Huckabee Hates Beyoncé’s Sexualized Lyrics, but He Sure Likes These Libido-Charged Songs
“Mike Huckabee 2016: Get Off My Lawn” kicked into full-gear on Tuesday when the former Republican Governor of Arkansas told People that he questions the parenting skills of Barack and Michelle Obama for allowing their daughters to listen to Beyoncé.
The Obamas are such “doting” parents, Huckabee said, “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 door.”
In his book — appropriately titled God, Guns, Grits and Gravy — the ex-Fox News host decried Bey’s “obnoxious and toxic mental poison in the form of song lyrics” and said her choreography is “best left for the privacy of her bedroom.”
Oddly enough, Huckabee doesn’t seem to have a problem with sexually-charged music when it comes from burly conservative dudes in camo hunting vests or aged rockers in leather pants.
For instance, Huckabee once performed “Cat Scratch Fever” with Ted Nugent. Some lyrics from this not-so-subtle song about wanting to bang everything in sight:
Well, the first time that I got it I was just ten years old / I got it from some kitty next door / An’ I went to see the doctor and he gave me the cure / I think I got it some more / […] / Well, I make the pussy purr with the stroke of my hand / They know they gettin’ it from me / They know just where to go when they need their lovin’ man / They know I’m doin’ it for free.
The best part is watching Huck goofily smile to his wholesome (ages 65+) audience while Nugent air-humps and solos to a song about having lots of sex (~5:20 into video):
And here’s another one. Huckabee performing “Pour Some Sugar on Me” with ’80s rockers Def Leppard. Some choice lyrics from this song about, yup, sexy fun bedroom time:
You gotta squeeze a little, squeeze a little / Tease a little more / Easy operator come a knockin’ on my door / Sometime, anytime, sugar me sweet / Little miss innocent sugar me, yeah, yeah / Give a little more / I’m hot, sticky sweet / From my head to my feet, yeah / […] / You got the peaches, I got the cream / Sweet to taste, saccharine / ’cause I’m hot, say what, sticky sweet / From my head, my head, to my feet.
The video:
Huckabee has also performed “Jailhouse Rock” in his time. Despite being a rock ‘n’ roll standard, it’s actually a tongue-in-cheek ditty about dudes foolin’ around in jail (“Number 43 said to number 3 / ‘You’re the cutest jailbird I ever did see / I sure would be delighted with your company / Come on and do the Jailhouse Rock with me”).
Which brings this story back full circle to how Huckabee is the modern political version of 1950s parents who regularly visited their fainting couches at the sight of Presley’s gyrations.
The silver lining here? At least he doesn’t want censorship: “Government shouldn’t try to dictate what art looks like or what it portrays. Last thing we want is government screwing it up, which is what they would do.”
[Image via Fox News/screenshot]
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