"It seemed to me to be like a product of extreme sexism, and 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. Nobody would even talk about it."—Scarlett Johansson, on the ludicrous media coverage of her comments about exchanging emails with Barack Obama.
(Of course, if she had been Kal Penn or George Clooney, Obama probably wouldn't have implied she was a love-struck cuckoo, either. Which didn't exactly help her out.)
[Thanks to Iain for passing that along.]
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