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Wounded Martha asks: Why do they hate me? (Hitlery Martha's role model)
DAILY NEWS ^ | January 27, 2003 | DAVE GOLDINER

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.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption
KEYWORDS: crybaby; followthemoney; hitlerywannabe; imclone; itsallaboutmeeee; passthekleenex; shutupandtakeit; wahwahwah; worshipshildebeast
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To: MurryMom
fine citizens? Did I stumble into the Twilight Zone?
81 posted on 01/27/2003 12:35:35 PM PST by NYpeanut
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To: nmh
"I'm really a selfish, greedy bitch who sees herself head and shoulders above the rest of the impoverished peons."

You quoting LeonaHelmsley-Stewart or the HildaBeast?! Or BOTH?!!

FReegards...MUD

82 posted on 01/27/2003 12:37:14 PM PST by Mudboy Slim (RE-IMPEACH Slick Willie!!!)
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To: MurryMom; jla; sultan88
"...it is extremely unlikely that any criminal action will ever be brought."

I'll bet'cha a romantic candlelight dinner fer two that yer WRONG!!

Sweetie-pie...MUD

83 posted on 01/27/2003 12:39:06 PM PST by Mudboy Slim (RE-IMPEACH Slick Willie!!!)
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To: Carolinamom
LOL I never have felt guilty about not being perfect but I got the feeling from the pie book that Martha wanted me to feel guilty, because I wasn't Martha.
84 posted on 01/27/2003 12:41:06 PM PST by Ditter
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To: Mudboy Slim; Grampa Dave; dubyagee; FreeTheHostages; Pippin; lodwick; jla
Great book, IMHO...who do I owe it too again, FTH?!

You ... you ... disruptor!

85 posted on 01/27/2003 12:41:11 PM PST by Timesink (I offered her a ring, she gave me the finger)
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To: MurryMom
So sorry, I didn't notice it was you. Anyone on the ball knows your distinguished history at this site. Run along back to the land of drippy chins and forget I mentioned anything at all.
86 posted on 01/27/2003 12:41:39 PM PST by NYpeanut
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To: Timesink
LOL...so, do I owe you Rush's book or Ann's book?! I've got both of them and will bring them to CPAC...Steve
87 posted on 01/27/2003 12:42:52 PM PST by Mudboy Slim (RE-IMPEACH Slick Willie!!!)
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To: NYpeanut
It is sorta like beating up an Ol' Grandmother, ain't it?! And I quit doin' that years ago...LOL!!

FReegards...MUD

88 posted on 01/27/2003 12:44:04 PM PST by Mudboy Slim (RE-IMPEACH Slick Willie!!!)
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To: Ditter; Cyber-Band; Landru
"the pie book"

LOL...Don't NEVER Call ME PIE...MUD

89 posted on 01/27/2003 12:45:47 PM PST by Mudboy Slim (RE-IMPEACH Slick Willie!!!)
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To: Mudboy Slim
LOL...so, do I owe you Rush's book or Ann's book?! I've got both of them and will bring them to CPAC...Steve

Ann's book. But I lost both my Rush books so I'd take that too. ;) I don't have the $ to go to CPAC though. I have enough to take Amtrak to get there (only one state over), but I don't have enough to get back!

90 posted on 01/27/2003 12:47:16 PM PST by Timesink (I offered her a ring, she gave me the finger)
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To: NYpeanut
"Did I stumble into the Twilight Zone?"

It's Lib'ralLaLaLand where the Clintons are "fine citizens" and Slick Willie is "an honest man"...BWAHAHAHAHA!!!

Luckily, we live in REALITY which is why Lib'ralism is DEAD...MUD

91 posted on 01/27/2003 12:47:53 PM PST by Mudboy Slim (RE-IMPEACH Slick Willie!!!)
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To: Timesink; FreeTheHostages
You don't have to be there to git yer prize...I just need FTH to witness that the PRIZES are sent via that post office directly accross the street from the Gateway Marriott, where I'll try and get Ann's book signed fer you...otherwise, I'll haveta sign it and send it...LOL!!

FReegards...MUD

92 posted on 01/27/2003 12:50:41 PM PST by Mudboy Slim (RE-IMPEACH Slick Willie!!!)
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To: Mudboy Slim
Feh! You were supposed to offer to pay for my ticket!

I would have gotten away with it too, if it hadn't been for you meddling Freepers.
93 posted on 01/27/2003 12:52:59 PM PST by Timesink (I offered her a ring, she gave me the finger)
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To: Mudboy Slim; Timesink
LOL -- he hasn't sent it!!? He's just a male! Tsk, tsk, men. They can't take out the garbage but they can redesign and rebuild the garage. Sigh.

Timesink, I'm not worried because (1) well, I warned you with those little joking intimations that I couldn't be certain Mudboy would mail his, what with his music career and kids and all and (2) this gives me something to nag him about at CPAC, and I'm really looking forward to do doing that (being female).

:)
94 posted on 01/27/2003 12:54:47 PM PST by FreeTheHostages
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To: FrdmLvr
"Martha Stewart has excellent taste in furnishings. I believe that's the only reason she's a success. I buy her paint and home accessories not because of her, but in spite of her."

Why not send your money directly to Hillary Clinton?

95 posted on 01/27/2003 12:56:47 PM PST by Godebert
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To: FrdmLvr
"I buy her paint and home accessories not because of her, but in spite of her."

Then YOU are overpaying, my FRiend...YOU are paying cash-money fer the Helmsley-StewartAura, IMHO, 'cuz that paint is mid-grade but sells fer Premium-grade prices.

FReegards...MUD

96 posted on 01/27/2003 1:00:32 PM PST by Mudboy Slim (RE-IMPEACH Slick Willie!!!)
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To: Timesink
"I would have gotten away with it too, if it hadn't been for you meddling Freepers."

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! William Jefferson Clinton's last words as he lays dying a pitiful death on a cold, concrete PrisonFloor...LOL!!

DETHRONE RATS' WHORE...NOW!!!

Heh heh heh...MUD

97 posted on 01/27/2003 1:03:48 PM PST by Mudboy Slim (Dethrone the Tyrant...NOW!!!)
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To: FreeTheHostages
"gives me something to nag him about"

LOL...I think you and the Missuz are intellectual clones...MUD

98 posted on 01/27/2003 1:05:34 PM PST by Mudboy Slim (Dethrone the Tyrant...NOW!!!)
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To: Mudboy Slim
I'll bet'cha a romantic candlelight dinner fer two that yer WRONG!!

A candlelight dinner with Count Dracula would be more enticing than the prospect of an evening of monotonous monologues from one of Dumbya's mindless minions.

Rumors of Hillary's pending indictment were circulating on this and other boards non-stop from 1993 to 2000, even after Kenneth Starr and his henchmen denied there was any evidence to support a prosecution. You aren't planning to milk the Martha rumors for another 7 years, are you, MUD?

99 posted on 01/27/2003 1:12:40 PM PST by MurryMom
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To: NYpeanut
Run along back to the land of drippy chins and forget I mentioned anything at all.

O.K., you will be spared the pain of a response on the merits of your post provided you explain the "drippy chins" analogy. Did you intend "droopy" instead of "drippy"?

100 posted on 01/27/2003 1:16:41 PM PST by MurryMom
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