Letter Blasts Column On Kid Rock’s Clothing Line

Kid Rock has posted an expletive-laced letter criticizing a columnist who reported that some of the musician’s “Made in Detroit” T-shirts are not made in the city or the U.S.

Comerica Park, Detroit, Mich., August 13, 2011
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Detroit Free Press Columnist Susan Tompor wrote Monday that some “Made in Detroit” T-shirts are manufactured overseas, while some adult-sized T-shirts were missing labels.

Kid Rock’s letter (follow link to view) on the “Made in Detroit” website says the column misses the company’s goals of re-instilling “a sense of Detroit pride.” The letter also says the company “NEVER laid claim” to items “actually being made in Detroit.”

The letter is signed by the popular rocker-rapper, who was born Robert Ritchie.
Kid Rock bought the clothing line several years ago.

Free Press senior managing editor Jeff Taylor says “the column was fair, balanced and accurate.”

--Associated Press