People really need to lighten up. That phrase was likely seen as clever by the writer, although, admittedly, I think it is incredibly awkward. I would not see it as an insult at Bono, but, rather, an example of a well-meaning metaphor gone awry. I mean, news is composed so quickly. Connotations will sometimes not be as they are intended as a result.
Melon
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"He had lived through an age when men and women with energy and ruthlessness but without much ability or persistence excelled. And even though most of them had gone under, their ignorance had confused Roy, making him wonder whether the things he had striven to learn, and thought of as 'culture,' were irrelevant. Everything was supposed to be the same: commercials, Beethoven's late quartets, pop records, shopfronts, Freud, multi-coloured hair. Greatness, comparison, value, depth: gone, gone, gone. Anything could give some pleasure; he saw that. But not everything provided the sustenance of a deeper understanding." - Hanif Kureishi, Love in a Blue Time
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