Hometown hero replaces Kid Rock
A community hero stepped into the role as grand marshal for the Nashville Christmas Parade as a last-minute replacement Saturday for Kid Rock, who got the boot for his profane comments on live TV. James Shaw Jr. hopped into a horsedrawn carriage Saturday to lead the parade, news outlets reported. Kid Rock was nowhere to be seen as the parade started along its route, according to The Tennessean.
Shaw was hailed as a hero for wrestling a gun away from the shooter during a Nashville Waffle House shooting in April that killed four people and injured four others. On Saturday, Shaw was joined in the carriage by relatives of Akilah Dasilva, a musician who was killed in the shooting. Kid Rock posted on Instagram that his parade “had been rained on” and he instead would spend the day with his family. “Sending well wishes for a break in the rain and a successful parade,” he wrote. “I love Nashville and the people she holds. But remember ... Rock ’n’ Roll never forgets!”
Kid Rock was ousted after using an expletive to describe television personality Joy Behar during an interview Friday on “Fox & Friends.”
He did the interview from his bar in Nashville, where the musician swigged bourbon while tending bar on camera and said he had been drink,ing coffee and Irish cream liqueur. “God forbid you say something a little wrong; you’re racist, homophobic, Islamophobic, this that and the other. People need to calm down, get a little less politically correct,” Kid Rock said. “And I would say, you know, love everybody. Except, I’d say screw that Joy Behar (expletive).” Multiple “Fox & Friends” personalities apologized on air afterward. Kid Rock apologized for the language but “not the sentiment.” Behar, a host on “The View,” is a critic of President Donald Trump. Kid Rock is a Trump supporter. Organizers announced Friday evening that Kid Rock no longer would be in the parade.