Musician and outspoken conservative Kid Rock has labelled the mainstream media as “public enemy number one” in the aftermath of conservative activist Charlie Kirk’s shocking murder.
In an interview with Fox News’ Jesse Watters, Rock argued that inflammatory rhetoric from outlets like The New York Times and other “nut houses” has fueled dangerous narratives.
“I’ve said it and I’ll say it again… The mainstream media is the fricking public enemy number one right now,” he declared, further noting that repeated labels of “racist” and “Nazi” directed at conservatives like himself and Kirk incite unstable individuals to violence.
? NEW: Kid Rock says the Mainstream Media is “PUBLIC ENEMY NUMBER ONE” ?@KidRock: “Once people start echoing those lies, reading dumb articles, they say, ‘He’s a racist, he’s a Nazi.’ That builds and builds. You’ve got these nut-house kids who sit around watching occult… pic.twitter.com/mBYrTSwcEw
— Jesse Watters (@JesseBWatters) September 16, 2025
Drawing from personal experience, Rock noted, “They’ve called me a racist Nazi for years now… Go look up the few facts about my life.”
He described how such echoes build up, influencing “nut house kids” who spend their time “playing video games, watching these occult movies that are all over our streaming services” instead of engaging in productive activities.
These individuals, he said, end up thinking, “I’m going to go kill a Nazi, I’ma go kill a racist,” leading to tragic outcomes like Kirk’s death.
Rock, a longtime Trump supporter, warned that the media is “incentivizing these loner kids to take shots so that they can be heroes.”
He criticized the cycle where, after violence, calls for unity quickly dissolve into more divisive language, with conservatives again branded as “fascists.”
Shifting to a broader message, Rock emphasized restraint but issued a stark warning to those celebrating Kirk’s death or vandalizing vigils: “You’re gonna keep it up, you’re gonna run into the wrong people.”
“It’s not gonna be pretty. It’s gonna be very ugly, terrible,” he further urged.
The musician stressed the need for dialogue, saying, “We gotta start listening to each other and respect one another,” while acknowledging extremists exist on both sides but pointing to the left’s “echo chamber” as particularly problematic.
Rock highlighted the need for de-escalation while holding the media accountable for escalating rhetoric.
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Commies need to keep doing what they’re doing. The world sees them now for who they truly are.
Just saw that Kash pajeet said the dna found on charlie matches the ‘shooter’. An interesting fact about Kash, his girlfriend changed her name and was originally raised in israel and was a high ranking member of intelligence in the idf, yunno, the one he leaves in texas while he is doing his sugar daddy on his boozed up jet at your expense to go to las vegas. Go figure! So many coincidences. Its funny because the rhetoric out of the trumpstein administration is to destroy lefties all cheered on by the righties but what the righties have not thought of is that same rubbish that they will bring in can be used to target them too. Thats the disadvantage of being on the right or the left, its portrayed for your safety but in fact its tyranny to restrict your rights and although you might not see it today, you will see it eventually, sadly when it is too late.
Kris is wrong, It IS “ALL the Left”. How do we know? Because they sure as hell arn’t policing their own now are they?