According to Rasmussen Reports, Barack Obama leads Hillary Clinton 66% to 16% among African-American voters. Ouch! That’s not good news for the wife of our “first black president.” What to do? Roll out a heavy-duty backer to bash Barack with a veiled comment about his drug use as a young man and remind African-Americans that the Clintons have their backs.

Here’s BET founder Bob Johnson, a Clinton supporter, taking the high road in a speech in Columbia, SC at Northminster Presbyterian Church.

Sound Bite: “As an African-American, I am frankly insulted that 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 that I won’t say what he was doing but he said it in his book . . . “