'Anchor Baby' Politically Correct Flap Shows Left Losing Grip

American Thinker ^ | 08/22/2015 | Jack Cashill

[SeekAndFind]

“You said that you have a big heart, and that you’re not mean-spirited,” queried ABC reporter Tom Llamas. “Are you aware that the term ‘anchor baby,’ that’s an offensive term? People find that hurtful.” The target for Llamas’s pique, of course, was presidential candidate Donald Trump.

Yes, “hurtful” and “offensive.” Llamas joined ABC less than a year earlier, but he had already mastered the rudiments of progressive patois, the language of victimization. As ABC’s designated Hispanic avatar, he felt free to spell out the left’s newly revised semantic codes to the insufficiently ethnic Trump.

“You mean [anchor baby] is not politically correct, and yet everybody uses it?” said Trump defiantly. “You know what? Give me a different term.” Llamas had swung at the wrong piñata.

There was no good answer to Trump’s question. Said Llamas lamely, “the American-born childs [sic] of undocumented immigrants.” This suggestion was so foolishly cumbersome even his fellow reporters snickered. Trump scoffed, “You want me to use that? Okay. I’ll use the word ‘anchor baby.'” Game, set, match -- Trump.

For a half-century or more, the left has been imposing its absurd, improvised values on America. In the age of Obama, that imposition has taken on the force of law. Historians may well look back upon the Obergefell v. Hodges decision in late June as the most forward salient in the left’s slog through the institutions. Having forced gay marriage and its consequences on the nation’s dispirited conservatives, progressives thought the battlefield theirs.

[FReepaholic]

Donald Trump: I'll keep saying "anchor baby" even if it's not PC. (YouTube)

That right there has probably cemented my decision to vote for Trump. He has balls and is not going to kowtow to the liberal media.

[SWAMPSNIPER]

[dila813]

The reporter’s answer to the alternative to “Anchor Baby” was wrong.

He would have had to add “Children of Undocumented Immigrants with the intent of using the Baby to illegally take up residence in a country.”

[SWAMPSNIPER]

PC is the left’s tool to censor dissent.

[moovova]

“Llamas had swung at the wrong piñata.”

That there’s funny (even though I’m sure others would find it “offensive” and “hurtful”).

[immadashell]

From Orwell's 1984: The keyword here is blackwhite. Like so many Newspeak words, this word has two mutually contradictory meanings. Applied to an opponent, it means the habit of impudently claiming that black is white, in contradiction of the plain facts. Applied to a Party member, it means a loyal willingness to say that black is white when Party discipline demands this. But it means also the ability to believe that black is white, and more, to know that black is white, and to forget that one has ever believed the contrary. This demands a continuous alteration of the past, made possible by the system of thought which really embraces all the rest, and which is known in Newspeak as doublethink. Doublethink is basically the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them. — Part II, Chapter IX — The Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism

Democrats seized Orwell's concepts and loved them. They have been trying desperately to implement them since 1947 when the novel was released.

[Raycpa]

Mexico is in America. The proposed wording is hurtful to Mexicans.

[seowulf]

I’ll go with parasite larvae.

[BradyLS]

Folks should start calling Trump “El Jefe.” That’d really send the Left in tizzy.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

"You can make real good money smuggling in Chinese by boat."

"You used to be able to make real good money smuggling in Chinese over the border."

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0049946/

[fieldmarshaldj]

Premier example of media newspeak: Election Night 2000 labeling of Republican states as “Red” and Democrat states as “Blue” in direct contradiction to the ideological history of the left being the party of Red and the right the party of Blue.

Take the language back from the media fascists and NEVER apologize.

[nickcarraway]

Aren’t Donald Trump and his older siblings anchor babies? So his mother didn’t have to go back to Scotland?

[Carl Vehse]

“Anchor baby” is only offensive to demonicrats, RINOs, and fifth-column leftist media buttboys (like Llamas)... so it’s a perfectly acceptable term.

[Tupelo]

Money quote:

“Trump is no Reagan, but he is a fighter.”

Maybe a street fighter is what we need at this point, since all of today’s cowboys seem to be from Brokeback Mountain.

[dainbramaged]

Okay, we get it. You hate Donald Trump. Give it a rest.

[MarvinStinson]

progressive patois, the language of victimization

[PGalt]

Hey socialists…If you’re the speech police, where are your badges?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsdZKCh6RsU

[Don Corleone]

Annie has an excellent column on this in her weekly harangue..

[Michael.SF.]

No.

His parents were married in 1936