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GENE SIMMONS IS THE KILROY OF THE ROCK WORLD: It's hard to backpedal when your foot is in your mouth, discovers Gene Simmons, who's found some intemperate remakrs about muslims have left him badly exposed; now, he's trying to find a crawl hole out, by suggesting that he was only talking about "extremists" when he said this last week:

"This is a vile culture and if you think for a second that it's willing to just live in the sands of God's armpit you've got another thing coming. They want to come and live right where you live and they think that you're evil."

Hmm. Now, that sounds to us a little like he's condemning pretty much the whole of the Islamic world to us, but who knows? Maybe we should give him the benefit of the doubt. But if Bush offers him the Presidency of Iraq, we'll know there's something wrong.