U2 was one of the very few musical acts who quickly called out the barbarism behind the Oct. 7 attacks.
And then … nothing.
No songs. No repeated cries for justice. No mentions of the women who suffered the cruelest attacks possible by the Hamas terrorists.
And the band mates weren’t alone, of course. The industry’s silence was somehow worse than deafening. David Draiman and John Ondrasik represented a tiny fraction of musicians who rallied on behalf of the Israeli hostages.
Now, Bono and U2 are out with a new EP slamming the Right and celebrating a woman who sought to undermine U.S. law enforcement. Renee Good paid the ultimate price earlier this year when she ignored an ICE agent’s instructions, impeded an ongoing investigation and drove toward an armed ICE agent.
Legendary rock band U2 invokes Renee Nicole Good in ‘American Obituary’ https://t.co/x0se6VZFQ0 pic.twitter.com/Oe2m90kYlI
— New York Post (@nypost) February 19, 2026
To Bono and co. she’s a martyr:
“Renee Good born to die free
American mother of three
Seventh day January
A bullet for еach child, you see”
That’s where the tax-dodging rockers are spending their music cred, mourning an activist who left her children behind to impede ICE agents enforcing the law.
She got the Martin Luther King, Jr. treatment from rock royalty. Guess who didn’t?
Laken Riley, who was slaughtered by an illegal immigrant given a free pass by the Biden administration. Riley’s family will have to wait for another rock icon to eulogize their daughter. At least other parts of U2’s new EP call it the Iranian government’s slaughter of its own citizens, but the anti-ICE track is getting all the media attention.
And U2 isn’t alone in embracing the progressive’s preferred cause.
Bruce Springsteen beat the Irish rockers to the far-Left punch by a few months. The Boss has been savaging ICE agents from concert stages. Now, he’s planning a tour dedicated to attacking President Donald Trump and his illegal immigration enforcement.
With the triple “no kings” on his new tour logo, Springsteen is really raising the stakes pic.twitter.com/VSYosdu7tQ
— Kyle Smith (@rkylesmith) February 17, 2026
But why?
One look at recent Legacy Media outlets should reveal part of the answer. The rockers are generating endless headlines across the digital landscape.
They’re cool again. Relevant. Hip. Just make sure you don’t look at the facts in play. The same rules apply to lesser-known stars sporting “ICE Out” pins at various awards shows and red carpet events.
Look at me! Where’s the microphone? Get my good side!
The best way for aging rockers to stay relevant is to embrace the cause du jour. And that’s the “ICE Out” mob, a group rushing to defend some of the worst people on the planet. Yes, some illegal immigrants who entered the country without papers are being collared. So are those with criminal records that would chill anyone with a soul.
SCOOP: The Biden administration previously shielded an illegal immigrant from Venezuela who tried to drown a woman at a Florida beach last week, @realDailyWire has exclusively learned.
Venezuelan illegal immigrant Said Alexander Hernandez Gonzalez, 26, allegedly grabbed the… pic.twitter.com/dxirxehfjp
— Jennie Taer (@JennieSTaer) February 19, 2026
U2 and Springsteen won’t make those necessary distinctions. Nuance is for suckers (and it doesn’t spark fawning media attention).
Nor will they process how crime and drug overdose deaths plummeted in the first year of President Trump’s second term. Just a coincidence, of course.
No songs. No lectures. No special EPs. Speaking that truth would make them enemies in the eyes of the Left and the Legacy Media (but we repeat ourselves).
Meanwhile, they hope to matter again, long after their respective careers cooled. Remember how “Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere” bombed in theaters last year? Or how we collectively recoiled when U2 pushed their new album on us, whether we wanted it or not?
We’ll have to wait and see if U2’s protest music is worthy of their considerable legacy. We already know the cause is anything but.
