Right-Wing Journalist Rich Lowry Denies Saying N-Word Despite Video Of Racist Rant About Migrants

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A right-wing journalist has come under fire for saying what sounded like the N-word while defending J.D.Vance’s defense of the racist propaganda he spread about Haitian migrants. Vance essentially admitted he fabricated the story about Haitian migrants abducting and eating people’s pets in Springfield, Ohio, and now he’s saying he didn’t say what people think he said.

Similarly, National Review editor-in-chief Rich Lowry is claiming he didn’t use the racial slur people think they heard while referring to those migrants that Vance and Donald Trump have been slandering with what is effectively hate speech.

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So, basically, we’re left with deeper levels within levels of racism and flimsy defenses of racism. (It’s like the movie Inception but with white men who struggle to keep their Klan robes from showing through their suits.)

Here’s Rich Lowry, Editor-In-Chief of the National Review, using the N-word to describe Haitians “by mistake” and Megyn Kelly’s reaction when they cut back to her.
She did not react to it. Just smiled.
This is what they ALL mean.
And why Trump and MAGA must lose.#Springfield pic.twitter.com/QbYwlNLbC3

— Steve Marmel (@Marmel) September 16, 2024

During an appearance on “The Megyn Kelly Show,” — which, of course, is hosted by another racist who gets flustered over Black people expressing HBCU love and once stated emphatically that Jesus and Santa Claus are white and should only be depicted as white — Lowry was explaining that the media lied about Vance admitting to lying about pet-eating Haitians when he said he and Trump were more than willing to “create stories” in order to draw attention to the issue of immigration in Ohio.

“You remember alternative facts with Kellyanne? They did the same thing. She wasn’t saying you make up fictions and pretend they’re facts. You bring other facts to bear in the debate that are being ignored,” Lowry said, also finding reason in Vance’s racist tactic. “That’s what [Vance] was saying. I think it was in that interview where Dana Bash says, ‘Police have gone through 11 months of recordings of calls and they’ve only found two Springfield residents calling to complain about Haitian [?] taking geese from ponds. Only two calls and I think one lesson in this whole story: People don’t care about geese. People really hate geese.”

Now, the question is whether Lowry said “Haitian migrants” or “Haitian n****rs.” Lowry claimed he said the former after another right-wing National Review contributor, Andy McCarthy, came to his defense calling the notion that he used the slur “ridiculous.”

Yep, this is exactly what happened—I began to mispronounce the word “migrants” and caught myself halfway through https://t.co/Y1wyvrkq8x

— Rich Lowry (@RichLowry) September 16, 2024

“I began to mispronounce the word ‘migrants, and caught myself halfway through,” Lowry tweeted Monday.

For what it’s worth, I actually don’t believe Lowry said the n-word. I don’t think he would go there on live air and I think he probably did get tongue-tied while missing up “immigrant” and “migrant.” On the other hand, it did really sound like he said the n-word, and if he did use the slur, it would only be the kind of Freudian slip that is bound to happen when you’re a white man defending another white man’s hate speech and dangerous lies that have already proven to be harmful towards the Haitian community in and outside of Ohio.

Lowry joked that the big takeaway from the police in Springfield having combed through just under a year’s worth of 911 calls and only found two calls of residents complaining about Haitian migrants stealing geese from ponds was that people “really hate geese.” What the takeaway should have been is that Vance is lying about the outpouring of Springfield residents who have reported to him that Haitian migrants are stealing and eating pets.

Here are the scenarios that Vance, Lowry and the rest of the xenophobic MAGA world would have us believe are more plausible than the scenario where Vance is just strait-up lying:

1. The Springfield Police Department has, for no discernable reason, decided to protect President Joe Biden, VP Kamala Harris and undocumented migrants all over the city by lying and saying they haven’t found credible reports of immigrants eating pets and have only gotten two calls about Haitian migrants stealing geese — which are not pets — and the city’s planners and the state’s Republican governor decided to join the department in that lie. (Also, I guess we’re just not going to ask how these residents would know the people they saw stealing geese were immigrants at all, let alone immigrants of Haitian descent.)

2. Massive numbers of Springfield residents had their cats and dogs stolen and eaten by migrants, and instead of calling the police, they called their local senator.

3. Vance is telling the truth about all of the firsthand accounts he has received, and because he’s already proven himself to be such an honest politician, it’s reasonable for him to expect that he can make these claims without producing any evidence of these firsthand accounts, which he expects all of America to take at face value.

Or — and I’m just spitballing here — Vance is spreading a racist, xenophobic and dangerous lie that puts a target on the backs of an entire ethnic group just to score political points against his and Trump’s political opponent ahead of the election.

Mind you, Vance has also spread the falsehood that Haitian migrants are responsible for a steep increase in HIV cases in Ohio. Last week, while admitting that it’s “possible” the “rumors” he spread about pet-eating migrants “will all turn out to be false,” Trump’s VP pick tweeted that “communicable diseases–like TB and HIV–have been on the rise” in Ohio, implying that the rise is due to the influx of immigrants in the city.

In the last several weeks, my office has received many inquiries from actual residents of Springfield who've said their neighbors' pets or local wildlife were abducted by Haitian migrants. It's possible, of course, that all of these rumors will turn out to be false.

Do you know…

— JD Vance (@JDVance) September 10, 2024

For the record, what the data on HIV stats in Ohio shows is that there was a steep increase in cases that began in 2020, when Trump was still in office, and peaked in 2021, when the Biden administration was still brand new.

There has been no rise in new HIV diagnoses in Clark County (Springfield) Ohio. 12 new infections in 2021, 13 in 2022, and no data released yet for 2023. https://t.co/q1DFUJrGJv pic.twitter.com/u8K9Zpi5py

— Eric Schrimshaw (@EricSchrimshaw) September 15, 2024

None of this matters, of course, since there hasn’t been a single report or study that attributed the rise in HIV cases in the state to the immigrants who live there.

Again, Vance, Trump and their MAGA minions have been spreading hate speech that Trump brought all the way to the nationally televised debate stage last week. Now, Lowry can’t even defend their racism without at least sounding like he used a racial slur. The irony would be comical if the display of white nationalism wasn’t so blatant whether any slurs were used or not.

JD Vance Spreads Baseless Lies About Haitian Migrants Abducting And Eating American Pets

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