Originally published at: National Review editor Rich Lowry blurts out the worst of words
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National Review editor Rich Lowry blurts out "Haitian █████r migrants" in interview with Megyn Kelly
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Christ, what an asshole
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The apologists came out in force on reddit to support his contention that he just mispronounced migrants. Like…no he didn’t. No one mispronounces migrants like that, unless that other word has come out of your mouth freely throughout your life.
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Maybe the New York Times will stop publishing his OpEd’s? Nope - they’re the NYT.
Most places would can the shitweasel.
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Not only does he unquestionably say the word, it doesn’t even sound like a slip of the tongue to me. It sounds like he said exactly what he intended to say, and the whole “Oh, I didn’t say that, how could you possibly think …” was planned from the start.
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When was the start? You mean, even before the interview?
I think it’s more likely that he slipped on a Freudian slip, by using a word he probably uses all the time in “polite” (puke emoji) company.
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ISTR a few years ago someone on the right began to use that word, but caught themselves just after the N. Their denial was along these “simple mispronunciation” lines and was ridiculous even then. Bro, you just said the whole-ass word right out loud! I mean, it’s pretty hard to say you misspoke when you fully commit.
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A large amount of the Haitian community in Springfield started arriving in 1980. If they were white Europeans who’d emigrated there four decades ago he wouldn’t be calling them “migrants”.
We wouldn’t even be having this discussion and if we did he’d be calling them “Americans”.
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When you say slurs often, it’s pretty easy for them to slip in there when you don’t mean for them to…
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Looking at his mouth, his lips do come together into an M after “Haitian,” but it still seems like an obvious Freudian slip. I can’t think of any way to contort “Haitian migrants” into what he said, without a certain word already being on his mind.
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Right, he intended to say migrants, but his brain has a different word loaded and that’s what came out. If he said “Nigrants” this would be at “side eye” level. It’s at “glaring fury” because he said “_igger”
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Who are you going to believe, Rich Lowry, or your lying ears?
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Hey, they just want to be impartial and unbiased. Can’t go upsetting their conservative readers by canning his racist butt.
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When you slow it down it seems a lot less like a mispronunciation to me.
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Saying that word and quickly correcting it is the same mistake some members of my family make when they forget they are not having a private conversation with each other.
So yeah, he meant it. He says it all the time… just not live on air!
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I, for one, am shocked that this happened on Megyn Kelly’s podcast. Shocked, I tell you.
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