The Stewart Verdict

The Stewart Verdict - The Today show is interviewing four of the Stewart jurors - a hindu woman, a black guy, an older, very brahminish-sounding woman...

...and a blond woman - Dana D'Alessandro - that sounds like she should play the Marisa Tomei role in the stage production of "My Cousin Vinnie".

I'd be more afraid to tangle with her than with John Gotti...

Now, they're talking with Naomi Wolf and Tina Brown are talking about whether "Martha Stewart was targeted because she's a powerful woman".

Wolf: "It's almost Greek - a woman flying too close to the sun...there's almost a tribal taboo against women having too many resources...we're just not ready...look at Hillary, her hairstyle, people wanted to burn her at the stake over that...".

Brown: "It was if Martha had broken down and cried...it's a reflection of the schadenfreude people feel...people wanted to see her bleed...the whole culture of the corner office male executive doesn't carry the freight of having to admit that I did this".

None of them actually questioned the verdict, though, which brings us to the question: what does her gender have to do with it? People didn't attack the personalities of the principals of the Enron flap - because there is no "Ken Lay Living" show on TV.