News Flash:
"Corporate media continues to focus in on Martha Stewart to prove to all patriotic Americans that the Bush Administration is willing to clamp down on corporate malfeasance...." and the beat goes on.
IMHO, Martha's pilfering of 2-300k is peanuts compared to the destabiliation of the stock market and US economy thanks, in large part, to Kenny Lay and the rest of the boys at Enron. No question Martha did wrong and needs to be held accountable, and all this makes a good story, but I find this discussion really a big distraction to the real issues at hand.
Let's all remember that MS had to work/manipulate her way into the elitist circles of this country. She wasn't born into them like so many others currently in power in this country. Could it be that her donations to the democratic party that did her in?? Nah, that'd be way too cynical for me to think that.