Please Call Him Sir
March 31, 2007
Bono has been named “a Knight Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire” at a ceremony where a message was read out from none other than Tony Blair, a man who knows something about titles, since he has been handing them out at bargain basement rates.
The ‘Empire’ doesn’t exist of course, but the knighthoods are still handed out generously. For some such an endorsement from the establishment — given its overall pernicious influence – would come as an insult. Bono, who has spent all his early life cultivating the image of a rebel (just as he has spent the latter kissing executive arse), clearly felt a need to subdue his exuberance to feign residual rebelliousness — he asked people not to call him ‘Sir’. But as a close associated of the already (be)knighted Bob Geldof, he is no doubt aware that as an Irish citizen, he can’t be called ‘Sir’ anyway since the “honor is reserved for citizens of the United Kingdom or British Commonwealth countries”. But saying it makes it appear as if he somehow resents such pretentious titles.
What a pompous ass! I wish someone would give him that Nobel and shut him up.
Idris, man, do you have an obsessive compulsive disorder or something!?? I mean you are constantly babbling about everything that you hear. It seems that you have nothing fucking better to do than to criticize!! Man, go have a couple of beers and get rid of this homelessness feeling that you have in you.
This is first time visiting this website. it is good idea but wasteful for one man is cooking brew of all problems in world. nice idea but regrettibel in some senses.
“Pompous Ass” brilliantly sums up this ugly-sounding man for me!
“image” of rebellion!
Yeah … “image” i-bono!
Joshua, I think that is what is called blogging. Now scoot off and get your own blog or indulge in your own obsessive compulsive “pot calling kettle black” disorder elsewhere.
Very funny post. Bono is a pompous git.
Hi Joshua Stein,
This is post is not for you. The posts that you must read are in the tags, ‘Israel-Palestine’, ‘Israel Lobby’,'Lebanon’,'middle-east’ and ‘human rights’.
The man is unbearable.
The process of absorption into the British Establishment goes a bit like this:
1. make millions from some hits
2. buy big mansion in the country
3. get involved with charity
4. get OBE/CBE/knighted
5. now you’re “landed gentry”!
It’s a way for the monarchy and the establishment to turn “rebels” into vassals and to hold on to imperial ways without actually having an empire.
Sounds too conspiratorial? Just think about it for a minute…
Irish rebel? My backside!
Anyone who accepts an honour from Blair and all the war-mongering impostors who make up his government needs to think seriously about getting a new PR manager.
Lord Bono just washed any street-cred he might have down the Swanee methinks!
All that brown-nosing at the time of the G8 Summit did a lot to shroud Blair’s responsibility for inspiring the London Tube attacks with his outrageous insults against muslims and the monstrous attack on Iraq.
This tatty royal honour is Blair’s reward for that political favour.Blair’s period in office has been all about managing and suppressing the daily mainstream news.An ageing pop star ready to go along with such an agenda comes in handy if a lot of people are so intellectually unendowed they are unable to see through it.
So here’s to Lord Brown Nose of Eire a man so convinced of the efficacy and benificence of the Washington Consensus on managing the world’s poorest countries he became a missionary for the system which keeps them effectively shackled and underdeveloped at Washington’s behest.
I wonder what sort of welcome he’ll get in Latin America when he gets on stage to sing his Irish rebel songs.
The Wretched of the Earth deserve better than to await hand-outs donated by those who are currently congratulating themselves on having freed the slaves while,often as not,listening to songs stolen from those same slave traditions by ageing rock stars like Bono of Mallow.
That’s in Kerry by the way!
Yea,where the Gold comes from.
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If you’ve got nothing constructive to say about him, then yours is a worthless position. Ask yourself “What have I done to make the world a better place?” If your answer describes tangible action which engages a real problem, great!! Keep it up, and don’t criticize your fellow human. If not, then I guess Bono has done much more than you… so just hold your tongue, and get a life.