Posted on 01/12/2005 10:38:23 AM PST by ejdrapes
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. No Kid Rock at Bush concert
Committee backs off plan to feature rapper after pro-family Americans express outrage
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Then why was he not invited to tour the country and campaign?
We all know that President Bush totally honors the office of President and will not do anything to bring dishonor on it.
Just why is KR required at these events? Maybe they should invite guests who they feel confident will not prove an embarrassment of any sort.
Try not to let your acceptance of immoral activities infringe on all your activities.
There is a time and place for everything. Presidential Inaugural activities are not the place to exercise trash mouth activities, crude behavior, or immorality. Those can be exercised freely at any other concerts in the U.S.
.... Haven't you ever heard of personal responsibility? How about parents taking control of and monitoring THEMSELVES what it is their children view and/or listen to? What kind of values they learn?....
Exactly - which is what is happening in this case. There were complaints and the complaints were listened to. Sorry you disagree with parents having a say in what is appropriate.
Or, are you saying they must exercise that control only in their own homes - not on federal property. Hmm......sounds almost like the ACLU efforts against religion.
I've seen it to, though not online, but on Trinity Broadcasting. :)
Thanks, Big Sky Guy. Hope all is well with you today.
Whoops - did not mean to chastise you about your activities - was addressing the general comments from those on this thread. No offense intended to you.
Snowing and blowing outside, but otherwise, no complaints here. Except the cat wants to lay on top of my mouse. :)
"We just can't seem to disagree agreeably." That was a very gracious reply. I have been following this thread and it seems to me that both sides of the issue{whatever that may be} can be strident or smug in their own opinions. One side calls the other unbelievers and the other side uses the term Bible thumpers. Seemed funny to me that this was all over the story from a site one side dislikes{WND} and a singer the other side dislikes. By the way, I consider myself a conservative, slant more right on some issues, Republican who likes all kinds of music including good Heavy Metal and Hard Rock. Not much of a fan of Rap though. And I think the donors, the inaugural committee, and the President have the right to invite or not invite whomever they want.
Agreed.
Give me an old drunk, drug user like President George W. Bush any day.
Shows you what can be done when you straighten out your life and walk with God. Some even become President of the U.S. and protect our country and our freedoms. Yet others still like to dwell on the years before he straightened out his life. Guess they do the same with their friends and all their faults.
That never ends well. And causing one who is seeking Him to stumble... not a good treasure to bring from your heart.
I said no such thing, actually. What I was saying basically, is that if I didn't want my child to see stuff like that, I wouldn't allow them to attend.
There aren't any other parties scheduled that might have more family-friendly appearances?
How about not taking your children to an event that you don't consider to have appropriate material? Sort of like an "R" rated movie, for example.
Sorry you disagree with allowing people to decide whether or not to do so.
Are you saying that those of us who enjoy seeing non-trash are to have no say in this ultra trashed morality country?
I cannot help that you enjoy immorality in all forms and want to see it in every aspect of your life. But, you, too, have to regard the wishes of those not quite as addicted as you are to trash.
All forms of entertainment are not subject to the level of the lowest denominator. It also does not mean religious people are the only ones speaking up - there are many that just don't see the need to live their lives filled with the lowest aspects of human behavior.
Here's to hopes that everyone else does. ;-)
And at the risk of repeating myself, many people just haven't followed Kid Rock's selfless jestures, and patriotic and fellow-man kindnesses. But the soldiers know differently, as do those not in the military who have followed him as a person.
This all reminds me of those who follow El Rushbo just a little, think that they *get* him, and think that he's a pompous, egocentric, loudmouthed, mysogynistic, uncaring, inflexible, uncompassionate, pill-popping, pushy, moneygrubbing @ss. And I'm not talking about leftists and liberals with regard to Rush. I'm talking about Republicans and conservatives. I'm not saying it's a direct comparison, it just is reminiscent....
Why not invite him to your house for dinner? Introduce him to your daughter and send them on a date.
You responded thusly:
" I find that interesting because I consider myself extreme right since I'm pro-life, pro-family, and pro whatever else most conservative Christians are called. And most of my Christian friends actively campaigned or voted for the President. So in my eyes he was the candidate of the religious right."
Believe your own eyes.
Your experience is THE honest assessment of how the so-called 'extreme right' "Christians" supported and then voted for George Bush.
The unprovable assumptions of others are suspect.
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