Kid Iraq

Gregg Easterbrook castigates Kid Rock for wearing an American flag poncho during his performance at the Super Bowl halftime show:

American Forces Network beamed the Super Bowl around the world to the dozens of distant nations where men and women of the U.S. military have gone to defend the kind of freedom that allows people like Kid Rock to become rich by making loud, unintelligible noises. Soldiers watching the game in the middle of the night in Baghdad or at the Bagram fire base in Afghanistan or at a hundred other places across the globe where Americans risk their lives to defend liberty--soldiers watching the game with one ear cocked toward the perimeter for sounds of the approach of the freedom-hating fanatics they have sworn to stop--had to behold the American flag being treated disrespectfully by a punk performer at the Super Bowl.

Playing the super-patriot, Easterbrook appears to forget that Mr. Rock performed for American troops in Iraq and Kuwait last year. Has Mr. Easterbrook traveled to Iraq or Afghanistan to entertain the troops with readings from his ill-concieved diatribes against non-Christian studio executives and rape victims who don't say the secret word?