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BET Founder: Election of Obama ‘Greater Than the Emancipation Proclamation’
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/matthew-balan/2008/06/04/bet-founder-election-obama-greater-emancipation-proclamation ^

Posted on 06/04/2008 1:56:34 PM PDT by chessplayer

BET founder Bob Johnson, despite his consistent support of Hillary CObama’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 signed in 1863."linton, placed an unequivocal importance on Barack

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 2008electionbias; bet; bobjohnson; hyperbole; liberalbigot; lincolnlegacy; revisionisthistory; yellowjournalism; zogbyism
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1 posted on 06/04/2008 1:56:34 PM PDT by chessplayer
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To: chessplayer

Why’d he?


2 posted on 06/04/2008 1:57:42 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (Given such dismal choices, I guess I'll vote for the old guy.)
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To: chessplayer

When Hussein loses the election there might be some unrest.


3 posted on 06/04/2008 1:58:07 PM PDT by unkus
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To: chessplayer

... AND ... if Obama loses, what will be be accused of?


4 posted on 06/04/2008 1:58:16 PM PDT by BunnySlippers (Buy a Mac ...)
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To: chessplayer

A little hyperbole never hurt anyone.


5 posted on 06/04/2008 1:58:34 PM PDT by Non-Sequitur
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To: unkus
When Hussein loses the election there might be some unrest.

Vote Obama...or else!


6 posted on 06/04/2008 1:59:17 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (Given such dismal choices, I guess I'll vote for the old guy.)
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To: chessplayer

I personally think BO will suffer Arkancide before the election. Hil of course will shed tons of croc tears......


7 posted on 06/04/2008 2:00:18 PM PDT by texson66 ("Tyranny is yielding to the lust of the governing." - Lord Moulton)
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To: Non-Sequitur
A little hyperbole never hurt anyone.

That's what you think. Most of my family was killed by hyperbole.

8 posted on 06/04/2008 2:01:24 PM PDT by KarlInOhio (Pray for Rattendaemmerung: the final mutually destructive battle between Obama and Hillary in Denver)
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To: chessplayer

That’s really interesting but what does the founder of White Entertainment Television have to say?


9 posted on 06/04/2008 2:01:30 PM PDT by Salamander (And don't forget my Dog; fixed and consequent......)
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To: chessplayer

The only thing that matters is the color of his skin, and it just may get him elected.


10 posted on 06/04/2008 2:01:49 PM PDT by Spok
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To: chessplayer

Was BET always owned by Viacommie?


11 posted on 06/04/2008 2:02:13 PM PDT by weegee (In 1988 Lenora Fulani was the 1st black woman to appear on presidential ballots in all 50 states)
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To: KarlInOhio

I feel terrible about LMAO at that.


12 posted on 06/04/2008 2:02:25 PM PDT by Salamander (And don't forget my Dog; fixed and consequent......)
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To: chessplayer

I thought Obama was half white.


13 posted on 06/04/2008 2:02:36 PM PDT by cll (Carthage must be destroyed)
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To: chessplayer

Did Jeremiah Wright just buy a home next door to Bob Johnson?


14 posted on 06/04/2008 2:02:39 PM PDT by TexasCajun
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To: Salamander
That’s really interesting but what does the founder of White Entertainment Television have to say?

Lawrence Welk passed away many years ago.

15 posted on 06/04/2008 2:03:16 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (Given such dismal choices, I guess I'll vote for the old guy.)
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To: chessplayer
What absolute Bravo Sierra.

Obama supports welfare/entitlement/and social initiatives that keep the blacks (and any other group of people that buys into their dependency) in abject economic bondage, wholly dependent on politicians to cut their piece of the pie out of the public largess.

Barack Hussein Obama does not represent any way shape or form of freeing or improving the plight of his "brothers and sisters", rather, he represents keeping them down on his plantation and they do not even recognize it.

THE AUDACITY OF TRUTH ABOUT BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA

16 posted on 06/04/2008 2:03:19 PM PDT by Jeff Head (Freedom is not free...never has been, never will be. (www.dragonsfuryseries.com))
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To: Salamander

Ted Turner has not made a comment yet.


17 posted on 06/04/2008 2:04:03 PM PDT by weegee (In 1988 Lenora Fulani was the 1st black woman to appear on presidential ballots in all 50 states)
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To: cll
I thought Obama was half white.

According to Rush, he is a Halfrican American.

18 posted on 06/04/2008 2:04:20 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (Given such dismal choices, I guess I'll vote for the old guy.)
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To: chessplayer
Johnson should go back and read the Emancipation Proclamation again.

It only freed slaves in Confederate territories, with the exception of a few counties, and did not free slaves in the North at all.

By the President of the United States of America:
A PROCLAMATION

Whereas on the 22nd day of September, A.D. 1862, a proclamation was issued by the President of the United States, containing, among other things, the following, to wit:

"That on the 1st day of January, A.D. 1863, all persons held as slaves within any State or designated part of a State the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free; and the executive government of the United States, including the military and naval authority thereof, will recognize and maintain the freedom of such persons and will do no act or acts to repress such persons, or any of them, in any efforts they may make for their actual freedom.

"That the executive will on the 1st day of January aforesaid, by proclamation, designate the States and parts of States, if any, in which the people thereof, respectively, shall then be in rebellion against the United States; and the fact that any State or the people thereof shall on that day be in good faith represented in the Congress of the United States by members chosen thereto at elections wherein a majority of the qualified voters of such States shall have participated shall, in the absence of strong countervailing testimony, be deemed conclusive evidence that such State and the people thereof are not then in rebellion against the United States."

Now, therefore, I, Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States, by virtue of the power in me vested as Commander-In-Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States in time of actual armed rebellion against the authority and government of the United States, and as a fit and necessary war measure for supressing said rebellion, do, on this 1st day of January, A.D. 1863, and in accordance with my purpose so to do, publicly proclaimed for the full period of one hundred days from the first day above mentioned, order and designate as the States and parts of States wherein the people thereof, respectively, are this day in rebellion against the United States the following, to wit:

Arkansas, Texas, Louisiana (except the parishes of St. Bernard, Palquemines, Jefferson, St. John, St. Charles, St. James, Ascension, Assumption, Terrebone, Lafourche, St. Mary, St. Martin, and Orleans, including the city of New Orleans), Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, and Virginia (except the forty-eight counties designated as West Virginia, and also the counties of Berkeley, Accomac, Morthhampton, Elizabeth City, York, Princess Anne, and Norfolk, including the cities of Norfolk and Portsmouth), and which excepted parts are for the present left precisely as if this proclamation were not issued.

And by virtue of the power and for the purpose aforesaid, I do order and declare that all persons held as slaves within said designated States and parts of States are, and henceforward shall be, free; and that the Executive Government of the United States, including the military and naval authorities thereof, will recognize and maintain the freedom of said persons.

And I hereby enjoin upon the people so declared to be free to abstain from all violence, unless in necessary self-defence; and I recommend to them that, in all case when allowed, they labor faithfully for reasonable wages.

And I further declare and make known that such persons of suitable condition will be received into the armed service of the United States to garrison forts, positions, stations, and other places, and to man vessels of all sorts in said service.

And upon this act, sincerely believed to be an act of justice, warranted by the Constitution upon military necessity, I invoke the considerate judgment of mankind and the gracious favor of Almighty God.


19 posted on 06/04/2008 2:04:27 PM PDT by DBrow
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To: chessplayer

I think it’s too much chronic, dearest wife says, no, it’s a head contusion.


20 posted on 06/04/2008 2:04:32 PM PDT by Petronski (Scripture & Tradition must be accepted & honored w/equal sentiments of devotion & reverence. CCC 82)
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