Ace wrote:mr.arrison wrote:Christopher J. McGarvey wrote:Skip to the part about wearing sunglasses in
this.
or this image:
EXACTLY! What the fuck is with Bono's attitude here? I mean, is he trying to show he disapproves of the President's actions by acting like a sullen rockstar, uh, PRICK?! You know, like, I HAVE to shake Bushie's hand even though I don't want to?
Also, GWB's face in that photo is priceless.
You'd be surprised.
ANDREW DENTON: Did George Bush surprise you when you met him?
BONO: Yeah, yeah I liked him a lot more than I thought I would. All I'm thinking when I'm meeting him is how I'm going to explain to the band.
ANDREW DENTON: And how did you?
BONO: Well, he's very funny and that took me aback.
ANDREW DENTON: What's George Bush patter?
BONO: I thought he looked rather enviously at my glasses. So I slagged him off about his dress sense. But I rode in one of those ridiculously long motorcades once and he was waving to the people on the street and I said to him, "You're pretty popular around here aren't you then, Mr President?" He said, "Wasn't always so, when I first came to this town, people used to wave at me with one finger." So, he's funny.
ANDREW DENTON: How did you explain it to the band?
BONO: I'm still explaining it to the band.
ANDREW DENTON: How did you break the news?
BONO: The best way I can explain it is that over two initiatives George Bush has signed a cheque worth over 25 billion dollars for issues that I'm working on, which is really serious. 15 billion dollars on an AIDS initiative. Three years ago, four years ago, the idea that a conservative administration of the United States would pay 15 billion dollars to get anti-retro viral drugs to Africans was a preposterous idea. People laughed at me openly, Democrats and Republicans alike. He delivered for me, and Condoleezza Rice who is the person who worked that, she deserves a lot of respect for that. We've had disagreements too. I get agitated when the money isn't coming fast enough. Occasionally he'll tell me to turn it down. "I'm the President, let me finish my sentence. " Stuff like that.
ANDREW DENTON: What you share in common, of course, is faith.
BONO: Right.
ANDREW DENTON: You come from opposite ends of the world but you share faith. Is religion the way to get George Bush to listen?
BONO: He's not simplistic. People think there's a lot of fundamentalists running America. That is not true, that is a cliché. There is I think one fundamentalist in the Administration, that was John Ashcroft and he's gone. I think Bush is a Methodist. I think he has a very deep, yes, faith but he's not from what I can see a raving loony party member - we all know what they are.
http://u2_interviews.tripod.com/id266.html
Here's the Chris Martin interview from the same program. It's kind of insipid but much less toxic than Bono's.
http://www.abc.net.au/tv/enoughrope/tra ... 675852.htm
I vote Bono.
