Obama Throws Scarlett Johansson Under the Bus

Posted on June 25, 2008

Barack Obama has refuted Scarlett Johansson's recent claim the she trades frequent emails with the Democratic nominee. The Washington Post's blog The Trail reports that Obama says they only exchanged a single email and now they "suddenly we have this email relationship."

Obama told reporters on his campaign plane that she sent a single email to his assistant Reggie Love. Obama said, "She sent one email to Reggie, who forwarded it to me. I write saying, 'thank you Scarlett for doing what you do,' and suddenly we have this email relationship"

The Campaign Spot received a funny comment from a reader who said Obama is "denying textual relations" with the actress. Obama might have been wiser to just let this story die out instead of letting it flame up again by knocking down her emailing claim. It does not seem like it was necessary for him to talk about emails the star of Match Point and Scoop says she sent him.