Kid Rocks Sounds Off

Kid Rock takes Springsteen and the other Kerry pimps to task:

The rocker wowed troops when he and actress BRITTANY MURPHY jetted off to meet and greet soldiers in Baghdad last year (JUN03), and now he's angry that those who didn't salute men and women stationed in Iraq are touring to raise cash for President GEORGE W BUSH's rival JOHN KERRY on the VOTE FOR CHANGE tour.
He states, "You see this thing now where like BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN, JON BON JOVI - like I love all these guys as musicians - they're gonna raise money for John Kerry. God bless 'em.
"But, before you go and do that, why don't these motherf**kers go over there and play for our soldiers in Iraq? I'm not vocal about my views on the war. I'm just vocal about my views on the troops."
Rock, real name BOB RITCHIE, insists rockers have no right getting involved with politics.
He adds, "I do not believe that artists or actors and people should be out there like voicing their full-blown opinions on politics because, let's face it, at the end of the day, I'm not that smart of a guy. I play rock 'n' roll, that's what I do.
"Who would you trust to make your decisions, (US Secretary of Defence) DONALD RUMSFELD or the DIXIE CHICKS?"

Why won't they play for the troops, because they're pussies:

With international terrorism on everyone's mind, even the bravest rock stars are pulling out of concerts scheduled for particularly volatile parts of the world. Madonna recently skipped out on Israel (only to return there on a spiritual quest for Rosh Hashanah) and Alicia Keys scrapped a show in Indonesia. Now Alanis Morissette is following Keys' lead.
Alanis was supposed to treat fans in Jakarta, Indonesia to a show this Sunday (October 3), but after growing security fears, she's decided to stay at home. To be fair, Morissette's fears are somewhat justified — on September 3, the U.S. issued a travel advisory urging people to stay away from Indonesia because of terrorist threats. Six days later, a suicide bomber killed nine people outside of the Australian Embassy there.

Bravest rock stars my ass! These people are brave, they went into a war zone and played for our troops. Ted Nugent, Toby Keith, and to their credit Al Franken and Ben Affleck are appearing or have appeared.

The aforementioned Springsteen "gains enormous sustenance" from Maureen Dowd and Paul "Enron" Krugman and derides the bad, bad people at FOX:

Most of his criticism, however, is aimed at TV coverage, and he reveals that as "a dedicated" New York Times reader he has gained "enormous sustenance" from columnists Maureen Dowd and Paul Krugman.The problem, according to Springsteen, is that "Fox News and the Republican right have intimidated the press into an incredible self-consciousness about appearing objective and backed them into a corner of sorts where they have ceded some of their responsibility and righteous power." In this regard, he finds The Washington Post and The New York Times admitting mistakes in their initial reporting about Iraq "very revealing." Overall, while there has been some great reporting in the press, it has fallen far short, Springsteen tells Rolling Stone founder Jann S. Wenner: "Real news is the news we need to protect our freedoms. You get tabloid news, you get blood-and-guts news, you get news shot through with a self-glorifying façade of patriotism, but people have to sift too much for the news that we need to protect our freedoms....The loss of some of the soberness and seriousness of those institutions has had a devastating effect upon people's ability to respond to the events of the day." But Springsteen mainly aims barbs at cable news, mocking the "enormous amount of Fox impersonators among what you previously thought were relatively sane media outlets across the cable channels."

Sane as in "liberal" Bruce?