Obama Downplays Scarlett Johansson Emails

Scarlett Johansson, a big supporter of Barack Obama, recently gushed that she frequently trades emails with the presidential candidate. Obama, however, is downplaying the notion that he walks in such lofty circles:

As he headed to a Hollywood fundraiser, Sen. Barack Obama downplayed the idea that he hobnobs with actress Scarlett Johansson...

...speaking to reporters aboard his campaign plane, Obama said the actress doesn't have his personal email address. "She sent one email to Reggie, who forwarded it to me," Obama said, referring to his 26-year-old personal assistant, Reggie Love. "I write saying, 'thank you Scarlett for doing what you do,' and suddenly we have this email relationship"

Comments

[scornflakes]

Can we all finally agree that we need to change the name "Internet" to "Scarlett Johansson"?

[RussT]

I am glad he caved in and started wearing the American Flag pin.

[Jason357]

Yeah, I'm impressed too. What have we become??

[ThePodiumIsMine]

Ah, the level of seriousness displayed by the libtards is truly amazing.
You keep yourselves busy with your fantasies, hatemongering and violent wishes. The rest of us will continue with real life and with protecting everyone, you 'tards included.

[zippywpinhead]

blah, blah, blah...

[WIpatriot]

Have dias, will travel.

[SeriousBlack]

Sorry but if by the "rest of us" you mean all of you "conservatards" that are getting down into the low 20's percent of the population, you won't be controlling ANYthing, much less "protecting everyone".

Get used to it.

[CindyM2008]

Conservatard, lol.
Good one.

[cindyw]

Protecting us? You'd eliminate us if you could. You must be very frightened.

[CindyM2008]

It's good to see you can access the internet from under your bed.
Be sure to put your tin foil hat back on.

[Crake]

*STOP THE FUCKEN PRESS* =D

[Burkelbile]

Off with Zsa Zsa's head, and the lame editors she hires to post this garbage!!!!

D'avec sa tête !

[Burkelbile]

Until this site regains any of it's original scope & integrity,
Throw Zsa Zsa Huff "under the bus" (hackneyed cliche alert!!!)

[continental]

MIsleading headline but lovely picture of a lovely woman.

[Glacial]

The headline makes no sense. "Thrown under a bus?" Is this the media's way of slapping at Obama for daring to point out the whole 'Scarlett-Obama email relationship' they created doesn't actually exist?

[Goldie9]

Maybe Michelle has put her foot down about any further e-mail exchanges between the two... that's not exactly like being "thrown under the bus" when you're exchanging e-mails with a married man!

[WIpatriot]

...or not.

[learnsomething]

It is a made up story. Obama's assistant emailed Scarlet a note of thanks and encourgement for her participation in Obama's campaign. Nothing more. His assistant has emailed millions of people with the same letter of thanks.

[NotMcCain]

This may shock you, but married men and single women exchange email professionally all the time. Why, I bet its even happened in this very government 10,000 times a day!

And "Yes, those questions were silly. Thanks so much for your support" isn't exactly "Come with me to the Casbah!"

When Huffpo turns to MSM-style smear efforts and innuendo (and it happens too often), its always a sad day.

[bostongreen]

however, this story should be in entertainment, not on the front page.

[chronic]

Is Huffpo losing it? I mean really!

[bostongreen]

c'mon folks, let's face the facts, huffpo is a tabloid/news portal and you LOVE every single minute of it. Otherwise you wouldn't be here, would ya? :)

[BrianMac]

And your point being...?

I can't say "bad words" because of filters in your comments application but you publish this tripe?

Your choice to run this vapidness is a "bad word" in and of itself. Take your pick of one.

[Marlyn]

Waaaaaa says BrianMac, I want to use bad words.

[grapesofmath]

How dumb is this? I thought "throwing someone under the bus" amounted to seriously defaming them and thier character....not lightly brushing off one's personal exchanges with someone.
Is this the new HuffPo? Political TMZ?

[TuneOutTheMedia]

Please grow up. This is not a story. This has no merit. Please exercise more stringent journalistic standards.