After a week of public flogging for his attacks on Beyoncé, whose music he called “toxic mental poison,” former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee’s (R) next stop was “The View,” where the pop-star’s former group mate called him out on his remarks.
Referencing one of music’s best-known couples Beyoncé and Jay-Z by their last name, former Destiny’s Child member Michelle Williams told the Republican, “I’m not the Carter spokesperson, but to hear some of those comments that you said I thought were very, very, very low.”
Huckabee stressed that he thought Beyoncé had a “great set of pipes” but should not produce songs he felt were too sexual for a mass audience. He directed the “View” hosts to read his book, “Guns, God, Grits and Gravy.”
“I’ve said to people, read it and if you’re still offended, so be it,” the former governor said.
In his book, Huckabee suggested Jay-Z had gone “from husband to pimp by exploiting his wife as a sex object.”
Huckabee’s take on Beyoncé gained more attention when Huckabee criticized the President for letting his teenage daughters listen to the pop-star’s music. This week on “The Daily Show,” Huckabee said that letting children listen to Beyoncé is the equivalent of buying a 12-year-old girl a “stripper pole.”
Huckabee has been called a hypocrite by “The Daily Show” host Jon Stewart and others for condemning supposedly bawdy music when the ex-governor played a lewd song with Ted Nugent on national television during a broadcast of his Fox News show “Huckabee.”
Huckabee later said Nugent changed the lewd lyrics for the performance, but video of the show proved that to be false.
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