Click here to subscribe to the Charisma News newsletter. 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. I understand why Ann thought an exception to the policy was warranted in this case, but I do not agree.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. I failed to look at this cartoon before it was published. Kids should be off-limits and the Washington Post should know that.”Īfter taking the cartoon off its website, the Washington Post editorial page editor, Fred Hiatt posted this comment: “It’s generally been the policy of our editorial section to leave children out of it. Leave Hillary’s kids and grandkids alone. But let me suggest a very simple rule that everyone ought to follow: Leave the kids alone. Ted Cruz said, “Listen, I appreciate that, number one the media yesterday decides the right thing to do is to target my girls, to attack a 5-year old and 7-year old and now coming back and turning yet another attack, you know, thank you for that sentiment. The political cartoon drew sharp criticism from Cruz, who argued that the kids of political candidates should be off limits.įollowing a rally in Oklahoma today, Cruz slammed the Washington Post for publishing the cartoon. It was eventually retracted by the Washington Post, but the artist says she was justified in using Cruz’s daughters after Cruz used them in his campaign ad. The Washington Post pulled a controversial editorial cartoon on Tuesday night that had depicted Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruzs young daughters as dancing monkeys. The cartoon, which followed a new campaign ad featuring the presidential hopeful, his wife and their two daughters, also portrayed Cruz as an organ grinder. Senator Ted Cruz responded yesterday to a political cartoon published in the Washington Post that depicted his two daughters as dancing monkeys.
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