This was posted somewhere else in Interference.com, but I wanted to see what everyone here thinks of this, considering how smart I think you all are:
U2's act rings insincere
February 5, 2002
The halftime show put on during the Super Bowl was heart-moving and a disgrace. The disgrace I'm talking about is the un-American band with its anti-American lead singer Bone Head, or Bono.
Not only was it a disgrace but a slap in the face to all Americans who have realized their patriotic love of America. This Irish band's front man, Bono, has made a habit of speaking negatively about the United States and its capitalist and imperialistic ways. Quoting from the Nation/ World section (and ironically in Super Bowl Sunday's edition) headlined ''Global trade critics bash U.S.'': It's strange company for a singer who once railed against American imperialism in ''Bullet the Blue Sky'' and whose albums regularly lambaste Western consumerism and big business.''
I am outraged and disgusted that this anti-American piece of trash was chosen and accepted the honors of playing halftime at the Super Bowl. His waving his flag-lined jacket, in a phony attempt to show support for America, must surely have been motivated by greed for American dollars and made me want to vomit.
I'm for sending this dirt bag back to Ireland and informing the American public who buys this moron's music just what a scumbag he is. This is the same Bono who consistently speaks out against America, and he also advocates ''debt forgiveness'' for Third World Countries. This ''debt forgiveness'' would pay off any debt these Third World countries have with the International Monetary Fund, or World Bank.
Doesn't sound too bad until you realize that the United States is the largest contributor to the IMF, World Bank. These Third World countries would receive ''debt relief'' at the expense of American taxpayers.
I suggest that Bono and U2 give the millions of dollars they've surely made off the same Americans they seem to have a hatred toward, and start sending it out to these Third World countries that need this ''debt relief'' to help solve their money problems.
Maybe by this time next year they'll have replaced the person or persons in charge of hiring the halftime Super Bowl entertainment with somebody with a brain. Hopefully, that person is American who hires another American entertainer who loves America. Hmm, maybe somebody like Ted Nugent?
Paul J. Wills Sr., Burbank
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
U2's act rings insincere
February 5, 2002
The halftime show put on during the Super Bowl was heart-moving and a disgrace. The disgrace I'm talking about is the un-American band with its anti-American lead singer Bone Head, or Bono.
Not only was it a disgrace but a slap in the face to all Americans who have realized their patriotic love of America. This Irish band's front man, Bono, has made a habit of speaking negatively about the United States and its capitalist and imperialistic ways. Quoting from the Nation/ World section (and ironically in Super Bowl Sunday's edition) headlined ''Global trade critics bash U.S.'': It's strange company for a singer who once railed against American imperialism in ''Bullet the Blue Sky'' and whose albums regularly lambaste Western consumerism and big business.''
I am outraged and disgusted that this anti-American piece of trash was chosen and accepted the honors of playing halftime at the Super Bowl. His waving his flag-lined jacket, in a phony attempt to show support for America, must surely have been motivated by greed for American dollars and made me want to vomit.
I'm for sending this dirt bag back to Ireland and informing the American public who buys this moron's music just what a scumbag he is. This is the same Bono who consistently speaks out against America, and he also advocates ''debt forgiveness'' for Third World Countries. This ''debt forgiveness'' would pay off any debt these Third World countries have with the International Monetary Fund, or World Bank.
Doesn't sound too bad until you realize that the United States is the largest contributor to the IMF, World Bank. These Third World countries would receive ''debt relief'' at the expense of American taxpayers.
I suggest that Bono and U2 give the millions of dollars they've surely made off the same Americans they seem to have a hatred toward, and start sending it out to these Third World countries that need this ''debt relief'' to help solve their money problems.
Maybe by this time next year they'll have replaced the person or persons in charge of hiring the halftime Super Bowl entertainment with somebody with a brain. Hopefully, that person is American who hires another American entertainer who loves America. Hmm, maybe somebody like Ted Nugent?
Paul J. Wills Sr., Burbank
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