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Blue Light Special
New York Post ^ | August 26, 2002 | Christopher Byron

Posted on 08/26/2002 5:45:31 AM PDT by Quilla

Edited on 05/26/2004 5:08:17 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

Last week's insider trading lawsuit against Martha Stewart looks already to be little more than an opportunistic shakedown effort by some class-action lawyers. But the attention the suit is getting shows just how ready folks now are to believe the worst about CEOs in general - and Martha in particular. In her Congress-defying pose of demanding to be taken at her word in the ImClone Systems insider trading affair - while bizarrely saying almost nothing publicly about the matter at all - America's dominatrix of domesticity has already been judged a liar in the court of public opinion. And this in turn has stripped from her the most precious resource any public figure has: the integrity of her name.


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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: imclone; kmart; marthastewart
I never could understand why Stewart would jeopardize so much for such relatively paltry sums. The sums weren't so paltry after all. $115 million - now that's a GOOD THING.
1 posted on 08/26/2002 5:45:31 AM PDT by Quilla
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To: Quilla
What a heifer.

A fat, smug heifer.

2 posted on 08/26/2002 5:54:16 AM PDT by billorites
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To: billorites
Never trust a faux WASP.
3 posted on 08/26/2002 6:33:25 AM PDT by CatoRenasci
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To: Quilla
The way greedy Martha has handled her case shows just how out of touch she is with the real world.
4 posted on 08/26/2002 6:49:21 AM PDT by Dante3
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To: Dante3
Greed - that describes her to a tee.
5 posted on 08/26/2002 6:54:09 AM PDT by Quilla
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