Bob Johnson, billionaire founder of BET, lashed out against Barack Obama’s presidential campaign today in South Carolina at Columbia College, saying that the campign distorted remarks made by Hillary Clinton about Martin Luther King Jr. Clinton was quoted saying that Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream of racial equality was only established when President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

Johnson is one of Hillary Clinton’s most prominent black supporters.

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