Fox News: ‘Penélope Cruz is Having an Anchor Baby’

Leave it to the network to insult Latinos on what's supposed to be their own turf.

By Jorge Rivas Dec 14, 2010

Spanish actress Penélope Cruz recently revealed that she’s planning on giving birth to her baby boy in Los Angeles. Shortly after Fox News Latino called her unborn child an "anchor baby" in a story titled "Penélope Cruz and Javier Bardem Are Having an Anchor Baby."

Leave it to Fox News to insult Latinos in what is supposed to be their own turf. In October 2010, Fox News launched "Fox News Latino", a site dedicated to attracting a Latino audience. "We’re aiming at Latinos whose first language is English, who inform themselves in English, who are deeply American, but share some of the cultural sensibilities of their parents or grandparents," the site’s managing editor, Alberto Vourvoulias-Bush, told the Miami Herald.

A group of Latino conservatives, Somos Republicans ("We Are Republicans") is urging Fox to remove the story and apologize for using the term "anchor baby."

"Fox News Latino is being insensitive and their actions are reprehensible.The term ‘anchor baby’ is equivalent to other defamatory terms such as ‘wetback,’ ‘pickaninny’ and ‘tar baby.’ Media outlets should never use these demeaning terms in connection with precious babies, and it is unfortunate that we have to inform FOX News of this when they are typically viewed as conservative."