Former President Jimmy Carter defended Barack Obama’s parenting skills Wednesday, after former Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee expressed dismay that the President would let his teenage daughters listen to singer Beyoncé.
“I think the President is doing a good job,” Carter said when TMZ caught up with him to ask about Huckabee’s comments.
The former Arkansas governor criticized the Obamas in a People magazine interview published Tuesday for policing their daughters’ diets, but not the content of the music they listen to.
“I don’t understand how on one hand they can be such doting parents and so careful about the intake of everything – how much broccoli they eat and where they go to school and making sure they’re kind of sheltered and shielded from so many things – and yet they don’t see anything that might not be suitable for either a preteen or a teen in some of the lyrical content and choreography of Beyoncé,” Huckabee said.
He also described the “Drunk In Love” singer as a friend of the White House. In Huckabee’s new book, “God, Guns, Grits and Gravy,” he calls Beyoncé’s lyrics “obnoxious and toxic mental poison” and says her dance moves are “best left for the privacy of her bedroom.”
While he didn’t express an opinion on Beyoncé, Carter did tell TMZ that he doesn’t “agree with much of what Mike Huckabee says.”
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They’re not little girls anymore. Shielding them from the real world is not good parenting.
And FWIW, my parents never censored a damn thing I listened to either, and I was listening to Frank Zappa when I was 13.
And who the phuck cares what Mike Huckabee has to say anyway. How does what he thinks matter. And why does TPM care??
And Huck’s good buddy pedophile Ted Nugent is all sweetness and light. Of course, the guy only plays one song, but I think that the ‘Cat’ in ‘Cat Scratch Fever’ means something other than what the Huckster thinks it does.
Our experiences shape are opinions. What we have seen is what we use to form our opinions on all things in life. How many folks think Huckabee has seen a dance move more provocative than a Polka in his life? His remarks aren’t valuable just because it is he that made them. They only have value if they are driven by school of hard knocks experience. And the Huckster does not have any of that. besides…he is going to be critical. It doesn’t matter what Obama does or doesn’t do. Huck is going to bitch.
Jimmy C. doesn’t, at any rate—he kind of made a point of that.