the kicker

“Anchor Babies” is Not

August 4, 2010

… a new show on Nickelodeon starring baby BriWi and pals (per last night’s Daily Show):




If only.

Who are (what is?) “anchor babies?” Let’s turn to those chief correspondents on the rhetoric beat. (If only.)

ABC News ran a primer last month on the term “anchor babies” and the media’s use of it, for anyone who’s managed to remain oblivious to this “invasion by birth canal” (h/t, Jezebel). Or, you can just watch last night’s entire Daily Show segment. (And weep.)

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Liz Cox Barrett is a writer at CJR.