On Tuesday, Mike Huckabee voiced his displeasure with Saturday Night Live‘s recent parody of his daughter, Trump administration flack Sarah Huckabee Sanders.
“I thought it was a little bit silly, sexist, misogynist — but, you know, my daughter is certainly capable of handling a whole lot worse than that,” Huckabee said on Fox Business Network’s Varney and Company.
Huckabee Sanders briefly appeared as a character in the Sean Spicer sketch this past weekend, in a bit that was criticized by CNN’s Chris Cuomo and conservative site Lifezette, which both accused the program of “fat shaming” her.
Former Governor Huckabee continued by praising his daughter: “It does not take away in any way from who she really is. She is a great wife; an absolutely wonderful mother to three beautiful preschool children.”
He added, “She’s a generous and thoughtful person, who is very charitable in her life; good to her friends; and ultimately — and here’s what we taught her: that she’s going to be judged by God, not by some not-so-funny comedy writers on Saturday Night Live.”
Fill-in host Ashley Webster pointed out that “in one of the [SNL] sketches, it was kind of suggested that she should replace Sean Spicer, because, frankly, she does very well. So you could take that as a complement.”
Huckabee acknowledged that “she does very well,” but he underlined
You can watch former Governor Huckabee’s response to SNL above, via Fox Business Network.
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