In perhaps the ultimate example of the media’s if-a-Republican-had-said-it double standard, New York Rep. and Senate hopeful Carolyn Maloney apologized today for using the n-word:
“I apologize for having repeated a word I find disgusting. It’s no excuse but I was so caught up in relaying the story exactly as it was told to me that, in doing so, I repeated a word that should never be repeated.”
The context was an attack on current NY Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, whom Maloney intended to malign:
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