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6:43 pm - 03/30/2009

Angie Harmon: I'm not racist



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."

However Harmon is definitely in the Hollywood minority when it comes to her criticism of Obama as other lasses at the Latisse party were quick to advocate their unequivocal support.

"The sort of criticism over the last couple of weeks is a bit unfounded, he's been in office for barely any time and I think he inherited a lot on his plate and he's doing a pretty remarkable job," quipped Mandy Moore. "I think it's cool that he went on Leno and I watched the "60 minutes" interview as well last week. The guy is just so articulate and he is so well versed in something that is so new to him and I think he has a good team around him. It sounds cliché, but he makes me feel proud to be an American."

Debra Messing also told Tarts that our new President is not only meeting her expectations, but going far beyond.

"He is thoughtful and considerate and he gets all the information before he speaks which I think is a wonderful quality for the ruler of the free world to have," she explained.

The ladies of "Entourage" certainly showed their Obama-loyalty too.

"It's not an over night process. It's going to get worse before it gets better; we're all kind of in the same boat now. Everybody's broke and everybody's struggling and he makes me feel like I know him and that I know Michelle and that they’re like us and they’re out to try to save the USA. It's just an amazing period to watch him take on these challenges and everyday in the news to hear about AIG or possibly global currency changing, it's incredible. He's facing big challenges and he's got a lot of support and I'm just praying things get better," Debi Mazar said, while co-star Perrey Reeves added that Obama is a "wonderful leader" and she’s looking forward to his future endeavors.

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[info]discostalin 30th-Mar-2009 11:06 pm (UTC)
that's such a bummer
[info]buffy_usa shut up angie30th-Mar-2009 11:19 pm (UTC)
[info]discostalin Re: shut up angie30th-Mar-2009 11:20 pm (UTC)
I hate these stupid macros
[info]easy_peasy_24 Re: shut up angie31st-Mar-2009 12:25 am (UTC)
ILU.
[info]selphiebooyaka Re: shut up angie31st-Mar-2009 01:12 am (UTC)
LMAO love it
[info]mr_jellyneck Re: shut up angie31st-Mar-2009 01:34 am (UTC)
I love these stupid macros.
[info]moneycashhoes 30th-Mar-2009 11:07 pm (UTC)
holy hell, I thought that was Tina Fey.
[info]orangeberryfly 30th-Mar-2009 11:09 pm (UTC)
mte
[info]chomper_go_rawr 30th-Mar-2009 11:11 pm (UTC)
me too!
[info]breadsandwiches 30th-Mar-2009 11:17 pm (UTC)
glad I wasn't the only one
[info]joaniemaloney 30th-Mar-2009 11:28 pm (UTC)
saaaame.
I clicked for more pictures, haha.
[info]gemma_violet 31st-Mar-2009 12:44 am (UTC)
Me too for a second.
[info]jeffreyuno_1 30th-Mar-2009 11:07 pm (UTC)
Um, I don't recall anyone ever talking about Angie Harmon recently...least of all calling her a racist.
[info]crystalfairie 30th-Mar-2009 11:08 pm (UTC)
Neither do I, so you and I are on the same boat there.
[info]strangelittlex 30th-Mar-2009 11:09 pm (UTC)
lol, that was my exact reaction too
[info]lotuswine 30th-Mar-2009 11:35 pm (UTC)
mte!

who the hell is she talking about?? a lot of people are critcizing obama, but they're not being labeled racist (e.g., jon stewart, paul krugman), so she's either delusional, or must be saying some racist shit.
[info]mcgees 31st-Mar-2009 12:39 am (UTC)
She's not a racist, just an attention whore.
[info]revenantrose 31st-Mar-2009 02:25 am (UTC)
Yeah, isn't she the chick whose husband proposed on Jay Leno? Probably learned it from him. Gah, so tacky.
[info]little_kitkat 31st-Mar-2009 12:45 am (UTC)
ikr?
[info]miakun 31st-Mar-2009 03:52 pm (UTC)
Yeah when you preemptively defend yourself for "not being a racist" I tend to think you are. Since I haven't heard anyone call her one or heard from her at all.

Unless her family/friends are saying it. So then she has to make a public statement about it.
[info]luvthatdrtywata 30th-Mar-2009 11:07 pm (UTC)
Angie Harmon is not a racist, however, she is an irrelevant idiot.
[info]mooshki 30th-Mar-2009 11:13 pm (UTC)
Facebook has ruined me - I keep looking for the "like" link.
[info]bebe_cherie 31st-Mar-2009 01:12 am (UTC)
hahaha ya seriously. they need to make a "dislike" link too though. lol
[info]lotuswine 30th-Mar-2009 11:35 pm (UTC)
yup.
[info]trblebreathing 31st-Mar-2009 04:16 am (UTC)
She is an idiot because she brings up valid points that you may disagree with?
[info]loudpunk 30th-Mar-2009 11:07 pm (UTC)
it's a damn shame obama couldn't fix this mess 2 months into his administration. WHAT A WASTE AMIRITE.
[info]purplerains 30th-Mar-2009 11:09 pm (UTC)
Gurl, u so rite!
[info]loveyourchaos 30th-Mar-2009 11:10 pm (UTC)
mte.

I was so annoyed when I read this
[info]veritasveronica 30th-Mar-2009 11:11 pm (UTC)
WE SHOULD REALLY BE SEEING SOME HUGE CHANGES BY NOW ITS BEEN AT LEAST TWO MONTHS
[info]ilovethebooti 30th-Mar-2009 11:12 pm (UTC)
For real.
[info]ohhhmandy 30th-Mar-2009 11:12 pm (UTC)
IKR! IMPEACH HIM NAO!!!11!!11
[info]steamedmirror 30th-Mar-2009 11:13 pm (UTC)
Especially 'cause it only took the Republicans 8 years to push the economy off a cliff. What a slacker, that President Obama!
[info]apothecary06 30th-Mar-2009 11:21 pm (UTC)
I know, it took 8 years to get into this mess, so now the expectation is that he's going to come in with a magic wand and fix it in a day? So unrealistic.
[info]wolf_am_i 30th-Mar-2009 11:42 pm (UTC)
lol, everyone's been saying "the last 8 years" as if that was actually the beginning of it. more like 15. we should have seen this coming a looonnngg time ago.
[info]elisabet85 30th-Mar-2009 11:13 pm (UTC)
THIS.

Fucking who the fuck was in charge of this country for the past 8 years?! JFC I hate when republicans try to argue Obama is not doing a good job because he has not fixed the cluster fuck brought about from the last administration's decisions.
[info]supervixen06 30th-Mar-2009 11:14 pm (UTC)
IKR? he should've changed all this shit around by the end of week 1. He's not my president!
[info]mooshki 30th-Mar-2009 11:14 pm (UTC)
And we don't have world peace yet either! I am SO disappointed in him!
[info]dnttllhrry 30th-Mar-2009 11:15 pm (UTC)
you win!
patience is a virtue bitches.
[info]lazaro_jack 30th-Mar-2009 11:15 pm (UTC)
lol ikr? let's burn him at the stake and bring in mccain and palin! palin could have had her daughter pop world peace and economic stability out of her cunt.
[info]laurie_springs 30th-Mar-2009 11:15 pm (UTC)
Totally.

What a failure.
[info]saltireflower 30th-Mar-2009 11:15 pm (UTC)
For real. He needs to get on this right quick.
[info]clubland 30th-Mar-2009 11:17 pm (UTC)
She didn't exactly say she doesn't like that he hasn't fixed everything. She said she doesn't like what he's doing. A lot of people don't like what he's doing. Big deal.
[info]itsnoelle 30th-Mar-2009 11:17 pm (UTC)
too bad hes making it 10x worse
[info]prettysighs 30th-Mar-2009 11:17 pm (UTC)
IKR THIS BASTARD. I THOUGHT HE WAS GONNA FIX THIS SHIT THE MOMENT HE GOT ELECTED. RRRRARRL.
[info]rhomea 30th-Mar-2009 11:19 pm (UTC)
I know! He should've fixed it 6 weeks ago.
[info]honeynutcherri 30th-Mar-2009 11:19 pm (UTC)
Haha ikr?
[info]baglady25 30th-Mar-2009 11:19 pm (UTC)
LOL I agree.
[info]comfortable_yet 30th-Mar-2009 11:26 pm (UTC)
EXACTLY. HE SHOULD'VE DONE IT 35MINS AGO.
[info]smilez4you 30th-Mar-2009 11:26 pm (UTC)
LOL IA. love these sarcastic comments<3
[info]youbeboy 30th-Mar-2009 11:27 pm (UTC)
urite urite
[info]sporkier 30th-Mar-2009 11:34 pm (UTC)
2 months? Fuck that. I was expecting change back in November.
[info]bobblebot 30th-Mar-2009 11:41 pm (UTC)
lol ikr
It's like she sees this as the Washington version of celebrity pregnancies, obviously you must be back in shape 2 weeks after birth or you are a huge failure. Go to the gym, Obama!
[info]owl_patronus 30th-Mar-2009 11:48 pm (UTC)
ikr he let all of us down
[info]ohhkathleen 31st-Mar-2009 12:07 am (UTC)
Yeah, he is cleary a moron.
Maybe we should be blaming the people who got us into this mess instead of someone who has been working on it for 2 months.
Although I am sure I could fix this recession in 4 weeks.
ha. Morons.
[info]mcgees 31st-Mar-2009 12:40 am (UTC)
Right? AND there's still no dog.
[info]hotpinkluver 31st-Mar-2009 12:45 am (UTC)
That's what I was thinking. What exactly is he doing wrong as President? Honestly, anything he does is an improvement.
[info]milkradio 31st-Mar-2009 12:45 am (UTC)
RIGHT?
[info]gemma_violet 31st-Mar-2009 12:47 am (UTC)
Rofl, seriously.
[info]_boxinghelena 31st-Mar-2009 01:14 am (UTC)
Thank you!!! Hello???? This is eight years of complete fucktackery that was inherited.
[info]allhopelost88 31st-Mar-2009 02:16 am (UTC)
mte, show's over
[info]revenantrose 31st-Mar-2009 02:21 am (UTC)
mte, well said!
[info]cecilia_weasley 31st-Mar-2009 02:22 am (UTC)
I know right? the last big one lasted at least 2 years... in the 80s. Besides at the end of 2009 it's supposed to be a bit better.
[info]ultra_obscene84 31st-Mar-2009 06:33 am (UTC)
IKR? He's the Big Baby Jesus with a magic wand that will fix everything and everyone will shit rainbows and sunshine.
[info]sobe_sf 31st-Mar-2009 08:03 am (UTC)
+1
[info]celtic_thistle 31st-Mar-2009 07:47 pm (UTC)
lol ikr
[info]purplerains 30th-Mar-2009 11:08 pm (UTC)
I think she was on Baywatch or something...
[info]happy_endings11 30th-Mar-2009 11:19 pm (UTC)
Baywatch Nights!

Much classier... LOL
[info]robotdeer 31st-Mar-2009 01:46 am (UTC)
It was like regular Baywatch, but with clothes... and aliens.
[info]kinkynicky 31st-Mar-2009 01:51 am (UTC)
Om nom nom, Jared.

If he worked at my local mechanics I'd spend all my free time hammering nails into my wheels and running down my battery.
[info]inkpen 30th-Mar-2009 11:08 pm (UTC)
[info]koolaidd 30th-Mar-2009 11:13 pm (UTC)
yes
[info]e_saint 30th-Mar-2009 11:36 pm (UTC)
awwwwww! i love his lack of teeth!
[info]_boxinghelena 31st-Mar-2009 01:14 am (UTC)
Ahahahahaha!!!!!
[info]xcasxsiex 30th-Mar-2009 11:08 pm (UTC)
ummm im gonna hold my judgement until sometime after his first 2 months in this job. wtf
[info]vikingsmn 30th-Mar-2009 11:09 pm (UTC)
ikr?
[info]orangeberryfly 30th-Mar-2009 11:10 pm (UTC)
lol seriously

not to mention the fact that he made it clear during his campaign that the change would not come overnight...
[info]strangelittlex 30th-Mar-2009 11:16 pm (UTC)
Yeah it's a little too soon. I really wouldn't pass judgement until at least a year or two have gone by.
[info]lowlighter 30th-Mar-2009 11:39 pm (UTC)
seriously! it's going to take time to see if anything's going to work, not 2 months.
[info]nene718 31st-Mar-2009 12:09 am (UTC)
mte
[info]winniechili 30th-Mar-2009 11:09 pm (UTC)
Uhm, what? Does anyone care about her enough to call her a racist?
[info]captchasucks 30th-Mar-2009 11:12 pm (UTC)
I don't.
[info]vikingsmn 30th-Mar-2009 11:09 pm (UTC)
Did I miss something? When was the last time someone talked about Angie Harmon let alone call her a racist?
[info]klutzy_girl 30th-Mar-2009 11:09 pm (UTC)
I thought people did complain about Obama going on talk shows.
[info]veritasveronica 30th-Mar-2009 11:11 pm (UTC)
they did, and they kneejerked over the special olympics joke
[info]klutzy_girl 30th-Mar-2009 11:13 pm (UTC)
I'm pretty sure people were complaining before the joke.
[info]lexislee20 30th-Mar-2009 11:16 pm (UTC)
they certainly did
[info]kashyyyk 30th-Mar-2009 11:17 pm (UTC)
iaw your icon
[info]motherfuckinbob 30th-Mar-2009 11:09 pm (UTC)
… 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.

Maybe give him a little more time than a couple months, you fucking moron.
[info]flossylina 30th-Mar-2009 11:20 pm (UTC)
It's not like Angie is dressing with hand me downs from goodwill. She's such a stubborn twat. Here she is blasting Obama but her own party spends like crazy. I mean the wardrobe of Cindy McCain is enough to pay 4 months of salaries for state workers and let's not forget Sarah 's makeover, I mean looking that cheap is expensive. Maybe she should go back and thank the former President for the great mess he's left behind while he counts million in his Texas compound.
[info]frenchverbs 30th-Mar-2009 11:37 pm (UTC)
Seriously! I read In Style every month, and she is always in the party pages wearing Louboutins, Gucci, etc. I have no idea what the fuck she's complaining about.
[info]sapidire 30th-Mar-2009 11:40 pm (UTC)
You forgot to mention that Palin donated everything worn on the campaign to charity.
[info]___chemicalxx 31st-Mar-2009 12:47 am (UTC)
To be fair, Cindy McCain comes from wealth. She probably dressed like that all her life, but I see what you're getting at.
[info]__shewas 1st-Apr-2009 02:04 am (UTC)
Agree.
[info]mistress_kizuna 30th-Mar-2009 11:09 pm (UTC)
Well, I'm not really taking her side in terms of politics (I'm a centrist and registered myself as an independant in the election), but I do agree that it is really stupid to label someone racist because they don't agree with/don't like Obama's policies. Of cousre, improving thing is not an overnight thing, so we will have to be patient.
[info]flossylina 30th-Mar-2009 11:42 pm (UTC)
She has the right to disagree with whatever she wants. Her response sounds rather defensive , she should just say " I'm republican I will never agree with what the current President a democrat does" rather than say something like " just because I don't agree with President and he's black makes me a racist". Because P.S. he is Bi-racial. A immigrant something America is made of and will always be. Except the Indians were her first and that's whole another Argument there
[info]mistress_kizuna 30th-Mar-2009 11:47 pm (UTC)
That is true. (nods)
[info]justlikethat 31st-Mar-2009 12:29 am (UTC)
you can be a republican and still agree with what a democrat does. some things are just good (or bad) no matter who does them.
[info]fear_toxin 31st-Mar-2009 01:37 pm (UTC)
Once he became president, everyone forgot that he is half white.

[info]modern_toilet 31st-Mar-2009 01:49 am (UTC)
the thing is though, that no one called her a racist. she starts off like "I'M NOT A RACIST, BUTTTTTTTTT"
[info]celtic_thistle 31st-Mar-2009 07:49 pm (UTC)
I have never heard ANYONE called a racist for disagreeing with his politics. Angie Harmon is full of shit.
[info]talkal 30th-Mar-2009 11:09 pm (UTC)
Angie Harmon makes no sense.
[info]talkal 30th-Mar-2009 11:10 pm (UTC)
oh, but I do agree she has every right to disagree with Obama and not be called a racist. Still...
[info]elisabet85 30th-Mar-2009 11:15 pm (UTC)
of course she has the right. I however want to know when someone called her a racist, because I can honestly say I have never heard of a celebrity being called racist for disagreeing with the President.
[info]kimberwyn 31st-Mar-2009 12:31 am (UTC)
I love both of your icons lol
[info]clubland 30th-Mar-2009 11:18 pm (UTC)
Like what?
[info]cupkate 31st-Mar-2009 05:40 am (UTC)
I've been super impressed with how proactive he is about national and international women's rights.
1. Signing the UN's gay rights doc
2. Finally letting family members have more access to Cuban travel
3. He made the first White House Council on Women and Girls (which is AWESOME)
4. Got rid of the global gag rule
5. Got rid of the stem cell ban
6. PUT A SHIT TON OF MONEY INTO THE NATIONAL SCIENCE ADMIN SO THAT I MIGHT ACTUALLY FIND A JOB SOON!
7. Guantanomo

In addition, as a member of his admin, Hillary Clinton is getting back into her old form as a wonderful human rights activist. She went all hawkish post-9/11 (sticking with her NY constituency, I'm sure), and I didn't like how her politics were shaping in congress, but damn if she isn't getting back in the game the right way.
[info]cl0vergirl 30th-Mar-2009 11:24 pm (UTC)
I can see what hes doing too. All thats going to happen in the next 6 months to a year and beyond because of his changes are higher gas prices (He is closing drilling in the US), higher inflation (money is being printed like crazy), and ALOT more govt involvement in the private sector (do you really want more business to run like the DMV). I understand his stand on helping the population but how about help for the long run and not the short.

And everything hes done was tried during the Great Depression. If it didn't work then, why would it work now? And in case people forgot, what brought us out of the GD was WW2.
[info]lazaro_jack 30th-Mar-2009 11:48 pm (UTC)
ia! he has done some wonderful things. more recently, I really appreciate that he seems genuinely into being more green and encouraging people to be more green.
[info]itsnoelle 31st-Mar-2009 12:29 am (UTC)
like what?
[info]surlycue 31st-Mar-2009 01:56 am (UTC)
I would argue the opposite. You can disagree with everything he's done so far but you can't not like him. He's just so goddamn congenial.
[info]extrafinesugar 31st-Mar-2009 10:48 am (UTC)
Like funding abortions overseas with our tax dollars, and lifting the funding ban for embryonic stem cell research?

Fail.
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