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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsKISS frontman Gene Simmons delivers briefing at Pentagon that has not seen a spokesperson in year
https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/16/media/gene-simmons-pentagon-briefing/index.htmlAs the frontman of KISS, Gene Simmons occupies rarefied air a rock star who entertains arenas filled with adoring fans. On Thursday, Simmons joined another exclusive club, conducting only the second on-camera press briefing at the Department of Defense in the last year.
The only other person to stand at the Pentagon Briefing Room podium over the past year? The movie star Gerard Butler, who was there last October to promote a new movie.
It's just the latest sign of the Trump administration's ongoing marginalization of the press briefing, long a conduit through which the president and the cabinet have communicated policies and priorities to the news media and the public.
Simmons was on hand Thursday to address Department of Defense personnel and meet with outreach officials as part of a Pentagon initiative to engage the broader public with regards to military activities. He also paid a visit to the White House later in the day.
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KISS frontman Gene Simmons delivers briefing at Pentagon that has not seen a spokesperson in year (Original Post)
PupCamo
May 2019
OP
In their heyday, KISS consistently sold out the big arenas like Madison Square garden.
earthshine
May 2019
#4
Mosby
(16,417 posts)1. He was never a rock star.
At best KISS was a novelty act.
earthshine
(1,642 posts)4. In their heyday, KISS consistently sold out the big arenas like Madison Square garden.
I was there in the late 70s.
Kingofalldems
(38,511 posts)5. Exactly.
Polybius
(15,525 posts)8. At the time, many seasoned rocker fans never accepted KISS
Younger ones like me loved him. KISS Destroyer was my first album at 6 years old.
Mike Nelson
(9,985 posts)2. Heard he was...
a Republican from back in the GW Bush days...
Initech
(100,145 posts)3. Just when you think things can't get any weirder...
Hotler
(11,476 posts)6. Haven forbid we have a well educated scholar or historian speak.
Marie Marie
(9,999 posts)7. Guess Kanye was busy???
oasis
(49,484 posts)9. Gene Simmons can KISS my ass.
Ilsa
(61,712 posts)10. Reminds me of a scene in Chernobyl, where a female physicist
tries to tell a regional politician that a disaster is looming. He assures her that The Party has told him that there is no problem at Chernobyl.
She replies, "I'm a nuclear physicist. You used to sell shoes."
He says, "and look at me now. Power to the workers."
Unqualified idjits are running things and don't know a disaster when they create it. I'm tired of the disdain for intellect and education.
Raine
(30,541 posts)11. Gene Simmons appeared on The Apprentice so I guess that qualifies
him to do Pentagon briefings.
lindysalsagal
(20,793 posts)12. Taking another move from Kim Jon Un's celebrity-suckup playbook.
Shame on simmons.
lindysalsagal
(20,793 posts)13. The new right-wing evangelical xtian poster boy: How proud they must be
All together, now: "Jesus Loves Me This I Know"
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Vinca
(50,328 posts)14. Maybe he is the new spokesperson.