Conservative Journalist Denies Almost Uttering Racial Slur About Haitian Migrants

National Review editor Rich Lowry denied starting to use the "N word" with Megyn Kelly, saying he was mispronouncing “migrants” and "caught myself halfway through.”

A conservative journalist is denying that he almost used a racial slur to refer to Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, while being interviewed by Megyn Kelly.

It happened Monday when Kelly was interviewing National Review editor Rich Lowry about the bomb threats and other threats of violence that have plagued the small city since former President Donald Trump and his running mate, Sen. JD Vance of Ohio, have spread a baseless smear that Haitian immigrants there were eating neighbors’ pets.

Vance told CNN’s Dana Bash on Sunday that he felt the need to “create stories so that the American media actually pays attention to the suffering of the American people.”

Lowry didn’t seem perturbed by the made-up story, comparing it to “alternative facts,” a term coined by Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway to defend his lies about the crowd size at his 2017 inauguration. In fact, Lowry went so far as to say that Vance had brought “other facts to bear in the debate that are being ignored.”

Lowry then seemed amused that journalists such as Bash were spending their time trying to verify the story.