Washington (CNN) Former Gov. Mike Huckabee doesn't think the women at Fox News are "trashy," but a lot of other women in New York are.

Huckabee, an evangelical conservative from Arkansas, described the "cultural shock" he experienced while living part-time in New York to work on his Fox News show, calling the city a "different planet" where men and women don't avoid cursing in professional settings.

"In New York, not only do the men do it but the women do it. And you just are looking around saying my gosh this is worse than locker room talk," Huckabee said Friday in a radio interview. "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!"

Huckabee corrected reports Wednesday that he was referring to his female colleagues at Fox News in a post on his website , writing that he was describing "normal conversations in business settings in New York," but never suggested those conversations happened at Fox News. Huckabee left the network early this month in order to seriously consider a presidential run.

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