{"id":846,"date":"2009-03-30T06:42:19","date_gmt":"2009-03-30T11:42:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/?p=846"},"modified":"2010-05-10T14:29:18","modified_gmt":"2010-05-10T19:29:18","slug":"marsh-rips-bono-a-new-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/2009\/03\/30\/marsh-rips-bono-a-new-one\/","title":{"rendered":"Marsh rips Bono a new one"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nBono has always been a smug wanker whose simplistic view of world problems does more harm than good, so it&#8217;s nice to see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/marsh03192009.html\">Dave Marsh ripping him a new one<\/a>:\n<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nMaybe he doesn\u2019t want to deal on the spot with descriptions of his repeated appearances at the conferences of the leading capitalist nations where he\u2019s yet to ask his first hard question about anything but Africa; about his settling for promises from world leaders that patently weren\u2019t going to be kept, and never doing more than mewing when they weren\u2019t; about why it is that Zambian economist Dambisa Moyo, by no means an anti-capitalist, observes that she met him \u201cat a party to raise money for Africans, and there were no Africans in the room, except for me,\u201d or why so many other Africans have complained that he claims to speak for them but has never so much as asked their permission.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\n(via <a href=\"http:\/\/throughthescarydoor.blogspot.com\/2009\/03\/pure-pleasure.html\">Through the Scary Door<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bono has always been a smug wanker whose simplistic view of world problems does more harm than good, so it&#8217;s nice to see Dave Marsh ripping him a new one: Maybe he doesn\u2019t want to deal on the spot with descriptions of his repeated appearances at the conferences of the leading capitalist nations where he\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72,585],"tags":[512,513],"class_list":["post-846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funny","category-numpties","tag-bono","tag-dave-marsh"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=846"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2149,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846\/revisions\/2149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}