Screenshot via Turning Point USA<\/p>\n
Kid Rock\u2019s alternative Super Bowl halftime show on Sunday night resulted in increased scrutiny surrounding some of the rock star\u2019s past comments, as many on the MAGA right called Bad Bunny\u2019s performance immoral and un-American while lauding Kid Rock\u2019s appearance<\/a> at the Turning Point USA event.<\/p>\n Many users online pointed to a 2001 song Kid Rock released called \u201cCool, Daddy Cool.\u201d In the song, Kid Rock, whose real name is Robert James Ritchie, sings about liking underage girls. One of the lyrics in the song goes, \u201cYoung ladies, young ladies, I like \u2019em underage, see. Some say that\u2019s statutory (But I say it\u2019s mandatory).\u201d<\/p>\n Kid Rock\u2019s Saturday Night Live appearance from April of 2001 also went viral ahead of his Sunday show, as he said on the episode that Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen \u201cwere old enough to pursue\u201d \u2013 despite the famous twins being 14 at the time.<\/p>\n During the regular Weekend Update skit on SNL, Kid Rock joked, \u201cWhy is every guy in America waiting for these chicks to turn 18? I mean, you know what I\u2019m saying? If there\u2019s grass on the field, play ball!\u201d<\/p>\n Kid Rock appeared on Laura Ingraham\u2019s Fox News show on Monday night and took a victory lap of sorts, after being widely praised for his performance by the right all day. Fox\u2019s Emily Compagno said<\/a> earlier in the day that the alternative halftime show had her \u201cmoved to tears.\u201d<\/p>\n Kid Rock\u2019s critics, however, had a very different take. Zeteo\u2019s Mehdi Hasan shared the rocker\u2019s comments on SNL and wrote, \u201cThis is their hero. This is who brought Megyn Kelly to tears and who RFK was hanging out with.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s hilarious that the conservative alternative to Bad Bunny was Kid Rock rapping about porno, meth, crack heads, gang violence & hookers. These are the lyrics to the first song he performed,\u201d added political commentator and hip hop artist An0maly.<\/p>\n Below are some additional reactions:<\/p>\n __<\/p>\n The post Kid Rock\u2019s Past Comments About Underage Girls Go Viral As MAGA Piles on Praise<\/a> first appeared on Mediaite<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Screenshot via Turning Point USA Kid Rock\u2019s alternative Super Bowl halftime show on Sunday night resulted in increased…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":276921,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[156,58299,61815,155836,155835,157,111,139,69,155002,99760],"class_list":{"0":"post-276920","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-kid-rock","10":"tag-maga","11":"tag-mary-kate-and-ashley-olsen","12":"tag-mehdi-hasan","13":"tag-music","14":"tag-new-zealand","15":"tag-newzealand","16":"tag-nz","17":"tag-super-bowl-halftime-show","18":"tag-turning-point-usa"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=276920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276920\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/276921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}