![]() ![]() Seuss' Green Eggs and Ham from the Senate floor during a filibuster - reading faux holiday stories to his daughters, with political titles like "How Obamacare Stole Christmas."Īnother "story" took a shot at Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton: "The Grinch Who Lost Her E-Mails. The ad that inspired the cartoon features Cruz - who once read Dr. The Post saying the kids are 'fair game' is even worse." Said Marco Rubio on Twitter: "Wash Post cartoon featuring children is disgusting. "Ted Cruz has put his children in a political ad- don't start screaming when editorial cartoonists draw them as well," she said on Twitter.Įven some of Cruz's political opponents criticized the cartoon and the defense of it. The cartoonist, Ann Telnaes, noted that Cruz used his children in an ad attacking President Obama, Hillary Clinton and other Democrats. Senator Ted Cruz’s teenage daughter appears to be OK after being taken to the hospital earlier this week for reported self-inflicted stab wounds. ![]() Stick w/ attacking me-Caroline & Catherine are out of your league."Ĭruz also sent out a fundraising appeal based on the cartoon with the headline "They attacked my children!" and calling on supporters to "help me fight back." "Classy," the Texas senator said in a Twitter post. I understand why (the cartoonist) thought an exception to the policy was warranted in this case, but I do not agree."Īmong the critics of the cartoon: Cruz himself. "It’s generally been the policy of our editorial section to leave children out of it," said a note from Post editorial page editor Fred Hiatt. "I failed to look at this cartoon before it was published. Click here to subscribe to the Charisma News newsletter.The Washington Post has pulled a cartoon that depicted Ted Cruz's two daughters as trained monkeys, a response to a Cruz ad featuring his children. Get Charisma's best content delivered right to your inbox! Never miss a big news story again. To contact us or to submit an article, click here. Having The Post yank the cartoon allows him to look like he gets results from those predisposed against his-and his supporters'-worldview." "Setting the Trump-ish language aside, that is one of the knocks against Cruz-that he's full of principle but short on results. The article then suggests Cruz is overly manipulative-"he has a penchant for tactics"-in a way that is both irritating to fellow Republicans and that "ultimately change little." Post reporter Callum Borchers wrote: "Whether you agree with Telnaes' original reasoning or Hiatt's overriding rationale, one thing should be obvious to any political observer: This is a win for a candidate who is rising in the polls thanks to support from more conservative Republicans and who has been highly critical of the press-most memorably during the third Republican presidential debate, when he blasted the moderators' questions as being illustrative of 'why the American people don't trust the media.'" "Why That Now-Retracted Washington Post Cartoon Is a Gift to Ted Cruz" A few hours later, however, The Washington Post took the incident to a new level of shamelessness: Saying he hadn't seen the cartoon before it was published, he said he "understood" why Telnaes thought the paper's policy could be ignored in this case, but he did not agree. Her boss, editorial page editor Fred Hiatt, ultimately disagreed. 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." In defense of her cartoon, Telnaes said, "here is an unspoken rule in editorial cartooning that a politician's children are off-limits. The cartoon was publicly available on The Post's website for only a few hours, during which time it was blasted by Republicans and Democrats alike. It showed Ted Cruz in a Santa suit with his trademark cowboy boots, turning an organ grinder with two chained monkeys to depict Caroline and Catherine. The Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist took up the issue of using one's children as "political props"-a common phrase used to attack a candidate's use of a person, group of people, location, or object to score political points in a campaign-in her depiction of Cruz and his daughters. Regardless of one's views on whether or not Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz should be featuring his daughters in his campaign advertisements, Washington Post editorial cartoonist Ann Telnaes crossed a line once thought unimaginable in past presidential campaigns. Email Ted Cruz has incorporated his family, including his daughters Caroline and Catherine, into his campaign advertisements, which became the central theme of a controversial 'Washington Post' cartoon. ![]()
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