“My name is Bono and I am a rock star. Don’t get me too excited because I use four letter words when I get excited and I’m that guy. I’d just like to say to the parents, your children are safe, your country is safe, the FCC has taught me a lesson and the only four letter word I’m going to use today is PENN. Come to think of it Bono is a four-letter word. The whole business of obscenity–I don’t think there’s anything certainly more unseemly than the site of a rock star in academic robes. It’s a bit like when people put their King Charles spaniels in little tartan sweats and hats. It’s not natural, and it doesn’t make the dog any smarter.”
read the rest here
5/21/2004
text of bono’s speech
3 Comments »
RSS feed for comments on this post. TrackBack URL
![[caedmonscall.net]](http://rmfo-blogs.com/images/ccneticon.jpg "The official unofficial fan site of Caedmon’s Call.")
![[rmfo-blogs.com]](http://rmfo-blogs.com/images/rmfoblog.png "About the [rmfo-blogs.com] service.")
Hey, thank you for this link. I had posted another one which did not have his interpolations included: this is much more accurate.
Comment by Beth — 5/21/2004 @ 11:27 am
I read it when you posted it on the rumor forum. It made me cry…kind of crumbled all my old free market economics arguments with one phrase…”we can do it, so we must do it.”
Comment by the Sage — 5/24/2004 @ 12:11 pm
that is a fabulous quote.
Comment by megan — 5/24/2004 @ 11:03 pm