Memo to former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee: Stop — just stop.
During an appearance on the Iowa radio program “Mickelson in the Morning,” last Friday (comments at the 6:00 mark), Huckabee said that he found it “trashy” for a woman to curse in the workplace.
Host Jan Mickelson asked Huckabee, a Republican flirting with a 2016 presidential run, whether the former governor had experienced any “culture shock” by traveling from Arkansas to New York to host his own show on Fox News.
“Absolutely,” Huckabee said, before explaining the differences in profanity usage between the South and the Northeast.
“In a business meeting … in Iowa, you would not have people who would just throw the f-bomb and use gratuitous profanity in a professional setting,” Huckabee said. “In New York, not only do the men do it, but the women do it!”
“This is worse than locker-room talk,” Huckabee added. “This would be considered totally inappropriate to say these things in front of a woman and for a woman to say them in a professional setting. … As we would say in the South: ‘That’s just trashy.’ ”
Huckabee included this anecdote as he spoke about a chapter in his new book God, Guns, Grits and Gravy titled “The Culture of Crude.” This is the same chapter where he denounced Beyoncé and asked if her husband, Jay-Z, was “crossing the line from husband to pimp by exploiting his wife as a sex object.”
This is the same man who in April 2014 said that men like to hunt together while women like to go to the bathroom together. The same man who in March 2014 said that women candidates should be treated “as a special treasure” and require “a sense of pedestal.” And the same man who claimed Democrats think women “cannot control their libido” without government’s help.
If Huckabee seeks 2016 aspirations, expect the “war on women” meme to easily come roaring back.
H/T Think Progress
