--- title: Watch Megyn Kelly School Mike Huckabee on 'Trashy' New York Women description: "We're not only swearing, we're drinking, we're smoking, we're having premarital sex" canonical: https://time.com/3687652/megyn-kelly-school-mike-huckabee-over-trashy-women-comments/ author: Charlotte Alter article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-01-29T16:45:32.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-04T07:45:20.454Z og:title: Watch Megyn Kelly School Mike Huckabee on 'Trashy' New York Women og:description: "We're not only swearing, we're drinking, we're smoking, we're having premarital sex" og:url: https://time.com/3687652/megyn-kelly-school-mike-huckabee-over-trashy-women-comments/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch Megyn Kelly School Mike Huckabee on 'Trashy' New York Women twitter:description: "We're not only swearing, we're drinking, we're smoking, we're having premarital sex" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Watch Fox's Megyn Kelly School Mike Huckabee Over 'Trashy Women' Comments ## Video: Megyn Kelly Breaks Some News To Mike Huckabee [Watch (HLS stream): Megyn Kelly Breaks Some News To Mike Huckabee](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/NR5hzdsH.m3u8) (0:17)  _Published 2015-01-29. Megyn Kelly Breaks Some News To Mike Huckabee_  by [Charlotte Alter](https://time.com/author/charlotte-alter/)  ## Charlotte Alter Senior Correspondent Jan 29, 2015 4:45 PM UTC  by [Charlotte Alter](https://time.com/author/charlotte-alter/)  ## Charlotte Alter Senior Correspondent Jan 29, 2015 4:45 PM UTC After Mike Huckabee said that New York women were “trashy” for cursing in a professional setting, Megyn Kelly set him straight. Huckabee said in a [Jan. 23rd radio interview](http://www.politico.com/story/2015/01/mike-huckabee-trashy-women-fox-news-114658.html#ixzz3Q4FHHJqm) that he was shocked at the way professional New York women threw around f-bombs. “This would be considered totally inappropriate to say these things in front of a woman, and for a woman to say them in a professional setting, we would only assume that this is a very, as we would say in the South, that’s just trashy.” The presidential hopeful said that there’s a “cultural divide” between people who live in the “bubbles” on the coast and the people who live in “the land of what I call god, guns, grits, and gravy,” which, incidentally, is also the title of [his book. ](http://www.amazon.com/Guns-Grits-Gravy-Mike-Huckabee/dp/1250060990)He goes off on a diatribe about the “culture of crude.” Kelly listened politely to the former Arkansas governor before telling him what she really thought of his “culture of crude.” “I do have news for you before I let you go,” Kelly said. “We are not only swearing, we’re drinking, we’re smoking, we’re having premarital sex with birth control before we go to work, and sometimes boss around a bunch of men.” “Aw, I just don’t want to hear that!” Huckabee responded. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3687652/megyn-kelly-school-mike-huckabee-over-trashy-women-comments/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3687652/megyn-kelly-school-mike-huckabee-over-trashy-women-comments/"},"headline":"Watch Fox's Megyn Kelly School Mike Huckabee Over 'Trashy Women' Comments","datePublished":"2015-01-29T16:45:32.000Z","dateModified":"2026-08-04T07:45:20.454Z","description":"\"We're not only swearing, we're drinking, we're smoking, we're having premarital sex\"","url":"https://time.com/3687652/megyn-kelly-school-mike-huckabee-over-trashy-women-comments/","keywords":["Living","feminism","Television","mike huckabee","presidential election","fox news","Megyn Kelly"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Charlotte Alter","jobTitle":"Senior Correspondent","url":"https://time.com/author/charlotte-alter/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-living/","name":"Living"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3687652/megyn-kelly-school-mike-huckabee-over-trashy-women-comments/","name":"Watch Fox's Megyn Kelly School Mike Huckabee Over 'Trashy Women' Comments"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"Megyn Kelly Breaks Some News To Mike Huckabee","description":"Megyn Kelly Breaks Some News To Mike Huckabee","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/NR5hzdsH/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2015-01-29T15:53:32.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/NR5hzdsH.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/3687652/megyn-kelly-school-mike-huckabee-over-trashy-women-comments/","duration":"PT17S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/3687652/megyn-kelly-school-mike-huckabee-over-trashy-women-comments/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```