Down with Bono-bashing?

Apparently "Ridiculing the U2 singer only makes it harder for any band with ideals to stick their neck out". This is Bono displaying his ideals:














This is Bono being idealistic about mobile phones:



And Ipods:



And finally, this is Bono being idealistic about imperial genocide:



This is a deeply joyless world. If we can't bad-mouth this wonky old sell-out what can we do?