Watch: Jon Stewart Slams Mike Huckabee For Claiming ‘Bubbaville’ Beats ‘Bubbleville’

Jon Stewart took Mike Huckabee to task for his overriding beliefs that the Southern way of life is better than the rest of America’s.

Jon Stewart skewered Mike Huckabee Monday night. The “Daily Show” host started out telling the Republican former governor that quitting his Fox News show was a bad idea. “Go back and beg for your job, you have made a terrible, terrible mistake.”

Huckabee then used that comment to turn the conversation into his talking points.

“You see, that’s the view of the people who live in the Bubbleville,” Huckabee replied, hawking his latest book, God, Guns, Grits, and Gravy. He claims that there’s a “real clash of cultures” between people who live “in the bubbles of New York, Washington, and Hollywood, versus the people who live in the land of the bubbas.”

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Stewart also took Huckabee to task for his belief that Ted Nugent is acceptable, but Beyoncé is not.

“Beyoncé is such a mega-talent. She can do anything,” Huckabee told Stewart. “She’s got the pipes to sing. She’s got the moves to dance. She doesn’t have to be vulgar in order to set the trend.”

“Do you know any parent,” Huckabee continued, “who has a daughter who says, ‘Honey, if you make really good grades, someday when you’re 12 or 13 we’ll get you your own stripper pole?'”

That went too far for Stewart.

“I think that’s diminishing Beyoncé in a way that’s truly outrageous,” he said, then cued up a clip of Huckabee playing a highly-sexualized song, “Cat Scratch Fever,” on stage with Ted Nugent.

“You excuse that type of crudeness because you agree with his stance on firearms. You don’t approve of Beyoncé because she seems alien to you,” Stewart said. “Johnny Cash shot a man just to watch him die – that’s some gangsta shit!” 

“You can’t single out a corrosive culture and ignore the one that you live in because you’re used to it,” Stewart added.

Huckabee also pushed the idea that a couple of “bubbas” in a pickup truck are much better to have around than a Harvard grad with an MBA in a BMW if your car breaks down on the side of the road.

Stewart replied that both scenarios make him nervous.

Ultimately, Stewart concludes, “Maybe the problem is Bubba is in a bubble.”

 

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