Buzzflash's Karlin: Don't buy into the Pelosi distraction

Don't Let the Pelosi Kerfuffle Distract You from the Architects of Torture and Murder: Cheney, Rumsfeld and Bush

By Mark Karlin

Okay, the diversionary distraction -- so a crime or escape from prison can be committed -- is one of the oldest Hollywood film cliches.

You know, let's say two guys are planning to break out of prison by jumping a fence and hiding in a hamper in the outgoing laundry truck. So they get a couple of other inmates to start a fight and draw the attention of all the guards. That way the escaping jailbirds won't be noticed.
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Buzzflash: CNBC's Cramer represents corruption at the heart of Wall Street meltdown

A BUZZFLASH NEWS ALERT
by Chad Rubel

When Jon Stewart went after CNBC following Rick Santelli's rant, multiple members of the on-air staff took some hard hits. Stewart even wondered whether he would rather see the CNBC interviewer go to jail over Sir Allen Stanford.

Jim Cramer, perhaps the best-known personality on the business channel, came across relatively well in Stewart's initial attack. But Cramer made the attack on CNBC about Cramer.

This might end up being a rather huge mistake on Cramer's part. The Internet journalism community is helping Stewart's fight, and uncovered this 2006 video of Cramer admitting several things that don't seem, well, ethical. And you have Cramer saying to the interviewer that he wouldn't say this on TV. But we can see the video of Cramer admitting to certain business practices that sound, well, bad.
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Buzzflash/Karlin: New York Post Non-Apology for Racist Cartoon Makes Monkeys of Us All

New York Post Non-Apology for Racist Cartoon Makes Monkeys of Us All

A BUZZFLASH EDITOR'S BLOG

By Mark Karlin

A search of Google will reveal that most of the corporate mainstream press headlined that the New York Post had "apologized" for its racist cartoon depicting President Obama as a monkey. But the New York Post did not apologize by any common meaning of the word in a subsequent editorial: it defended the cartoon and mocked all fair-minded Americans by "apologizing" if the cartoon that the Post claimed was innocuous "offended" anyone.

In short, the fault lies in our eyes and sensitivities, the Post told us, not in their barely coded bigotry. One of our regular BuzzFlash "lighter side" contributors is a cartoonist who got it right. As our "Pablo" observes in his toon entitled "Offended by Apology": "It was one of those 'If anyone was offended' apologies"; Well, "I'm offended at those who were not offended."
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