by Brent Bozell Republican presidential candidates usually avoid any criticism of Hollywood, ever since Vice President Dan Quayle attacked “Murphy Brown” in 1992 for choosing to be a single mother on TV. There are two reasons. The first is the “objective” media The second is a version of the NIMBY (Not In My Backyard) Syndrome. Just as Americans despise Congress Mike Huckabee, the once and future presidential candidate What he condemned was her sexually provocative dance next to her husband at the 2014 Grammy Awards on CBS But a new poll taken of potential Iowa caucus-goers by the Des Moines Register and Bloomberg News turned Huckabee into a hater. The question couldn’t be more loaded. The pollsters asked Republicans and Democrats: “In his recently published book, Mike Huckabee criticized the singer Beyonce, calling her ‘mental poison.’ Do you think Huckabee is mostly right about Beyonce, or did he go too far?” That’s a wild distortion. In discussing Beyonce’s lyrics — and her husband’s, which would include such Jay-Z “classics” as “Big Pimpin'”— Huckabee wrote: “With the first lady so concerned about making sure her daughters’ bellies don’t ingest unhealthy Let us recall a bit of “Big Pimpin'” and imagine it being recited by Malia and Sasha Obama And here are the opening lyrics of Beyonce’s “Drunk In Love” that she mouthed on CBS while having her legs split as wide open as physically possible: “I’ve been drinking, I’ve been drinking / I get filthy when that liquor get into me / I’ve been thinking, I’ve been thinking / Why can’t I keep my fingers off it, baby?” CBS had to bleep out her lyric “We woke up in the kitchen saying, ‘How the hell did this s—t happen?'” Then she sang, “Graining on that wood, graining, graining on that wood / I’m swerving on that, swerving, swerving on that big body.” Then Jay-Z chimed in, rapping, “We sex again in the morning, your breastases [sic] is my breakfast.” CBS never apologized for this musical “mental poison,” which is what it was. Huckabee is apologizing now that he complained about it. He was too much of a gentleman to be this specific about the lyrics, and ironically, he’s paying a price for that.Conservative politicians aren’t really allowed to condemn the crudest excesses of popular culture. The Obamas can be best friends with Jay-Z and Beyonce and never face any scrutiny for their parenting, which is always presumed to be fantastic. No one is allowed or expected to be a Profile in Courage when it comes to vulgar and violent entertainment coming out of Hollywood L. Brent Bozell III is the president of the Media Research Center. Tim Graham is director of media analysis at the Media Research Center and executive COPYRIGHT 2015 CREATORS.COM |