Punchlines: 'Anchor babies,' no matter the language, still sounds bad

No, foreign languages don't make the use of offensive phrases somehow less offensive.

GOP presidential candidate Jeb Bush flanked the phrase "anchor babies" with nearly impeccable Spanish during a news conference at the Mexican border Monday. And while his goal was to dig himself out of the "anchor baby" hole, he seems to have dug himself a bit deeper, garnering even more criticism among those who find the phrase — used to describe babies born in the U.S. to foreign mothers who want to ensure citizenship for their children — highly offensive.

Aiming the word at a different group of people (he said that Asians were the real problem when it came to "anchor babies"), didn't lessen the blow.

Nor did it help him in the polls. According to a recent Quinnipiac survey, Bush only has 7% of GOP support, making him far less popular than Donald Trump. The saving grace for Bush? At least he's beating Trump at something, even if it's unpopularity, according to late-night comic Jimmy Fallon. And Jimmy Kimmel admits he doesn't understand the controversy surrounding the phrase. Take a look at how he applies the term to all children.

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