[linskyjack]

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 event.

Anybody that knows anything about Kid Rock knows that his music is disgusting and vile, and Republicans, and most certainly the Christian Republicans that got Bush re-elected, should be appalled by this," WND reader Dave Parker commented. "At best, it is a horrible oversight by a clueless event organizer. At worst, it is a slap in the face to all who voted for Bush with the belief that he is a more moral person than Kerry." Kid Rock, aka Robert James Ritchie, has been known to attend Republican events. The New York Times reported that during a party he attended at the Republican National Convention last year, Kid Rock noted that if he were president he would never get caught having sex in the Oval Office, but would instead install cameras in the Lincoln Bedroom.

New York Daily News gossip columnist Lloyd Grover reported on Kid Rock's support for Bush last July. According to the columnist, the rapper was arguing with hip-hop and fashion mogul Russell Simmons and others outside a movie theater about whether or not to see Michael Moore's "Fahrenheit 9/11."

"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. The others bought tickets and went into the theater.

A couple of hours later, Simmons returned to his parked car. On his windshield was a scribbled note:

"Vote Bush. Bush Rocks," apparently written by Kid Rock himself.

Kid Rock's first album, "Grit Sandwiches for Breakfast," fixates on oral sex, including one song, "Yo Da Lin In The Valley," that describes the lyricist's exploits with multiple women in detail. Another similar tune is "Wax the Booty."

Also featured on his 1990 debut album is "Pimp of the Nation," which ironically takes a swipe at Bush's mother. The lyrics include:

Pimp of the Nation, I could be it
As a matter of a fact, I foresee it
But only pimpin' hoes with the big tush
While you be left pimpin' Barbara Bush
Some of Kid Rock's songs include the F-word in their title, such as "F--- U Blind" and "F--- Off."

The performer's lyrics often center on the recreational nature of sex and speak of women as mere playthings.

According to an online bio, "Kid Rock is noted for his use of adult film stars when he performs (nude when he can get away with it), as Kobe Tai and Jenna Jameson have danced on stage while Kid does his thing."

After reading some of Kid Rock's lyrics, Randy Thomasson, president of Campaign for Children and Families, was outraged the rapper would be a part of the president's festivities.

"I just read Kid Rock's sexually explicit lyrics and feel ashamed and dirty for even looking at his songs," he told WND. "If this sex-crazed animal, whose favorite word is the F-word, is allowed to sing at Bush's inauguration this will send a clear message to pro-family Americans that the Republican Party has taken them for a ride and ditched them in the gutter."

Said Thomasson on the rapper's lyrics: "This is the worst I've ever seen. This guy's singing about how he sexually exploits every girl and then asks them if he can do it with their moms."

Thomasson wondered how "Bush's FCC can take the F-word off TV and fine radio and television networks that cuss on the air and show indecency, and then have the most indecent, sexually explicit, anti-family white singer on the planet representing the second term of George W. Bush."

Thomasson said even if Kid Rock were to perform less offensive songs at the youth concert, his mere presence at a Bush even sends a huge message.

"This is more than inconsistent; it's a sham," he said. "This guy is one of the worst role models for youth imaginable."

Concluded Thomasson: "It makes me angry. … This is a good reason to leave the Republican Party."

The music planned for the actual inauguration ceremony will be decidedly more mainstream. It includes performances by the U.S. Naval Academy Glee Club, the U.S. Marine Band and mezzo-sopranos Denyce Graves and Susan Graham.

There also will be a performance of "Let the Eagles Soar," a song written by Attorney General John Ashcroft.

Source: WorldNetDaily

 

[LuckyStrike]

From the title of thread , I expected an obituary.

You know, A good Republican is a.....

 

[Ciberblade]

The music will make your kids shoot up a school

 

[linskyjack]

LOL----its just so funny.

 

[Gibble]

This is pathetic.

Hmm...we can't attack Bush's policies, because logically they make sense...so lets attack the choice in entertainer how...pathetic

 

[LuckyStrike]

At best, it is a horrible oversight by a clueless event organizer.

This is the most probable scenario.

 

[poochee]

This one is a hoot!! Somehow I don't see an event organizer as being clueless??

 

[linskyjack]

Geeze Gibble, lighten up------we attack your boy's policies all the time. I think this whole thing is hysterical.

 

[Wino]

Guess we can be thankful Larry Flynt wasn't a Bush supporter - goodness knows what we might have going on during the inaugural!



And why not a 'clueless event organizer' ?- would fit right in with that crowd.

 

[Gibble]

Geeze Gibble, lighten up------we attack your boy's policies all the time. I think this whole thing is hysterical.

So do I, but not because they have Kid Rock as part of the entertainment, but that people care this much about it.

 

[iltos]

So do I, but not because they have Kid Rock as part of the entertainment, but that people care this much about it.

i actually find it fascinating....it seems indicative to me of the need for politics in general to keep pace with this culture, as well as pointing out, imo, how confused the handlers of policy are in this country is with its pulse.

i say this because i view the whole thing from the standpoint of media coverage, and so look at it as a form of advertising.....an event given considerable attention vis a vis the interpretation of the american public....kid rock will be a demonstration of a kind of transformational conservativsm, a distinct counterpoint to the superbowl fiasco last year, reinstating the industry of rock and roll as acceptable....an voice of freedom and youth and hope for more moderate republicans

a bone to the dogs of those unsure of their choice last november, and a carrot to the donkeys similarly unsure.....

you're right gibble....it don't mean jack to policy....and therein lies its true significance.

 

[Clownfoot]

This can cut in either direction. But overall, remember that any of the many parties being held to celebrate the inauguration are officially sanctioned by the Republican Party and the federal government, at least so far as I'm concerned. OK, maybe some of you attorney types out there with Republican leanings can construct sentences with enough weasel words to get the admin off the hook on this. Whatever. The Bush twins have a zeal for alcohol pretty well documented in the popular media (even the Empire has not yet been totally successful in suppressing this sort of news item from popping up). It runs in families, you know. Also, youngsters always love this sort of in-your-face, over-the-top stuff that flouts authority. It's just a rite of passage. Even two year olds do it (the "no!!!" phase). It's all fairly harmless, although the vile excrement this guy spouts ought to have the propellers on the beanies of religious conservative types spinning furiously by now.

That rap guy is tasteless and vulgar for sure. It's nothing that shocks me, but it might make waves among the goody two-shoes religious right. Hey, those guys assume the admin has their values. That is very wrong. It's only a marriage of convenience for the admin. The 'fundies' have been cruelly used and suckered by the Republicans. It will all come out eventually. But they got tricked into voting for something quite different from what it seems. Here is but one example. There will be more.

 

[iltos]

It's all fairly harmless, although the vile excrement this guy spouts ought to have the propellers on the beanies of religious conservative types spinning furiously by now.

nice image :up:

 

[poochee]

Wonder what Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell will have to say about this?

 

[linskyjack]

Pat and Jerry will be across the street at the Jesus Loves America Ball. No alcohol, no clevage, etc. My understanding is that they are bringing Pat Boone out of mothballs to entertain. Should be a fun evening.

 

[xico]

Published on Wednesday, January 12, 2005 by CommonDreams.org
The Imminent Demise of the Republican Party
by David W. Orr

Following the election of 2004, much has been made of the weaknesses of the Democratic Party, even its possible end. But it has escaped the notice of our blow-dry television pundits and political observers alike that the Republican Party, in the full blush of triumph in control of all the branches of government and large sections of the media, stands on the edge of certain extinction. The reasons grow daily more evident. Over the past three decades, the moderate, business-oriented party of Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, and Dwight Eisenhower was captured by its extreme right-wing thereby becoming a party dominated by ideologues, increasingly divorced from unmovable facts. But no organization, political party, or nation can long survive by ignoring realities of ecology, social justice, law, economics, and true security. Sooner or later, it will step off the proverbial curb into onrushing traffic of events, forces, and trends that it refused to see.
The Republican Party has already stepped into the road. The question is not whether it will survive as presently constituted, but what else will be destroyed as it collapses in ruin and ignominy, sooner than later. Beneath the noisy spin of its media echo chamber, the true platform of the Republican Party, its future epitaph, is founded on denial. The rules of the Republican Party of George Bush, Dick Cheney, Karl Rove, Tom Delay, and their brethren are these:


Deny science when its findings are not agreeable to your base. Republicans, notably, are on the wrong side of the largest issue in human history: human driven, rapid climate change. They’ve chosen instead to live in a Crichton-esque science fiction fantasy in which real science has no standing and human actions have no tragic, irreversible, and global ecological consequences. This is not just boneheaded, it is a form of criminality for which we have, as yet, no adequate words.
Deny the looming approach of peak oil extraction thereby advancing the potential of economic, political, and social chaos when global oil supply and demand diverge as soon they will.
Deny the proven potential of superior technologies, design strategies, and policies that would move the country toward energy efficiency and a secure energy base of solar and wind power as well as the reasons of self-interest and economic advantage for doing so.
Deny the true costs of air and water pollution thereby undermining the health of Americans.
Deny the human and economic effects of pandering to the wealthy, thereby undermining social cohesion and the sense of fairness?historically, often a prelude to societal breakdown and revolution.
Deny any and all mistakes, bad judgment, and corruption, relying on spin not truth and thereby building a solid reputation for mendacity and incompetence.
Deny the limitations of military power to impose order on a recalcitrant world and thereby condemn the U.S. to a future of international isolation, conflict, and endless terrorism.
Deny the great vulnerability of the American infrastructure to malice, malfeasance, and acts of God, thereby laying the groundwork for a future of recurring disasters.
Deny the necessity for civil discourse, honesty, and transparency in the conduct of public life, thereby holding the citizenry in contempt and promoting a spirit of meanness.
Deny without admitting it the democratic values of the country enshrined in the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution and Bill of Rights, the Gettysburg Address, and the Four Freedoms of Franklin Roosevelt, thereby undermining democracy at home while purportedly fighting for it in Iraq.
The Republican Party has chosen to deny social, ecological, cultural, religious, and economic realities which are unavoidably complicated, complex, diverse, ironic, and paradoxical. Instead they have chosen to make their own simplistic, ideological, and chauvinistic fantasy world that has little affinity for law, science, a free and independent press, fairness, true security, ecological sustainability, and the accountability that is requisite for genuine democracy.

That fantasy is on the cusp of becoming a real life nightmare. Having made the United States a large bulls’ eye for terrorists and malcontents, it may implode catastrophically taking much else with it. It may come undone more gradually, but no less catastrophically, as the economy sinks under the weight of war debt and foolish tax cuts. It may be overthrown if and when thoughtful conservatives disturbed by fiscal recklessness and imperial pretensions, all honest persons offended by mendacity, bombast, criminality, conniving, and diversion, and all Christians sufficiently alert to notice the discrepancy between the words and life of the “Prince of Peace” and our foreign and domestic policies finally shift alignments. It may take longer as the die of climate change and ecological deterioration is finally cast and we trigger adverse global changes of which we have been often warned. Unlikely as it seems, in a different scenario the Republican nightmare still could be averted by an effective, committed, agile, and strategic opposition smart enough to recognize the historic convergence of opportunity, patriotic duty, sheer necessity.

David Orr ([email protected]) is a Paul Sears Distinguished Professor at Oberlin College. Author of The Last Refuge (Island Press, 2004).

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[Mulderator]

Here's my kind of Republican! :up:

 

[GoneForNow]

(I don't care how many I offend.) DAMN that's one good looking woman!!!!

 

[Mulderator]

(I don't care how many I offend.) DAMN that's one good looking woman!!!!

Now there's another difference between conservatives and liberals--conservatives are smart and practical. No way Linsky or Xico or the other libs would suck up to Ann Coulter. Now if you and me, Gbrumb, were to run into a liberal that looked like Ann Coulter, we'd be stumbling over ourselves to compliment Ted Kennedy and Jesse Jackson and insult Bush!

 

[GoneForNow]

Now there's another difference between conservatives and liberals--conservatives are smart and practical. No way Linsky or Xico or the other libs would suck up to Ann Coulter. Now if you and me, Gbrumb, were to run into a liberal that looked like Ann Coulter, we'd be stumbling over ourselves to compliment Ted Kennedy and Jesse Jackson and insult Bush!

Hell, I'd insult my mother if it got me in Ann's pan..ah...in her...ah...good graces.