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...House, she first stonewalled, haughtily dismissing her detractors as politically motivated. That worked to a point. A raft of grand juries declined to indict her for anything: not Whitewater, not Castle Grande, not missing billing records, not cattle futures. She occasionally leavened her approach with, well, a touch of Martha, giving a tour of the mansion at Christmas showcasing homemade ornaments, gushing over the pastry chef as he prepared a State Dinner, going on a heritage tour with Ralph Lauren, publishing a book on entertaining at the White House. But none of that rehabilitated her public image. It took...
...Martha has modeled herself more on the early, emotion-free Hillary - most memorably in that disastrous CBS Morning News appearance shortly after the insider-trading allegations broke. She snapped that the accusations against her were "ridiculous," and then brandishing her knife at the head of cabbage she was turning into coleslaw, she concluded "I'm just going to focus on my salad." In a flash, we saw the Martha behind the fluffy 300-thread count towels, the one alleged to have fired her gardener over pennies and to turn to ice the minute the klieg lights...
...Martha still has time to morph into Hillary, the Later Years...
...Martha took a step in that direction on Wednesday, giving in to the disgrace of the moment, looking distraught and wounded and disheveled for the first time ever on camera. Like that other distressed damsel Hillary, who had Ken Starr, Martha has a villain: James Comey, the U.S. Attorney for New York. He may protest too much when insisting he's indicting Stewart not for "who she is, but because of what she did." Other federal prosecutors readily admit that going after a celebrity is a cost-effective way to deter all the potential lawbreakers out there. But note there...
...knew it (not until Bill's public admission). But she shrouds that crucial point in a show of grief, describing how she gulped for air and cried and felt the universal female emotion of wanting to wring her husband's neck. There's a couple million votes right there. Martha just needs to don a hairshirt under her perfect Oxford blouse, confess to misjudgments as if she's on Oprah, show contrition, ask forgiveness. She can continue to say she's innocent, but at the same time open herself up to the mercy of public opinion. It's the only...