Posted on 01/27/2003 4:45:49 AM PST by Liz
Martha Stewart, the Queen of Nice?
Martha Stewart insists she has "never not been nice to anybody" - and she doesn't understand why people take such delight in her insider trading troubles. Speaking out for the first time since the scandal broke in June, Stewart sounded bitter and frustrated about the dramatic reversal in her public image.
"That I have been turned into or vilified openly as something other than what I really am has been confusing," Stewart, 61, told the New Yorker for an article in its issue out today. "I mean, we've produced a lot of good stuff for a lot of good people. And to be maligned for that is kind of weird."
The embattled entrepreneur also revealed that one person who had come to her support was Sen. Hillary Clinton.
"Look at her ups and downs," Stewart said. "And she was one of the first people to call me ... and very nicely say, 'You know, you just have to hang in there. It's the process.'"
Stewart - who sources say sent her lawyers to plead with federal prosecutors last week not to file criminal charges against her - attributed her problems with the public to jealousy she thinks some Americans feel at her success.
"I've had a real long way up - along the way my heels being bitten at for various reasons, maybe perfectionism or exactitude or something," she told Jeffrey Toobin, the magazine's legal correspondent. "And now I've had a long way down."
She said she was appalled by the idea, suggested by some, that she should have been nicer to people on the way to the top. "I've never not been nice to anybody," Stewart insisted.
Thin is in
Perhaps the strangest moment in the interview came when Toobin admired the fancy silver chopsticks he and Stewart used to eat homemade Szechuan chicken at her Connecticut mansion.
"You know, in China they say, 'The thinner the chopsticks, the higher the social status.' Of course, I got the thinnest I could find," said Stewart, who was born Martha Kostyra and grew up in working-class Nutley, N.J. "That's why people hate me."
She also vented about the unflattering photographs that have become a staple of newspaper coverage of her story. "I'm a pretty photogenic person, I mean, and they manage to find the doozies," she said.
But she claimed the near-nightly razzing she gets from late-night TV hosts doesn't bother her. "My buddies: Dave [Letterman], Jay [Leno], Conan [O'Brien]. I miss the fun. They have a job to do, they can comment on anybody in a playful way," she said.
Stewart has been under the gun since it was learned that on Dec. 27, 2001, she sold $228,000 worth of ImClone Systems stock and avoided a loss of $45,000 when the stock later plunged.
The Daily News reported exclusively on Saturday that Stewart sent her lawyers to plead with prosecutors to spare her from criminal charges.
Prosecutors are close to deciding whether to file insider trading charges against her for allegedly selling the stock on a tip from a pal, ImClone founder Sam Waksal.
Waksal pleaded guilty to telling his daughter Aliza and father, Jack, about the impending freefall of the stock, which came after news broke that the government was about to shoot down the company's anti-cancer drug.
Stewart and Waksal have both been major donors to the Democratic Party and the political campaigns of both Hillary and former President Bill Clinton.
Hillary Clinton strongly backed Waksal's other daughter, Elana Posner, in her failed 2001 run for New York City Council.
In thanking Hillary Clinton during the interview, Stewart talked about her admiration for how the ex-First Lady and her husband handled themselves during their own scandals.
In fact, Stewart called Hillary Clinton a role model for her own planned comeback.
"First Lady, knocked to death and now senator," she said. "She's smart, she's worthy, she's great. You know, that's what I hope I'll be thought of as."
Stewart declined to discuss specifics of her case but did say she has lost an estimated $400 million since the scandal broke, mostly through declining value of her Martha Stewart Omnimedia stock.
Two Libs strolled in from the South...one rainy Autumn night...
The sky above...and the mud below...
They walked into Ol' Mudboy's Bar...they were DemonRATS by site...
Big Guy's above...but there's MUD below...
They flashed their Guv'ment Credit Card...
"You'll pay, Slim!!" Slick Willie charged!
Ol' Mudboy slams piss-liquor down...
Them Lib'rals start to drinkin'...
Their souls were Void and Black...they FED on Voter's FEARS!!
The Sky above...and Ol' MUD below...
Two Lib'rals oh-so-Powerful...rumor wuz DemBoyz are Queer...
Their LIES disturbed Good Ol' Mudboy so!!
Then JimRob FReeped in, "That beats all...
Slick's "WANTED" poster's on Slim's wall...
Slick Willie and Algore, y'all...
TRAITORS from the White House!!"
Now DemLib'rals they were Chi-Com Whores...National Security they attacked!!
They're LYIN' SCUM!! Tell 'em MUD said so!!
They prance amongst their Media Bores..."Gravitas" DemLeftists lack...
Good Lord's above...got Ol' MUD below!!
At Mount Carmel near WacoTown...Thuggish Slick BLITZKRIEGED that Compound...
Two dozen children's deathly howls...
One FACT...the Left's avoided!!
Now Ol' Mudboy was a FReeper...who's known Slick's a DISGRACE!!
Slick's LYIN' SCUM...tell'im MUD said so!!
He owned that Bar and a memory...Med'yuhWhore'd could not erase!!
Lord's high above...got Ol' MUD below!!
Yeah, Mudboy he could FReep in verse...
The Culture War Right SHALL reverse...
MUD's a Patriot, folks, the Left he'd CURSE...
One man you did not anger!!!
Lord's high above...got MUD below...
Remove Slick's stain...RE-IMPEACH RATS' 'HO!!
Two Lib'rals who did not know...
How much Slim loves this Nation!!
Slick Willie, he's the bold one...MUD inquired about his "quirks"...
"You'll die," said Bill, "'cuz I run this show!!"
Algore said, "Mudboy, we RAPE Sheeple...'cuz they're helpless twirps...
We're LYIN' SCUM...but OUR Base don't know!!
Slim, that Internet I did make...
Your FreeRepublic Left's laws shall break!!
Boy, read the polls, George Dubyuh's tanked...
Big Guv'ment's on a roll!!!"
Well, these Democrats they wuz IGNORANT...they didn't know who Mudboy wuz...
Good Lord's above...got Ol' MUD below.
That FReeper's face grew darker...folks, MUD measured every word...
The sky above...and the mud below...
"You Commie-Pinko sons of bitches...
FEAR my Wrath, you TREAS'NOUS Wretches...
RESIGN NOW...LEAVE DEECEE QUICK!!!
Yer Free Days are a dwindlin'!!!"
Slick Willie ABUSED the I.R.S. ...Bill's tryin' to take OUR Guns...
Slick's THUGS were called....they attacked Mudboy!!
Too late 'cuz MUD had a groooovy sound...and a flamin' writin' pen...
Lord's high above...we got MUD below!!
Slick called his Leftist Minions near...
MUD's just grinnin' EAR-TO-EAR!!! )8^D!!
Said, "Court's in Session...hear ye, hear...
Mudboy Slim's Presidin'!!!"
Well, Slick's Trial commenced and folks did sing...Bill's denials were a JOKE!!
You LIE with pigs...you forfeit yer soul!!
MUD said, "We'll cut Big Guv'ment, boys...we'll cut taxes fer ALL good folks!!
Slick's LYIN' SCUM...and the Left MUST know!!
The Constitution it says somewhere...Crimes are Crimes...Justice Don't Care...
Covet not thy Neighbor's Share...
That's why we fought the Revolution!!"
Now that ol' Times-Dispatch headline...hangs framed on Mudboy's Wall...
"Clinton In Chains...RATS Love Slick MORE!!"
Next to MUD's "Reagan Portrait"...Dutch points Rightward from a horse...
Blue skies above...sure do miss him so.
Folks, the twisted Lib'rals must be smacked...
Our Country's SOUL, Left has attacked...
Slick's TYRANNY Right SHALL retract...
Bill shouldda stuck to Guv'nin'!!
Blue skies above...clear stream below...
The Lib'rals' reign...is damnear o'er!!
The Clinton Curse has been DETHRONED!!
We Celebrate Truth's New Mornin'!!!
MUD (9/25/00)
FReepers...it's time to Make Yer Stand!! Please join your fellow Patriots in Washington, DeeCee on the 15th of February 2003!! It promises to be a day none of us will ever forget!!
FReepersUp...MUD
1 Posted on 09/25/2000 09:43:19 PDT by Mudboy Slim (Sic Semper Tyrannis)
I really have no idea if you have a droopy chin, nor would I presume to guess.
BTW...The RATS Shall Achieve Third-Party Status by the end of this Decade...SITYS!!!
BWAHAHAHA That's how I ALWAYS find my way around D.C.
Unfortunately, my best guess is that if there is a direct link to Hitlery, this investigation will simply peter out...
Brings back so many awful, awful memories of the Clinton years............
No Marthy, it's your craftier than thou attitude. You act like your hot glue doesn't stink.
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