LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Mike Huckabee on Thursday criticized fellow Fox News Channel host Glenn Beck for calling the former governor and potential White House hopeful a “progressive” for supporting first lady Michelle Obama’s anti-obesity efforts.
Beck on Tuesday referred to Huckabee as a “progressive,” a term that Huckabee said Beck has likened to Nazis. Beck singled out Huckabee’s support of the anti-obesity initiative.
“He is a progressive,” Beck said. “Look at his record; he’s a progressive.”
Beck also called Huckabee someone who doesn’t want to “disrupt big government.”
“I think Mike Huckabee is a guy who’s had Michelle Obama on and said, ‘You know what? I think your fat-kid programs, they are great,’ ” Beck said.
Beck said Huckabee on Thursday pushed back against the comments, defending Obama’s “Let’s Move” initiative to curb childhood obesity and painting Beck as trying to portray that program as a big- government conspiracy.
“I’m no fan of her husband’s policies, for sure, but I have appreciated her efforts that Beck misrepresented. . . . The first lady’s approach is about personal responsibility, not the government literally taking candy from a baby’s mouth,” Huckabee wrote on his website Thursday.
