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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...