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02/23/2008: "Hollywood putting spin on election"

Scarlett Johansson was born and raised in New York City, but you probably wouldn’t know it from watching this video, in which she stumps for Senator Barack Obama. In the clip, filmed at Carleton
College, a small liberal arts institution in Northfield, Minnesota, Ms. Johansson speaks to a group of students in an almost pitch-perfect Standard Midwestern accent.

Amid the “yuh knowas” and “makun’ likes,” she recounts the first time she met Mr. Obama, someone she calls “an incredible thinker and mind.” The 23-year-old actress was apparently so “starstruck” by the encounter that a slightly unusual greeting tumbled out of Ms. Johansson’s mouth: “I love your wife!” The
presidential hopeful returned the compliment, she tells the crowd, by “paddun me on tha hayd.”

[ Beware of those who deceive as a profession, especially when their interest is supported by a single candidate. ]

http://www.observer.com/2008/scarlett-johansson-supports-barack-obama-dontcha-knowa