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Kid Rock jumps during the performance of his hit song "Bawitdaba” during the 2009 “Tour for the Troops” event on Sather Air Base, Baghdad, Dec. 4. Pop newcomer Jessie James and comedian Carlos Mencia also entertained hundreds of troops at the event, aimed at boosting troop morale. Photo by Sgt. Lindsey Bradford, Multi-National Corps – Iraq. BAGHDAD — More than 1,000 U.S. service members packed an open field on a chilly Baghdad day, Dec. 4, to watch the 2009 “Tour for the Troops� at Sather Air Base. Pop newcomer Jessie James, comedian Carlos Mencia and rebel rocker Kid Rock took...

Kid Rock set the record Saturday night for the most f-bombs dropped at the State Fair grandstand. Sorry, I quit counting at 20, including his arriving onstage flipping the bird on both hands (and let’s not mention the s-bombs).

This year’s Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff USO Holiday Tour has played at an aircraft hangar in Germany, in a maintenance facility and in an in-processing facility here in Afghanistan. The tour’s stars -- Kid Rock, Kellie Pickler, Lewis Black, Tichina Arnold, Zac Brown, Kathleen Madigan and John Bowman -- have played far more prestigious venues, but probably none as appreciative. And their usual audiences generally don’t get this warning: “In case of a rocket attack, let’s do what we always do – hit the ground and count to 100,” Army Brig. Gen. John Nicholson, deputy commanding general...

Read it and weep, Dixie Chicks. Shove it Bruce Springsteen. Put a sock in it Johnny Cougar Mellencamp. Because, in a refreshing change of pace for the entertainment industry, Kid Rock is telling CMT Insider via People Magazine that entertainers should stay quiet on matters political. How many times have you seen the uninformed blather of some goof from Hollywood, or some crank from the music industry filling your TV screen or oozing from your radio? How many low brow maestros have had your eyes rolling when they imagine themselves to have some prescient insight into matters of politics? Apparently...

This is the brand spankin new video from Kid Rock called Warrior.

Kid Rock is part of an exclusive club whose only other members are The Beatles, Garth Brooks, and AC/DC. What do thse artists have in common? They're major artists whose music isn't sold oniTunes. In Kid Rock's case there is actually one album being sold by the online music giant, but that's just because he doesn't own the rights to it. So why doesn't he want to sell his music on iTunes? It's simple really. He sees it as simply a continuation of the way labels have treated artists for decades. In his words, "iTunes takes the money, the record...

KABUL, Afghanistan -- Robin Williams and Lance Armstrong took a swipe at the French, Kid Rock strummed "Sweet Home Alabama," comedian Lewis Black grumbled about the falling snow, and Miss USA told the troops to keep "kicking butt." Some 500 American soldiers watched an all-star USO cast perform under a steady snowstorm at a U.S. base in Kabul late Thursday. The stop was part of a six-day, 14-show tour that saw the entertainers begin their day with a performance in Iraq. The audience of soldiers - bundled in hooded jackets and warm hats - stood in the snow before a...

KABUL, Afghanistan — Robin Williams and Lance Armstrong took a swipe at the French, Kid Rock strummed "Sweet Home Alabama," comedian Lewis Black grumbled about the falling snow, and Miss USA told the troops to keep "kicking butt." Some 500 American soldiers watched an all-star USO cast perform amid a steady snowstorm at a U.S. base in Kabul late Thursday. The stop was part of a six-day, 14-show tour that saw the entertainers begin their day with a performance in Iraq. The audience of soldiers — bundled in hooded jackets and warm hats — stood in the snow before a...

Kid Rock is none too happy with Sean Penn. The angry left-wing actor never seems to take a break from ripping on America and the US Troops and apparently Bob Ritchie (aka Kid Rock) has tired of the whole mess. Rock has made several trips to Iraq to entertain and support the troops and let his anger towards Penn known front and center in an interview set

- WE'D love to see a debate on the war in Iraq between Kid Rock and Sean Penn. Rock didn't name Penn in his interview with Penthouse magazine, but he seemed to be aiming at the actor when he said, "These kids [U.S. soldiers] are very young and a lot of them think people who oppose the war are against them. You have to be very careful with what you talk about - especially when you are some Hollywood [bleep]er.

We had an extended debate at the office today....what was the best "MTv Unplugged" performance? Me? Hands down....Alice in Chains! Before any reasons are discussed ..... I was curious as to anyone else's opinions or preferences on the topic?

See for example this thread first. Pam Anderson marries kid rock It's enough to send me into shock Will they soon let it slip There's a video clip? What class! What style! ...and what schlock

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The on-again, off-again love affair between actress Pamela Anderson and singer Kid Rock is on again and this time they plan to marry. The former Playboy model and the Detroit rap-rocker will exchange vows on July 29 aboard a yacht near the French Riviera city of St. Tropez, the celebrity magazine US Weekly reported. "Yes, I'm finally getting remarried ... I'm in love. I'm happy," Anderson writes on her Web site, pamelaanderson.com, in an entry on Tuesday. Anderson's spokeswoman declined to comment but US quoted an Anderson representative as saying, "They have been close for a...

Troubled former Creed singer Scott Stapp may lose the last of his Christian disciples now that a sex tape has emerged in which he co-stars with Kid Rock. Rock, 35, and Stapp, 32, do not have sex with each other on the tape, but they do trade jokes and share camera time as they get down with some strippers. In one scene, Rock and Stapp are standing side by side as a pair of buxom babes pleasures them. "This is my third," Stapp tells the cameraman. "It's good to be the king." The 20-minute tape is said to have been...

KID ROCK BLASTS OUTSPOKEN STARS KID ROCK has attacked celebrities who offer their opinions on the war in Iraq, because he doesn't think stars are intelligent enough to publicly criticise the US President. The Republican rap-rock star admits he's the last person who should comment on political matters and, though he doesn't always agree with President GEORGE W BUSH, he does support the commander-in-chief and troops fighting for Iraq's freedom. In a new interview with PLAYBOY magazine, Kid Rock - real name BOB RITCHIE - attacks stars like DIXIE CHICK NATALIE MAINES and feminist comic-turned-anti-Bush radio host JANEANE GAROFALO for...

First on NewsChannel5.com: Metro Police arrested musician Kid Rock who was accused of assaulting a DJ at a Nashville strip club early Wednesday morning. An arrest warrant was issued for Robert Ritchie, 34, who’s better known as rock singer Kid Rock, after a scuffle broke out at Christie’s Cabaret, located on 8th Avenue South, around 3 a.m. The fight with the club’s DJ was over the music the DJ was playing, police said. The DJ, Jay Campos, was punched in the face, police said. He had a red mark on his face and his glasses were broken. Kid Rock was...

Apparently, Kid Rock is trying to live up to his rep as an American badass. The trailer-park rocker-rapper (real name: Bob Ritchie) was arrested and charged with misdemeanor assault Wednesday after he punched a disc jockey at a Nashville strip club in the wee hours of the morning. Rock posted $3,000 bail and was released. If convicted, he could face a maximum penalty of up to a year in jail. "Everything is wonderful. It was a beautiful night," he commented as he left the courthouse. His arraignment was set for Mar. 30. Rock was in Tennessee to attend a memorial...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Kid Rock was arrested Wednesday by Nashville police who are investigating a report that he punched a disc jockey at an adult entertainment club. Kid Rock was brought before Night Court Commissioner Howard Taradash early Wednesday morning. He is charged with simple assault, a misdemeanor. Taradash set bond at $3,000 and the rapper remained in custody until bail could be posted. Authorities said Kid Rock was charged after a 3 a.m. altercation at Christie's Cabaret near downtown Nashville. "Inside the establishment there was a squabble concerning, I guess, the selection of music," Nashville police Sgt. James Smith...

Jimmy Bones (Kid Rock's keyboard player) made a few comments on being removed from the concert in D.C. next weekend. I think he sums up very well what has occured here. If Kid Rock and his band were performing the same music that he wrote back in 1990, when he was 19 years old, then I don't think anybody would be in favor of him playing. But that Kid Rock was not a republican either! The grown up Kid Rock is. So to Michelle Malkin, WND, and the rest of the ignorants, thanks for trashing one of the true good...

Well, I have been informed that Kid Rock may still be playing at the inaugural youth concert. My friend John, who runs the Kid Rock website (www.extremekidrock.moonfruit.com) has a story from the National Ledger that Barbara Bush is still trying to get Mr. Ritchie to play at the event in Washington. (This info comes from Tara Copp of the Scripts Howard News Service. Also, I got word from another person that Stef Eulinberg (Kid Rock's drummer) told him that they had been practicing for the show. So, which is it--is he playing or not? Will the radicals who know nothing...

Organizers of President George W. Bush's inauguration are confused by reports Kid Rock has been ousted from the list of performers - because he was "never booked" in the first place. Kid Rock, real name Robert Ritchie, was recently the target of outrage from several conservative groups when it was reported the star might be included in the president's festivities. The Campaign For Children And Families sent out emails to 2.5 million supporters decrying the appearance. But organizers insist the rocker was never set to join Jojo and Hilary Duff as a performer at the January 18 youth concert, which...

(CNSNews.com) - Rock artist Kid Rock will not perform at the youth concert for the presidential inauguration, and conservatives are applauding the news because of outrage at the content of his lyrics. "We have been informed that Kid Rock will not perform," said Donald E. Wildmon, chairman of the American Family Association. According to Wildmon, over 100,000 people called and e-mailed the Presidential Inauguration Committee to voice their concerns over news that Kid Rock was invited to perform. Wildmon said Kid Rock's lyrics focus on recreational sex and send a message of female sexual exploitation, both of which contradict...

No Kid Rock at Bush concert Committee backs off plan to feature rapper after pro-family Americans express outrage Kid Rock, the vulgar rock-rapper who initially had been lined up to headline the youth concert next week as part of the inauguration festivities for President Bush, will not be apppearing after all. "He's not performing," a spokesman for the Presidential Inauguration Committee confirmed for WND. No further information about the cancellation of Kid Rock was available at press time. Word that the rapper will not join JoJo and Hilary Duff as performers at the Jan. 18 concert, which will be hosted...

Conservative Christians are flabbergasted about reports that raunchy rock-rapper Kid Rock will perform at a youth concert at the presidential inauguration. "What in the world are these people thinking?" asked Donald Wildmon, chairman of the American Family Association in Tupelo, Miss. "This is the biggest slap in the face to the Christian conservatives." Kid Rock reportedly will perform at "America Rocks Today: A Call to Service," a multimedia concert. Bush's daughter Barbara is the event's co-managing director. But Kid Rock doesn't exactly seem like her dad's kind of guy. The almost-34-year-old Detroit bad boy is currently dating porn actress Jessie...

A scheduled appearance by vulgar rock-rapper Kid Rock at a Bush inauguration concert hosted by Bush daughters Jenna and Barbara has shocked conservative supporters. The rapper’s lyrics often focus on the recreational nature of sex and send a message of female sexual exploitation. In 2000 he appeared in a porn film with well-known porn stars, and he was named the Sluttiest Male Celebrity by MTV. According to Donald E. Wildmon, chairman of the American Family Association, the White House has sent a shocking statement to the millions of families who supported his re-election. "Kid Rock is an inexcusable choice,” Wildmon...

Kid Rock, a popular vulgar rock-rapper whose lyrics wouldn't begin to pass muster with the Federal Communications Commission, is headlining the youth concert during the inauguration festivities for President Bush – a politician who was re-elected largely due to the participation of traditional "values voters." The Detroit-based rapper, who dedicated his first album to songs about oral sex and who was voted the Sluttiest Male Celebrity at the 1999 MTV Video Music Awards, will perform Jan. 18 at the Washington, D.C., Armory in a concert hosted by Bush daughters Jenna and Barbara. Teenage singer JoJo also will appear at the...

This is abominable!!!! Contact the committee via e-mail at info@inaugural05.com. BUSH SWEARING IN: TAKE 2 Kid Rock too vulgar for inauguration? Some wonder why values voters rewarded with F-word-spewing rapper -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Posted: January 5, 2005 8:40 p.m. Eastern By Ron Strom © 2005 WorldNetDaily.com Kid Rock, a popular vulgar rock-rapper whose lyrics wouldn't begin to pass muster with the Federal Communications Commission, is headlining the youth concert during the inauguration festivities for President Bush – a politician who was re-elected largely due to the participation of traditional "values voters." The Detroit-based rapper, who dedicated his first album to songs about...

Kid Rock has blasted his rock peers who are involved with politics - because none of them flew to Iraq to perform for their war heroes. The rocker wowed troops when he and actress Brittany Murphy jetted off to meet and greet soldiers in Baghdad last year, and now he's angry that those who didn't salute men and women stationed in Iraq are touring to raise cash for President George W. Bush's rival John Kerry on the Vote For Change tour. He states, "You see this thing now where like Bruce Springsteen, Jon Bon Jovi - like I love all...

Kid Rock concerts aren't political rallies - as Jenna and Barbara Bush learned the hard way. President Bush's daughters turned out for Rock's Wednesday night show at nightclub Avalon and danced, drank, and sang the night away in a tightly guarded upstairs VIP box opposite the stage. But when the foulmouthed cowboy finished his set, the twins earnestly tried to lead the hundreds of beer-drenched, rowdy Republicans in a chant of "Four more years! Four more years!" Both girls leaned over their "Evita balcony" and shouted, exhorting friends around them to join in. But it was not to be. The...

It was a lazy afternoon at Russell Simmons' spread outside downtown East Hampton. The hip-hop and fashion mogul, his younger brother Joe (aka Rev. Run, who's filming a pilot of his own reality show for the ABC Family Channel), movie director Brett Ratner and his girlfriend, Serena Williams (recovering from her defeat in the Wimbledon final), were getting a little antsy on a rainy Monday, wondering what to do with themselves. Then Kid Rock arrived. So they all decided to drive into town and take in a movie. They jumped into various vehicles and headed for the United Artists East...

A stubborn Kid Rocks the Bush vote It was a lazy afternoon at Russell Simmons' spread outside downtown East Hampton. The hip-hop and fashion mogul, his younger brother Joe (aka Rev. Run, who's filming a pilot of his own reality show for the ABC Family Channel), movie director Brett Ratner and his girlfriend, Serena Williams (recovering from her defeat in the Wimbledon final), were getting a little antsy on a rainy Monday, wondering what to do with themselves. Then Kid Rock arrived. So they all decided to drive into town and take in a movie. They jumped into various vehicles...

Has "Spider-Man 2" pushed "Fahrenheit 9/11" director Michael Moore out of the limelight? And is Moore having trouble coping with his predictable drop from the top spot? ---(snip)--- Kid Rock balked. "I don't want to see that, it's all propaganda," the rock star said - sparking a prolonged political debate right there on the sidewalk. "Russell, don't you understand, everything we got in this country, we got from fighting," Kid Rock argued, according to Simmons' account. "It's just a movie. ... I'd rather go to the bar across the street." Kid Rock refused to see the movie, and said goodbye....

It was a lazy afternoon at Russell Simmons' spread outside downtown East Hampton. The hip-hop and fashion mogul, his younger brother Joe (aka Rev. Run, who's filming a pilot of his own reality show for the ABC Family Channel), movie director Brett Ratner and his girlfriend, Serena Williams (recovering from her defeat in the Wimbledon final), were getting a little antsy on a rainy Monday, wondering what to do with themselves. Then Kid Rock arrived. So they all decided to drive into town and take in a movie. They jumped into various vehicles and headed for the United Artists East...

The other day, Sen. Zell Miller, the Right's favorite Democrat, gave a compelling speech in which he lamented the "deficit of decency" in America and pondered ways by which we might regain our moral bearings. During the speech he noted the many attacks on morality by the "Culture of Far Left America" and an out-of-control federal judiciary, remarking that it's happening in a number of areas "whether it is removing a display of the Ten Commandments from a Courthouse or the Nativity Scene from a city square" or "eliminating prayer in schools or eliminating 'under God' in the Pledge of...

The Associated Press - ATLANTA Sen. Zell Miller called Kid Rock an ignoramus who showed disrespect for the American flag during the Super Bowl halftime show. Miller said he was angry Kid Rock draped himself in a poncho designed to look like the American flag. Miller referred to the singer Wednesday as an ignoramus with his pointed head stuck up through the hole he had cut in the flag of the United States of America. This is the same flag we pledge allegiance to, the same flag that is draped over the coffins of dead young uniformed warriors killed while...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Wednesday, February 11, 2004 Miller on Super Bowl Half-Time Show: ‘Stink Will Linger in the Nostrils of America’ WASHINGTON — U.S. Senator Zell Miller (D-GA) today released the following statement regarding the Super Bowl half-time show: “I don’t know how many of you have ever run over a skunk with your car. I have many times and I can tell you, the stink stays around for a long time. You can take the car through the wash and it’s still there. So the scent of this Super Bowl halftime show will long linger in the nostrils of...

As Kid Rock finished screaming his part of the Super Bowl halftime show last Sunday evening and the camera faded away, he took the American flag that he had cut in the center and draped over himself like a poncho, and flung it to his drummer who dropped it on the ground where it stayed during the rest of the show. I thought about that this week and about how the whole fiasco was symbolic of where much of American popular entertainment is today. Except it's not lying on the floor, but rather lying in the gutter. The whole halftime...

LOS ANGELES (Zap2it.com) - The Veterans of Foreign Wars have had it up to here with all of the fuss about the exposure of Janet Jackson's bejeweled breast during Sunday (Feb. 1) night's Super Bowl halftime show. Nudity is one thing, but messing with the American flag is a whole other kettle of fish. Hence, the VFW is taking aim at the unofficial Pimp of the Nation, Kid Rock. While a statement from the 104-year-old organization only describes Jackson's pastie flaunting as "nearly lewd," the VFW takes umbrage at Rock's even less revealing attire. The singer and "Biker Boyz" star...

Forget Janet Jackson: The Veterans of Foreign Wars is peeved at Kid Rock . The VFW is upset that media outlets are ignoring the poncho Rock wore during the Super Bowl (search) halftime show, which was made by cutting a slit in an American flag. Rock later tossed the flag into the crowd. The VFW's commander in chief, Edward Banas Senior, says Rock's outfit was "in poor taste and extremely disrespectful." Banas lamented that the NFL, MTV and CBS have issued apologies for Justin Timberlake's ripping Janet Jackson's clothes but have said nothing about Rock.

While Janet Jackson and Justin Timberlake's stunt that closed the Super Bowl halftime show continues to fuel a national backlash, the Veterans of Foreign Wars is criticizing another halftime performer. Kid Rock donned what appeared to be an American flag slit in the middle so he could wear it as poncho for his part of the show Sunday, and the VFW is outraged. "That is just blatant, disgusting disrespect for the flag," national spokesman Jerry Newberry told the St. Petersburg Times on Tuesday. "We have people dying for that flag right now, and that just goes beyond any realm of...

NFL's show lower than Kid Rock's IQ Here's my early nomination for Biggest Lie of the 21st Century: "It's for the children.'' Never in history have we talked more and done less "for the children.'' Like some character in a Dickens story, we're constantly boasting about how much we care for the children, while we starve them on a thin gruel of mushy morality and poisonous pop culture. Such as the Super Bowl halftime show. How many parents sat semi-paralyzed through that extravaganza of bad taste, itching to grab the remote and turn it off, silently wondering, "How much worse...

Post: You've done a lot of work for the USO. What do our troops tell you? Rock: These kids believe in what they're doing and they're young - like 22 years old - and when people say they don't support this war, what they hear is the public is against them. Post: What have you said to them? Rock: I've told them there's a lot of people in between New York and L.A. who support them and are behind them 100 percent. I tell them we love them. Post: Tell me something about Kid Rock that might be shocking. Rock:...

HEADLINERS UNVEILED Elton John caps entertainment list Piano legend Elton John capped the list of mystery headliners Sunday night for the Harley-Davidson 100th Anniversary Celebration at Veterans Park. Country star Tim McGraw and rocker Kid Rock were the first two headliners

LOS ANGELES, June 19 — Celebrities ranging from Kid Rock to Wayne Newton are performing for U.S. troops in the Gulf this week as part of the first large-scale entertainment tour of the region since the outset of the Iraq war, sponsors said on Thursday. Three groups of performers and athletes taking part in the tour paid visits on Thursday to American military personnel in Baghdad, the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz and the Ali al-Salem air base in Kuwait, said Donna St. John, a spokeswoman for USO World Headquarters in Washington. On Wednesday, the celebrities performed at the Tallil air...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Celebrities ranging from Kid Rock to Wayne Newton are performing for U.S. troops in the Gulf this week as part of the first large-scale entertainment tour of the region since the outset of the Iraq war, sponsors said on Thursday. Three groups of performers and athletes taking part in the tour paid visits on Thursday to American military personnel in Baghdad, the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz and the Ali al-Salem air base in Kuwait, said Donna St. John, a spokeswoman for USO World Headquarters in Washington. On Wednesday, the celebrities performed at the Tallil air near...

By the time you read this, the war might be on. The radio talk shows and the cable channels will be going 24/7 with nothing but Iraq news and analysis from retired generals — and anchors whose knowledge of history depends on what a producer just handed them. I don't have to tell you the obvious: These are dangerous, momentous times. There will be plenty of blather being spewed, which is why I have a small request for our chart-topping recording stars and others who regularly make it into People magazine: PLEASE SHUT UP. If you could just go back...

Pro-war celebs making voices heard ArtsCanada HOLLYWOOD - Pro-war celebrities are slowly making their voices heard among the anti-war protestations of their Hollywood colleagues. "Thank goodness we have a president with the courage to protect our country," says NBC's Law and Order star Fred Thompson in an ad praising the Iraqi policies of President George W. Bush. Thompson, a former U.S. senator, filmed the spot in response to actor Martin Sheen's commercial calling into question the need for war. "Don't invade Iraq. Inspections work. War won't," says Sheen, who plays a fictional president in NBC's The West Wing. Sheen has...

Evidence is mounting that it might be safe at last for Hollywood’s patriots to step out of the closet and show some support for President Bush and an impending war with Iraq. “Law & Order” actor Fred Thompson has cut a television commercial where he extols, “Thank goodness we have a president with the courage to protect our country.” Thompson’s ad is in response to an ad from Martin Sheen, the pretend president on NBC’s “The West Wing,” who scolded in his commercial, “Don’t invade Iraq. Inspections work. War won’t.” Thompson’s ad is an effort from the grassroots organization Citizens...

War talk from Kid Rock Kid Rock won't be joining the music industry's anti-war movement. "Why is everybody trying to stop the war? George Bush ain't been saying, 'You all, make s-y records.' Politicians and music don't mix. It's like whisky and wine. [Musicians] ought to stay out of it." But it doesn't take much nudging to hear the Kid's policy analysis. "We got to kill that mother-[bleeper] Saddam," he says. "Slit his throat. Kill him and the guy in North Korea." Are some women and children going to die? "Yeah. But is doing the right thing. You got money,...

Long before it was fashionable, Kid Rock flew the Stars and Stripes. But on his current tour, he unfurls an additional flag: The one used by the Confederate Army.''That flag to me represents love for southern rock music, for a culture,'' says the Michigan rap-rock star. The stage prop appears when Rock plays Free Bird, the anthem by 1970s Florida band Lynyrd Skynyrd.For many other people, however, the flag represents a time when black Americans were held as slaves and remains a symbol of racism. In Detroit, where Rock, a white man, has deep roots and draws many fans from...