Why Mike Huckabee Is Okay With Ted Nugent Making Underage Genitalia Purr

Hot on the heels of his race-shaking quasi-announcement of his pseudo-candidacy, Mike Huckabee sucked up a lot of media wind with an excerpt from his new book, God, Guns, Grits, and Gravy, in which he slammed pop superstar Beyoncé, and called her husband a pimp:

“Beyoncé is incredibly talented — gifted, in fact. She has an exceptional set of pipes and can actually sing. She is a terrific dancer — without the explicit moves best left for the privacy of her bedroom. Jay-Z is a very shrewd businessman, but I wonder: Does it occur to him that he is arguably crossing the line from husband to pimp by exploiting his wife as a sex object?”

That bit of vomit-inducing moralizing is part of a broader theme in Huckabee’s book — the clash of cultures between what he calls the “Bubble-ville” of New York, Washington, and Hollywood, and the “Bubba-land” of God, Guns, Grits, and Gravy. Huckabee’s criticism, which he extended to President Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama for allowing their children to even listen to Beyoncé, has set tongues wagging for the past week, but the obvious subtext has been all but ignored by the mainstream media.

For whatever reason, Huckabee thinks Jay-Z is a “pimp” for promoting his wife’s career, yet he doesn’t seem to have a problem with other musicians who promote female family members with even more notoriously sexualized acts. Take Billy Ray Cyrus, for example, who has wholeheartedly embraced daughter Miley’s de-Hannah Montana-ization. Now, who’s this playing bass with Billy Ray, and not calling him a pimp?

If the choice of the word “pimp” to describe Jay-Z wasn’t clear enough for you…READ MORE

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