Iāve listened to this like ten times. At first I was like yeah he said it. Then I was like āmaybe he interpolated the short I in immigration for the long in migrant?ā Now Iām back to yeah he said it.
He definitely said it. Since it cuts away we donāt see how she reacted. Would like to see.
When I saw it I didnāt know what the video purported to contain and I heard it clear as day. No question whatsoever.
He has not lived his life in such a way that merits benefit of the doubt.
It was clearly the type of slip we all make, starting to substitute a word weāre thinking of with similarities to the word we intend to say. The problem is that that word was apparently on his mind during this discussion at all.
I see no reason to be charitable in our assessments of his intent.
This is like when Rick Santorum said it about Obama at a rally
He said it. No room for interpretations or hedging. HE. SAID. IT. We do ourselves no favors by second-guessing ourselves in these battles. No Mercy. No Quarter.
100% said it
Lowry has completely sold out to the gutter racism of the Trump-era GOP so I wonāt defend him personally, but the sense I get of him is he isnāt the sort of person whoād be using the N-word casually in his private life, so I donāt think it would accidentally slip out in an interview.