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TheStreet.com's Jim Cramer says if you want a champion for the downside, Meredith Whitney is there for you.

You have to love a good statement downgrade. It's one where you want impact, headlines, notoriety. One where you want to say, "I want this sucker to go down and I am going to take it down."

Which is the brilliance of the call of Meredith Whitney's downgrade of Goldman Sachs (NYSE: GS) (Cramer's Take) today. Not only can she say, "We have reached the peak," she can also give the appearance of being a bull until now.

"Yep, Meredith Whitney called the top, she called the bottom, and now she is calling the top again," I can hear her adoring media say.

If only that were the truth. Her upgrade of Goldman was a slipped-in upgrade. She's hated this move the whole way. She failed to call the bottom at all, other than to suggest that shorts step aside a bit.

But so what?

Cinderella's better than the step-sister.

So we praise her today. We short Goldman. We know we now have someone who will paint it negatively.

Well done.

Gee, sometimes I hate this business.

Jim Cramer is co-founder and chairman of TheStreet.com. He contributes daily market commentary for TheStreet.com's sites and serves as an adviser to the company's CEO. At the time of publication, Cramer was long Goldman Sachs.

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