An e-mail (asterisks–you’re shocked, I know–are mine)

K-Lo:
Oh f***ing great. Now it’s headlines at Drudge.
Can we *please* stop re-inforcing the fuddy-duddy no fun no rock
and roll out of touch with the mainstream Republican image?
Who’s gonna play? Lawrence Welk is dead…
The GOP can’t hire anyone associated with RockNRoll to play because at
some point in their life they may have said F***k. S**t, I think WFB used
in a column recently.
This sucks a**.

ME: Some readers actually are ticked–i.e. want him to play.

Sounds to me like the whole thing was handled badly, if he was invited (still not clear that he was), because a censored/disinvited impression does make us look like a stereotype of conservatives. Kid Rock should not be invited to an official inaugural party/one hosted by the Bush twins. Anyone knows that. Just play Pimp of the Nation:

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.

Now, if the Recording Industry Association wants to have a Kid Rock party in DC like they did in NYC during the Republican convention, go for it (it was, not shockingly, popular–right-wingers aren’t a stereotype). But he can’t be at anything official, and that was obvious before anyone complained (which is why I am inclined to believe they couldn not have possibly invited him–or so I hope). I don’t think that is no-fun. That’s reasonable in this case.