Now, we have some comments by BET founder Bob Johnson that have reignited the flames.
If BET's faithful resent seeing white correspondents on the network, they will let Bob Johnson know.
Associated Press writer Bob Johnson contributed to this report from Montgomery, Ala.
Bob Johnson bristles at the criticism and calls it misplaced, insisting that BET has done plenty to improve the lot of black Americans--and he says that that isn't his job, anyway.
Billionaire businessman and BET founder Bob Johnson, a close adviser and friend to Clinton, also launched a campaign Wednesday to persuade Obama to offer Clinton the No. 2 spot, and the New York Observer on Wednesday used its editorial page to urge Obama to make Clinton his pick.
John McCain, Lindsey Graham, Kelly Ayotte, Pat Toomey, Bob Corker, Ron Johnson, Saxby Chambliss, Tom Coburn, John Hoeven, Dan Coats, Richard Burr and Mike Johanns.
Included, along with Mary Landrieu, Claire McCaskill , Joe Manchin, Ben Nelson and Debbie Stabenow, are Sherrod Brown (Ohio), Bob Casey (Pennsylvania), Tim Johnson (South Dakota), Tom Carper (Delaware), Kent Conrad (North Dakota), Amy Klobuchar (Minnesota), Jim Webb (Virginia), Carl Levin (Michigan) and John Rockefeller (West Virginia).
Tim Johnson, and former Republican Senate leader and 1996 presidential nominee Bob Dole.
"We are comforted by the knowledge we have brought our seven friends home, " said Bob Cabana, director of Flight Crew Operations at the Johnson Space Center in Houston.
Granted, it's not easy trying to run the Senate and run for president at the same time, as Bob Dole and Howard Baker (and before that, Lyndon Johnson) learned.
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