Kelly Ribs Huck: Women Don’t Just Swear, ‘We’re Having Premarital Sex’ Before Work (VIDEO)

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When Fox News host Megyn Kelly read that her former colleague Mike Huckabee allegedly went off on “trashy” women at Fox News for cursing, she assumed he was talking about that one time she accidentally called him “Fuckabee” on-air.

“Megyn, you’re the only one who’s used that word in front of me at Fox like that,” Huckabee joked Wednesday night on “The Kelly File.”

The potential Republican presidential candidate made a splash Friday on the Des Moines-based “Mickelson in the Morning” radio show when he said he was taken aback by New Yorkers’ use of “gratuitous profanity” while he worked on his now-defunct Fox News show.

“This would be considered totally inappropriate to say these things in front of a woman,” he said. “And for a woman to say them in a professional setting — we would only assume that this is a very — as we would say in the South, that’s just trashy!”

Many who listened to that interview thought Huckabee was referring to his female Fox News colleagues. Huckabee told Kelly that the women at Fox were “lovely and delightful.”

“Well I do have some news for you before I let you go,” Kelly ribbed her former colleague. “We’re not only swearing. We’re drinking, we’re smoking, we’re having premarital sex with birth control before we go to work, and sometimes boss around a bunch of men.”

“Oh, I just don’t want to hear that,” Huckabee responded.

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  1. Avatar for JohnB JohnB says:

    I do love me some Fox-Personality-on-Fox-Personality trolling.

    Kelly’s trolling, though, makes a salient point: Whatever one may think about what behaviors are/are not “appropriate,” the fact remains that many millions of people are living their lives in these ways. Wistful nostalgia for a simpler time when gender roles were more clearly defined is not and won’t be an effective politics, and Huckabee and the GOP more generally have to acknowledge that in some way.

  2. This is part of the problem Mike, you just don’t want to hear about it. Whatever “it” is, you live in a pretend world of your own making, where you’re the master of your domain. And isn’t that the way God* said it should be? Or at least that’s what you heard.

    *God meanwhile is just shaking his head and muttering, “Puleeeze, save me from my followers.”

  3. Avatar for sjk sjk says:

    His fucking book must not be fucking selling and he’ll be back on fucking Fox in no time. Once his fucking exploratory expedition fails fucking miserably. Sorry. I’m one of those fucking New Yorkers that swears a lot

  4. Fuckabee can’t even now with his newly established gut hanging over his crotch

  5. Fucking-A. What you fucking said!

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