The Wit and Wisdom of Bob Geldorf -- "Something must be done, even if it doesn't work."

Well “Live 8” has come and gone, and is the world any better for it? Who knows, time will tell, but Bob Geldorf, the organizer, is sounding pretty defensive.

“I'm not interested in critics," he told the BBC, the broadcaster which invested so much time and money in backing Live 8. "Those critics are just being stupid."

Yeah, we all feel that way sometimes…, usually when we’re being stupidly wrong.

And there’s this:

"Something must be done, even if it doesn't work," Geldof said in one recent interview, and in that one moment he came closest to capturing the collective middle-class angst of those who turned out this weekend. [emphasis mine]

Priceless!!!

Read it here.

Meanwhile, check out Toby's estimation of the event over at "Bilious Young Fogey" [here]. Or, here's a short summary:

"The Live 8 concert was a pile of crap...."

He also links to an awesome Spectator article that starts:

Today, though, there is one man who is doing more than the Lord himself to buy a Mercedes-Benz for the leading creeps of the world. That man is, of course, Bob Geldof, the spur to our global conscience.

Check him out and read the rest.

Mark Steyn explains how Live 8 is different from earlier Geldorf productions.

Two decades ago, Sir Bob was at least demanding we give him our own fokkin' money. This time round, all he was asking was that we join him into bullying the G8 blokes to give us their taxpayers' fokkin' money.

And he has a little advice for those whose hearts so conspicuously bleed for the poor of Africa.

Once upon a time, rock stars weren't rated by Moody, they were moody - they self-destructed, they choked to death in their own vomit, they hoped to die before they got old. Instead, judging from Sir Pete Townshend on Saturday, they got older than anyone's ever been. Today, Paul McCartney is a businessman: he owns the publishing rights to Annie and Guys & Dolls. These faux revolutionaries are capitalists red in tooth and claw.

The system that enriched them could enrich Africa. But capitalism's the one cause the poseurs never speak up for. The rockers demand we give our fokkin' money to African dictators to manage, while they give their fokkin' money to Winthrop Stimson Putnam & Roberts to manage. Which of those models makes more sense?

Read it here.