“He’s not performing,” a spokesman for the Presidential Inauguration Committee confirmed for WorldNetDaily.com.

On the other hand, First Daughter Barbara Bush is reportedly “still working on Kid Rock.”

Doesn’t look like this one is over yet…although with Drudge now making it the giganta-headline, Barbara may have to yield.

I’m just glad we will be spared the sight of this offensive spectacle:

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Update: Two of my blog faves, Bill at INDC Journal and Jeff G. at Protein Wisdom don’t have a problem with Kid Rock ripping a hole in an American flag, wearing it as a poncho, tearing it off, and hurling it over his head. Doesn’t take a prude to find it tasteless, though. The 1.6 million members of the Veterans of Foreign Wars and Sen. Zell Miller objected, too.

A flag on a trucker hat would have been fine. Painting his torso in red, white, and blue stripes would have been okay. Waving an unmutilated flag on stage would have been lovely. But an American flag poncho? Yeeccchh.

For a different take–we’re fair and balanced!–read this post from the always insightful Juliette Ochieng at Baldilocks.

And, in case you needed a refresher on flag etiquette, here are the rules and regs. This is Section 8D on respect for the flag:

Sec. 8. � Respect for flag

No disrespect should be shown to the flag of the United States of America; the flag should not be dipped to any person or thing. Regimental colors, State flags, and organization or institutional flags are to be dipped as a mark of honor.

1. The flag should never be displayed with the union down, except as a signal of dire distress in instances of extreme danger to life or property.

2. The flag should never touch anything beneath it, such as the ground, the floor, water, or merchandise.

3. The flag should never be carried flat or horizontally, but always aloft and free.

4. The flag should never be used as wearing apparel, bedding, or drapery. It should never be festooned, drawn back, nor up, in folds, but always allowed to fall free. Bunting of blue, white, and red, always arranged with the blue above, the white in the middle, and the red below, should be used for covering a speaker’s desk, draping the front of the platform, and for decoration in general.

5. The flag should never be fastened, displayed, used, or stored in such a manner as to permit it to be easily torn, soiled, or damaged in any way.

6. The flag should never be used as a covering for a ceiling.

7. The flag should never have placed upon it, nor on any part of it, nor attached to it any mark, insignia, letter, word, figure, design, picture, or drawing of any nature.

8. The flag should never be used as a receptacle for receiving, holding, carrying, or delivering anything.

9. The flag should never be used for advertising purposes in any manner whatsoever. It should not be embroidered on such articles as cushions or handkerchiefs and the like, printed or otherwise impressed on paper napkins or boxes or anything that is designed for temporary use and discard. Advertising signs should not be fastened to a staff or halyard from which the flag is flown.

10. No part of the flag should ever be used as a costume or athletic uniform. However, a flag patch may be affixed to the uniform of military personnel, firemen, policemen, and members of patriotic organizations. The flag represents a living country and is itself considered a living thing. Therefore, the lapel flag pin being a replica, should be worn on the left lapel near the heart.

11. The flag, when it is in such condition that it is no longer a fitting emblem for display, should be destroyed in a dignified way, preferably by burning.