I suppose thus, because Bono went out of his way, more than once, to praise Sen. Jesse Helms, and all the do-gooder bien-pensants and lefty philanthropoids were shocked, shocked.
Say what you will about Bono, but he did better than embrace "lepers," he embraced Helms.
It seems you are correct, and I may have been a little hard on Bono.
Even Bono can't control a Bush-o-phobic press.
But only a little, 'cause there I disagree, he could have put the truth in the lyrics of his best music and watched the MSM slime try to sensor that.