makes fun of my girls,” he tweeted Tuesday.
That’s what triggered Ann Telnaes, a Post political cartoonist, to draw an animated cartoon of Cruz in a Santa suit, with his two daughters dressed as monkeys, much like those that might be used by an old-time organ grinder.Ĭruz took huge affront, quickly blasting the Post’s cartoon on Twitter. “’I’ll use my own server, and no one will be the wiser!’” “’I know just what I’ll do,’ she said with a snicker,” Caroline chirps. So here’s where Cruz employs daughter Caroline to criticize Clinton: That’s a dig at Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton, a former Secretary of State, who has been hammered by Republicans in Congress for using her own private e-mail server rather than the State Department’s. The narrator says “The whole family will enjoy reading stories like, ‘The Grinch Who Lost Her Emails.’”
On the screen is an orange ish snowman, walking through the snow - carrying a wine glass and smoking a cigarette – familiar companions to the well-tanned former speaker.Ĭruz then says, “Look! The speaker is melting before Congress!”Ī little later, here’s the one that provoked the cartoon by Pulitzer-prize winning cartoonist Telnaes. In this case, read festive stories like: ‘Frosty the Speaker of the House.’” A narrator’s voice, acting as the sales agent, says “Act now, and you’ll get a leader who does exactly what he says he’s going to do. House Speaker John Boehner, who had called Cruz a “jackass,” and who resigned the speakership after tiring of battling with the House’s Tea Party contingent. This time, Cruz substituted other words, intended to poke fun, or worse, at some of his political opponents.įor instance, here’s one aimed at former U.S. Seuss book, “Green Eggs and Ham.” Cruz had read from that children’s classic during a 21-hour fake filibuster in 2013, as part of his effort to defund Obamacare. The infomercial-style ad was a fictitious sales pitch for a knock-off of the Dr. It featured Cruz, wife Heidi, and daughters Caroline, 7, and Catherine, 5, sitting comfortably on a couch amid Christmas decorations. He used them in a political stunt, laying the groundwork for a Washington Post cartoon questioning Cruz involving his kids in an attack ad.Ĭruz made a lampoonish ad for Saturday Night Live, to air in first-in-the-nation election primary state of Iowa, on Dec. Back on December 14, the elder Cruz and Texas Senator was smeared by Nightly Show host Larry Wilmore as “creepy” with mental problems while guest Aida Rodriguez ruled that Cruz would “do everything the KKK does” if he becomes president.Poor Ted Cruz. Įven though the Christmas season is upon us, the liberal media haven’t stopped in their vicious attacks on conservatives. Stick w/ attacking me-Caroline & Catherine are out of your league. Not long after the cartoon and two-paragraph post was placed on the liberal newspaper’s website, Cruz responded in the following tweet:Ĭlassy. Under other, unspecified circumstances, Telnaes lectured that “here’s an an unspoken rule in editorial cartooning that a politician’s children are off-limits” since “eople don’t get to choose their family members so obviously it’s unfair to ridicule kids for their parent’s behavior while in office or on the campaign trail- besides, they’re children.” In attempting to explain her arguably racist GIF, Telnaes argued that because daughters Caroline and Catherine appeared in a humorous Christmas-themed ad, they have decided “to indulge in grown-up activities” and allowed their father to play them “as political props.” I understand why Ann thought an exception to the policy was warranted in this case, but I do not agree.Ĭommenting on Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz’s daughters appearing in a campaign ad on Saturday, Washington Post cartoonist Ann Telnaes created a disgusting GIF early Tuesday evening depicting Cruz’s young daughters as toy monkeys being played with and arguing that “hey are fair game.” I failed to look at this cartoon before it was published.
It’s generally been the policy of our editorial section to leave children out of it. Informing readers of the decision, editorial page editor Fred Hiatt ruled that he could “understand why” Telnaes penned the cartoon, but admitted that he “do not agree” with what she published: Eastern: Following near instant outrage from across the political spectrum, The Washington Post removed both the cartoon and the two-paragraph explanation of Ann Telnaes’s cartoon depicted Ted Cruz’s daughters as toy monkeys.
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