No Kid Rock at Bush concert

WND ^ | January 12, 2005 | WND

[ejdrapes]

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 by Bush twins Barbara and Jenna, comes after WorldNetDaily and other outlets publicized the fact that the committee was planning to feature Kid Rock, which caused several pro-family organizations to ask their supporters to protest his appearance.

[ShadowDancer]

I'm a liberal? Really. Why don't you break that down for me.

[BJClinton]

Who is Kid Rock? Some boy band?

[Diva Betsy Ross]

I met Sam a few months before he died. Although I didn't care for his very popular comedy, I thought he was a nice guy.

[MineralMan]

"It's great stepping on liberal toes....
"

Which liberal toes do you suppose you have stepped on? All those guys fighting in Iraq who think Kid Rock is great and who voted for Bush? Those liberals?

If you don't like Kid Rock's lyrics, then I invite you not to listen to them. I don't like them myself, and don't think I'd recognize a Kid Rock track if I heard it. Unlike you, however, I feel it's up to each individual to make decisions about what he/she listens to. I certainly don't think it is, or should be, up to you or the government.

By calling some really old hands here on FR liberals, you expose yourself as something other than a genuine conservative.

So, go ahead and gloat at "stepping on liberal toes." It won't last long.

[EternalVigilance]

Quite a thread.

[Diva Betsy Ross]

Are you calling me a liberal, newbie troll? You don't really want to do that- do you?

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

The posters here who support Kid Rock may "claim" to be one of us - but it's a lie, a deception.

Why? Because you say so?

I have known them a lot longer then I have known you and they are not liberals. I don't always agree with them but my not agreeing with someone does not make them a liberal.

This conservative did not write to ask Kid Rock be taken off the roster because frankly it is none of my business who they have there. And that is one of the key points of being a conservative, mind your own business.

Kid Rock produces two versions of many of his songs, the regular version and the cleaned up version. That shows that he is able to appreciate and accommodate for different groups of people and different types of audiences.

He likely would have accommodated this one (providing that he was even invited in the first place).

[TheForceOfOne]

STOP THE PRESS!!!
That's the point right there! The Mod's could care less what you or I do beyond this thread/website nor should they care. Why should it matter what Kid Rock does beyond or before this event. You are playing judge and jury for prior or future offenses like George Orwell's 1984 you are acting like the "thought police".

[CyberCowboy777]

Gen-X here

I am the future of the GOP.

I am a Christian Conservative.

I have worked in multiple GOP campaigns (thanks for the note Prez.) and am active in countering the secular fascists agenda.

Disagreeing with the way this went down is no mark against me.

Your apparent disregard for anyone not 100% lock step with you is quite revealing of both your intellect and security however.

[onyx]

Let's see, you've been here 2 months,
yet you can tell us all about FR. ROTFLOL!

[exnavychick]

I'm Gen-X, also.

[Living Free in NH]

I sure doesn't take much to bring out the Bush Haters. If Bush doesn't want him to play, it's his party.

I believe you misunderstood. I am definitely NOT a Bush hater. I don't believe Dubya makes the call concerning who's going to entertain. Whether or not Kid Rock plays though, my point was that he's not the worst person in the world. Holy $hit, the motherf#(ker swears in some of his songs!!! And I believe he engages in pre-marital sex (with women). Nope, no one in the President's administration would do any such thing.

Damn, at least he's patriotic and respectful of the troops.

[Dan from Michigan]

realize that social conservatives/nanny wannabes are only part of the GOP and not the whole GOP, right?

I think "Nannies" are a minority among social conservatives, let alone the party. Don Wildmon types get the airtime because of controversy.

Most I know leave others alone as they want to be left alone by the PC'ers.

[TheBigB]

LOL Naw dude, he's a rapper/singer.

[Freebird Forever]

That's a despicable distortion of context.

Sorry bubba, it's spot on.

A tight knit group of fanatics can pervert any religious or political movement to it's detriment.

I'll make a permanant note of your intellectual dishonesty and DU-like innuendo.

Bwa haha haha

I'll bet you can trace your family history back to the inquisitions.

[bigj00]

Then who is acceptable? Pat Boone? He made a heavy metal album with Ozzy Osborne he's not acceptable.

How about bruce springstone or the dixie twits?

Kid Rock supports the president and the troops and he's "Not Acceptable" to play at the ball?

the republicans are all wusses.

[CyberCowboy777]

Then he should not have been invited to begin with.

It is a slap in the face and was unnecessary.

[AppyPappy]

You are playing judge and jury for prior or future offenses like George Orwell's 1984 you are acting like the "thought police".

BAHAHAHAHAH!! Some rap freak gets cut from the Inaug party when the backers find out about the guy and suddenly it's 1984! OK. I bet we are "thought police" because we don't let Michael Moore MC the shindig.