Kid Rock: Entertainers Should ‘Keep Their Mouths Shut on Politics’
Posted on August 27, 2008
-By Warner Todd Huston
Read it and weep, Dixie Chicks. Shove it Bruce Springsteen. Put a sock in it Johnny Cougar Mellencamp. Because, in a refreshing change of pace for the entertainment industry, Kid Rock is telling CMT Insider via People Magazine that entertainers should stay quiet on matters political.
How many times have you seen the uninformed blather of some goof from Hollywood, or some crank from the music industry filling your TV screen or oozing from your radio? How many low brow maestros have had your eyes rolling when they imagine themselves to have some prescient insight into matters of politics? Apparently rock singer Kid Rock is signing onto your piquancy because he has said that singers should just shut up about politics.
“I truly believe that people like myself, who are in a position of entertainers in the limelight, should keep their mouth shut on politics,” the rap-rock musician, 37, tells CMT Insider.
“Because at the end of the day,” he goes on to say, “I’m good at writing songs and singing. What I’m not educated in is the field of political science. And so for me to be sharing my views and influencing people of who I think they should be voting for … I think would be very irresponsible on my part.”
That is quite an intelligent point of view. After all, a man needs to know his limitations. For instance, I don’t talk about physics because I have absolutely no knowledge of the field. Similarly, these Hollyweird types should avoid talking about things they obviously have no idea about.
What is more pathetic than a Meryl Streep “testifying” before Congress concerning something she has no clue whatsoever about, for instance? Remember her self-assuredness about the chemical Alar on apples in the 1980s? turned out that whole thing was a scam. But she was so sure she was right… even though she had no personal knowledge upon which to base her conclusions. Revealing ignorance is not very flattering.
Naturally, these “beautiful people” spend their days being fawned over and they must grow to imagine that they are the height of human achievement, believing that they can do no wrong and that their every pronouncement should be looked upon as words from Mount Olympus.
So, it is certainly refreshing to see an entertainer admit that they have no expertise in politics. Good on Kid Rock for realizing his limitations.
(Photo Credit: Frank Micelotta/ FOX/Getty)
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“If you’re listening to a rock star in order to get your information on who to vote for, you’re a bigger moron than they are. Why are we rock stars? Because we’re morons. We sleep all day, we play music at night and very rarely do we sit around reading the Washington Journal.”
Vincent Fournier aka Alice Cooper
Wow, I actually agree with Kid Rock for once. I think that politics really don’t have a place in art. I think it cheapens art forms and makes them bitter – it takes away from the beauty aspect.
The Roman Republic had it right, “Entertainers” could not be citizens and had no or very little rights because, for one they had a profession of lying.
He is obviously a conservative…lol. Thank God for a few sane ones.