Edwards all know about Dunbar Village and have been radio silent about this horrific crime. THEIR SILENCE IS IMMORAL- If you get the chance ask Edwards, Clinton and Obama about Dunbar Village.

The point of the post is that as disappointed as I am in Obama, Bob Johnson is the Devil. Satan. Beelzebub. A living embodiment of evil. I hold Bob Johnson indirectly responsible for the Dunbar Villages of this world because he built a business by dehumanizing Black women for profit and promoting a pro pimp, pro prison, pro violence, pro drug, anti woman, anti education, anti social culture.

You can read most of our Obama-Clinton posts here. The posts from last November were particularly interesting as we had a brawl with some Obamacolytes.

Bob Johnson... Go Sit Down Somewhere and Count Your Billions - Bob Johnson Attacks Congressman for Telling the Truth

I know some of y'all feel as if I pick on THAT NETWORK, but believe you me, I would nothing more than to ignore them, but they keep doing STUPID STUFF. Bob Johnson, Multimedia crack dealer himself just can't sit back and count the billions. Johnson, who apparently was too busy to attend the hearings last week had the AUDACITY to try to cry racism when Congressman Markey gave a pretty accurate description of BET. All the Congressman said was :

He was encouraged by BET’s new shows, but said, “Frankly, it has a long way to go to make up for much of its previous programming.” SOURCE

Now Bob Johnson, who we already know is a control freak, responded with a disproportionate response filled with foolishness. It is hard to fake moral indignation when everybody knows that you are IMMORAL

“Your unjustified and ill-informed attack on BET’s programming . . . suggests you know what is best for Black people, and in this case what Black people want to or need to see,” Johnson wrote in the letter, according to Broadcast & Cable Magazine. “And (it) is also a vivid example of why we need to keep the government out of free and creative expression.”

Um isn't Bob Johnson describing BET's executive leadership? Aren't they the ones that ignore the pleas of Black people as a matter of course and determine what Black people want or need to see? When has BET EVER been interested in what we NEED to see? Isn't Bob Johnson's letter a vivid example of why he needs to keep counting his billions and buying up losing sports franchises. Oh but Bobby J didn't stop there, he decided to go all BLACK POWER on Markey:

BET founder Robert Johnson, who fired off a terse letter to Markey’s office, hammering the congressman’s criticism as rooted in “liberal white paternalism.”

Okay folks, I just need to you jot a quick e-mail to basically say: Bob Johnson is wrong and Markey is right. Because Bob is trying to all of a sudden be DOWN for the cause running around calling people "white liberal paternalists"Nah, that would be YOU Bob Johnson!

You can call Markey's Washington, DC office at 202.225.2836 or email

Now the hearings were a complete dog and pony show, BET had NOTHING to worry about coming out of those hearings, but Bobby J is such a megalomaniac, that he couldn't stomach a scintilla of forgotten criticism ( I mean when David Banner is on tape acting a FOOL, who cares what Markey said?). He could have just kept counting his billions instead of writing letter, nobody would have even paid attention to, but NO, he has to keep fighting to stay relevant. Don't you have another "Who's Your Caddy to Produce?"

Seriously, don't let Johnson pull this foolishness, take three minutes to drop Congressman Markey an email or call to just respectfully disagree with Bob. I will be reading my letter to Congressman Markey on the WAOD Podcast this Thursday at 8:00PM CST. Oh it's another classic in the making.

Why can't BET just ACT RIGHT for like a month or something?

Hat Tip to Essential Presence

Read the original article in the industry-friendly Broadcasting and Cable.