Proof once again that our Generation Fink POTUS is incapable of being uncool. The Boston Phoenix recently posted clips from the audiobook of Dreams of My Father which has Obama laying down some real raw "street talk". Remixed with a technobeat and those phrases become a War Chant sure to make all those lilly livered terrorists run back into their caves…. errr sumthin'.
Former Sex Pistol/PIL frontman and GFer John "Johnny Rotten" Lydon (b.1956) is shilling Brit butter Country Life. He got a lot of grief for it. This week the company announced an 85% spike in sales. Careering indeed.
Former Clinton and Reagan advisor David Gergen used the term "the Joshua Generation" over the weekend on CNN to refer to Generation Fink. Anderson Cooper writes on his blog about the term:
It seems to me that for an awful lot of people in this country, especially for African Americans, Barack Obama has said that he’s part of the Joshua Generation. Martin Luther King was our Moses. We haven’t ended our prejudice, but there’s something about this evening and election that has made an awful lot of people feel this is the Joshua Generation, we can do something we thought we could never reach 30, 40, 50 years ago.
Does this seem like a more appropriate handle than the generic "Generation Jones" or "Cuspers"? Or is it too based upon religion?
GF'er Christiane Amanpour is 50 years old today. The CNN reporter was born in London but soon moved to Tehran, Iran with her family. She returned to England in 1969. She joined CNN in 1983 and worked her way up to international correspondent in 1990.
GF'er/financial guru/inventor of the Hollywood Stock Exchange/Karmabanque honcho Max Keiser[1960]debuted his new BBC World show The Oracle this week. You can view the entire show on YouTube. Here's a clip: