[anniegetyourgun]

And here I thought her worst crime was the way she doesn't do her hair!

[antaresequity]

The sad thing is that many Americans will read this and believe it.

I had two friends over the other night insisting that she was charged with insider trading....

Facts are so damned inconvenient and messy...plus they take a whole 5 minutes to discover on the internet.

[San Jacinto]

Ladies and Gentlemen, Martha Stewart's towering crime is that....

she sucked up to the clintoons. ( and robbed "less informed" shareholders, of course.) Give the greedy b*tch life for all I care.

[tom h]

The author is absolutely right on. Liberals on the coasts loathe her (especially feminists) because she is traditional.

One of them once spitted at Martha, as she was walking from car to hotel one day, that she was nothing but a rich, pampered WASP. Finally goaded to anger, Martha retorted, "If you knew anything you would know that I am Polish and was anything but rich as a child."

Kinda changes your perspective when you realize that she is self-made and had humble origins -- even those of us (like my wife) who are already her fans.

[Tribune7]

bump

[familyop]

Martha Stewart is a man hating witch. A few fiscal (but not moral) conservatives got a taste of what they've been handing to their employees who are men. Now they want to depose her. So what?

The vote this year will be the anti-feminist (anti-socialist, pro-family--all the same thing) vote this year. Beg for that vote, or run for cover from Hitlery, her chicks and her homos. They will be after the less moral conservatives this time, because dads are already done in (although we do have the vote).

[Ancesthntr]

The simple fact is that this lady, who is both a former stock broker and a member of the New York Stock Exchange Board of Directors, knew the law very well: it is illegal to knowingly act upon information about a company that is not available to the public. She knew for sure that Imclone stock was going to take a dive, because she heard about some very bad - and as yet unknown - information from the ultimate insider, the guy who ran the company (and who just happened to be a personal friend). I don't feel sorry for Martha - in an effort to save herself a few tens of thousands of dollars, this lady worth tens of millions or more acted on information that the rest of us didn't and couldn't have had. I personally lost NOTHING on Imclone, but I hope that they throw the book at her. It will set an example for those in similar positions in the future.

[CobaltBlue]

My feelings about Martha Stewart are complicated. I used to subscribe to her magazine, and still think she does nice work, but never in a million years could any one human being live like that. She's ultra-rich and has a cadre of servants in her home, and a gaggle of employees in her business. She's selling a fantasy.

But it's a pretty fantasy, and it's a nice fantasy. It was especially fun when the kids were little and I was a stay at home mom all the time.

I got tired of her because I couldn't ever get her recipes to come out right. Now I subscribe to Cook's Illustrated because their recipes ALWAYS work. Always, always, always.

Some people do hate her because they think she's pretentious, and some hate her because they don't like her taste. And yes, some people are just jealous cats.

But if she did get insider information, and if she did lie about it, I think it's fair for the prosecutors to go after her.

[IYAS9YAS]

Yeah, she does everything herself...right.

[Revolting cat!]

Gee whiz, what a humourless thread under a humorous article! Did anyone get the joke?

[Capt. Tom]

Martha has at least two things working against her.

1. By men she is perceived to be everyman's ex-wife.
(I stole that from a fellow Freeper because it is on target.)

2. By women she will not get any support from the Feminazis because she is encouraging women to be at home in the kitchen cooking. (remember Hilary's comments about baking cookies. Something like "what am I disposed to be doing baking cookies." Or something close to that.

The womens lib groups are so hypocritical about Martha Stewart. She just don't fit their agenda. - Tom

[exmarine]

This is dumb. It shows the government can persecute anyone they want anytime they want. I'm sure there are many in our own government who have committed much worse crimes than she committed. I'm on her side - the government is a bully.

[leprechaun9]

I believe the legal pursuit is motivated by a well connected person who was not given the insider information and lost a big sum of money. That well connected person is similar to the Florida Persecutor who is pressing Rush!

[Reelect President Dubya]

The real Wall Street crooks got away clean.

Martha is just a token offering to the shrieking peasants packed inside the Colliseum.

[Wallace T.]

Martha Stewart is a Democrat, a donor to that party's candidates, who was shown in photo-ops with Hillary and Bill Clinton. There was also a rumor that Ms. Stewart may have been another conquest of der Slickmeister. That her products mainly appeal to conservatively inclined housewives is just an incidental. Actors cast as heroic soldiers, cops, spies, etc. are liberals or leftists: Harrison Ford and Alec Baldwin come to mind.

The main motivation behind her prosecution is a political one. The GOP's Federal prosecutors go after Martha Stewart; the Democrats' Palm Beach County, Florida, prosecutors go after Rush Limbaugh. I am not crazy about this stuff, but at least the Republicans are not acting like the Marquis of Queensbury against the Democrats' street fighting thugs.

[cyncooper]

Are you at this very minute quietly and gleefully rubbing your palms together at the prospect of Little Miss Perfect having to eat Jailhouse Jambalaya for the next 30 years? I expect you are.

I expect this Meghan is an idiot.

I suspect the only one jealous of Martha is Meghan, and she's trying to buddy up with this insipid piece.

[BlueNgold]

The media seldom seems to want to mention that Ms. Stewart is a licensed broker and that she owns a seat on the NYSE. Her financial credentials require that she be held to a higher standard. The fact that she is a public figure is not the issue. In the eyes of the courts she is not the Dutchess of Domesticity, but rather is a trained and experienced professional who is well aware of the details and legalities involved in stock transactions. I find it somewhat ominous that the WSJ failed to mention this 'minor detail'.

As I recall the WSJ tends to have a fairly detailed financial section [yes, that was sarcasm] with a couple of reporters and editors who should have taken note of her resume ....

[Ditter]

I just don't like her!

[BoozeHag]

I'm no Martha Stewart, but I rushed to KMart for her tastefully colored garden hose. Speaking of getting hosed...what was it $4o,000 ?

[Quix]

Oh.

I thought you might be going to say she wore a vivid rainbow flowered print with a handwoven black and white stripe with polka dot cuffs and collar.