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| Tweet Topic Started: Dec 23 2006, 03:37 PM (141 Views) | |
| George K | Dec 23 2006, 03:37 PM Post #1 |
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Finally
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Hi folks: It's arise Sir Bono In the centuries-old history of the British honours system, it will go down as the most extraordinary way a knighthood has ever been announced. The official notification revealing that Tony Blair had awarded an honorary knighthood to his friend, rock star Bono, lead singer of U2, came in an email which began: "Hi folks." As well as being announced by the British Embassy in Bono's home town of Dublin, the news was also released on the Downing Street website - and Bono's own website. =-=-=-=-=-= And the ever irascible Christopher Hitchens offers his opinion... A whole generation, which likes to tell itself that it is devoted to equality and rejects the hierarchies of the past, falls to its knees and licks the shoes of the new aristocracy of fame and cool. Is there any real distinction between the old bowing and simpering to landed gentry, and the new deference paid to the nobles of rock? The interesting thing is, who is supposed to benefit from this parody of honour? Who is sucking up to whom? It is hard to see why Mr Paul Hewson, a right-on citizen of a Republic that rejected the British Crown and stormed out of the British Empire, should even want to belong to the Order of the British Empire, let alone be a Knight Commander of it. But it is easy to see why that increasingly pitiful and comic figure, Anthony Blair, should want to be a Knight Commander of the Order of Rock Music. His slurping, toadying message to the new knight ("I am a huge fan"), the matey press release from Her Britannic Majesty's Embassy in Dublin, are all signs of a man utterly devoted to stealing the fame and popularity of other people, having squandered or besmirched his own with stupid warmongering and fishy fundraising. =-=-=-=- Damn. I don't know enough of the issue to say anything other than, Hitchens, when on a roll, is amazing. "Slurping, toadying" |
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| ***musical princess*** | Dec 23 2006, 03:38 PM Post #2 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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I was reading that on yahoo earlier. x |
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| Mikhailoh | Dec 23 2006, 04:23 PM Post #3 |
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If you want trouble, find yourself a redhead
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Hitchins is a bloody idiot. Bono, Bob Geldof and others have done so much for others. When they try to knight Sir John Lydon he'll have point. |
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| John D'Oh | Dec 23 2006, 05:28 PM Post #4 |
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MAMIL
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I think Hitchens is being a bit of a knobhead here. If he really wants to criticise the British honours system, there's plenty better examples of really offensive honours being given to brown-nosed journalists or oily civil servants, for example, than for well-meaning if rather aggravating pop singers. Maybe he was hoping for a gong himself? :lol: |
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