WP/Reuters: Martha Stewart Sets TV Comeback After Jail

[DeepModem Mom]

Martha Stewart Sets TV Comeback After Jail

By Claudia Parsons
Reuters
Thursday, December 9, 2004; 2:29 AM


NEW YORK - Jailed trendsetter Martha Stewart will make her television comeback in fall 2005 with a new show to be produced by the man who brought Americans "Survivor" and "The Apprentice."

The show was unveiled while Stewart, America's favorite homemaker, was serving a five-month prison sentence in West Virginia for lying about a suspicious stock sale.

"Millions of people feel like Martha got a raw deal and America loves comeback stories," the show's producer, Mark Burnett, a former soldier from east London, told reporters. "With or without the show, this is a comeback story."...

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The live syndicated show, which will debut on NBC-owned and -operated stations, will allow a studio audience and guests to "participate and interact with Martha."...

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Stewart...has seen her personal fortune swell while she has been behind bars as investors have bet (the Martha Stewart Living corporation) will rebound on her return....


http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A50254-2004Dec9.html

[WindRavenX]

1. As a Martha fan...

...I hope she comes out swinging and kick ass! I love you Martha! :bounce:

[Piperay]

2. YIPEEEEE!!!

I LOVE Martha and I hope she has a BIGGER BETTER career after she comes out of prison then she had before she went in! :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :thumbsup:

[murielm99]

3. If Ken Lay was in jail,

and Cheney, and a few others, I would not be at all worried about Martha being in jail.

She did something wrong, but she was scapegoated. She is a Democrat, and a blond woman over forty. Such people are not allowed success.

I would have been okay with a big fine for Martha, and community service. But only after seeing Lay and some of the rest of them in jail, too. Martha did not bankrupt a company, and rob people of their savings and pensions.

Martha will make a big comeback. Everyone who joked about her will see it. She will laugh all the way to the bank.

[soothsayer]

5. Was never proven that she did something wrong. She was

never charged with doing something wrong, just with "lying"---the favorite repuke tool against Dems. And the gov't witness LIED on the stand against her, and the judge KNEW!!!!!!

Double-standards much?

[cleofus1]

6. same thing as...

When the police arrest you for "resisting arrest"....

[soothsayer]

8. yes!

never thought about that, but YES indeed...!

[murielm99]

7. Very true.

She should have had the verdict thrown out.

She should have had a new trial, or have been allowed to go home free.

[DeepModem Mom]

13. You got it, murielm -- "a Democrat and a blond woman over forty" --

a description, it occurs to me, which also fits another successful lightning rod, Hillary Clinton.

[cleofus1]

4. it's really heartwarming to see this...

Good for her... I wish her all the success in the world!

[proudbluestater]

9. I hope she becomes a trillionaire because...

BOTH Bush and Cheney engaged in ACTUAL INSIDER TRADING, something Martha was not even accused or convicted of, and they never were even charged, let alone spent the night in jail.

Source: Worse than Watergate, by John Dean.

[The Backlash Cometh]

10. The kids all love her because she smuggled in herbs.

The last three times I went into K-mart it was specifically to look for specific Martha Stewart products. I like her stuff for the price.

[llmart]

11. I just bought a subscription to her magazine.......

I hope she rakes in the dough when she gets out and is even more popular than ever and I'll help even though I wouldn't normally buy her stuff.

Men just can't stand it when a woman is successful. They think they have the market on business savvy.

Yeah, Martha will be laughing all the way to the bank. Good for her!

[Piperay]

18. The irony of it is

that Martha got rich and successful off of doing what these kind of men told women they should all do ... stay in the kitchen. I hope she is a trillion times more successful after she gets out, hahahaha! :-)

[The Backlash Cometh]

20. I hope for a bigger miracle.

I hope Martha comes out and realizes that her money could be put to real good use.

[Deja Q]

12. Man, I wish more celebrities would help non-celebrities.

Oprah may be a shill for Pontiac, but at least she helped regular people. And not ones we put on ivory pedatals.

We need more Michael Moore's to make shows about corporate lawbreakers (aka "Corporate COPS")

Worst of all. WHat Martha did was wrong. But lots of Enron chaps did far worse. Why aren't many more people, something akin to 59 million I suspect, asking "What about Ken Lay?"

[Gregorian]

14. She was baking a cake on a Julia Child rerun yesterday.

It was so sad to see her. I saw America's hypocracy when I looked at her face. How could she ever go to jail when there is Oxymoron spewing his drugfilled hate? Or Ken Lay? Or George Bush? Incredible.

There must be a reason. That's the only thing that keeps me sane.

[0007]

15. I think Martha Stewart and Leona Hemsley and Imelda Marcos

should be called the three little chickie's. All three have kryptonite running wild in their veins.

[truth2power]

16. Good! I hope she's successful.

By the way....where's Ken Lay??? ....thought so.

[amazona]

17. good for her

I hope she succeeds.

[TrustingDog]

19. Martha has more spine and dignity than...

all those pricks and prickesses in the WH and the Mess Media combined.
you go girl. I'm not a big shopper but will surely be buying her stuff over others.

[Stinky The Clown]

21. I have never been a Martha fan, but I have supported her in this

She did what men do and in many cases she did much better. She was a successful woman in a man's world. What she did in terms of why she's in jail was a big fucking nothing. Yet she goes to jail.

(psssst ..... shhhhh ... Ken Lay may hear us....)

She's always been a Democratic supporter.

Maybe she could parlay her media empire into a left-biased alternative to Fox? Can she be a hero? Hopefully, after she gets her life back - and she will, in spades! - she can get her comeuppance in a way that **really** hurts her persecutors.