Gene Simmons Wins Argument with HuffPo Host over Speaking '[expletive] English'

Breitbart's Big Hollywood ^ | August 15, 2014 | Tony Lee

[2ndDivisionVet]

(VIDEO-AT-LINK)

This week, KISS rocker Gene Simmons not only embraced assimilation and the importance of English for immigrants to succeed, he gave a textbook example of how to successfully--and forcefully--do so on hostile turf.

He did so with no apologies--and plenty of compassion.

In an entertaining interview on HuffPostLive, Simmons said he was "given all the advantages of native-born children" after coming to the country when he was eight years of age, which he said was "astonishing" compared to other nations.

Why? Because he learned "[expletive] English" and embraced America's melting pot instead of separatism (salad bowl).

"I'm actually saying the thing that needs to be said because the politically correct climate is bulls**t," Simmons said. "You don't want to upset anybody by saying, 'Learn to speak [expletive] English.' So, as an immigrant, I'm telling you: Learn to speak [expletive] English. It is the key that will unlock the keys to the kingdom. If you make the effort, then all the possibilities of this culture will open up for you and give you all the rewards that I've gotten.

He said immigrants must "agree to one culture that we can all communicate with and then go off and speak Swahili and Farsi and whatever you want to talk.”

“In America I’ve learned you have an inferred fiduciary duty to learn how to speak English,” he said. “Get rid of your accent. I did. Be a legal immigrant. I’m a legal immigrant. Come to the country, just buckle your knees a little bit, make the effort to learn the culture, assimilate to the point that you can, you are all proud of who you are and where you come from... great, whatever you are proud of, just tip your hat to America. which is the melting pot that makes it all possible."(continued)

[cloudmountain]

He also took a lie detector on live radio which proved he had never cheated on his woman.

LOL. Good one.

[dayglored]

> His aversion to drugs and alcohol was a personal decision he made out of respect for his mother, who survived a concentration camp during World War II. “Our entire family was killed off in the gas chambers of Nazi Germany. There is nothing that I would do ever to break my mother’s heart.”

Wow, my respect for Mr. Simmons just went up yet another notch. A good man.

Also a very good bassist.

[Tucker39]

That’s what I hoped it meant. I asked a question; I got Heinz 57 answers.....some of them snotty.

[Mathews]

For real. The host was as stunned as his girlfriend was. I believe it was a criminologist with LAPD who administered the test.

[Mathews]

For real. The host was as stunned as his girlfriend was. I believe it was a criminologist with LAPD who administered the test.

[cloudmountain]

Amazing.