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For some reason which I cannot begin to understand, a man has tried to sue the world’s worst living person, Kid Rock, not for being an incredibly misogynistic bastard, for tarnishing America’s image abroad, or even simply being a waste of precious oxygen.  No, this poor fool has attempted, and failed, to sue Mr. Rock for [shaking my head] stealing his song.

You read right – Troy Landry of Louisiana “sued Atlantic Recording Corp., Kid Rock (whose real name is Robert Ritchie) and others in 2004, claiming an 8-second portion of Kid Rock’s ‘Somebody’s Gotta Feel This,’ featured in a beer commercial, was ’strikingly or substantially similar’ to songs Landry released on a 1994 record.”  Judge Mary Ann Vial Lemmon ruled in favor of the defendant today.

No doubt the beer referenced was Coors, which is already on my Axis of Evil, not only for choosing Mr. Rock as their spokesbastard, but for referring to him as “an American hero” in a written response to my anti-Rock manifesto of 2002.

Still, I cannot understand why any self-respecting songwriter would debase himself by publicizing a plausible connection between his own work and that of such a feculent ass clown as Kid Rock.  It would be as if the most offensive hard core pornographic motion picture of all time contained amongst the filth some plot element that you had once thought of yourself.  Suing would only draw a permanent link between your name and the aforementioned smut.

And to lose in the end?  I pity you, Mr. Landry.

Filed under: Axis of Evil, Rantings on December 6th, 2007