I just watched someone named Jerry Knight from the liberal-establishment Washington Post speaking on MSNBC about the Martha Stewart verdict. The anchor asked him whether Martha Stewart's situation was at all comparable to that of Enron executive Kenneth Lay.
His response? That Stewart's case involved an executive who corrupted the whole company by lying to the government, whereas in the Lay situation, the reverse was the case: a broad corporate culture of corruption had come to taint the executive.
Yeah. Uh-hunh. Let's not talk about the amount of money involved in the two cases. Let's not talk about how many people lost their life savings as a result of the two crimes. Let's not talk about the relative weight and depth of evidence in the two cases. Let's not talk about who was a #1 presidential campaign contributor and keynote speaker at a major-party convention. And let's definitely not talk about gender. Not even for a minute. Because except for her criminality, Martha Stewart is pretty much the picture of an American corporate CEO. Right?
“one homosexual can pollute a government office” —U.S. Senate subcommittee report, 1950
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