Posted on 01/06/2005 2:18:57 PM PST by rightalien
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 said. "His music lyrics serve to teach our young men to disrespect women in a most vile, self serving manner. There's no compassionate conservatism in that philosophy.”
"Obviously, someone on the Presidential Inauguration Committee has made an extremely poor judgment call. The Committee should cancel this invitation immediately,” Wildmon said.
Kid rock was chosen to appear because he was a supporter of President Bush's re-election campaign.
If there is a modern day incarnate of Elmer Gantry it is Donnie Wildmon, con-man shepard of his flock.
Your comment is nonsense. I've never seen a FR post that led me to believe the writer had this degree of intolerance.
You really should use logic and language more carefully.
Posts like yours detract badly from FR and what it should be, an INTELLIGENT forum of discussion.
"Yes, but that doesn't obligate us, even politically obligate us, to invite them to perform".
The problem is with the word "us", as if we Christians who hate Kid Rock have a monopoly on the Republican party. You've been around long enough to know that ain't the case. In addition, many Christian republicans also like crummy rap or rock & roll. So relax. I'll crank on my Miles Davis CD and mute the TV if the Kid starts singing. on
It also doesn't keep me from recognizing the fairly large number of fine clean living people. It probably comes as a shock to you but they are not hypocrits either.
Most of us in this thread are members of the religious right and we're horrified by the zealot attitudes that you and F16Fighter exhibit. You guys are not the religious right - you're party of some cultic offshoot. If offends me that when I identify myself as a member of the religious right or the GOP, the general public automatically associates me with your group's over the top morality police antics.
Tell me this, why didn't Bush publicly campaign for puritan values? He didn't because he knew he would get about 20% of the vote if he did.
I don't know a thing about KR except what I read in the story. If the story is substantially inaccurate, please enlighten me.
I don't think lyrics are the only way to judge a band. If they've dishonored basic values in other ways, a serious question still exists.
Big tent...will the Saudi royal family be there and el Presidente Fox?
;)
I use the F-word, the S-word, ocassionally I've been known to tell a salty joke or two. I've taken pleasure at all the risque anti-Clinton jokes, anti-Streisand jokes, anti-Moore jokes, etc. I watch R-rated movies, enjoy a good action movie with tons of violence, I like hard rock, some rap, and can't stand country. I've even seen porn on the internet! (GASP) And guess what, I'm a Republican...
Just because I and others like things that some might not find to their liking doesn't make us less "Republican", less "American" or a lower form of life. It's a bit hypocritical for so-called Christians to spend so much time and effort to pass judgment, isn't it?
Then why does it shock you that college students drink? You act as if its a form of deviant behavior.
It also doesn't keep me from recognizing the fairly large number of fine clean living people. So only people that don't drink are clean living people?
Personally, I like that country song "If You Don't Stand For Something, You'll Fall For Anything"
Yes, some of the base can't take the slightest vulgarity, even when it's richly deserved by its target -- e.g., Cheney vs. Leahy. I'm not one of those people, and they're far fewer in number than the huge number of people who are offended by the moral cesspool of popular entertainment.
The fact that a group supports the troops is commendable and perhaps even impressive. But that alone doesn't exempt them from legitimate criticism. As for "drinking Coors and dating hot women ..." nothing wrong with either. But "impressive"? In God's name, why?
Are you so worried about conservatives not appearing "cool" that you're willing to twist language to that extent? Jesus.
What gives you the right to pass judgment on someone else - to call them scum. Since you don't know the man personally, you have no real basis to judge him, do you? Perhaps he's changed since his younger days? Or, is there no forgiveness, no understanding youthful indiscretions? Are we all perfect now? HAve you never done something you later thought was wrong or regretted? If you have, I applaud you for you are definitely a better person than I am....
The base deserves special consideration, and much or most of the base -- I certainly never said all of it -- is seriously offended by Hollywood decadence. No doubt some of Bush's values -- e.g., patriotism -- have even wider popular appeal than public morality does. But that doesn't justify dismissing any claim to public morality's role in shaping an event as important as this second inauguration, which so many of us worked so hard to achieve.
Man,the only thing White Rabbit and The Rain,The Park and Other Things have in common is that they came out the same YEAR!
1967
And you sure don't know your grammar.
Mean-spirited? Only when someone else starts it, bud.
No the story is accurate as far as the fact that he's used vulgar words before. *gasp*
And that he's been in a movie with porn stars even though he was not involved in the sexual parts of the movie. *Gasp*
So yes all these actions are not becoming of a perfect upstanding citizen. But what that has to do with what KR will be performing at the inaugaral ceremony is beyond me.
He's a public figure and lead a public life. He's not a saint and doesn't offer himself up as one. But the last time I checked you didn't have to be a saint to be a Republican and Jesus didn't come to heal the healthy.
So I'm not quite sure what the qualifying standards are in order to be deemed acceptable in some conservative eyes. I
I posted this on an earlier thread, I think you and I think the same...
"I would much rather see a conservative patriot like "The Kid" going to Iraq, performing for the troops, boosting the hell out of the moral of our men and women over there and TRULY supporting the troops, not just saying "Oh, oh, oh I support the troops, I just don't support this unnecesary war" BULLSHIT..... I'd rather see him wearing our American flag, than seeing any of these left wing, Hollywood, Dixie Chic, Madonna scumbags perverbally pissing on it!!!!"
/sorry for the rambling sentence....
I think they should get Lynyrd Skynyrd (Spelling?). Have you heard their new stuff? Very patriotic. If I had to guess I would say they are Republicans.
I like Kid Rock, so sue me. He may be a little rough around the edges, but he loves our country. He won my heart when he deep fried a fresh killed turkey on Hank Jr's Christmas special last year. I'm sure his ex, PETA Pamela Anderson had a fit about that one.
And he really does care about our troops, and I'm pretty sure they like him.
As for his song lyrics, granted some have "wordy-dirds". However, who among us has not dropped the F bomb on occassion. Not proud of it, but I certainly have. And this is a party in honor of Jenna and Barbara, right? It they want him there, so be it.
People who live in glass houses.....:)
P.S. I consider myself a Christian. Just not a perfect one.
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