My feelings about Martha Stewart are complicated. I used to subscribe to her magazine, and still think she does nice work, but never in a million years could any one human being live like that. She's ultra-rich and has a cadre of servants in her home, and a gaggle of employees in her business. She's selling a fantasy.
But it's a pretty fantasy, and it's a nice fantasy. It was especially fun when the kids were little and I was a stay at home mom all the time.
I got tired of her because I couldn't ever get her recipes to come out right. Now I subscribe to Cook's Illustrated because their recipes ALWAYS work. Always, always, always.
Some people do hate her because they think she's pretentious, and some hate her because they don't like her taste. And yes, some people are just jealous cats.
But if she did get insider information, and if she did lie about it, I think it's fair for the prosecutors to go after her.
ROTFLMSO!
Of course you couldn't get " her " recipes to work,because they're dreadful, NOT , for the most part HER recipes, but thosed she's gotten from others, never tested, and/or mucked over recipes frolm Julia Childs ( and others ) that she changed, here and there, and called her own!
I used to read her recipes, insytead of jokes. The one she had for YORKSHIRE PUDDING, would make a glop of goo And noithing more. OTOH, MY recipe for YP is THE best, this side of the pond. :-)
Martha is a fraud, a phoney, and a backstabbing itch on wheels. She's a liar, a user, and has always acted as though she's better than everyone else, when she isn't at all.