Let’s review:

Kid Rock bitch-slapped Tommy Lee backstage during the MTV Video Music Awards earlier this week, claiming the fellow ex-husband of Pamela Anderson was harassing him.

It wouldn’t have anything to do with this, of course:

“To even be in the same room it’s kinda like, I was trying to figure out why is this whatever, 45-year-old man, who’s not involved with the show, who doesn’t have an album coming out, who has nothing to promote, even sitting through this garbage,” [Kid Rock] said, according to PerezHilton.com.

Rock, on the other hand, does have a new album, Rock and Roll Jesus, due out Oct. 9.

Did the Kid stage this whole thing just to produce a little heat for his upcoming album drop? Consider that Rock was in the news a year and a half ago, over an “unauthorized” sex tape of him, some groupies and some Christian rocker.

And whaddya know, the album release info on Rock back then, in January 2006:

His 1998 album “Devil Without a Cause” went seven-times platinum, and he plans to release “Live Trucker” later this month.

Looks to me that this has-been is a repeat offender. His albums don’t sell squat nowadays, so he times phony sideshow buzz in an effort to get a tiny sales boost. Pathetic.