I knew I hated Angie Harmon

by Jill on 11.19.2007 · 24 comments

in Are you serious?, Elections, Gender, Politics, Radical Right-Wingers

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I’m not a smart, I just play one on TV.

I love me some Law & Order re-runs, but Angie Harmon always made me want to punch something. Turns out my instincts were right:

I really don’t know how I feel about [a woman in the White House]. I see the positive parts of it. But, you know, I think there’s something incredible about a First Lady. That, to me, is a woman in the White House. It’s sort of like being parents to the United States, and she takes on the role of mother and confidante and care-giver. Standing behind every powerful man, there’s a powerful woman…I don’t want to say no, because that doesn’t sound very open-mined. But do I want it to be Hillary? No, I don’t think so.

And then she gets mad when people think she’s a moron:

Just because I’m friendly, and I like to guffaw when I laugh, and have a cold beer and hang out with my husband and my girlfriends, doesn’t mean that I’m not just as intelligent as someone from, let’s say, Manhattan.

Certainly not. It’s the comments you make which suggest that you aren’t as intelligent as a whole lot of people ’round the world.

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1 Cara 11.19.2007 at 4:28 pm

*EXTENDED GAG”

2 norbizness 11.19.2007 at 4:36 pm

She’s no Paul Robinette.

3 Silver Owl 11.19.2007 at 5:03 pm

Harmon’s reasons for voting are definitely not the same as mine.

When I vote I am not out looking for a new set of parents so that I may pretend to be an adult sized child for the rest of my life. lol

4 harlemjd 11.19.2007 at 5:05 pm

eh, not surprised. This is the same woman who said that Christians are persecuted in America because not everyone loved The Passion of the Christ.

5 Pope Guilty 11.19.2007 at 5:09 pm

Her character was an asshole, too.

6 wiggles 11.19.2007 at 5:18 pm

I’ve never felt like Hillary Clinton (or Laura Bush or Nancy Reagan or any other First Lady) was ever my confidante and care-giver. Bill Clinton can be my assigned confidante and care-giver instead of Hillary Clinton and I wouldn’t notice much difference.

7 Bitter Scribe 11.19.2007 at 5:20 pm

She and Fred Thompson, between the two of them, will render that show unwatchable. I hope Sam Waterston keeps his mouth shut.

8 norbizness 11.19.2007 at 5:38 pm

He’ll never keep his mouth shut about the danger robots and robot infiltration pose to our elderly citizens. Sorry, I post that link any chance I get.

9 Tom 11.19.2007 at 6:01 pm

Fucking idiot.

10 Bitter Scribe 11.19.2007 at 6:07 pm

Don’t apologize to me, norbiz. I love that skit. What makes it so great is how straight a face Waterston keeps throughout. Maybe he does have a future in politics.

11 evil fizz 11.19.2007 at 7:29 pm

I actually kinda liked Angie Harmon on L&O. Anyone is better than the blonde DA, Serena. *ugh*

And I miss Dianne Wiest.

12 Bitter Scribe 11.19.2007 at 9:18 pm

Am I the only person in America who actually liked Serena? To me, Elisabeth Rohm was as good as any of the other female L&O DAs, and twice as hot. (A lot of the scripts made a big deal about Carey Lowell’s looks, but I think E.R. has her beat by a mile in that dept.)

13 Cherry 11.19.2007 at 10:11 pm

Man I’ve always had a crush on her. Why do you have to ruin my dreams?

14 A Canadian Reader 11.19.2007 at 10:58 pm

Angie Harmon is an idiot, but Elisabeth Rohm can’t act herself out of a paper bag. She was truly the worst actor ever on L&O. And much as I liked the idea of a female DA, Dianne Wiest was too whiney for my taste.

But back to AH: she’s an idiot (redux).

15 Roxie 11.20.2007 at 12:57 am

B/c Manhattan is where all the smart people live?

16 Jovan1984 11.20.2007 at 1:50 am

When I vote, I look for a person that will treat women like humans and not property. So that automatically eliminate every GOP candidate for President/Vice President, Senate, House of Representatives, Governor, South Carolina state Senate, and South Carolina state House of Representatives.

As for Angie Harmon, she should just shut up and act. She ain’t the one worth watching on Women’s Murder Club anyhow.

17 Olivia 11.20.2007 at 12:44 pm

This makes my head hurt. And she’s in a new show featuring four women homicide detectives. It’s supposed to be about a team of kick-ass, smart women, but I guess that’s just fantasy. In reality women should stand behind their men and not make too much noise….yuck.

18 MrMan 11.20.2007 at 4:20 pm

HAHAHAHA what a retard. Hahaha. She sounds annoying. Sorry but no one likes women like that it’s just your imagination. They are a pain.

19 exholt 11.20.2007 at 5:03 pm

Looks like I have not missed much by not watching anything beyond the news, and some science, nature, and history shows.

B/c Manhattan is where all the smart people live?

And IME, is off as I’ve known just as many “smart” people in a small town in Ohio and the Greater Boston area.

Stereotyping intelligence by geographic region is oversimplistic and blinds one to the possibility of meeting extremely intelligent people in less “smart” areas or meeting extremely stupid people in “smart” geographic regions. In the case of Manhattanites, I have lost count of the number of idiots I’ve met from that group…including supposedly well-educated ones.

Also, I have a funny feeling that by “smart”, Angie Harmon is referring to the type of person who has the “privilege” to work 10-16 hrs/day in Fortune 500/Wall Street/Biglaw firms for a seemingly huge salary that s(he) would have little time and energy to enjoy.

20 Thealogian 11.20.2007 at 6:27 pm

I think she dated some asshole from Fox News a while back…she knew exactly what she was saying and she’s doing the whole “compliment a woman’s role as if it has any power so that women won’t go after actual power” thing.

Like Ann Coulter, she’s white, privileged, and incurious.

21 Bruce 11.21.2007 at 1:46 am

Wow – a winger came out literally for the Mommy AND Daddy state!

As a thirty-eight year old man, I don’t perceive that I need a “woman” to be behind me for me to be powerful or that a woman should either.

Aggressively stupid.

22 Daomadan 1.24.2008 at 12:40 pm

HAHAHAHA what a retard.

Yes the woman is an idiot, but we don’t need to use words like this to describe her.

23 heather 8.14.2008 at 11:59 pm

what a drag… She’s clearly dumb as rocks.

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