>>FOX HAS PERMANENTLY BANNED GENE SIMMONS, AND THAT WAS AFTER
HE WAS IN NEW YORK DOING INTERVIEWS ON VARIOUS SHOWS FOR
FOX IN ORDER TO PROMOTE HIS BOOK.
HE MADE HEADLINES EARLIER
THIS WEEK WHEN HE TALKED ABOUT HOW WOMEN CAN REALLY WIELD THEIR
POWER IF THEY PUT SOME LIPSTICK ON, HIS QUOTE ALSO WAS TO LIFT,
SEPARATE, AND POINT THEM IN THE GENERAL DIRECTION OF MEN,
REFERRING TO BREASTS -- YOU KNOW IF WOMEN ARE LOOKING FOR A
PROMOTION OR SOME POWER IN LIFE.
OF COURSE HE OFFENDED SOME
PEOPLE, BUT THAT DIDN'T STOP FOX FROM INVITING HIM ON --
>>RIGHT AFTER THAT, THINGS STARTED TO FALL APART --
>>THAT IS WHERE THINGS STARTED TO GET CRAZY.
THERE WAS A VIDEO
SHARED BY ONE OF THE FOX HOSTS THAT KIND OF ILLUSTRATED THE
BEGINNING OF HIM LOSING HIS MIND AND DOING THINGS THAT ENDED UP
GETTING HIM BANNED, HERE'S THE BEGINNING, TAKE A LOOK.
>>GENE, IN ADDITION TO POWER WOULD YOU LIKE TO DO
PRECIPITATION?
>>GENE SIMMONS DOING WHETHER.
>>GENE IS NOW THE WEATHER MACHINE.
>>WE ARE MAXIMIZING GENE SIMMONS'S POTENTIAL.
>>IF YOU ARE IN PROVO, WHY AREN'T YOU, IT'S 32∞F AS OPPOSED
TO CELSIUS.
ALBUQUERQUE, WHICH IS DIFFICULT TO SPELL BUT I KNOW
THAT BECAUSE I USED TO BE A SIXTH GRADE TEACHER, IS IT 46∞
--
>>WHAT A HAM.
HE DOESN'T NEED TO HAVE HIS FACE PAINTED TO BE
ENTERTAINING.
I LOVE WHEN SOMEONE IN AN INTERVIEW JUST
GETS OUT OF HIS CHAIR.
>>COULDN'T HAPPEN IN THE OLD DAYS WITH WIRED MICROPHONES.
>>THIS IS WHERE THINGS STARTED TO GET CRAZY, BECAUSE --
>>SO FAR IT'S OKAY.
>>THERE'S
NOTHING WRONG WITH THAT BUT THAT WAS KIND OF THE BEGINNING.
>>NOT THAT HARD TO SPELL ALBUQUERQUE BY THE WAY.
>>THEN ALL OF A SUDDEN HE GOES INTO A STAFF MEETING, BARGES
INCOME INTERRUPTS IT, AND STARTS ANTAGONIZING THE WOMEN IN THE
ROOM.
HE WAS QUOTED AS SAYING --
>>HE WAS WEARING A VELVET SHIRT, WE SAW IT RIGHT THERE.
>>GOOD POINT.
THIS CHECKS OUT.
>>THEN --
>>THIS IS LIKE A LOT OF WEIRD STUFF IS HAPPENING IN THE STORY,
GOOD JOB OF THE WRITER OF THIS ARTICLE TO USE THE WORD
"BOPPED."
THIS IS A STORY IN THE ERA OF SEXUAL HARASSMENT CLAIMS
WHERE HE USED THE TERM "BOPPED HIM ON THE HEAD WITH A BOOK."
>>THAT'S WHAT HAPPENED.
>>GENE SIMMONS IS A HUGE FRAUD.
I DON'T MEAN TALENT-WISE, HE
MAY BE TALENTED, KISS ISN'T MY BAG, EVERYONE HAS THEIR OWN
TASTE IN MUSIC -- BUT HE IS THREATENED AND WANTS TO PROVE TO
EVERYONE HOW SMART HE IS.
THERE IS AN INTERVIEW WITH TERRY GROSS
ON NPR MAYBE FOUR OR FIVE YEARS AGO, AND HIS BEHAVIOR WAS SO
OFFENSIVE -- I DON'T SAY OFFENSIVE, LIKE, I DON'T MIND
WHEN PEOPLE GET OFFENSIVE, YOU DON'T HAVE A RIGHT NOT TO BE
OFFENDED IN THIS COUNTRY, THERE ARE SERIOUS ISSUES WE ARE
DEALING WITH NOW BUT GETTING OFFENDED I DON'T THINK IS ONE OF
THEM -- I DOES MEAN OFFENSIVE TO THE SOUL.
NOT LIKE WE SHOULD
REPRIMAND HIM, JUST, LIKE, WHO IS THIS GUY?
>>WHAT DID HE SAY?
>>HE KEPT USING BIG WORDS, PROBABLY SOME OF THEM RIGHT BUT
SOME OF THEM WRONG, IN A WAY THAT WAS LIKE, LOOK AT ME.
YOU
SAW IT THERE, I WAS A FORMER SIXTH-GRADE TEACHER.
HE THINKS
HE'S SMARTER THAN ANYBODY ELSE, BUT HE'S DUMB, HE IS DUMB AS A
POST AND IS CONSTANTLY TRYING TO SHOW OFF HOW BRIGHT HE IS, HOW
HE IS YOUR INTELLECTUAL EQUIVALENT.
WHEREAS NOBODY
CARES, I DON'T GO AROUND INTO ROOMS, NONE OF US DO, THINKING
OH BOY, I HOPE PEOPLE HERE THINK I AM THERE INTELLECTUAL
EQUIVALENT.
BUT HE WANTS TO PROVE SOMETHING, HE HAS NO SENSE
OF HUMOR, NONE.
HIS WHOLE SENSE OF HUMOR IS, AHH, OUTRAGEOUS,
YOU DIDN'T THINK I WOULD DO THIS BUT I DID.
PUT MY HAND RIGHT
THERE.
I JUST KEPT THINKING, TOTAL FRAUD.
MY DAD, GOD REST
HIS SOUL, USED TO HAVE A GREAT EXPRESSION, HE WOULD ANALYZE ANY
STORY THAT INVOLVED A JEWISH PERSON OR ISRAEL, ANYTHING, HE
WOULD READ THE STORY AND THEN GO, HMM, GOOD FOR THE JEWS OR
BAD FOR THE JEWS?
GENE SIMMONS -- BAD FOR THE JEWS.
>>ONE PERSON QUOTED AT FOX TOLD THE DAILY BEAST THE FOLLOWING --
>>IT'S GOT TO BE BAD IF HE'S PERMANENTLY BANNED FROM FOX.
I
DON'T KNOW WHAT IS GOING ON IN HIS HEAD, HE JUST DOESN'T SEEM
LIKE A GREAT GUY TO BE AROUND.
>>LISTEN TO THE INTERVIEW SOMETIME.
AND TERRY GROSS, IF
YOU DON'T APPRECIATE TERRY GROSS, AND I HAVE SIGNIFICANT
ADMIRATION FOR HER, IT'S A THING I LIKE TO BE GOOD AT, IS DOING
INTERVIEWS, SHE IS VERY GOOD AT IT, SHE DID TURN, SHE DIDN'T
STAY FULLY COMPOSED.
AT SOME POINT SHE WAS LIKE, WHAT IS
WRONG WITH YOU?
ALSO I'M LEAVING OUT HE WAS UNBELIEVABLY SEXIST,
OUT OF CONTROL SEXIST.
I HOPE IT IS UP SOMEWHERE, IT'S WORTH
LISTENING TO JUST IN TERMS OF TERRY GROSS'S ABSOLUTE
PROFESSIONALISM AND COMPETENCE AND HIS SYMBOL TO BEHAVIOR.
>>THIS STORY, THE FACT THAT HE IS BANNED FROM FOX, IS A
SIGN OF THE TIMES, BECAUSE TWO YEARS AGO THEY JUST WOULD
HAVE OFFERED HIM THE 8 PM SLOT.