Bono is an evil fool

daveyeh

"Bono may be the personification of all that’s evil about contemporary celebrity culture and all that’s worse than bankrupt about liberal capitalism (and liberal capitalists) but there’s also a real person in there, and he’s spent most of a lifetime making himself what history must surely judge—as a fool."

http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/05/08/the-banalities-of-bono/

:eek:

:pac::pac::pac:

FearDark

Yeah.

Bono - BOOOO!
Dave Mc Savage - BOOO!
Ray Foley - BOOO!
Pat Kenny - BOOO!

Can we not hate someone new here? Honestly.

brummytom

God, I miss Degsy.

AnarchistKen

Maybe not an evil fool but definitely a gobsh1te

syklops

LIke the time he was in concert in Dublin, and the music stops and he starts clapping his hands slowly and he speaks solemnly into the microphone "Everytime I clap my hands, a child in Africa dies." Someone shouted from the crowd "Then stop clapping your f%$king hands!

Valetta

He's a rich, evil fool.

Kudos.

Cody Pomeray

That's not an attack on Bono per se, it's an attack on "liberal paternalism" yada yada yada. Bono is just an inconsequential vehicle for the journo's ire.

daveyeh

FearDark wrote: »

Yeah.

Bono - BOOOO!
Dave Mc Savage - BOOO!
Ray Foley - BOOO!
Pat Kenny - BOOO!

Can we not hate someone new here? Honestly.

FearDark - BOOO!!

Sergeant

It's reads like the angry venting of some pimple-scarred student who has just discovered Che Guevara and RATM.

FearDark

FearDark wrote: »

Yeah.

Bono - BOOOO!
Dave Mc Savage - BOOO!
Ray Foley - BOOO!
Pat Kenny - BOOO!

Can we not hate someone new here? Honestly.

What's wrong with Ray Foley?

FearDark

syklops wrote: »

LIke the time he was in concert in Dublin, and the music stops and he starts clapping his hands slowly and he speaks solemnly into the microphone "Everytime I clap my hands, a child in Africa dies." Someone shouted from the crowd "Then stop clapping your f%$king hands!

Joke is older than time itself.

Andy-Pandy

Bono's grand. I dont get all the hate.

FearDark

Deleted User wrote: »

What's wrong with Ray Foley?

He's a tool and anyone who likes him is one too.

Thats besides the point though.

anncoates

At least apartheid collapsed so we don't have to hear him saying APARR-TATE in that cunty bluesman voice anymore.

anncoates

Sergeant wrote: »

It's reads like the angry venting of some pimple-scarred student who has just discovered Che Guevara and RATM.

Even the typeface and graphic design of that site is like a pimply teenager jabbing a finger at you.

Banjo String

Apparently he fell of the stage at a gig last week.

Sources say he was standing to close to the edge.

bazza1

Be great if he could use his "influence" on the G8 summit to get some debt relief for Ireland as well as sub-saharan Africa!

Just no concert....please...:D

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

daveyeh wrote: »

"Bono may be the personification of all that’s evil about contemporary celebrity culture and all that’s worse than bankrupt about liberal capitalism (and liberal capitalists) but there’s also a real person in there, and he’s spent most of a lifetime making himself what history must surely judge—as a fool."

http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/05/08/the-banalities-of-bono/

:eek:

:pac::pac::pac:

Good Christ, there are hundreds of people I could accuse of being the personificatino of contemporary celebrity culture, but I wouldn't say Bono's one of them.

Agree with the liberal capitlaism of Bono, but not the writer's view of what liberal capitalism actually is.

A fool? If he was a fool, I don;t think U2 would have been as successful as they are. Note, I didn't say "good" because I cn take them of leave them.

jimgoose

I clocked Bono with the door of the Oliver St. John Gogarty pub in Temple Bar in 1996. True fact. That's my claim to fame. Since then numerous investigative journalists, including Paul Williams, have tried to figure out whether or not I did it deliberately. Can I be a Liberal Wotsit as well??

Wibbs

I'd not get within sniffing distance of calling the chap a fool. He is a very bright individual. Check out his early interviews where he was less guarded. He's no thick by any stretch. However I do think him naive. Very. A basal insecurity and suburban isolation when growing up, propped up by huge success that ends up looking like an ego, then add in intelligence and it's easy to see how he can come to buy into his own worldview and hype. Often the brightest people are the easiest to fool, especially when they fool themselves.

IM0

TL;DR

--Kaiser--

daveyeh wrote: »

"Bono may be the personification of all that’s evil about contemporary celebrity culture and all that’s worse than bankrupt about liberal capitalism (and liberal capitalists) but there’s also a real person in there, and he’s spent most of a lifetime making himself what history must surely judge—as a fool."

http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/05/08/the-banalities-of-bono/

:eek:

:pac::pac::pac:

Wow. It's a long time since I've seen such a poorly designed website, maybe 1998 when frames were all the rage

MadsL

Shame he isn't a property developer so we can hate him properly.

Oh wait.

http://books.google.com/books?id=r-Ygcg9jR1cC&pg=PT109&lpg=PT109&dq=Bono+property+developer&source=bl&ots=RJ6Lehvn0x&sig=hW8O74VvYTbE0Vzs0b-WIGwem-A&hl=en&sa=X&ei=4_GMUf7lFpTG4AO58IDIDg&ved=0CFcQ6AEwBg

U2's Bono wins battle to redevelop Dublin hotel

Cienciano

U2 were good, but some time in the mid to late 90's, the crossed the line from a band, to a business. They used to change it around a bit.
Now each album is a carbon copy of the last one. Bland auld shíte. Ditto the chili peppers.
What was the question again OP? :pac:

shanered

He availed of a clear tax break, who wouldn't do the exact same.
I don't blame him really tbh, but still think its grossly unfair that he was afforded so much tax free earnings.
Time the government started legislating rather then pointing fingers.

I heard Bono once looked at a kitten and felt nothing.

RikkFlair

Happy birthday Bono. 53 today.

All together now "For he's a jolly good....."

WilyCoyote

Wibbs wrote: »

I'd not get within sniffing distance of calling the chap a fool. He is a very bright individual. Check out his early interviews where he was less guarded. He's no thick by any stretch. However I do think him naive. Very. A basal insecurity and suburban isolation when growing up, propped up by huge success that ends up looking like an ego, then add in intelligence and it's easy to see how he can come to buy into his own worldview and hype. Often the brightest people are the easiest to fool, especially when they fool themselves.

I think Wibbs hits the nail on the head. A Napoleonic complex with the added ingredients of pomobabble and ability to bore.
I would call him misguided rather than evil.

Fratton Fred

Wibbs wrote: »

I'd not get within sniffing distance of calling the chap a fool. He is a very bright individual. Check out his early interviews where he was less guarded. He's no thick by any stretch. However I do think him naive. Very. A basal insecurity and suburban isolation when growing up, propped up by huge success that ends up looking like an ego, then add in intelligence and it's easy to see how he can come to buy into his own worldview and hype. Often the brightest people are the easiest to fool, especially when they fool themselves.

In fairness, I think Ali is the brains behind the phylanthropy.

Still can't see what there is to hate though, if he spent his millions on coke and hookers people would love him.

readytosnap

Bono talks some ****e, but as a musician I think he & U2 are the best out there.

crockholm

Fratton Fred wrote: »

In fairness, I think Ali is the brains behind the phylanthropy.

Still can't see what there is to hate though, if he spent his millions on coke and hookers people would love him.

Thats because the coke and hookers chaps wouldn't be pontificating so much on what a government should do with it's revenue.

So bonio,just stfu and sing.

cd07

RikkFlair wrote: »

Happy birthday Bono. 53 today.

All together now "For he's a jolly good....."

...wanker for hes a jolly good wanker for hes a jolly good wanker and so says me anyhow! hate the prick

For Paws

If only begrudgers were in line to inherit something ....

S28382

Ah good ol Irish people its good to see that we still hate our own especially when they are succesful. :rolleyes:

Riddle101

Bill Bailey sums up my views on u2 perfectly.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8dZwXnMrRU

Mr Tibbs

S28382 wrote: »

Ah good ol Irish people its good to see that we still hate our own especially when they are succesful. :rolleyes:

I dont think most people here begruge Bono his wealth but they see through the hypocricy of his speech's about poverty in Africa. When this country is going through a crisis here is the so called champion of the poor diverting his wealth to foreign bank accounts to avoid paying taxes in the country he chooses to live in.
This is one of the main reasons why there is so much poverty in some countries in Africa because those who are making millions out of the natural wealth there divert their money to other shores so as not to contribute to the economy of the country they are making their fortune from. Seems taxes are only for the little people. He made a statement at one of his Feed The World Concerts that thanks to these concerts there was no more hunger in Africa. What a load of crap I taught at the time. He has wrote some great songs but he has made some really appalling speech's that now look like what they really were all about self glory.

S28382

Mr Tibbs wrote: »

I dont think most people here begruge Bono his wealth but they see through the hypocricy of his speech's about poverty in Africa. When this country is going through a crisis here is the so called champion of the poor diverting his wealth to foreign bank accounts to avoid paying taxes in the country he chooses to live in.
This is one of the main reasons why there is so much poverty in some countries in Africa because those who are making millions out of the natural wealth there divert their money to other shores so as not to contribute to the economy of the country they are making their fortune from. Seems taxes are only for the little people. He made a statement at one of his Feed The World Concerts that thanks to these concerts there was no more hunger in Africa. What a load of crap I taught at the time. He has wrote some great songs but he has made some really appalling speech's that now look like what they really were all about self glory.

If i was rich i wouldnt pay taxes here either sure aint the government only riding us with their taxes and nothing is becoming of it.

Riddle101

S28382 wrote: »

If i was rich i wouldnt pay taxes here either sure aint the government only riding us with their taxes and nothing is becoming of it.

Being rich shouldn't exclude you from paying taxes.

S28382

Riddle101 wrote: »

Being rich shouldn't exclude you from paying taxes.

I never said it should i just said if was rich i wouldnt pay taxes here either id live here on and off throughout the year just like others do it so as to avoid paying tax....would i be a terrible person for doing that?

Wurly

I can think of many people that deserve the label 'evil fool' much more than Bono, in fairness. Get over it.

6am7f9zxrsjvnb

I`ll grant him a reprieve for giving the world ACHTUNG BABY

ThreeBlindMice

Even though I would believe that Bono is an Illuminati Puppet there are still one or two songs that I still love, that particular album that was set in a Paris Airport. All That You Can't Leave Behind, I think and "Beautiful Day".

Schnitzel Muncher

syklops wrote: »

LIke the time he was in concert in Dublin, and the music stops and he starts clapping his hands slowly and he speaks solemnly into the microphone "Everytime I clap my hands, a child in Africa dies." Someone shouted from the crowd "Then stop clapping your f%$king hands!

What i want to know is whether he stopped or not?

the groutch

Bono needs a visit from Facekicker.

Ando's Saggy Bottom

[Deleted User] wrote: »

What's wrong with Ray Foley?

I ask myself the same question everytime I hear his inane chatter on my radio.