According to the folks over at TMZ, a video featuring Kid Rock pleading his case that he’s not a racist while going on a drunken rant about Oprah Winfrey is “truly an ugly sight to behold.”
The “clearly intoxicated” rocker/rapper was caught on video ranting at a bar in Nashville, where he also attacked The View co-host Joy Behar and, inexplicably, former talk show host Kathy Gifford.
After describing performing a sex act with Winfrey and Behar, Rock declared that people who call him racist are “f*ckin’ weird.”
As he carried on, a person behind the camera can be heard saying, “This is so racist!”
“F*ck Oprah Winfrey,” Rock, whose real name is Robert James Ritchie, continued. “F*ck Kathy Gifford.
Watch the video below, via TMZ:
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