Melbourne
(ANI):
American
actress
Scarlett
Johansson
has
hit
out
at
the
media
coverage
of
her
so-called
"email
relationship" with
Barack
Obama.
Johansson,
who
was
left
red
faced
about
her
"relationship"
with
John
McCain's
Democratic
rival
Obama,
described
the
whole
thing
as
a
sexist
issue.
"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,''''
she
said.
Johansson,
a
vocal
supporter
of
Obama,
told
the
website
Politico.com
in
June
that
she
and
the
Democratic
presidential
hopeful
had
been
trading
emails.
Obama
later
told
reporters
that
Johansson
doesn''t
have
his
personal
email
address,
and
that
his
assistant
forwarded
one
message
from
Johansson
to
which
he
replied.
The
actress
had
said
on
August
5
in
an
interview
from
Los
Angeles,
where
she
was
promoting
her
new
Woody
Allen
film
Vicky
Cristina
Barcelon.
"I
was
merely
trying
to
express
my
delight
at
Obama''s
commitment
to
his
campaign
in
every
aspect
and
his
interest
and
his
support
(in)
his
surrogates
and
his
staff
and
his
fellows,
and
how
wonderful
and
refreshing
that
is," she
said.
"And
it
was
manipulated
into
such
an
unfortunate
media
frenzy
of
kind
of
a
non
story,''''
the
23-year-old
actress
added.