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I found this while googling other U2-related things...it's just some non-famous music reviewer on some obscure site, but I love this quote...he voices his concerns about the effects of Bono's activism on the music without in any way putting Bono's activism down...
"Bono said during the election that he could get more accomplished by being non-partisan and I thought that was an interesting stance — and I really do admire him for his humanitarian efforts. His heart is in the right place and he's using his celebrity as a key to open doors that the rest of us can't, and you simply have to applaud him for that. But the desire to be non-partisan, or essentially everything to everyone, and the fact that every interview with him has become a mechanism for firing out a slew of tired sound bites, has seeped into the music and made it pedestrian."
LINK: http://www.usedwigs.com/listenup_26.html
"Bono said during the election that he could get more accomplished by being non-partisan and I thought that was an interesting stance — and I really do admire him for his humanitarian efforts. His heart is in the right place and he's using his celebrity as a key to open doors that the rest of us can't, and you simply have to applaud him for that. But the desire to be non-partisan, or essentially everything to everyone, and the fact that every interview with him has become a mechanism for firing out a slew of tired sound bites, has seeped into the music and made it pedestrian."
LINK: http://www.usedwigs.com/listenup_26.html