As a father of two, I can certify that there is every reason to be terrified of babies. They deny you sleep. They bleed you into bankruptcy. They spout effluvia in every direction imaginable. They are explosive, people.
So I suppose it was inevitable that the U.S. would eventually experience a Summer of Baby Fear. Politicians advocating the repeal or revision of the 14th Amendment have been warning of the danger of “anchor babies”: infants born to illegal immigrants in order to stake a claim on U.S. citizenship.
Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Tex.), however, has raised the stakes, warning of “terror babies,” the littlest sleeper agents, allegedly being born in the U.S. to claim citizenship, then return as terrorists decades hence. His purported evidence for the claim: conversations with an unnamed former FBI agent, and a woman he met on a plane. Last night, Anderson Cooper hosted Rep. Gohmert on CNN to ask him to substantiate the claim, and the showdown was pretty breathtaking:
Don’t be fooled, people. They only look cute.
