So, Kid Rock will be playing at the GOP convention. LOL. I hope

[MadProphetMargin]

his career benefits as much from that as Ricky Martin's did from playing at GW's inaugural.

[TXDemGal]

1. Maybe he and *Bush can pound down a few beers together.

Strictly in the name of defending the country from the War on Terra, of course.

[MadProphetMargin]

2. I think KR made the somewhat common mistake of confusing "supporting

the troops" with "supporting the war".

[Skittles]

10. naw

he is a typical warmongering chickenhawk; no mistake

[SemiCharmedQuark]

3. Oh yeah! I forgot Ricky played at GW's inaugural.

Wow, he sure showed me, the Hispanic voter, that he's in tune with my needs with that stunt. :eyes:

[MadProphetMargin]

4. And you forgot Ricky Martin, too, didn't you? LOL.

Whoring yourself out to the republicans isn't exactly the way to maintain a teen audience.

[SemiCharmedQuark]

7. The republicans have always had a way with being in tune with teen trends

Remember Nixon inviting an aging Elvis to the White House?

[MadProphetMargin]

8. I have a T-shirt with the two of them shaking hands. Underneath, it says

"We're DEAD!"

On the back, it says, "Really, REALLY dead!"

[girl gone mad]

9. Hahaha..

If you haven't seen it, you've got to rent the film based on that event. It's called "Elvis meets Nixon" and it's hilarious.

That was the first time Elvis had ventured out of the Graceland compound on his own (I think there were a few Memphis Mafia guys tagging along, but no one to really hold his hand). He had lived such a sheltered life that he didn't know how to buy a plane ticket, and he had given all of the cash in his pocket to a soldier he met at the airport. Elvis was going to the WH to pick up a DEA badge that he had requested. Elvis had a thing for collecting law enformcent badges, particularly those that granted him actual powers. I think the DEA badge made him a real agent, though I'm not sure. Rich irony, either way.

As hard as it is to believe, the movie is mostly accurate, from what I've been able to gather.

Edited to add a link to the film's imdb page:
http://imdb.com/title/tt0122474/

[hadrons]

11. DEA badge alowed Elvis to carry fire arms on commerical planes

which is why he wanted it (though I did hear he would pull people over flashing the badge)

[SemiCharmedQuark]

5. Also, way to bring integrity back to the White House, George

I wonder if Kid Rock will have that giant inflatable middle finger there...or if it will just be the women in American bikinis rubbing up against each other.

Bah, that's disturbing, a bunch of crusty old trilobites getting a rise out of that! :puke:

[MadProphetMargin]

6. Ya know, I could have gone ALL DAY without that little gem of a thought.

Ugh.

[Skidmore]

12. Wasn't he the performer who managed to get

everyone's undies in a bunch because he wore the flag at the Super Bowl half-time event? Maybe he'll do that again as a signature event. Would be fun to watch.

[Blue Gardener]

13. And Sheryl Crow at the Harkin Steak Fry

Didn't they record something together? Doesn't look like that will happen again.

[MadProphetMargin]

15. "I put your picture away"...very prescient.

[Zorra]

14. Kid Rock, that perfect example of Bu$h republican Family Values.

"Criminal mischief"? What does that mean?

His smash album "Devil Without A Cause" should totally appeal to republican fundamentalist christians everywhere. "Devil Without A Cause" sounds like the perfect, fitting theme for the republican agenda to me.

Maybe KR and Bu$h can share a few hits off the old crackpipe before Bu$h gives his speech at the RNC:

"It was at this stage that he adopted the name Kid Rock, although it is not entirely clear whether he earned the name from his prowess as a DJ, or from an apprenticeship in the retail side of the local freebase cocaine business".

And I am looking forward to hearing his "pro-cunnilingus single", Yo-da-lin in the Valley, played on national TV when he performs it at the republican National Convention.:evilgrin:

Kid Rock
b. Bob Ritchie, 17 January 1971, Romeo, Michigan, USA. Although his name has often been linked to the inner-city Detroit rap scene, Ritchie grew up in the overwhelmingly white suburb of Romeo, only venturing into the city proper as a teenager to attend rap concerts and talent shows. His early musical environment was a paradoxical mix of Midwest rock such as Bob Seger and the hip-hop and electro sounds accompanying the first national craze for breakdancing. After witnessing a DJ battle between Davy D and AJ Scratch on the Fresh Fest tour, young Ritchie was inspired to try his hand at DJing, ruining his mother's phonograph in the process. His continued efforts as a rapper and DJ led to basement parties and criminal mischief in the black neighbourhoods of nearby Mt. Clemens. It was at this stage that he adopted the name Kid Rock, although it is not entirely clear whether he earned the name from his prowess as a DJ, or from an apprenticeship in the retail side of the local freebase cocaine business. In either case his local talent show appearances and demo tapes eventually landed him a gig opening for Boogie Down Productions, and a $100,000 record deal with their new label Jive Records. The resultant debut Grits Sandwiches For Breakfast featured production work from BDP extended-family members D-Square and D-Nice, as well as Too $hort, and a local engineer named Mike E. Clark (who went on to unleash the Insane Clown Posse on an unsuspecting world). Aiming for a stylistic niche somewhere between the Beastie Boys and 2 Live Crew, the pro-cunnilingus single "Yo-Da-Lin In The Valley" generated little chart success but made history nonetheless by earning the college radio station of SUNY Cortland (WSUC) a fine of $23,750; the largest ever levelled at a non-commercial radio station for the broadcast of obscene material.

Continuing his association with the emergent gangsta-rap genre, Kid Rock supported Ice Cube and Too $hort on tour, trailing the tour bus in a Grand Marquis with his turntables in the trunk. After the tour he relocated to Brooklyn, New York and began work on the first of two poorly received releases for Continuum Records, The Polyfuze Method and the cassette-only Fire It Up EP. He then turned his efforts to running his own independent Top Dog imprint from the basement of his Michigan home, releasing and distributing Early Mornin' Stoned Pimp. This was a foray into a west coast G-funk sound, albeit filtered through his ever-present rock influences and incorporating the work of Black Crowes keyboard player Ed Harsch and Sub Pop Records vocalist Thornetta Davis. The relative success of his self-distributed work on Top Dog prompted a distribution-deal with Atlantic Records for his next effort. On Devil Without A Cause, timing and major-label promotional muscle finally combined to deliver his confident fusion of a bewildering range of rap, country and hard-rock influences to a wider audience, causing the album to climb into the Billboard Top 5 in the process.

http://music.lycos.com/artist/bio.asp?QT=A&QW=kid+rock&AN=Kid+Rock&MID=71196&MH=

[RazzleCat]

16. more on "values"

I just have to wonder what his stage show will be for the convention. In prior shows he has had strippers, and faked oral sex on stage, not to mention the midget that walks around and curses. Gee, here I am a person who has been accused of bad parenting because I am going to take my kid (age 13) to Pearl Jam (vote for change), something about it will ruin his morals and give him bad values. Hmm Pearl Jam vs Kid Rock, now witch would you like your son to see (oh and I plan on getting REM tickets also).

[MadProphetMargin]

17. The midget's dead.

[trumad]

18. Coffee spit!

Don't do that to me so early in the AM. :-)