Angie Harmon: "I Disagree With Obama"

I miss watching Angie Harmon, and not just for her wholesome attractiveness. As Jack McCoy's assistant district attorney on Law and Order, her voice alone would melt you.

Now, this post is not an official "Rule 5" entry. Considering Ms. Harmon's in the news today, for her comments on Barack Obama, I'd suggest this entry qualifies as "using cheesecake in a highly relevant fashion," as my friend Stogie has suggested.

But check out the article for yourself, "Angie Harmon: I'm Not Racist Because I Disagree With Obama":

Angie Harmon is not afraid to come out and say she doesn’t like how President Obama is handling the job — but she’s sick of having to defend herself from being deemed a racist.

"Here's my problem with this, I'm just going to come out and say it. If I have anything to say against Obama it's not because I'm a racist, it's because I don't like what he's doing as President and anybody should be able to feel that way, but what I find now is that if you say anything against him you're called a racist," Harmon told Tarts at Thursday’s Los Angeles launch of the new eyelash-growing formula, Latisse. "But it has nothing to do with it, I don’t care what color he is. I’m just not crazy about what he's doing and I heard all about this, and he’s gonna do that and change and change, so okay … I'm still dressing for a recession over here buddy and we've got unemployment at an all-time high and that was his number one thing and that's the thing I really don't appreciate. If I'm going to disagree with my President, that doesn't make me a racist. If I was to disagree with W, that doesn't make me racist. It has nothing to do with it, it is ridiculous."

Speaking of dislikes, the starlet has also had enough of the double-standards in the media.
"I do think McCain would have done a better job, only because I think he has more experience. I also think if W or John McCain or Reagan would have gone and done a talk show, the backlash would have been so huge and in his face, and ‘What is our president doing? How unclassy!’ But Obama does it and no one says anything," Harmon said.

And in spite of the scornful opinions most of her Tinseltown counterparts have shared on Gov. Sarah Palin, Harmon remains a true fan.

"I admire any kind of woman like her. My whole motto is to know what I stand for and know what I don't stand for and have the courage to live my life accordingly and she does exactly that. The fact that this woman has made the decisions she's made and literally lived her life according to that and takes heat for it is absolutely disgusting to me," she added. "People cannot look at this woman. I really think they're afraid of her and her morals, ethics and values and the fact that she hangs on them. Is she the most experienced person in the world? But she was running to be the Vice President, so we then put the most inexperienced person as the President. That didn't make any sense to me."

Now, that's talking hot conservative politics!

There's more at the link, via Memeorandum.

Angie Harmon Squelches Rumors That 'Rizzoli & Isles' Characters Are Lesbian

Well, this story gives me a chance to blog Angie Harmon!

At Los Angeles Times, "'Rizzoli & Isles' — are they or aren't they?":

The first season of TNT's crime drama "Rizzoli & Isles" featured an episode with the title "I Kissed a Girl." Its stars, Angie Harmon and Sasha Alexander, played on a softball team, shared some intimate dinners, drank wine over candlelight and hopped into the same bed for girl talk.

But this is not a gay show.

Series creator Janet Tamaro described Harmon's Rizzoli and Alexander's Isles as a "power couple" — the center of a buddy drama, one that broke cable ratings records in its debut run and returns for its second season July 11. But the women are not together, as in together.

Tamaro chalks up the rampant are-they-or-aren't-they discussion to throwing "two gorgeous actresses together who have great, natural chemistry." She contends that Harmon's tomboyish homicide detective and Alexander's stylish medical examiner "are straight women who don't fear the interest in or the speculation about their relationship."

That hasn't stopped gay pop culture blog AfterEllen from dubbing the show, "totally gay, it just doesn't know it yet." Or another lesbian blog, CherryGrrl, from creating a "Rizzoli & Isles" drinking game, advising viewers to take a shot for interaction between the title characters that includes "stares lasting longer than three seconds," "sleeping in the same bed/couch/squad car," "adorable bickering which generally relates to sexual tension," or "complaining to each other about their inability to find a compatible mate, all while being completely compatible mates." The Washington Post even pointed to a hunky visiting FBI agent as a short-lived distraction from the "faintly lesbian undertones that the show keeps trying to establish."

Harmon, a veteran of "Law & Order," said she's familiar with the online chatter and that it's "super fun" to play a role that has some same-sex romantic vibes. She's relishing a character who's gruff and aggressive, the polar opposite of her own girlie personality, she said.

But as close as they are, Rizzoli and Isles are just best friends, she said. Really.

"I hate to disappoint, but these characters are straight," Harmon insisted. "If we lose viewers because of it — sorry!"

And that's amazing, that Harmon would note the possibility of LOSING viewers if the characters weren't gay. Reminds me of my post the other day, on the anti-hetero bigotry of Dan Savage. It's hard out there if you're straight. See: "Gay Sexual Abandon and the Perverse Inversion of Values by Same-Sex Extremists."

The Rizzoli & Isles page is here, on TNT.

Angie Harmon!

Took the boys to meet my wife for lunch today, and the pizza parlor had a big screen. Angie's Harmon's "got milk" commercial came on and that reminded me that I'm slacking on my Angie Harmon blogging:

She's the best. Follow Angie on Twitter.

("The View" segment c/o The Other McCain).

Happy 4th of July!

Heh, one of the reasons I love the 4th is because I get to post this fabulous photo of Angie Harmon every year!

Here's the original post, from 2009, "Angie Harmon: 'I Disagree With Obama'."

Speaking of Obama, here's a related piece, at USA Today, "Presidents promote patriotism on July 4."

Angie Harmon at The Daley Gator

I promised to do more Angie Harmon blogging, and I like the slideshow technology: "DaleyGator DaleyBabe Angie Harmon" (via Wombat's Rule 5 Roundup).

Angie Harmon on 4th of July

Flashback, "Angie Harmon: 'I Disagree With Obama'."

Such a great American dream woman patriot.

Happy 4th of July everybody!

Angie Harmon, 46, Flaunts Fabulous Figure in String Bikini During Beach Vacation

From just last month.

She's got the body of a teenager, dang.

At Women's Health, "Angie Harmon Just Celebrated Her 46th Birthday With an Insane Bikini Abs Pic."

And at People:

Angie Harmon, 46, Shows Off Her Toned Bikini Body as She Celebrates Birthday with BF Greg Vaughan https://t.co/bVrqR2ECC0

— People (@people) August 16, 2018

'Rizzoli & Isles' Second Season Premieres Tonight

Should be starting in a few minutes on the East Coast.

See Atlanta Journal Constitution, "‘Rizzoli & Isles’ Angie Harmon, Sasha Alexander riding high as second season starts." And New York Daily News, "'Rizzoli & Isles' review: Angie Harmon and Sasha Alexander have great female friend chemistry."

And a great Angie Harmon interview from last year:

Angie Harmon Bikini

She's so lovely.

ICYMI: "Going for the best bday nap EVER... & then I couldn't sleep. Afraid of FOMO! #blessed #grateful … https://t.co/IK1KUAHwCX

— Angie Harmon (@Angie_Harmon) August 13, 2017

Angie Harmon Behind the Scenes for Red Earth Trading Company — #AngieHarmonxRedEarth

I just love this lady.



More Angie Harmon here. She's a huge football fan, obviously.

The End of Pax Americana (Not)

Christopher Layne has been so consistently wrong about the "inevitability" of America's relative international decline that further iterations of his thesis are essentially humiliating episodes of self-flagellation. And the bonus in this case is that Layne's publishing at American Conservative, which by now is the laughingstock publication of contemporary (anti-American paleocon) ideology. See, "Graceful Decline":

The United States emerged from World War II in a position of global dominance. From this unparalleled military and economic power came a Pax Americana that has endured for more than six decades. It seemed the sun would never set on the U.S. empire.

But America is increasingly unable to play the hegemon’s assigned role. Militarily, a hegemon is responsible for stabilizing key regions and guarding the global commons. Economically, it offers public goods by opening its domestic market to other states, supplying liquidity for the world economy, and providing the reserve currency. A hegemon is supposed to solve international crises, not cause them. It is supposed to be the lender of last resort, not the biggest borrower. Faced with wars it cannot win or quit and an economy begging rescue, the United States no longer fits the part ....

That the United States needs a post-Pax Americana foreign policy should be obvious. But there is no guarantee that the U.S. will adjust to a transforming world. Even as the globe is being turned upside down by material factors, the foreign policies of individual states are shaped by the ideas leaders hold about their own nations’ identity and place in world politics. More than most, America’s foreign policy is the product of such ideas, and U.S. foreign-policy elites have constructed their own myths of empire to justify the United States’ hegemonic role. To move successfully to a post-Pax Americana foreign policy, Americans will need to move beyond these myths.

The foundational American myth of empire is exceptionalism, the belief, dating back to the Puritans, that the U.S. is different, better, and morally superior to the rest of the world. Americans have always looked at the outside world suspiciously and viewed it as a source of contagion: war, imperialism, militarism, religious intolerance, non-democratic forms of governance, and latterly totalitarianism, genocide, and terrorism. All these bad things, we believe, come from “over there.”

RTWT at the link.

GSGF posted on this today, and says it much better (more pithy) than I can: "Yawn. Must. Stay Awake."

I'll just add that as long as we've got folks like Angie Harmon unabashedly speaking up for American exceptionalism, I expect American Power to endure quite a while.

RELATED: Robert Leiber, "Falling Upwards: Declinism, The Box Set."

Angie Harmon Memorial Day Weekend!

I'm a little behind on my Rule 5 postings, although I'm hoping to stay with the patriotic themes this weekend.

I usually post this pic on the Fourth of July, but no need to wait!

In lieu of a larger roundup, check Randy's Roundable entry with linkage: "Thursday Nite Tart: Sandra Valencia."

BONUS: At Pirate's Cove, "If All You See…is an evil fossil fueled airplane, you might just be a Warmist."

Patriotic Bikini Hotties

A roundup, at Egotastic, "Patriotic Bikini Hotties and Other Fine Things to Ogle."

And of course the annual posting of the fabulous Angie Harmon:

Angie Harmon and Jason Sehorn Separating After 13 Years of Marriage

Hmm, I always thought she was joyously happy.

I guess not.

At People, "Angie Harmon and Jason Sehorn Split."

Napping With Angie

In your dreams:

I don’t know about you guys but I need a nap... pic.twitter.com/dygcuKhHLb

— Angie Harmon (@Angie_Harmon) August 4, 2020

Super Bowl XLVIII: Best Offense Against Best Defense

Still in the first quarter and initial expectations are telling.

At NYT, "Denver’s Offense (Unstoppable) vs. Seattle’s Defense (Unmovable)":

And... Here. We. GO! #SB48 ONLINE STREAM: http://t.co/x7Ru2OQP39 pic.twitter.com/7eVvtMCH2I

— NFL (@nfl) February 2, 2014

COME ON @Broncos !! #SB48 @SuperBowl WE ❤❤❤ YOU COACH FOX!!

— Angie Harmon (@Angie_Harmon) February 2, 2014

For the first time in 23 years, and the fifth time over all, the game will feature the league’s top-ranked offense against its top-ranked defense. And the 23.5-point disparity between the Broncos’ average scoring output (37.9) and the Seahawks’ average points allowed (14.4) is the largest in Super Bowl history, according to FootballPerspective.com. No team was more efficient inside the red zone than Denver. No team was stingier inside the red zone than Seattle.

“I don’t think they’ve played a defense like us,” Seattle linebacker Bobby Wagner said.

Nor, though, have the Seahawks played an offense like that of the Broncos, whose quarterback, Peyton Manning, at 37, set the N.F.L. single-season record for passing yards and touchdowns. Manning has a unique capacity to decipher defenses and upload information before the snap, then adjust by calling a play that exploits a weakness.

Abbey Clancy Bodypaint

I believe this woman has the most beautiful legs I've seen in a long time (with the exception of Angie Harmon's, of course). See, "Abbey Clancy – Sports Illustrated 2010 Swimsuit Photoshoot."

And as always, see Bob Belvedere, The Daley Gator, The Other McCain, Theo Spark, and The Washington Rebel.

Plus, at Wikipedia, "Abigail Clancy."

World Series Rule 5

Well, the Giants could wrap up a sweep tonight, and I'm sure folks will be enjoying a few cold ones during the game, so here you go.

Proof Positive starts things off with "Friday Night Babe - Alyson Hannigan!" And also, "Saturday Linkaround."

More over at Pirate's Coves, "If All You See…", and "Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup."

And forget the hopeless left-wing idiocy, she's looking good, at WyBlog, "Obamabot Eva Longoria dumped Jets QB Mark Sanchez hours before Sunday's loss to the Patriots."

More sports at Randy's Roundtable, "Cowboys Host Giants Today." Yeah, and the Giants are up 23-7 as I write this. Bonus: Angie Harmon is live tweeting.

That's all for now. Add your Rule 5 links at the comments and I'll update!

The Case of Caroline Calloway and the Influencer Economy

Every semester I have students read this Cal Newport op-ed at the New York Times, "Quit Social Media. Your Career May Depend on It."

When I announce this as required first week's readings I usually see a few frowns and long faces, and one semester a student challenged me about the article, saying that people make money as "influencers," or some such thing.

The influencer thing was new to me at the time, but I got it. Nowadays it's a big thing.

I really like Sally Fitzgibbons, for example, but she's so into the product promotions, she never even likes a tweet from a follower. (I like interaction. I've had likes from television stars [Angie Harmon, for example] and lots of interaction with hot sports media and television personalities [like Liz Habib, who's the local Fox 11 sports anchor and a smokin' hottie].)

In any case, you can see why I'm not so sold on the "influencer economy." And after reading this bombshell from Kayleigh Donaldson, it's case closed.

See, "The Empty Mason Jar of the Influencer Economy: The Case of Caroline Calloway and her Creativity Workshop Tour."

Mind-boggling, really. (*SMH.*)

For the full story in excruciating detail, here is my piece on @pajiba on Caroline Calloway, her brief creativity workshop & the hollowness of "authenticity" as a brand.https://t.co/GxezF5WytL

— Kayleigh Donaldson (@Ceilidhann) January 14, 2019