Mike Huckabee: 'Beyonce's Lyrics Were Too Risque For My Book'
By Dom Giordano
PHILADELPHIA (CBS) -- Former Governor Mike Huckabee talked with WPHT midday host Dom Giordano about his new book, God, Guns, Grits and Gravy which focuses on the three cultural bubbles (New York, Washington, D.C., and Hollywood) that he feels exist in the United States and how different life is for the rest of the country.
"...From those three bubbles emanate fashion, finance, politics, government, music, movies, television-virtually everything that sets the cultural table for America. The point is that the lives, the values, the attitudes of the people that live in those three bubbles tend to be very different from those that live in what I call "The Land of God, Guns, Grits and Gravy"-flyover country if you will. So God, Guns, Grits and Gravy is descriptive of not just the south but the mid west and the far west, and all that part of America where people live in basically geographical red states and scratch their heads when they see people on the east and west coast look down on them with contempt and disdain and say things like "these people are clinging to guns and their religion" and really don't understand us."
Huckabee goes on to explain what his two goals were in writing the book.
"My point in the book is those of us who live in the Land of God, Guns, Grits, and Gravy, we understand the people in the bubbles because of every television show and movie is about them. They don't understand us and I'm trying to do two things: 1. Help the people out here in what I call "Bubbaville" understand that they're not alone and 2. to say to the people in "Bubbleville," living in those bubbles here's who really are. You might ought to get to know us. You might find that we're not so dumb after all."
The former governor has made headlines for one page in his book where he criticizes the Obamas for letting their daughters listen to Beyonce.
"She's such a mega talent. She doesn't resort to the kind of over the top, sensual behavior in her songs, and the lyrical content which by the way I wanted to put in the book but the publisher said "no, it's just over the top. It's too risqué." I tell you what, I can't read those lyrics to the song "Drunk in Love" you couldn't read that on a family radio station. So the whole point was to illustrate that sometimes we've allowed crude behavior, language and vulgarity to so infect our society that wee don't even see how vulgar it really is anymore until we isolate it. But let me ask you this, Do you know anybody that wants their daughter to grow up and work a stripper pole?"
Huckabee will be interviewed by Giordano at the Media Theatre on Thursday January 22nd and tickets are still available at cbsphilly.com/speakerseries
