I understand why Ann thought an exception to the policy was warranted in this case, but I do not agree. presidential campaigns when it published - and then retracted - a political cartoon portraying Republican candidate Ted Cruz as an organ grinder and his daughters as monkeys. I failed to look at this cartoon before it was published. The Washington Post ignited a debate over the role of children in U.S. It’s generally been the policy of our editorial section to leave children out of it. ET: It appears as if the Washington Post has caved to the pressure amid backlash from Senator Cruz, as the original post has been removed and Telnaes’ original Tweet - which we originally embedded up above - as been deleted.Īn Editor’s Note from Fred Hiatt on the link that formerly included Telnaes’ cartoon includes the following: We will update this post with the latest in the great Winter Solstice cartoon war of Cruz v. Ted Cruz launched an 'emergency' appeal seeking to raise 1 million in 24 hours in response to a Washington Post online editorial cartoon depicting his two young daughters as dancing monkeys. Ted Cruz has put his children in a political ad- don’t start screaming when editorial cartoonists draw them as well. On Tuesday morning, Telnaes hinted of the possibility that she might take square aim at Cruz’s decision to use his daughters in the comedy sketch, cryptically Tweeting the following: Stick w/ attacking me–Caroline & Catherine are out of your league. Within an hour, Ted Cruz took to Twitter to bash the “classy” display from The Washington Post cartoonist, noting that his daughters “Caroline & Catherine are out of your league.”Ĭlassy. Ted Cruz uses his kids as political props /GNfoP4batF Telnaes wasted no time in hitting at the heart of the parody, and illustrated Cruz as a boot-sporting Santa organ grinder making his children monkey dance: Seuss “classics” like “How Obamacare Stole Christmas”. The video in question stars the Texas Senator alongside his two daughters reading parody Dr. In her write-up for The Washington Post online, Telnaes acknowledges that, “There is an unspoken rule in editorial cartooning that a politician’s children are off-limits.” However Telnaes clarified why her recent artwork was deserving of exemption status from that unspoken rule:īut 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. I understand why Ann thought an exception to the policy was warranted in this case, but I do not agree.Ann Telnaes, an editorial cartoonist from The Washington Post, created and published a cartoon recently that depicted GOP candidate Ted Cruz and his children (the cartoon was actually a GIF since it’s 2015 - what would Charles Addams say to GIFs, I wonder?). The cartoon depicted the politician dressed as Santa, spinning a music box with Cruz 2016, with two little leashed monkeys dressed up and dancing in front of him. I failed to look at this cartoon before it was published. IMPORTANT UPDATE: The Washington Post has retracted the cartoon with this statement posted at the original link:Įditor’s note from Fred Hiatt: It’s generally been the policy of our editorial section to leave children out of it. "Fair game" age according to the Washington Post Īnd everyone in their right mind ought to side w/ him. Proper headline: WaPo cartoonist targets Cruz daughters, aged 5 and 7. lashes out at Washington Post cartoonist for drawing his daughters | Getty /CZY0qYll7Kĭrawing his daughters? No, they didn’t draw his daughters, they drew little monkeys ad said they were his daughters.Īlso Cruz isn’t lashing out, he’s defending his family from unfair political attacks. UPDATE: There’s no outrage from the scumbags at Politico. So tell me, how outraged do you think the press would be if this were Obama and his kids? As El Sooper suggested to me, it’d be nothing short of nuclear war, and you know he’s right.
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