Osama? No. Saddam? No. Martha? Yes!

They way everyone is getting excited about the whole Martha Stewart situation, you'd think she was Ken Lay or something.

Hours after her arraignment, Stewart resigned her positions as chairman and chief executive of Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia Inc., a multi-million dollar lifestyle empire she had built out of a small catering business.

Yet the media-savvy Stewart, 61, had been prepared to fight back.

...Byron wrote in the New York Post on Thursday that Stewart's aura of success, capped with good taste, "has teed her up as Wall Street's perfect victim in a world of jealous, threatened men," including several corporate officers under investigation for crimes of a far larger scope.

I've never really like Martha Stewart, and honestly have found her a little creepy and robotic, but I really wouldn't be surprised if the furor over her medium-sized insider trading, as opposed to corporate crime of the degree that, say, Vice President Dick Cheney has yet to really clear himself of, was tainted by the faintest whiff of sexism.