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Kid Rock under fire after using NSFW insult against Joy Behar while speaking on “Fox and Friends” Nashville Tennessean

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Last year, it was Joy Behar. Now, the ever-polarizing Kid Rock is going after pop superstar Taylor Swift in a crude, misogynistic tweet that questions the singer’s motivations for getting political.

“Taylor Swift wants to be a democrat because she wants to be in movies….period,” the 48-year-old Nashville resident tweeted Friday.

“And it looks like she will suck the door knob off Hollyweird to get there. Oldest move in the book. Good luck girl.”

The tweet is signed by Rock — born Robert Ritchie — and is one of just a handful he’s personally sent all year.

Rock’s tweet comes in the wake of a rare interview Swift granted with Vogue that was published Thursday. In it, the 29-year-old talks about her decision to speak out on LGBTQ rights, sexism in entertainment and her $113,000 donation to the Tennessee Equality Project. 

“They don’t call it ‘Slate of Hate’ for nothing,” Swift said, referencing several bills in the 2019 state legislature that received backlash from community leaders. 

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Rock’s tweet immediately made waves Friday morning, earning more than 2,000 responses in its first hour.

Among those criticizing Rock’s tweet was his former collaborator Sheryl Crow, who tweeted in response, “Spread love. Not hate. End of subject.”

Last year, he was removed from his post as Grand Marshal of Nashville’s Christmas parade after calling “The View” co-host Joy Behar a ‘b****’ on a Fox News broadcast.

Last year, Swift broke her political silence to voice her support for Phil Bredesen, Tennessee’s Democratic candidate for Senate, and denounce his Republican opponent, Marsha Blackburn. 

Rock is now among the music stars with his own bar on Nashville’s Lower Broadway: Kid Rock’s Big Ass Honky Tonk Rock N’ Roll Steakhouse opened last October.

In January, a controversial sign for the business — featuring a guitar shaped like a woman’s buttocks — was reluctantly approved by the city.

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