MARTHA STEWART SAID TO SEE POLITICAL CONSPIRACY; REPUBLICANS PROBE 'SEX LIFE'

DrudgeReport.com ^ | August 18, 2002 | Matt Drudge

[Paul Atreides]

Embattled media mogul Martha Stewart is said to see a political conspiracy behind the deepening investigation into her questionable stock trades, the DRUDGE REPORT has learned.

"Martha really believes it is the Republicans who are behind this -- and they are chasing her for purely political reasons," a Stewart intimate said this weekend.

"Martha told me that she believes they are doing the very same thing to her, they did to President Clinton. What Ken Starr did. She believes it is nothing short of a witch hunt! They are even digging into her private e-mails! They are demanding to know who she's dated. Martha said to me, 'Can you believe they want to know who I'm dating?' Republicans on Capitol Hill are probing her sex life!"

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The close Stewart friend, who demanded not to be named out of fear of being dragged into the investigation, spoke just hours after Justice Department officials sacked her stockbroker's offices - removing boxes of evidence related to the ImClone stock scandal.

"Who runs the Justice Department? Republicans. Who runs the House of Representatives, and these committees looking into Martha? The Republicans," said the Stewart friend. "Guess who is a major force in raising money and contributing to Democrats?"

[Last year Billionaire Stewart contributed $125,000 in soft money to Democratic accounts, records show.]

The close Stewart friend predicted Americans will rally behind Stewart the same way many did with President Clinton during his impeachment.

"Once all the facts come out about this abuse of power, about these subpoenas, which ask for every detail on Martha's very private life, people will come to her side."

A spokesman for the House Energy and Commerce Committee strongly denied congressional investigators are being motivated out of any political concern and noted questions about a subject's personal contacts with other individuals are standard.

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[Bella_Bru]

Who the hell cares about her sex life???? What would that have to do with her stock games?

[Bogie]

Are you kidding? She's a regular nympho!

Why do you think she learned how to cook?

[RightOnline]

I know her "rep" and all as a hard-hearted b*tch............but until reading this, I had actually been feeling sorry for her in her current mess, figuring that she was probably no more "guilty" than thousands of others........

However.....

After reading this tripe, this wench can get locked up for years for all I care. Screw 'er.

[mystery-ak]

.....in fact the image of Martha engaging in any kind of sex act freaks me out......yuck!

[Miss Marple]

She is not being set up by the government. She was invited to testify before Congress (the House). She is under investigation, but I am almost certain that the government isn't interested in her, but rather what information on others she can provide.

I expect a plea bargain and a quiet end to this, if she can provide additional information on some Wall Street players. And by the way, she was a stockbroker before becoming the Queen of Housewifery, so she knew what the rules were.

[stalin]

125,000 ? that's nothing. She's a billionare.

it's is true that they need to put more of Bush's friends behind bars to shut people like this up. Why is Ken Lay still free ?

That looks fishy.

[cabral]

Yup, Martha has lost a quarter of a billion dollars in stock value over a 200 thousand stock trade.

Her audience is already leaving her in droves with their pocketbooks

[eeriegeno]

The only folks who rallied around Klinton during his impeachment, from my memory, were the demoncrats who would sell their mother's soul to the devil for the good of the 'party' and a handfull of RINO's who had their next election in mind. If they all would have done the job they were elected to do, maybe near 3000 human lives would not have been lost and two fantastic buildings would still be standing. But, I guess those small details don't come to mind to those who are greedy for political power. IMHO we will still be feeling the affects of the Arkansas dogpatch family 20 years from now.

[Paul Atreides]

"It's a gooooooooood thing!"

[Inge_CAV]

"MARTHA STEWART SAID TO SEE POLITICAL CONSPIRACY; REPUBLICANS PROBE 'SEX LIFE'"

You don't suppose Martha Stewart got her hand caught in Bill Clinton's "Monkey Trap".........

[Texas_Jarhead]

Seems Martha is taking a lesson out of Hitlery's book. It all due to the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy.

[denydenydeny]

Playing the "it's all about sex" card. Hey, it worked for Clinton.

[marajade]

Have you ever thought that they're using her to get to more potentials?

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

They are demanding to know who she's dated

No, but we ARE interested in how many times she dated Janet Reno.

Looks like another episode of VRWC Junction.

[rwfromkansas]

This is gosh darn funny.

Mrs. Stewart....please explain how Jane Clayson at CBS, who did her journalist's duty to ask you questions about this on your cooking segment on the station, is a member of the right wing conspiracy against you?

[stalin]

I can't feel sorry for her. She did it to herself.

When I said 125,000 i meant that's what she gave to democrates - Chickenfeed. It makes her look pretty silly to be calling it a republican conspiracy.

[marajade]

My only thought is if they are questioning her "dates" they are doing so as an investigative lead resource only...

[Paul Atreides]

Actually, I was rather expecting her to blame the Republicans. The sex angle is out of left field. Isn't it funny that her husband left her for another woman and she defends Bubba?

Am I wrong, or haven't leftist columnists been doing the most dancing on her grave about the stock deal?

[rwfromkansas]

Same here. I had been feeling sorry for her as well.

Not anymore.

[eddie willers]

Americans will rally behind Stewart the same way many did with President Clinton during his impeachment.

They didn't "rally" around his silly ass.
They just didn't have the stomach to throw a sitting president out of office.

They will have no qualms about tossing out a Betty Crocker that half the country (the men) are clueless about and half of the other half despise.