Potential GOP presidential candidate Mike Huckabee is concerned about Michelle and Barack Obama’s relationship with pop star Beyonce and particularly its effect on their parenting skills.
In a recent interview with People magazine, Huckabee wondered why the Obamas — who are “excellent and exemplary parents in many ways” — allow their daughters Sasha and Malia to listen to Beyonce.
“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, who has sort of a regular key to the [White House] door,” Huckabee told the magazine.
He mentioned Beyonce’s lyrics and performance of “Drunk in Love” as particularly inappropriate for the teen girls.
Michelle Obama herself escorted Sasha and Malia to a 2013 Beyonce concert when the girls were ages 12 and 14, respectively.
Beyonce most recently visited the White House with her husband Jay Z and daughter Blue Ivy to celebrate and perform for Michelle’s 50th birthday.
Huckabee has also slammed the singer in his new book, “God, Guns, Grits, and Gravy,” describing her song lyrics as “obnoxious and toxic mental poison” and her dancing as “best left for the privacy of her bedroom.”
He didn’t reserve all of his criticism for Beyonce, though. Huckabee labeled Miley Cyrus’ 2013 VMA performance “disgustingly pornographic” and said of one of Rihanna’s mesh outfits, “I’ve seen dusty pickup truck windshields that were less see-through.”
But just because he dislikes a few female pop stars doesn’t mean Huckabee is equally disturbed by all of Hollywood. He admitted himself a fan of the “amazing” Jennifer Lawrence and the 2013 film “Dallas Buyers Club.”
Huckabee also praised the Duggar family from the reality show “19 Kids & Counting ” on TLC for campaigning for him in 2008.
“I’ve pointed them out as an example of something that’s wholesome and wonderful and I’ve known them since Jim Bob was in the legislature when I was governor,” explained Huckabee, adding that he is “hoping” the family will support him again should he decide to run for president come spring.
