Wednesday, January 14, 2015

Mike Huckabee and Beyoncé

Has anyone else noticed how Mike Huckabee can’t stop talking about Beyoncé?

First, he comments that her husband, Jay-Z, is undoubtedly “exploiting his wife” like a “pimp” (for all the reasons this is wrong, see my colleague Alyssa Rosenberg) and that her dance moves belong in the “bedroom.”

But he won’t stop! He told People that he can’t believe the Obamas let their daughters listen to her music, whose lyrics he has called “obnoxious and toxic mental poison.” (That would be a passable album title.) “I don’t understand,” he told the magazine, “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 yet they don’t see anything that might not be suitable” in Beyoncé’s lyrics.

Mike, is everything all right? What has brought on this fixation?

Some theories about what led to this moment:

-- by Alexandra Petri, Washington Post

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