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Before he was appointed special counsel in the Leakgate case, Patrick Fitzgerald defended the prosecution of Martha Stewart against criticism that the Justice Department indicted her only after it couldn't prove the underlying crime she was accused of - insider trading. The Stewart prosecution was run by former Deputy Attorney General James Comey, the same person who tapped Fitzgerald to run the Leakgate probe in Dec. 2003. A June 2003 "Today Show" transcript unearthed on Monday by ABC Radio host Sean Hannity shows Fitzgerald defending Comey for throwing the book at the domestic diva. NBC's Anne Thompson introduced Fitzgerald as...

Albany [Delmar], New York - Group organizes effort to draft Martha Stewart for NY Senate in 2006 at www.marthaforsenate.com. An excerpt from the site read "New York Politics may be mean and ugly. But Martha is the Queen of clean and who better to tidy up Washington than her? " Unlike Hillary Clinton who spent little time in New York prior to becoming Senator, Martha Stewart received a degree from Barnard and owns several properties in the State. Also, unlike Hillary, Martha is a self-made business woman. Questions about her eligibility due to the ImClone scandal pale in comparison to...

LOS ANGELES -- Martha Stewart said home confinement was tougher than doing time in federal prison. She told Time magazine it was "extremely difficult," especially for "a busy person watching the clock, and knowing other people are watching the clock." Stewart was only allowed out of her house for a limited period. The domestic diva served five months behind bars for lying to authorities about a stock deal and nearly six more months in home confinement. She's been free of her electronic ankle bracelet monitor since Sept. 1

June 3, 2005 Arthur Andersen and the Innocent Criminals The importance of a guilty mind Jacob Sullum If Arthur Andersen were a man on death row, he could be released after his conviction was overturned. But the accounting firm, which was ruined by a 2002 witness tampering indictment that scared away its clients, is beyond saving. As a law professor told The New York Times, "The government gave the corporation a death sentence, and the corporation died." Andersen, which once had 28,000 employees in the United States, has been reduced to a skeleton crew of 200. The U.S. Supreme...

If there was any doubt that my fellow Democrats with white skin, the notorious white liberal, is the most intolerant creature on the planet, all you have to do is check one of their most popular daily blogs, the Daily Kos, to see how they operate. After I posted the column below, Daily Kos ACTUALLY SHUT DOWN the site and banned me from posting there. Keep in mind, I didn't use profanity. All I did was disagree with their opinion on Air America Radio. Also keep in mind that Daily Kos himself called for a boycott of Time Magazine after...

KATONAH, N.Y. (AP) -- Her middle name is Helen. She likes to spend a lot of time with eggs. And she has no use at all for that clunky black gizmo on her ankle. In the month since Martha Stewart was released from prison, after serving five months for her role in a stock-sale scandal, she has not been shy about sharing. Though she turned down an interview request with The Associated Press, the freed tastemaker has been talking about everything from kielbasa ("Yum," she proclaims) to Tasmania in forums ranging from court papers to Internet chat rooms to her...

Freed from prison two weeks ago, Martha Stewart is planning multiple TV projects to continue repairing her battered image. But she might not like what CBS — her onetime broadcast partner — is cooking up. Stewart, who's planning to star in a new version of NBC's "The Apprentice" and host a syndicated lifestyle show next season, will be the subject of a two-hour unauthorized TV movie that CBS is rushing into production in Toronto later this month, possibly for telecast during the May ratings "sweep," which helps set the rates that local stations charge advertisers. Sources said CBS and its...

I finally broke down today and wrote Fox a nasty email. I can not take another heart sobbing story about a convicted excon and a child molesting pervert. Has Fox turned into the National Enquirer of cable? How many ways can you tell a story and how many times does their loyal listeners have to put up with worthless entertainment news? For the first time in months I found myself having to switch channels so as not to start sobbing all over again about poor Martha and Michael. The world is going to hell in a hand basket and our...

After five months in prison, Martha's primed and ready for her next act: two TV shows and a marketing blitz stage-managed by a new A-list team. Inside the Martha Makeover Machine. Stewart: What a difference a prison stay makes NewsweekMarch 7 issue - Just after 5 on a recent frigid winter morning, Debbie Gettings lined up outside a Detroit TV studio for a chance to work for her idol: Martha Stewart. The 34-year-old suburban homemaker was not deterred by the fact that Stewart, at that moment, was sleeping in a prison cell in West Virginia. To the contrary, Gettings is...

Martha Stewart, in a Christmas message posted on her Web site, called Wednesday for sentencing reform and took a swipe at the "bad food" in prison. Stewart, who is roughly halfway through a five-month sentence for lying about a stock sale, urged fans to think about the women she has met in prison who are "devoid of care, devoid of love, devoid of family." She suggested Americans should push for reforms in federal sentencing guidelines for nonviolent first-time offenders and particularly for drug offenders, who she said would be better served by rehabilitation than prison. Stewart, who built a billion-dollar...

Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia Inc.'s former chief executive, Sharon Patrick, has left the New York media and merchandising company's board, the company said late Friday in a regulatory filing. Patrick, who stepped down as president and CEO about three weeks ago in a surprise shake-up, resigned from the board on Thursday, "in connection with her previously announced retirement," the filing said. A spokeswoman for Martha Stewart Living wasn't immediately available to comment further.

NEW YORK (Oct. 23) - Martha Stewart has been exercising, reading and making friends in prison, but the food at the minimum-security prison camp in West Virginia is "terrible," the domestic diva's daughter said Friday. "I'm sure she could give them quite a few pointers, but I think that the budget is so limited that ... I'm not sure how much change they'd be willing to make," Alexis Stewart said on CNN's Larry King Live. "I think airplane (meals) would be better. It's just -- it's terrible," the daughter added. "It's not going to affect her that badly because she's...

Bob Dole Slams Kerry By Andrew L. Jaffee, August 23, 2004 Home   Search   Forum   Terms Nothing has really changed for Democratic hopeful John Kerry, except that real war veterans, like Bob Dole, are questioning the “superficial wounds” and resulting “medals” he received during four (4) months service in Vietnam. Kerry is still flailing, trying to cover up a career punctuated by extreme left-wing politics and flip-flopping by talking to voters about his military service. He squandered his acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention by trying to convince Americans that his tour of duty in Vietnam will make him a great commander...

THE FARMER IN THE DELL I stuffed 'em down my pants...I stuffed 'em down my pants Hi-ho the derry-o, I stuffed 'em down my pants They marked the documents...they marked the documents Hi-ho the derry-o, they marked the documents The *itch set me up...the *itch set me up Hi-ho the derry-o, the *itch set me up I might go to jail...I might go to jail Hi-ho the derry-o, I might go to jail Like Martha, I'm screwed...like Martha, I'm screwed Hi-ho the derry-o, like Martha, I'm screwed Did Hillary leak...did Hillary leak Hi-ho the derry-o, did Hillary leak The...

The result is that people act as if they can ignore the history and origins of a great American corporation, like Microsoft or Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, and treat it as if it just bloomed into existence as a fluke. And thus, the effort and virtue needed to create such a business seems, to them, just as vague and substanceless as the claims that insider trading is a terrible crime. The two ideas are equally devoid of substance and thus hold equal weight in people's minds.

So it appears Martha Stewart will, one of these years, go to prison for five months. I’m starting to wish there were a way to send her up the river for life. Not that her crimes warrant such a sentence. I used to be ambivalent about her case, wondering if what she did justified such tough, resolute prosecution. She was sentenced for lying about a stock sale. I can understand her astonishment at being nailed for that. Not many years ago, we had a president who was giving Burger King stiff competition for turning out the most whoppers. Lying under...

Justice Is Done A worthy end to the Martha Stewart Case. Martha Stewart engaged in financial shenanigans that were arguably criminal and incontestably sleazy. She then lied to federal agents about them and obstructed justice. Today, Judge Miriam Goldman Cedarbaum in Manhattan imposed on Stewart the minimum sentence permissible under the federal guidelines. Justice was done. Much noise has been generated by fans and detractors of this case, most of it beside the point. Rabid supporters urged that the government was star searching and groused, in the now-tired refrain, that "there's no there there" — that Stewart's stock dumping may...

ALBERT WANG PRESENTS proudly offers up the best and worst in Summertime Reality TV! It's like The Appentice. It's like American Idol. It's Like Who Wants To Marry A Millionaire. It's Really, Really Bad. It Is "Who Wants To Be Martha Stewart's Cell Mate?" Martha will start with 15 or 20 likely fellow felons, and each week, through a varity of lame tests, the field is narrowed to 2, then all of America gets to vote on who will share Martha's life for the next 5 months. The contestants who are eliminated each week will be given a shiv, hand...

NEW YORK (AP) - First, Martha Stewart declared she is used to hard work and is not afraid of prison. Later, in an interview with ABC News, the homemaking expert repeated that she would be able to handle it and compared her plight to that of anti-apartheid activist Nelson Mandela. ``I could do it,'' she said, according to excerpts released by ABC late Friday. ``I'm a really good camper. I can sleep on the ground. There are many, many good people who have gone to prison. Look at Nelson Mandela.''