CNBC: Mixing racism and business...

Every so often, that hidden side rears its ugly head...

CNBC's Steve Liesman.

CNBC host Steve Liesman decided to let loose on U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz today (R-TX). Liesman said that the recent (poor) jobs report was the Texas senator/Tea Party favorite's fault. So, he launched into the segment by mocking a photo of Cruz, and then uttered a racist quip. (For the record, Liesman's request for "Mexican music" was not only racist, it was factually wrong. You see, Cruz isn't of Mexican descent. He's a Cuban-American.

Imagine what would've happened if a conservative had made an ugly comment in the vein Liesman did. That person would've been pink-slipped by the Mother Ship (NBC - a wholly owned subsidiary of the White House) and run out of town on a rail.

As a wise man once said, "Stupid is as stupid does."

We rest our case...

Speaking truth to power...

A native son sounds off...

Gene Simmons: Telling it like it really is...

Chaim Witz -- who most people know as the fire-breathing, blood-spitting, bassist of the rock group KISS -- is outspoken. To say the least.

Whether it's money, music or women, Simmons has an opinion. And he comes about each opinion through experience. You see, unlike most celebs, he doesn't talk out of his hat. Even if you disagree with his viewpoint, he at least came about it honestly (not because someone told him it was the "cool" or "expected" thing to do).

Gene Simmons' KISS persona...

Which is why the clip below is worth watching. Simmons, a native of Israel and the son of a Holocaust survivor, has some harsh words for President Barack Obama's newly voiced declaration that the Jewish state needs to return land to enemies who waged war on Israel and lost territory (which Israel has kept as a security buffer).

In the CNBC interview (below), Simmons -- a former Obama supporter -- explains why Obama's speech was reckless and unworkable.

JANE WELLS, CNBC: What do you think of President Obama’s suggestion that the borders be redrawn pre-67?

GENE SIMMONS, KISS: President Obama, I voted for an idea. What I didn’t realize what I was getting was an idealist. If you’ve never been to the moon, you can’t issue policy about the moon. You have no f—king idea what it’s like on the moon. For a president to be sitting in Washington, D.C., and saying, “Go back to your 67 borders in Israel,” how about you live there and try to defend an indefensible border nine miles wide? On one side you’ve got hundreds of millions of people who hate your guts, on the other side you’ve got the Mediterranean. Unless you control, in Israel, unless you control those Golan Heights, it’s an indefensible position. It’s a nice idea, when you grow up you find out that life isn’t the way you imagined it, and President Obama means well. I think he’s actually a good guy. He has no f—king idea what the world is like because he doesn’t have to live there.

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