![]() The Washington Post itself ran a piece from Chris Cillizza titled, “Why that now-retracted Washington Post cartoon is a gift to Ted Cruz.” The Hill then reported that Cruz had “used the flat in a Tuesday fundraising pitch.” Well, that makes Cruz the bad guy, then. The Hill ran a story titled, “Washington Post retracts cartoon that calls Cruz’s daughters ‘political props.’” Monkeys. Pathetic left-lackey site Mediaite headlined, “WaPo Caves Into Pressure, Deletes Cartoon Depicting Cruz’s Children Amid Backlash.” That crazy Cruz and his anti-media aggression! Here was Politico’s headline: “Ted Cruz lashes out at Washington post cartoonist for drawing his daughters.”Ĭruz blasts cartoon accusing him of using his children as ‘props’ He was waiting – waiting, you hear?! – to exploit his daughters and draw the media into his crafty trap. Yes, you see, the villain in all of this is Cruz. Ted Cruz obtained new ammunition Tuesday to shoot at his favorite bogeyman, the mainstream media, after The Washington Post depicted his two young daughters as monkey-like characters doing the bidding of their father. So, how did the media cover a major newspaper running a caricature by a Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist of a Hispanic politician’s four- and seven-year-old children as monkeys? By ignoring it, or blaming Cruz.ĬNN headlined, “Washington Post pulls cartoon depicting Ted Cruz’s daughters as monkey-like characters.” This bitter childless woman has a history of imagining children on strings/leashes. Stick w/ attacking me–Caroline & Catherine are out of your league. But those Cruz kids – they’re monkeys, aren’t they? Here’s Cruz’s response:Ĭlassy. She explained her vicious cartoon by recognizing the “unspoken rule in editorial cartooning that a politician’s children are off-limits.” She then added, “But when a politician uses his children as political props, as Ted Cruz recently did in his Christmas parody video in which his eldest daughter read (with her father’s dramatic flourish) a passage of an edited Christmas classic, then I figure they are fair game.” How about President Obama’s children, routinely trotted out for political purposes by the Obamas? How about Hillary Clinton trotting out her status as a grandmother on the campaign trail? How about Nancy Pelosi stacking the House chamber with children to push her speakership and Obamacare, or Obama doing the same with regard to gun control? No biggie. I understand why Ann thought an exception to the policy was warranted in this case, but I do not agree.Ted Cruz has put his children in a political ad- don’t start screaming when editorial cartoonists draw them as well. I failed to look at this cartoon before it was published. Washington Post Editorial page editor Fred Hiatt said, "It’s generally been the policy of our editorial section to leave children out of it. While the artist Ann Telnaes defended her cartoon by implying that Cruz's daughters being in a political ad meant they were fair game for parody, The Post decided to pull it from their editorial section. Those against the cartoon said that children should be left out of any ads meant to slight the candidate's themselves. The parody drew backlash from Cruz and other Republicans. ![]() That depicted Ted Cruz's two daughters as trained monkeys, in response to a recent Christmas ad that featured the Senator with his family. Washington Post retracts cartoon that depicts Cruz's daughters as trained monkeys: /dk49MA5tnG- The Hill December 23, 2015
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