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usmagazine.com - 8/6/2008

Scarlett Johansson Blames "Extreme Sexism" for Hoopla Over Obama E-Mails

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Scarlett Johansson is blaming "extreme sexism" for the hoopla made over her comments that she had an e-mail relationship with Barack Obama . "I kept thinking to myself, 'God, if this was just, like, Kal Penn or George Clooney , or any of the other [Obama] surrogates or supporters ... there wouldn't be [any] question about it," the actress, 23, tells the Associated Press. "Nobody would even talk about it." In June, Johansson said she had a "personal dialogue," via email, with the ...

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