Rhea Seehorn credited as playing...
Martha Cobb
- Olivia Benson: Martha, I am not a fan of yours and I think that your views on sexual assault are reprehensible, but you are a survivor and I really want to help you get justice.
- Martha Cobb: Always effective. The inspirational mission statement.
- Olivia Benson: [sighs] If you're pulling your punches for ideological reasons because you don't have the integrity to be honest...
- Martha Cobb: Do not question my integrity.
- Olivia Benson: Then how about you drop the armor? How about you start talking to me like a human being, not a media personality? Can we do that? Can we... can we just talk?
- Olivia Benson: Martha, all I can tell you about your case Is that we don't always catch the bad guy and I'm very sorry.
- Martha Cobb: No apologies necessary, Lieutenant. I know I won't be the first or last woman who doesn't get justice after being raped at Hudson University.
- Olivia Benson: Thank you for coming in, Martha. How are you feeling?
- Martha Cobb: Emboldened and empowered.
- Olivia Benson: Well, I know how difficult this must be, especially with your public profile.
- Martha Cobb: You have no idea what my life is like.
- Olivia Benson: Doesn't mean that I don't understand what you're going through.
- Martha Cobb: Do you people ever stop with the empathy?
- Olivia Benson: Which "people" are you referring to?
- Martha Cobb: Let me guess. You cried tears of joy when Obama was elected. Said you'd move to Canada if Trump ever got in. Yet, here you are.
- Olivia Benson: I was never going anywhere, but right or left, I want to find the man who assaulted you and make sure that he is apprehended and punished.
- Martha Cobb: I told you I knew who Randy Platt was.
- Olivia Benson: Well, you didn't tell me that you humiliated him the night before you were attacked.
- Martha Cobb: Because it was irrelevant.
- Olivia Benson: Trust me, the jury doesn't think so.
- Martha Cobb: Then Barba is incompetent.
- Olivia Benson: If you would have given him half a chance to get out in front of this...
- Martha Cobb: I needed a bulldog for this. A Rudy Giuliani. And instead, I got a little schnauzer.
- Martha Cobb: I'm a target every day of my life, Lieutenant. I can take it.
- Olivia Benson: I understand that.
- Martha Cobb: And I'm a warrior. So to find myself in this position, where I feel embarrassed, vulnerable, like the kind of spineless victim that I ridicule...
- Olivia Benson: Martha, you didn't ask for this. You're under so much pressure, you don't realize that this is not your fault. So tell me who did this to you.
- Martha Cobb: How dare we continue to glorify Thomas Jefferson, a slave owner who raped his slave mistress?
- [crowd booing]
- Martha Cobb: Exactly. I know. And why stop there? The liberals want to put Susan B. Anthony on our money.
- [crowd booing]
- Martha Cobb: But I think they forgot she said she would cut off her own arm before helping Negroes to get the right to vote.
- [crowd booing]
- Martha Cobb: Yeah, I know. She was a racist too.
- [crowd laughing]
- Martha Cobb: Guess who else was? Ugh. Gandhi. He called Africans "savages." But meanwhile, the liberal snowflakes, they're concerned with tearing down statues of Andrew Jackson
- [crowd booing]
- Martha Cobb: Jefferson Davis. I think they forgot those guys are all Democrats.
- [laughter, booing]
- Martha Cobb: Just saying. And that is why I come to college campuses like Hudson
- [applause]
- Martha Cobb: Yeah, Hudson! Because in many cases, I'm the only conservative voice they will hear in four years.
- Jed Karey: Is this one of your books with a picture of you in a skimpy outfit on the cover?
- Martha Cobb: Yes. That "skimpy outfit" put me on the "New York Times" best-seller list for 43 straight weeks.
- Jed Karey: So, what are you selling your readers, Ms. Cobb? Ideas or T and A?
- Rafael Barba: Objection!
- Martha Cobb: This is all very entertaining, but do you really wanna ask me about my ass after what I've been through?
- Jed Karey: Withdrawn!