Racist Asshole Rich Lowry Drops The N-Word Complaining About Ohio Haitians
Boy! The racism just came tumbling right out of his mouth!
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WELP! That was something that happened. On Sunday, Megyn Kelly had her little Sirius XM show. During the course of three looooong hours she interviewed a number of right-wing assholes, among them Rich Lowry of the New York Times.
Oh, did I say “New York Times?” I meant “National Review.” As in, Rich Lowry, the editor-in-chief of National Review, a far-right rag that spews hate speech on behalf of Donald Trump. The reason I mistakenly said “New York Times” is because three weeks ago, the Times let Lowry write the following op-ed:
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAH! No.
It should be a question why the New York Times felt the need to allow the EDITOR-IN-CHIEF of a far-right publication access to the most valuable opinion page in the world. Lowry has a not-insignificant platform of his own. Why give him a larger one to make the case for Donald Trump?
But of course, it’s not a question at all because we all know the answer: The New York Times has been slobbering over Trump’s jackboots and tiny mushroom since 2015. They were the ringleaders of “But Her Emails.” They pushed “Benghazi Benghazi Benghazi.” They made sure to absolve Trump of any connection to Russia right before the election and then sunk Clinton’s campaign.
Do we really need to talk about how they spent a year weaponizing age and cognitive decline for one candidate and ONLY one candidate? And then decided that age and very obvious cognitive decline just weren’t worth talking about anymore just one week later? Nah. We all know.
We should, however, ask the New York Times why they felt comfortable allowing a bona fide racist write for them. But is Lowry a racist? Can we REALLY know that Rich Lowry is a racist asshole?
Actually, we fucking well can and we fucking well do.
Lowry and Kelly are discussing JD Vance being a lying racist piece of shit. Kelly is outraged, OUTRAGED, I tell you!, that he’s being called out on it. Lowry tries to defend it in the most mealy-mouthed weasel way possible.
And then he slips up:
“…the police have gone through 11 months of recordings of calls and they’ve only found two Springfield residents calling about Haitian n****** mumble migrants taking geese from ponds…”
OK, let me be totally upfront here: I grew up in a working-class Italian neighborhood in the 80s. Brooklyn Italians drop the N-word more than rappers. Thus, so did I.
Time passed. I grew the fuck up. As an adult, do you know how many times the N-word slipped out of my mouth by accident? Fucking never.
And here’s the thing: Lowry is a writer. I mention this a lot when talking about other writers because it’s REALLY important to understand: When you write for a living, you are constantly thinking about words. It’s impossible not to. It’s like being a chef who doesn’t think about food. There is no such thing.
Being a writer who exists in the world of social media and politics? You don’t just think about words all the time, you think about every fucking word that comes out of your mouth at all times. I can’t even imagine what it must be like for someone with a public profile as high as Lowry.
So think about how often he spews racial slurs in private, how frequently he thinks about Black people in those terms in his own head, to slip up in public and say it out loud. That’s not a word you accidentally use unless it’s a word you are VERY fucking comfortable with.
But Lowry just blurted it out and Megyn Kelly didn’t bat an eye because of course that twatwaffle didn’t. If someone said that in front of you, I’m pretty sure your reaction would have been at least, “Whoa! Dude, what the hell?!” But…nothing. After all, this is Megyn Kelly, she of the temper tantrum over Black Santas.
Just a little more racism heaped on the white nationalist shitshow Republicans have kicked off in Springfield. Now with the extra blessing of the New York Fucking Times.
And you wonder why I wouldn’t use that paper to wipe my ass.
There are 48 days until the 2024 election. Vote blue like your life depends on it. This is America. No kings. No weirdos. Vote Harris and Walz. I am so sick and fucking tired of NYT-enabled racists. They have all got to go.
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I have to wonder if the Haitian derision is meant to, by ignorant proxy, associate Kamala's heritage with the bogus story of pet and geese harvesting in addition to being anti-immigrant. I know Kamala does not have Haitian ancestry, she has Jamaican ancestry. Does MAGA/Racist Bumblefuck really care? Can they even find the countries on the map? Odds are likely that to them they're the same place or the same kind of place and, hence, the same people. Ergo, they think of Kamala as Haitian adjacent who will help immigrants eat pets and geese in the park.
Sounds like frooty-loopy world ignorant "logic", right? Sure it does. That's why it's totally plausible with these bigots.
but was it a slip-up actually? or just said clearly but with an attempt to make it look like one?