Fox News contributor Mike Huckabee slammed NBC for canceling Megyn Kelly's show after her on-air remarks about blackface on Halloween, with the former Arkansas governor suggesting others at NBC are more culpable for their actions.

"So @megynkelly is shown the door for TALKING about something Lester Holt and other NBC folks actually DID," Huckabee wrote in a tweet where he linked to a Mediaite piece that said the NBC Nightly News anchor dressed up as British pop star Susan Boyle, who is white, for Halloween one year. "I’m not even a lawyer but I think I could win this case for Megyn."

So @megynkelly is shown the door for TALKING about something Lester Holt and other NBC folks actually DID. I’m not even a lawyer but I think I could win this case for Megyn. https://t.co/UjSZ17PZom — Gov. Mike Huckabee (@GovMikeHuckabee) October 30, 2018

NBC News did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Kelly made her blackface comments Oct. 23 on NBC.

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“You truly do get in trouble if you are a white person who puts on blackface at Halloween or a black person who puts on whiteface for Halloween,” she said during the segment. “That was OK when I was a kid, as long as you were dressing like a character.”

Kelly apologized for her remarks later that day and again on air the next day.

"Today is one of those days where listening carefully to other points of view, including from friends and colleagues, is leading me to rethink my own views,” she wrote in a public statement. "I realize now that such behavior is indeed wrong, and I am sorry. The history of blackface in our culture is abhorrent; the wounds too deep."

NBC confirmed Friday that her show, "Megyn Kelly Today," has been canceled.

Her show had lower ratings than expected, but NBC has said it was canceled because of her statements.

NBC News President Andy Lack, who brought Kelly on board, said last week, "There is no other way to put this: I condemn those remarks; there is no place on our air or in this workplace for them."