Self-professed statutory rapist and occasional musician Robert James “Kid Rock” Ritchie on Friday made clear he was fed up with the existence of Democratic Michigan US Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed, with Ritchie decrying the naturally-born US citizen and Columbia Medical School-educated epidemiologist as “assimilated” as much as soon-to-be-executed traitor Nidal Hassan and the 19 Al-Qaeda terrorists who hijacked four jetliners on September 11, 2001. “I know he looks assimilated… I would be very careful. Guess who else assimilated? The Fort Hood shooter. Guess who else assimilated? Pilots that flew airplanes into our World Trade Centers!” said Ritchie, a Northern Michigan native who now lives in Tennessee where he writes songs about his home region where they sang songs about Alabama, the track sampled from a song about London.

The outburst raises the important question of when will top Trump Administration public health official Mehmet Oz denounce Ritchie’s comments? Oz, who like El-Sayed is a Muslim physician but unlike the native Michigander, was born outside the US and even served in the Turkish military before being “assimilated” enough to star in a daytime broadcast TV talk show about “wellness.” By Ritchie’s own standards that would make Oz an even more dangerous threat to Americans than El-Sayed and yet, just like Ritchie, Oz is permitted to be in the same room as the President of the United States on a regular basis, standing close enough to stab him in the neck with a syringe full of fentanyl before Secret Service agents could even unholster their guns. Yet Oz would never imagine doing such a thing and to even suggest it is offensive to him and Muslim-Americans.

Does Kid Rock need to suggest it before Oz will say something about his bigotry?