NEW YORK – Conservative Christians are flabbergasted about reports that raunchy rock-rapper Kid Rock will perform at a youth concert at the presidential inauguration.

“What in the world are these people thinking?” asked Donald Wildmon, chairman of the American Family Association in Tupelo, Miss. “This is the biggest slap in the face to the Christian conservatives.”

Kid Rock reportedly will perform at America Rocks Today: A Call to Service, a multimedia concert.

Bush’s daughter Barbara is the event’s co-managing director.

But Kid Rock doesn’t exactly seem like her dad’s kind of guy.

The almost-34-year-old Detroit bad boy is currently dating porn actress Jessie James, never goes anywhere without a pint of bourbon in his back pocket and rattles off X-rated lyrics that regularly earn his albums parental advisory warnings.

At the same time, he’s a die-hard Republican and a big fan of Dubya. He put on a concert during last summer’s Republican convention at the Manhattan nightclub Avalon, which the Bush twins attended.

But Kid Rock has a funny way of showing his support.

In his 2001 song “You Never Met a ———— Quite Like Me,” he boasts, “I met the president when I was half-stoned.”

And back in 1990 – when President Bush’s father was in the White House and his mother, Barbara, was first lady – Kid Rock sang: “Pimp of the nation, I could be it/ As a matter of fact, I forsee it/ But only pimpin hoes with the big tush/ While you be left pimpin Barbra Bush.”

“Boy,” Wildmon admonished. “Where I come from, you talk about my mama like that, those are fightin’ words. Shooting words!”

Inauguration planners seemed to be backpedaling Thursday about the event following a call from the New York Daily News. “Kid Rock has not been confirmed,” insisted Tracey Schmitt, a spokeswoman from the Presidential Inaugural Committee. “But I can tell you Hilary Duff has been confirmed, as has JoJo.”

Schmitt added, “There’s no greater defender of family values than President Bush.”


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