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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...