Urgh, Bono? Seriously?
Make Poverty History? Um, yeah but let's Make Bono History first.

His unique vision of the world amounts to asking governments to donate X per cent GDP to development aid. He then forgets that he's a tax exile and that he doesn't pay taxes to the governments he calls on to this.

Tax exiles create poverty and Bono is a total and utter hypocrite....

So yeah, let's get a woman on those pages. And one that has a modicum of reality about them!

And someone should really tell him that "uno, dos, tres, catorce" actually means "one, two, three, fourteen" while they're at it ;)

NY Times, do not feed the messiah complex!

I don't know what woman columnist worth her salt would want to be mentioned in the same breath as William Kristol, David Brooks and Maureen Dowd.

Umm, yeah, Bobo certainly has a unique world vision. I guess that would include his "humanitarian" work with the World Economic Forum, a thinly veiled front for Malthusian eugenics. Well, at least he makes himself look good.

Oh for fuck's sake. A new low for the NYT.

Ha. As soon as I read this, I knew that people were going to be pissed.

If they were going to choose a new male columnist over a female columnist, I'm at least happy that they chose one who I desperately want to fuck.

Look, I'm just saying. ;)

I'm thrilled. I fucking LOVE U2 and love Bono.

And Cara -

I want to fuck both Bono AND Larry Mullen, Jr.

But hey, if it's just Bono, I think I can manage to live with that. ;)

Hehehe.

Sorry, but Bono is a self-righteous, paternalistic hack who has not only met with and praised George W. Bush (on more than one occasion) but also met with and praised Jesse Helms--yes, *that* Jesse Helms.

If I hear Bono go on one more time about how he "speaks for Africa" I will scream.

By the way, antipoverty campaigners in the UK specifically say that Bono and Bob Geldof have done a lot of harm to the movement with their buddy-buddy relationship with Tony Blair, Gordon Brown and the G8. Read some of the coverage from 2005 in Gleneagles--it's pretty despicable how much cover they gave to world leaders who were doing next to nothing for the bulk of the worlds poor.

Can we get a woman columnist next time around?

Two words: Dahlia Lithwick

Bono SUCKS. I hate how he promotes Jeffrey Sachs as this antipoverty crusader when his policies have led to governmental repression and thousands of deaths in Bolivia and Russia.

Well, at least you didn't forget Gail Collins.

Kristof is great too! (don't mix him up with KristOL!)

Kathleen667 and Cara
I love Bono, too. And I want to fuck him also. I love their music.

If you can afford to use the computer to type the messages on feministing (me included) you are more privileged than most of the world. There are definitely levels of privilege and wealth and Bono is at the top of the wealth bracket, but at least he's getting people who wouldn't otherwise think of the world to contemplate it. I mean at age 12, I wasn't being taught about the plight of the world in my school, so I learned about it from Bono. Lame, you may say. Yes I know...it's terrible that my school didn't explain to us the unfair trade and debt our country places on impoverished nations. And I have to learn these things from an overrated Irish rockstar with who knows how many connections to corruption...

Well, now, I am in college hoping to study abroad and change the world...or as Bono says "change the world in me".

I am not naive enough to ignore that Bono has flaws. I, too, wish women were more represented on a major scale, in the world. And I think there are plenty of women who have more to say than Bono. So, generally I would agree with Courtney's original post.

Sorry, but anybody who goes on and on about what a great guy Jesse Helms is does not deserve the feministing love.