Zell Miller Proposes Kid Rock Reality Show

[WhoCountsTheVotes]

http://www.nydailynews.com/02-12-2004/news/story/163592p-143408c.html

"I don't know how many of you have ever run over a skunk with your car," he said. "I have many times, and I can tell you, the stink stays around for a long time. You can take the car through the wash, and it's still there. So the scent of this Super Bowl halftime show will long linger in the nostrils of America.

"The thing that yanked my chain the hardest was seeing this ignoramus with his pointed head stuck up through the hole he had cut in the flag of the United States of America, yelling about having 'a bottle of Scotch and watching lots of crotch.' That did it for me.

"This is the same flag we pledge allegiance to, the same flag that is draped over the coffins of dead young uniformed warriors killed while protecting Kid Crock's bony butt. He should be tarred and feathered and ridden out of this country on a rail. Now there's you a good reality show."

[Progress]

1. Kid Rock's performance was disgusting.

Almost as disgusting as a "Democratic" senator going along with Republicans in a scheme to exploit September 11th in order to smear other Dems as unpatriotic (while also weakening federal worker protections).

[drscm]

2. What flag-draped coffins of dead youn uniformed warriors?

Your friggin' hero is protecting us from seeing any of them.

That would be a reality show, though it would definitely not be a "good" one.

[enki23]

3. i could almost get on board with zell on that, if for different reasons

but it would be much improved if it were a two-rail show with zell riding shotgun.

[DenverDem]

4. Agree with two rail concept.

Kid Schlock wants to be a Nazi sycophant but in his prole ignorance succeeds only in enraging both sides.

Zell is a traitor to both his party and country.

[rumguy]

5. Kid Rock is a good guy, Zell is an asshole

Kid Rock is a decent enough fellow, just because he said some things in support of the Iraq war does not make his some kinda Nazi youth...

The fact that Zell is attacking him is telling...

[DenverDem]

8. The fact that he supported the war DOES make him some kinda Nazi youth.

The fact that he desecrates the flag makes him some kinda IGNORANT Nazi youth.

[Beer Snob-50]

6. The same flag that the smirking chimp

descrates by autographing for many of his adoring fans>

[Vogon_Glory]

7. Kid Rock And Bad Memories of the Sixties

Kid Rock may have been a pet of the Banana Republicans before his Superbowl antics, but I'm old enough to remember how the Far Right used to use the flag issue to bludgeon folks in the Counter-Culture back in the 1960's and early 1970's.

It was, and still is a social and political taboo to burn the US flag or drag it through the mud (And I think it ought to remain a serious taboo, though I don't think it ought to be a criminal offesnse). But it used to be taboo to have any US-flagged themed clothing or decoration--the only allowed bunting was red, white, and blue striped bunting with stars on it. The Far Right used to bay like a pack of slavering jackals whenever they saw pictures of hippies wearing American-flagged shirts or having American flags stitched to their clothing.

These days we have American flagged bikinis, American-Flagged themed underwear, you name it--and the right wingie-dingies practically glow with approval.

So far we have over 500 US soldiers dead in George Deucey-U Bush's Big Sandy Misadventure in Iraq. We have political situations there and in Afghanistan crumbling under our feet. And we have right-wingers cynically questioning the patriotism of anyone who dares criticize the qualities or motives or results of their criminally inept leadership.

Kid Rock ought to be ashamed of himself for using the flag as a poncho. But I think right-wingers and Republican sycophants like Kid Rock ought to carry the can for their own transgressions this time. As for hand-wringing right-wing politicians--patriotism remains the last refuge for scoundrels.