It ain't over between us Martha!
Posted on 02/27/2005 10:27:28 AM PST by drt1
After five months in prison, Martha's primed and ready for her next act: two TV shows and a marketing blitz stage-managed by a new A-list team. Inside the Martha Makeover Machine. Stewart: What a difference a prison stay makes
NewsweekMarch 7 issue - Just after 5 on a recent frigid winter morning, Debbie Gettings lined up outside a Detroit TV studio for a chance to work for her idol: Martha Stewart. The 34-year-old suburban homemaker was not deterred by the fact that Stewart, at that moment, was sleeping in a prison cell in West Virginia. To the contrary, Gettings is inspired by Stewart's steely determination to do her time for lying to the Feds in the ImClone stock scandal and then get back to business. She doesn't know, or really even care, if Stewart actually broke the law. She just admires Martha, the original desperate housewife, for not flinching in the face of adversity. Gettings would love to be that tough. And that's what got her out of bed early to be at the head of a line stretched around the block to audition for next season's hottest new reality show on NBC: "The Apprentice: Martha Stewart." "I hope to prove myself to be just as bitchy as Martha," she says, teeth chattering in the freezing cold. "She's my role model."...
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It ain't over between us Martha!
But By Gum lets stick it to Martha since she is arrogant and successful and...GOOD GOD......SHE LIED...AND HAD $60,000 at stake!!!!!
Instead, Lets give Hillary a pass and admire her $100,000 trade gain and her malfeasance....and lets let OJ walk free and clear.
Can jealousy be at play among the pedestrian class being fed by the MSM?
hahaha!
Oh, puulllleeeaaseee.....Martha should have been FINED big time, but NOT sent to jail......I can think of a lot bigger fish to fry......like some of the Enron guys. And, this will be BETTER than having to watch the M Jackson trial cr*p.
Well said!
I say give it to them all, OJ, Hillary, Bill, etc. Just because the system is easily subverted by some doesn't mean that all are entitled to similar injustices.
Stewart might appear sympathetic but you have to keep in mind 1) That it wasn't the 60K that was the problem and 2) She (Or her attorneys acting under her direction) was arrogant, deceptive and unrepentant when caught in the lie and this is what she went down for.
A little schedenfruede here? Perhaps. Talk to some of the bodies in the trail of her rise to success and see if they think the punishment was excessive.
They are being fried, or have been fried. Martha was fried quickly because her case was easy to prosecute and no elaborate schemes. She was also stupid and arrogant.
Re: Enron et al. I want this handled with rapidity and draconian punishments. Hope I get what I want but, so far, rapidity has not been forthcoming.
If guilt could have been proved she should have been fined. The politicians were looking for scapegoats for the bad economy and huge stock market losses before the 2002 elections. Martha was in the wrong place at the wrong time. GWB still blames the corporations for that mess. He mentioned it in his recent SOTU address.
Sorry, Post 7
She broke the law. Even rich, famous people go to jail for that. If you're going to use the OJ trial as an excuse to let Martha off, why don't we just make all famous people...or maybe just famous women...immune to any laws. I have no sympathy for her. She got off easy. Anyone without her money would've gone to jail for longer and wouldn't have been put in a day-spa prison where they're pampered.
Well, she was on the Board of Directors of the New york Stock Exchange --- she had an obligation to guard the chicken house. Was she looking at Enron stock ?
"I hope to prove myself to be just as bitchy as Martha..."
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She'll have to get in line behind a few of my ex-GF's. |
Sarbanes-Oxley and other regulations will end up costing our economy more than the scandals.
Women in Chains ?
No reasonable person would excuse punishment for law breaking. And most would agree she is arrogant. Not too many successful people of this magnitude are shrinking violets.
My own feeling is that many people enjoyed seeing this successful woman go down......not because she broke the law, but because she was a tremendous self made success when compared to themselves....a pathetic basis for piling on with satisfaction and glee as was so obviously the case in the MSM, talk shows, etc.
My complaint is about fairness and not attempting to destroy someone and their business for the crime of lying that she was found guilty of.
And there, my friends, is the problem....
I think Bernie Ebbers or Richard Scrushy would be more likely to be next in line, and more in tune with the corporate makeover theme.
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