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I kinda want to see the clip, but not enough to visit Twitter
I took the hit. They're trying to say that he mixed up "immigrants" and "migrants". He absolutely did not. You can hear it clear as day
~~You clearly did not take the hit. He gets the entire word out before correcting to migrants.~~
nvm I need sleep.
Just visit the article; it's embedded.
Probably embedded via X. I block that domain on my LAN and I don't see a video.
Same. It's funny when you hit an "article" that is really just a wrapper for a tweets with about a paragraph of actual text remaining.
Yup. Whenever I come across an article with a bunch of blank spaces where tweets are supposed to be, I know the “article” wouldn’t have been worth my time anyway. It’s one of the laziest kinds of journalism.
They have the clip in the article, you don't have to go to twitter and it's clear as day.
It’s a hard-R “slip”. Though I think maybe it was actually intentional and he was just testing the waters for saying it out loud on national television tbh
Whether or not he meant to say migrant or n- is irrelevant. It’s up to us citizens to create these stories so the mainstream media knows of the suffering of non-whites.
He actually said it and they just kept rolling like it was normal bro wtf
Was only a matter of time before somebody did it. I didn't have Rich Lowry on my racial-slur Bingo card, but I'm not exactly shocked, either.
Oh he fucking knew.
Yes he did. I'd lay a hefty bet that he rehearsed it. Immigrant and the n-word aren't close enough to flub. Impregnate and Immigrant? Sure. And you can see him smirk. He's wanted to say this for a long, long time.
Counter offer: he puts “Haitian” and n-word together so often in private it just rolled out.
This is my bet.
There they go, saying the quiet parts out loud again.
Does this mean we can stop pretending the National Review is journalism? It never has been, but people like to present their stupidity as legitimate discourse. If I had to describe it briefly. I would call it "trying to make being a peasant exploited by your betters seem like a good moral choice using linguistic forms calculated to make the reader feel educated and superior. "
Bro, I know these folks are assholes, but come on, let's not make shit up, we are better than that. He clearly said mig... then fixed it, because he was about to say it is "mig-rants", not "my-grants". This is not even close to the N word. Lol
Edit: also, shame on the dailybeast for this misleading bullshit to generate more clicks, that was just fucking pathetic.
I hear a clearly pronounced n word.
Don't know why the hate. I have no clue who this person is, maybe the're a pos..
But I could see my dumb ass doing this, having a long thought with points to hit, saying "mig" (like the plane) then vocalizing "er" to fill the silence while trying to remember how to say migrants because my brain knows damn well it doesn't start with "mig" even though those are the letters, ohh "mygrints"...
We all make these types of mistakes, but some people on the Internet just want to some bullshit to hang on to. They make fun of the right for the same things they're doing.
Yeah, this thread is kinda sad. Hivemind conclusion jumping without much thought put into it.
Then people saying he rehearsed doing this? What's there to gain? You get away with saying a racial slur on air? Woohoo...
Occam's razor people, is he some mastermind plotting to say it, a racist that let it slip, or mispronounced a word and fixed it on the go like us meat bags do on the daily?
If he says racists often then sure he could be a racist that let it slip. But my money is on the brain having a hiccup.
Reminiscent of how southern politicians used to pronounce "Negro." Not a whole lot better, and that's if you buy that he was saying "migrants" or "boo-urns" or whatever.
Meh. Sounds like he caught himself saying “meegrants” instead of “mygrants”
It definitely sounds like an 'n' sound.
And his mouth doesn't close when he says it, so it certainly looks like an 'n' sound.
But I'll humor you on the suggestion that he just pronounced "mig" funny: Why did he pronounce "rents" as "iggers"?
No, you see, he's been studying ventriloquism and just fell into the habit of replacing m with n. And also pronounces migrants weird, like he's only ever read it and not heard it pronounced, since Republicans are all such avid readers and how often does immigration really come up in their conversations?
Exactly! And of all people an editor-in-chief pretty much rarely encounters the written word. That position and the entire industry around it aren't exposed to words that often so it's totally excusable.
Racists like this do not deserve the benefit of the doubt.
Don't be an apologist.
Brainrot logic
I was hoping he misspoke migrants and wanted to give him the benefit of the doubt, but I hear a clearly pronounced n word.
Sounds like you're lying. Because the clip is in the article and he clearly gets the entire word off before correcting himself.
Watched the clip before hitting the comments and this is 100% accurate. Not to kink shame, but rejecting the evidence of your eyes and ears isn't one of mine.
Did he try to make a fucking Letterkenney joke to get out of that?
He certainly fucking said that.
Yeah this won't end in a bit boondocks has already done a decade ago.
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