Multiplatinum artist Kid Rock slammed television icon Oprah Winfrey on Saturday and called her a “fraud” after Winfrey endorsed the Pennsylvania Senate campaign of Democrat John Fetterman over his Republican opponent, Dr. Mehmet Oz, whom Winfrey has known and worked with for many years.
“Oprah helped Dr. Oz along with his profession,” Kid Rock tweeted Saturday in a post that was retweeted over 10,000 times. “I assume because she vetted him and located him to be a beautiful person. Now she is against him. Oprah is a fraud. -Kid Rock.”
Winfrey, a Democrat, announced on Thursday that she is supporting Fetterman’s Senate campaign despite her long relationship with Oz.
Oz first got here to prominence as a health expert on “The Oprah Winfrey Show” before he got his own talk show in 2009, which was produced by Winfrey’s company Harpo. His show led to January.
“I’ll inform you all this, if I lived in Pennsylvania, I’d have already forged my vote for John Fetterman for a lot of reasons,” Winfrey said during a virtual conversation with community leaders.
Fetterman’s campaign said Winfrey’s support for the Democrat over Oz “speaks volumes.”
“Oprah is widely thought to be the one who helped launch Dr. Oz’s profession, and knows him well,” the campaign said.
Kid Rock, born Robert Ritchie, has been a vocal critic of Winfrey’s up to now, including an on-stage rant at his honky-tonk in downtown Nashville, where he told the gang “f*** Oprah Winfrey” and “f*** Joy Behar.”
“A drunk man’s words are a sober man’s thoughts, I own what I said,” Kid Rock told Fox News’ Tucker Carlson on an episode of Tucker Carlson Originals on Fox Nation in June.
Representatives for Winfrey didn’t immediately reply to a request for comment from Fox News Digital.
“Doctor Oz loves Oprah and respects the undeniable fact that they’ve different politics,” Rachel Tripp, senior communications adviser for the Oz campaign, told Fox News Digital in an emailed statement. “He believes we want more balance and fewer extremism in Washington.”
Oz and Fetterman are currently locked in a decent Senate race within the Keystone State that a recent poll shows Oz leads by a margin of 1 percentage point.
The hotly contested Senate race could ultimately determine which party will control the Senate after Tuesday’s midterm election.