Bob Johnson has gone from calling Obama a drug addict at a rally to calling his victory in the Democratic nominee race as "greater than the Emancipation Proclamation." As full of compliments as he was on CNN, it was clear that he had a very specific agenda: lobbying to get Hillary Clinton the vice president spot. Lots of supporters have been taking to the airwaves to make this suggestion, although critics are saying that publicly strong-arming Obama into picking Clinton as his running mate will make him look terribly weak if he actually does pick her. Meanwhile, it seems that she and her more vocal supporters believe the vice presidency is owed to her. Why don't they just lay off and handle this behind the scenes?

Meanwhile, Obama has appointed Caroline Kennedy, former Deputy Attorney General Eric Holder and "longtime Washington insider" Jim Johnson to committee that will vet a short list of VP candidates.

HEEEERE'S BOBBY I don't know about you guys, but I sort of missed Bob Johnson's contribution to the political process!

'"What I believe Geraldine Ferraro meant is that if you take a freshman senator from Illinois called 'Jerry Smith' and he says I'm going to run for president, would he start off with 90 percent of the black vote?" Bob Johnson said to the Charlotte Observer. "And the answer is, probably not."

"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."'

In the same interview, he admitted that his vague statements last year about what Obama was doing "in the neighborhood" were a reference to Obama's admitted drug use and not his community organizing, as Johnson tried to convince an unbelieving public after his comments made the rounds.

• Now he's back to Sean Combs. And I have officially lost patience with all of this. [NB]

• Ah, satire. [OHN]

• Are the Clintons trying to call Obama's pro-choice stance into question, despite him getting a 100 percent rating from NARAL Pro-Choice America? [JJP]

• Busta Rhymes makes a deal and stays out of jail. [MTV]

• If you friend Ghostface on Myspace, you better buy his record, too. [SOHH]

• Get it together, Heat players. [MM]

The Tyra & Hillary moment is here! It's no surprise that Hillary Clinton is on stage for a full minute before Tyra allows her to speak, and it was only because Hill interrupted. They spent the first part of the segment discussing Hillary's "vulnerability," which is certainly not something a male candidate would have been forced to talk about. On the other hand, this entire visit seems to be orchestrated as an appeal to female voters. So it fit.

After the vulnerability bit, Tyra gets down to the heart of the election — "Do you wish Oprah was there for you?" The question was so stupid, because:

a)The woman has Bob Johnson stumping for her and making an ass of himself, of course she does

b) Who cares?

Props for Hillary for basically saying that supporters are nice but they don't follow you into the Oval Office. Minus points for later countering, "Well, Maya Angelou's for me." All in all, is it more or less hard to watch than Obama's Tyra interview in October? Before you answer that, check out the infidelity Q&A after the jump.

Preview: "Were you embarrased?" asks Tyra. "I would be embarrassed."

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Bob Johnson has finally apologized for the quote heard 'round the world. If you don't remember, it went a little something like this:

"As an African-American, I'm frankly insulted that the Obama campaign would imply that we are so stupid that we would think Bill and Hillary Clinton, who have been deeply and emotionally involved in black issues when Barack Obama was doing something in the neighborhood that — and I won't say what he was doing, but he said it in his book — when they have been involved."

Although Johnson claimed that he was referring to Obama's community-organizing, no one except for the most die hard of Hillary Clinton (or Bob Johnson) optimists actually believed that he wasn't referring to Obama's documented drug use. Since the "explain-it-away" tactic not only didn't work, but garnered even more criticism, the BET founder issued this apology yesterday.

"I'm writing to apologize to you and your family personally for the un-called-for comments I made at a recent Clinton event," Johnson said in a statement. "In my zeal to support Senator Clinton, I made some very inappropriate remarks for which I am truly sorry. I hope that you will accept this apology. Good luck on the campaign trail."

Apparently, Obama has accepted. And now Bob Johnson should stay the hell off of the microphone at campaign rallies. [CNN]

• Saved by the ingrown hairs! NYPD officers are now required to have a clean-shaven look. Black cops with shaving problems are exempt. No, really! [ND]

• Making the Band rears its ugly — who am I kidding — beautiful head once again. [MTV]

• Tracey Morgan hopes the writer's strike doesn't force him into a Chitlin' Circuit play with Cockroach from the Cosby Show. That makes two of us. [Defamer]

• Speaking of the writers strike, the NAACP Image Awards got a pass from the Writers Guild. [E!]

• I think we've all learned a valuable lesson about who should and shouldn't be stumping for presidential candidates. [XXL]

• People in Ocala, Fla., are like, "Whatever, Wesley Snipes." He goes on trial for tax evasion today. [TBO]

• Bob Johnson is like, "Whatever, Barack Obama." [NYT]

• The border patrol is trying hard to recruit blacks, who have been historically uninterested in the job. [HC]

• What are the chances DMX has $1.5 million lying around these days? [CM]

• Employees say the transit authority in Boston is racist, which I've heard is sort of a theme in the city. [BNOW]

• Bob Johnson recent experiences with racism come from white people not understanding how insanely, unimaginably rich he is. [WP]

• Despite Mychal Bell's conviction getting overthrown, protesters will still rally Thursday for the Jena 5. [BAW]

• I can't really be mad. The cash is really all 50 Cent has left. [ITN]

• Oh, the conundrum of American history — celebrating the beginning of our country means celebrating something else a lot more sinister. [DP]

• The NAACP continues to rally for a North Carolina black man they say is wrongly accused of raping and murdering a young woman. [WRAL]