Why all the hostility?? Just use common sense. This story has been flying around all week. Do you not think that if it were true that Kid Rock would be performing at the ball and seeing all this controversy spring up around this performance they wouldn't have issued a statement asap??
I have a hard time believing that there wouldn't have been something along the lines of, "Kid Rock is deeply saddened by the controversy surrounding his performance that the (Whatever) Ball. He has been a strong supporter of the war on terror, the USO, and President Bush's reelection...blah blah blah..." issued the second this group started criticizing his (non)appearance at this ball.
Do you not think that if it were true that Kid Rock would be performing at the ball and seeing all this controversy spring up around this performance they wouldn't have issued a statement asap?? Exactly! He or his reps never denied it at all, did they, until after it was official they wouldn't play.
Then it was the "oh, we were never going to play in the first place" line.
If they weren't playing and didn't want to play they would have denied it on day one.
They didn't. I am sure it is true that he was never going to play. He just wanted to to restart a moribund "career".