Kid Rock's nightmare: 'Everyone driving a Prius'

[a kennedy]

Kid Rock has seen a vision of the future and it scares him.

"I have nightmares that I'm going to wake up and everyone's driving a Prius and living in a condo and we're all getting health insurance," he told Megyn Kelly on Fox News.

Wow. That is a scary thought. Every American saving gas, living modestly and not going deeply into debt if they become seriously ill. Gives us the shivers.

Singer Rock, the "cowboy crusader," elaborated:

"It reminds me of Europe -- everyone driving a Smart car and living a condo and that's not the American dream." Kind of makes you proud to be an American -- Hummers, mega-mansions and the poor piling up at the doors of hospital emergency rooms to load up on free treatment.

Rock is a Detroiter at heart. He praised the 1957 Chevrolet as "cool stuff" in the same interview yesterday and said the Motor City "has so much style" and ingenuity.

full: <http://content.usatoday.com/communities/driveon/post/2010/02/kid-rocks-nightmare-everyones-driving-a-prius/1>

[Richardo]

1. My nightmare is that Kid Rock still gets media attention

Loser.

[onehandle]

23. +1 nt

[Javaman]

42. I have always thought him as the poster child of STD's. nt

[ck4829]

2. Sounds just a tad bit sarcastic to me

But I wonder how many freepers will swallow this up.

Or, is he really serious that nobody being homeless and everyone having health insurance is scary to him?

[Bluebear]

3. No denying the '57 Chevy was "cool stuff"...for 1957!

[LeftinOH]

4. Is he kidding..or is he serious? I really wanna know.

[a kennedy]

9. I don't really know.....I saw some of the interview, and he was kinda

joking when he said it, and wouldn't comment further one way or the other....kept saying that he wasn't smart enough on political issues to comment. He did say around his group of friends and family though, he'd make statements regarding his "politics". I kinda thought she was trying to get him to say something against this administration, government, or whatever, but he wouldn't. :shrug: I couldn't really read him.

[peekaloo]

5. Ted Nugent Lite. nt

[LiberalFighter]

6. I saw a Smart car on the interstate last week Saturday.

We were going 80 mph when we passed it. I wasn't driving. It just got on the hwy. A few minutes later it passed us probably at 85 mph.

We were laughing about it when we passed it. But not after he passed us.

[KittyWampus]

7. who is Kid Rock? seriously, I have no idea.

[Richardo]

10. You're the luckiest person in the world.

Another in a long line of over-hyped no-talent assholes.

[Fumesucker]

21. Overhyped asshole I'll agree..

But I saw him playing on the Hope for Haiti concert with Sheryl Crow and Keith Urban and I thought it was a good performance..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAt9v8Ao3O4

[BeyondGeography]

8. And he wore his cammo hat for Fox News

Isn't that cute?

[Statistical]

12. One thing I will give him credit for... he has done a lot of USO tours.

Not something most musicians will do. No pay, long hours, bad living conditions, closest to a combat any musician will get.

[Lisburn]

22. Good Point !

The Kid ............ ROCKS !

[DBoon]

31. so have Joan Jett and Henry Rollins

either of whom has more intelligence and good sense in their little toenail that Kid Rock has had in his entire life

[Iggo]

34. Nah, fuck him.

[left coaster]

17. "Kid Rock - Musician"

Only Faux news could come up with a whopper like that!









Kid Rock makes even Palin seem relevant.

[HughBeaumont]

11. This guy can't sing well, can't rap well and writes lobotomized "songs".

His entire career is based on new country/rock-rap pastiche, two incredibly sucktastic genres in their own right.

So why is he still worshipped, still selling CDs and still getting paid?

Unbelievable.

[Missy Vixen]

13. My nightmare is that Kid Rock still has a career

let alone sufficient relevance that anyone would care to report his idiotic remarks.

So, health insurance for all scares him? Hopefully, he can't pay the bill for his own, and discovers what it's like to go without.

:mad:

[Hepburn]

14. I detest Kid Rock....

...his "music videos" used to promote the National Guard make me what to puke.

Asshole....:puke:

[bullwinkle428]

15. I think he wins "Shmuck of the Day", EVEN WITH Tiger's "press conference"

still to come!

[Tobin S.]

16. Kid Rock is high or drunk 99% of the time if the lyrics he writes are true

[Hepburn]

19. I kinda agree with that... but add...

...STUPID on a high or on a drunk!

:hi:

[Therellas]

18. kid rock sucks.

hes a pill poppin cowboy baaay-beee.
he played at bushs inauguration i think.

[salguine]

20. In my nightmare, everyone is blasting Kid Rock's shitty brand of redneck rap. I reach

for some Johnny Thunders or a bit of Buzzcocks or Detroit Cobras with which to fight back, but it isn't there. That's usually where I wake up screaming.

[bullwinkle428]

30. I'm still pissed off at Warren Zevon's kids for allowing that

sleazy fucktard to desecrate "Werewolves of London" with that sampled shit that's supposed to pass for a song!

[BakedAtAMileHigh]

36. the Detroit Cobras are awesome

don't forget The Dirtbombs!

[salguine]

38. No kidding. I didn't take "Ultraglide In Black" out of my

CD player for eight months. Detroit has to be the greatest music city in history. Two years ago I saw the Gore Gore Girls throw down the most balls-out furious rock & roll show I've seen in 25 years of going to shows.

[spanone]

24. as dumb as his name

[catbyte]

25. Jackass.

I'm ashamed that he and Ted Nugent are from MI. Oh well, at least we have Michael Moore...:shrug:

Diane

Anishnabe in MI

[Romulox]

27. What nonsense. I'm not ashamed Kid Rock is from Detroit, even though I don't like his music.

Where the fuck are the black eyed peas from, for example? They have way more to answer for than KR ever did.

"Oh well, at least we have Michael Moore... "

Ummm, one of the most successful rappers in the 2000s is from Detroit (not Rock, and no, I don't like this other rapper either.) As is one of the most successful rock acts. You forgetting anybody? :shrug:

[catbyte]

29. Swich to decaf, Romulux!

[Romulox]

46. In other words, no. You don't know who you're forgetting....

:hi:

[salguine]

32. Here you go. Walk with pride!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_from_Michigan

[NashuaDW]

26. Kid Rock

Hey, I saw him last weekend at Mohegan Sun ... sold out the 10,000 seat arena and gave an incredible 2 hour show.
I wasn't even anywhere close to the oldest person there (I'm mid 50's)

He easily moves between Hip-hop, rock, blues, and country ... often in the same song.
It was probably the most audience involved concert I've ever seen, not a sit back and relax kind of event
he brought Peter Wolf of J Geils and two oldies with him
He even did a little Ted Nugent ...

First encore song was 'Lean on Me' by Bill Withers -- sang the crap out of it

I can look past politics and appreciate the music ... like we wanted people to do with the Dixie Chicks

DB

[Brickbat]

28. Wow, I never thought I'd agree with Kid Rock about something!

[Iggo]

33. Wow. He's cool.

I think I'll go download some of his music.

Oh, wait...

[Tim01]

35. Gatica. nt

[Salviati]

37. Who?

:shrug:

[sailor65]

39. Wow, easily the most misleading OP of the day/week/month

Am I the only one who actually watched the video? Or in the words of Ellen Ripley, "Did IQ's drop sharply while I was away?"

OP, you should have mentioned in your post that the added paraphrasing about the poor was not in the video. Or did you not watch the video either? The USAToday article says he "Elaborated" about the Hummer/Poor/Hospital thing, but it's a crock. He said nothing of the sort. And, it's obvious he was pointing out that the Health Insurance would be a good thing...."..well we WOULD all have health insurance...." within the context of lamenting the idea of universal sameness, as in the Prius/Condo thing.

How could everybody have so smashingly missed all this?

[Iggo]

40. I would think it oughta be pretty clear to people who know how to read...

...that the stuff inside quotes is what he said, while the stuff outside of the quotes is what the columnist added. I had no problem distinguishing between the two...because I know how to read.

[Javaman]

41. And just how is kid rock being confused with someone who is informed and

having an ounce of common sense?

this willful morons opinion means less than nothing to me, but I'm sure many a mouth breather out there will take his inane utterances as gospel.

[Initech]

43. Ooh Americans living within their means - scary thought!!!!

[UTUSN]

44. K&R to attempt to undo the usual, inscrutable UnReKKK, to no avail n/t

[Cheap_Trick]

45. Never did like the skanky little fuck.

I call him Kid Suck.

I'd run the little prick over in a Prius just for what he did to "Werewolves of London" alone.