FOXNews.com: CNBC host asks for 'Mexican music' to be played during Ted Cruz segment

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CNBC host asks for 'Mexican music' to be played during Ted Cruz segment Oct 23rd 2013, 14:00 Published October 23, 2013 FoxNews.com This image from Senate video show Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, speaking on the Senate floor at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Sept. 24, 2013.AP CNBC reporter Steve Liesman, while on air Tuesday as part of a roundtable, asked for some "Mexican music" to be played during a segment that blamed Republican Sen. Ted Cruz for September's jobs numbers.  The off-color comment was made shortly before the report was released.  "We're going to call this the Sen. Ted Cruz jobs report," Liesman said. During his comments, the financial news network aired a picture of the freshman Texas Republican, which prompted Liesman to ask, "Can we get some music to go along with that? Some Mexican music maybe?" Racial stereotypes aside, the comment was also inaccurate. Cruz's father is of Cuban decent, not Mexican. And Cruz was born in Canada.  Still, the comments have not been publicly addressed by CNBC. CNBC's media relations office told FoxNews.com it would have a statement Wednesday morning, but has not provided one yet.  Calls to Cruz's office were not immediately returned. Cruz has recently been caught in the crossfire over the partial government shutdown and his fight against ObamaCare. Cruz put himself in the national spotlight last month after staging a 21-hour quasi-filibuster in the Senate linked to defunding ObamaCare. Democrats tried to blame him for less-than-spectacular jobs numbers in September.  On Saturday, Cruz said that the GOP lost the budget battle because some in the Republican Party turned on others.

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