Mike Huckabee criticizes the Obamas for letting their daughters listen to Beyonce

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published 13 January 2015

In an interview with People to promote his new book, Gods, Guns, Grits, and Gravy, Mike Huckabee expressed his disapproval with the Obamas' parenting tactics.

While Barack and Michelle Obama "are excellent and exemplary parents in many ways," Huckabee notes, he does have one major qualm with their policies. Huckabee disapproves of the Obamas' allowing their daughters to listen to Beyoncé's music.

"I don't understand 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 making sure they're kind of sheltered and shielded from so many things — and 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," Huckabee told People.