Could this be a terror baby?
Is this the silly season or what? On Anderson Cooper 360 last night and tonight there are have been discussions about the latest scare rumor out of Texas: terror babies.
See, what happens is that foreign women come to the U.S. just before their babies are born. That way they get an American citizen in the family, and…they get their babies delivered free!
Shortly after the delivery, these crafty, sinister women return to their home countries and begin the process of indoctrinating their children to become terrorists so they can return to the U.S. twenty years later and destroy our precious way of life.
Aaaaahhhhhhh! Cue Twilight Zone music.
I tried to embed the CNN videos, but I guess you have to watch them on you tube. Sorry about that, but please do go watch these interviews. You won’t be sorry.
First up is Debbie Riddle (R-District 150), of the Texas House of Representatives, who was interviewed by Anderson Cooper last night. Watch the video here.
Cooper also interviewed former FBI official Tom Fuentes about the “terror babies” rumor. That video is here.
On tonight’s show, Cooper’s guest was Rep. Louie Gomert (R-TX). The discussion turned into quite a shouting match. Please don’t miss this one!
Soooo…what’s next? What are we going to do about this terrible threat to our way of life? How can we fill the “gaping hole in our security system?” And what’s the deal with all these hospitals delivering terrorist babies free of charge? And can someone tell me how people like this get elected to public office?
This is an open thread.
Update from Wonk: Got the CNN videos to embed
Filed under: snark Tagged: | Anderson Cooper, Debbie Riddle, immigration panic, Louis Gomert, snark, terror babies, Texas, Thomas Fuentes
When it won’t embed, the next best thing is to use WM Capture software. It’s awesome.
I use vodpod
Wonk,
If you know how to post them here without CNN’s permission, feel free to edit my post and put them in.
could you e-mail me the link to the CNN video?
Yes, I’ll get them to you right away. There are actually three CNN videos.
I am so ready to move this blog some where where we don’t have to embed with youtube only.
You don’t have to embed with youtube only. You can use vodpod.
I used vodpod to put the CNN videos up in BB’s post. And, it’s how I keep the video feed on my blog.
I tried using vopod once, but I could figure it out. I guess I’ll have to try again.
I don’t know what that is, but these videos can’t be used here because CNN doesn’t allow it. WordPress only accepts google and you tube videos.
Do you really mind watching them on you tube?
I don’t like the way that baby is looking at me.
lol
She is obviously plotting to destroy our way of life and contaminate our precious bodily fluids!
Omg, it’s a “she”? It’s worse than I thought!!!!
Babies are all terrorists. They use bio-weapons that can render a place uninhabitable and IIRC “not allowing a person to sleep” is considered torture.
A two-year old is the definition of a “weapon of mass destruction.”
They can get you to do a lot of stuff for them by either smiling sweetly or crying like banshees.
Beat me to it. Except I’d raise the age: all humans under age 6 are terrorists. Then they have a relapse between 11 and 18.
Worst part is when they deploy the ‘TERRIBLE TWOS’…AHHHHH!
How do you like Debbie Riddle’s outfit? The belt buckle really highlights the red, white, and blue shirt, don’t you think?
Well, it will make her look angelic when she tries to imprison the TERROR BABIES!
Citizenship Down – Akhil Amar
Akhil Amar says the big idea behind the 14th Amendment is that U.S. citizens are all born with equal rights.
http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/343698/august-10-2010/citizenship-down—akhil-amar
There are folks in Texas who (incorrectly) assert that Texas, alone among all the states, has some special right to secede from the Union.
Sometimes I wish they were right.
I think Vermont and Maine have discussed seceding.
There’s also a secession movement in NH. I forget what it’s called, but a bunch of libertarian wackadoos elected the state and they’re all going to move there and try to take over. You see the bumper stickers around.
That’s right. I remember that guy was carrying a gun when Obama was up there speaking.
Yeah, and remember in 2004 the guy carrying the gun outside the polling place with the “Terrorists for Kerry” sign? (Though in fairness to NH, most of their “problem people” are probably migrating Massholes
)
No, I don’t think I saw him. Wow!
I’ve seen secession bumper stickers here in Texas but you’re seeing them in NH? Wow…
http://freestateproject.org/news/media_archive/0098.php
Yeah, I don’t know how much headway they’re making, but….
Not true that Texas has a right to succeed. It does have a right to split into 5 states, however. Not sure if that would be an improvement or not.
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BB, I just added the CNN videos. Let me know if the embeds are showing up for you.
They seem to be working.
The youtubes are completely disabled, so I had to go find CNN’s vidoes from the site and capture them from there. They take a few secs to show up fully on here because they’re transferring from CNN. But, hopefully this helps people see it all in one place.
Thanks. That’s what happened when I embedded them from youtube.
Did you watch the one from tonight. I just can’t believe that guy is a member of the House of Representatives!
I saw a couple minutes of it earlier when I was capturing the video, I saw Gohmert start going off… I’m going to watch the rest of it right now.
Gomert sounds a lot like Gomer Pyle–only dumber.
how did he ever become a judge? I just watched the interview and this seems a whole lot to me like the same kind of illogic used to connect Iraq to 9-11.
Yay! The videos are in the post now! Thanks to Wonkthevote.
The “anchor baby” talking point is annoying too, imho.
It’s one of those myths that people are extremely attached to.
Is that where someone has a baby to hold their place so they can get into the U.S. later? I read a really good short story at the New Yorker yesterday about that.
http://www.newyorker.com/fiction/features/2010/08/16/100816fi_fiction_alarcon?currentPage=all
Pretty soon, we’ll just be like any other third world country, and then Rep. Gomert can stop worrying about people trying to get into the U.S. to have their babies at no cost. No one will want to come here anymore when the empire crashes.
A lot of people even think that if you have your US citizen baby, you get to stay in the US from that moment on. They don’t get the part where at best, you have to wait 21 years and then jump through a bunch of hoops. (Or the part where if you get deported, of course you’re going to take your kid with you instead of leaving it to fend for itself).
Meaning a lot of people in the US believe this stuff, I didn’t mean immigrants believe it.
Yes. I was asked about this silly issue, and the person asking believed the whole anchor baby story. The person was a highly educated too.
I got asked how I felt about the “anchor babies” the other day. It’s funny because the anchor baby idea begs the question. How are these babies/children going to request for an illegal parent to stay in the U.S.? The child, though U.S. citizen is allowed to leave with the parents if the parents are deported. An adult citizen can request to bring their parents into the U.S. That’s true, but for that to happen that child must be fully employed and capable of supporting another person. A person (citizen or permanent resident visa) can fill out papers requesting a permanent visa for the parents. Ask any immigration lawyer, and they will tell you that parents are low priority for permanent visa. An adult with a husband/wife, or young child in another country, will get a high priority because obviously the government doesn’t put obstacles for a united family. The whole “anchor baby” is another GOP canard. Adult children are also low priority for permanent visa.
I wish all the illegals left the country.
I should have stated my view a little better. I want the fight to stop, and it would help if the illegals understood that their stay is dividing this country and it would be better if they left.
I’m for a pathway to citizenship.. and I know everybody uses it, so this isn’t directed toward you personally Dario, but I still don’t like the term illegals. I say undocumented citizens/workers.
Seconded, calling people “illegals” kind of creeps me out.
The old green cards, (yup, the cards were green), they said said “Alien”, and one had to register every year.
Okay. As you wish.
To be fair, you could say the exact same thing about Republicans, or Libertarians, or O-bots, or Lesbians, etc, etc. I don’t think it’s a good enough argument. And speaking as a legal immigrant, people don’t emigrate on a whim. They won’t go back to end an argument that’s all distraction tactic to begin with.
Exactly. Frankly, our presence here is dividing the country, too. If we all left, everyone remaining would get along. And many undocumented workers have been here for decades. They don’t have any place to go. Their families are here, their lives are here.
I’d rather deport pedophiles and rapists and murderers and keep any hard working people frankly. The 14th amendment was set up to define rights for former slaves not stop people from coming to the USA. The system mostly works because it encourages people to exploit them via jobs. It’s like blaming prostitutes for johns and drug dealers for addicts. It’s a two way relationship. Besides, as long as you can prove you have a job and you can pay taxes, there shouldn’t be an issue.
Why does everybody, on both sides, have to go to the extreme?
I mean … on the one hand we have a party calling for completely open borders, and no police officer had better dare question any “person of color” lest he be labelled “Raycist” and worse.
On the other side, now, we have to fear newborns of illegal immigrants??
Where the fu** is the middle ground? You know… the place where we try to stop human trafficking and drug cartels, and then offer a reasonable path to citizenship for hardworking wannabe Americans?
Geesh!
what the hell is wrong with you? that common sense stuff is only going to get you in trouble….. geesh, ya radical.
Thank you for this. I was feeling kind of down, then I read your comment and laughed out loud, and am still laughing as I type.
At some point, in everyone’s family, there was an immigrant. Sadly, a lot of people forget that.
Yeay! As an immigrant myself I am all for this.
I’m sorry but your first point is a gross exaggeration. What Party is calling for “completely open borders” and saying “no police officer had better dare question any person of color”? The imaginary party? The strawman party? It’s certainly not the Democratic Party.
Also, the middle ground you’re pinning for is actually the established mainstream political position of both parties though the last point, “path to citizenship”, is probably more Democratic than Republican.
Radical notion. How about if President Obama meets the press corps with a camera running and answers questions on the record. Too much transparency?
http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/08/12/with-off-the-record-lunch-obama-extends-a-hand/
Reminds me of W’s testimony to the 9.11 commission.
I think Bush had had more press conferences than Obama has by this point in the first term.
We should start a pool on when Obama will hold his next official press conference. Frankly, I don’t think it will be until after the 2012 election.
From my point of view this is the new “gay” or “abortion” issue. My feeling is this is just an issue presented by republicans purely to create havoc in the voting arena. The Republicans had power for eight years and did absolutely nothing about immigration. Suddenly this is a problem? The abortion issue and the gay issue must not be motivating voters enough. So this is the new motivation. I’m tired of this stuff. Perhaps if we would get the economy going in the Americas…all across the Americas, North, Central and South, with a living wage standard; perhaps people wouldn’t feel the need to desperately move out of their homes and into a new country
As far as the terrorist babies go….please…I’m tired of being afraid. Politicians are good at keeping us all afraid. If we want to truly stop terrorism maybe we should consider not invading countries that find no other way to fight us but through terrorism!
My only takeaway from the clips was this:
If only Mr. Cooper had spent this much time discussing Single Payer during the HCR debacle…
Or Obama’s civil rights abuses.
Or civilian deaths in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Or AFRICOM.
Obviously, I’m asking too much of him.
I agree about Anderson.. he really annoys me with some of his topics and he even can get aggressive with those he interviews!! who knew! single payer would have been a great place to do it along with so many important issues that have come up.
BUT if you notice he like msnbc, only brings things up that they can make it into a ra**st issue . look at cnn’s programing its like msnbc, no news station ,on the weekend or really any time . they do mostly do shows about the AA’s,hipanics,and the mosque in new york the mosque mostly about how people are so discriminating and other obama issues ,thing is it is non stop. promoting unity right? you ever see much about afganistan, pakistan?
Rep. Gohmert Warns Of Terrorist Babies