Mike Huckabee Is Irritated By “Trashy” Women With Potty Mouths

Mike Huckabee was recently interviewed and chatted about women having potty-mouths:

“In the South, or in the Midwest, there in Iowa, you would not have people who would just throw the F-bomb or use gratuitous profanity in a professional setting,” Huckabee told host Jan Mickelson in a Friday appearance on Des Moines’ “Mickelson in the Morning.”
 

“In New York, not only do the men do it, but the women,” he said.

“My gosh, this is worse than locker-room talk,” Huckabee continued. “As we would say in the South, that’s just trashy.”

The thing is, he's talking about the media industry, which – I'm going on a limb here –  is different than other industries, frankly.  I mean, when I made the jump from the "regular" private sector (being a medical writer in pharma) to being in radio, I noticed a huuuuuuuuge difference in how much more relaxed everyone is in media.  It was a culture shock, y'all.  People just aren't as buttoned up in meetings.  People just aren't as buttoned up at ALL.  And it took some getting used to, but after a few weeks, I found it refreshing that folks just talked like normal human beings without being constantly afraid of looming HR-repercussions.  

Apparently, Huckabee does not.  And that's OK.  To each his own, but I wouldn't say that everyone in the South calls that "trashy."  I'm from the South. I didn't find folks at Fox to be trashy.  And I don't find people in the media to be "trashy," and I hear some f-bombs on a daily basis, to be honest.  Mock and I are surrounded by a lot of men, too, so there's some locker room talk.  It doesn't make people bad people.  Or "trashy" people.  It's just people using different vernacular, is all.  I like it.  It's real.  I like real.

Of course, when he made the above comments, everyone immediately thought he was talking about his Fox colleagues, but he backed up the comments to clarify that he wasn't talking about all of those trashy Fox girls.  You know.  This is how he backtracked:

“I talked about the overall coarseness of conversation and gratuitous profanity that I hear in places in what I call the bubble zoo like New York, Washington and Hollywood,” he said on Tyler Cralle’s radio show in a clip posted online by BuzzFeed Politics. “But, clearly, the reporters who took those headlines and made those stories up made ‘em up out of thin air. It’s an outright lie.”

 

Aaaaaand, liberals are eating this crap up with a spoon, making him out to be a priss-pot.  I'm not going to lie, folks.  There's a part of me that doesn't blame them for jumping on this like flies on doo-doo (I kept that Huckabee-friendly…see what I did there?)  Because let's face it, if a dude can't handle a couple of f-bombs thrown around, can he handle being the president of the United States?

I understand that crudeness isn't always necessary in professional settings, but when it comes down to it – they're JUST WORDS.  And he just gave the other side good meat to chew on.