Posted on 06/12/2008 7:45:21 PM PDT by dennisw
With all the comparisons to JFK that Barack Obama has had lately, it's about time he gets his own Marilyn Monroe. Actress Scarlett Johansson has made her support of Obama no big secret. In the past she's quipped that she's "engaged" to the presumptive Democratic nominee (actually, she's betrothed to actor Ryan Reynolds) and appeared in his star-studded "Yes We Can" YouTube video. Now the Lost in Translation star tells Politico.com that she and Obama are pen pals.
The Daily News is all over the story, declaring on page 3, "OMG! BAM & SCAR JO R CYBER PALS!" with a glam shot of Johansson in a low-cut dress juxtaposed with a photo of Obama boarding a plane. (Johansson says it's "amazing" that Obama has written her such "thoughtful" messages while on the campaign trail.) The inevitable backlash is looming. I can already picture the columns in right-wing media: "Obama has time to cyberchat with movie stars, but what does he do for Joe Sixpack?" Considering that the current critiques of the candidate are about his amnesia on when he had his last cigarette and his audacity to hire "D.C. denizens" to assist in his VP search (see Michelle Malkin on page 6 of today's Post), kvetching about shooting off a few e-mails to a movie star could be a quick, glamorous way to impugn Obama. Add a few innuendos and voila!—instant "scandal." Even Johansson herself understands that her constant campaigning for the Illinois senator could spur a backlash. She tells Politico.com, "Even I’m wary of celebrity endorsements…I don’t want to seem like I’m holier than thou. We all have the same right to vote and, especially in this technical age where we all can broadcast our opinions, we all have the opportunity to entice others to vote…if the spotlight is on me, I might as well try to direct it on things and causes that I believe in." Maybe it's time to dial it down a bit, ScarJo.
These two dopes have been text messaging back and forth. Has John McCain ever sent a text message?
McCain can't even set the time on his top load VHS player.
What is she going to do when she finds out Obama is ineligible to be President?
I have never “texted” any one. So whoopty shit!
I guess I’ll be one of those radical conservatives that says my wife would NEVER allow me to send ScarJo a single email. My wife would flip out. Soooo what’s up with Michelle? I guess she doesn’t mind.
Finally I saw her a month or so ago in one where John Travolta plays a sort of washed up Southern Professor.
I am being totally honest when I say my first impression of her was "what an average looking person to be so famous as a sex symbol" Something about her was just not appealing.
And I love pretty girls.
Obama’s just making an investment for the future, like Bubba.
Which brings me to our third Jill in the jeep: Scarlett Johansson. Like every other sad middle-aged loser guy, I fell in love with Scarlett's fetchingly pert bottom in the opening of ''Lost In Translation,'' and it pains me to discover she's no different from Bishop Kate's [a reference to Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church, Katharine Jefferts Schori] generation when it comes to being in thrall to the cobwebbed pieties of the 1960s. In a bit of light Bush-bashing the other day, she attacked the president for his opposition to "sex education." If he had his way, she said, "every woman would have six children and we wouldn't be able to have abortions." Whereas Scarlett is so "socially aware" (as she puts it) she gets tested for HIV twice a year.
Well, yes. If "sex education" is about knowing which concrete condom is less likely to disintegrate during the livelier forms of penetrative intercourse, then getting an AIDS test every few months may well be a sign that you're a Ph.D. (Doctor of Phenomenal horniness). But, if "sex education" means an understanding of sexuality as anything other than an act of transient self-expression, then Scarlett is talking through that famously cute butt.
Just because some blithering idiot is email pals with some other blithering idiot is no reason to get concerned.
Obama’s just lookin out for the young generation that’s coming up. The up and comers. When he’s not mentoring her ....
I got an email from President Bush once, funny thing is, he didn't ask me how my last fishing trip was or anything personal. Did want re-election money though.
Scarlette was a fine actress, a cute teenager in “The Horse Whisperer”. In a few short years she really got the trollop look down pat
She wearing a girdle?
every woman would have six children and we wouldn’t be able to have abortions
Too bad your mother did not feel that way slut bag.
I wouldn’t wanna be compared to Marilyn Monroe. All looks, no brains and unstable in the head. Not much of a compliment if you ask me.
If those were only brains, she’d be conservative.
I think that’s the best Freeper comment I’ve seen all day!
jungle feverous skank
not that it makes her distinguishable from the entire female press corps
The red dress at the Golden Globe Awards is where she made a big impression.
No problems with it...
S J visited our troops in the Far East, which is more than MOST of these lefty celebs ever did for our troops.
I’m not saying more power to BOOB=head, but that’s how these lefty celebs roll. They cant think, ergo they use something else to think for them.
Frankly, Scarlett, I don’t give a damn!
ding ding ding ding... we have a winner!!! obviously her looks are inversely proportional to her intelligence
Love her, how do I make her stop talking?
Letter is “O” for “Oh Really?”
Who gives a f*ck if McCain can even use a computer? When is it going to come up if he’s elected?
Further, who gives a f*ck what some Hollywood skank thinks about politics? She was out-acted by Bill Murray for pete’s sake.
re: Reporter’s hand
He actually felt her up a bit - I remember the video was all over the place at the time - he reached out and gave her left boob a little squeeze. Don’t know if there was any backlash later against the reporter. She didn’t react much at the moment, just kind of laughed it off, but it was not something that reporters do with starlets (on camera anyway) every day......
So have they gotten her to do a “Got Milk?” ad yet? Her ad would be a big hit.......
Her being “felt up” was part of the buzz surrounding her appearance in the red dress.
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