The ad ran in Iowa during last week's episode of "Saturday Night Live" - and it was made to look like one of the show's own parody commercials. Other "classics" touted in the commercial include "How Obamacare Stole Christmas" and "Rudolph, The Underemployed Reindeer." 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. Seuss book "Green Eggs and Ham" to his daughters during the nearly 22 hours he spoke on the Senate floor against Obamacare. Cruz, dressed as Santa Claus, operates an organ grinder leashed to two dancing monkeys. The video featured Caroline reading "The Grinch Who Lost Her Emails," in an apparent reference to the Hillary Clinton email scandal. Description of Artwork: Ann Telnaes, a former winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning, created a cartoon for The Washington Post that featured Republican Presidential Candidate Ted Cruz and his daughters. Earlier Tuesday, The Washington Post had published a cartoon by Ann Telnaes, the paper's editorial cartoonist, that depicted Senator Cruz dressed like Santa Claus accompanied by his two daughters. I understand why Ann thought an exception to the policy was warranted in this case, but I do not agree."
I failed to look at this cartoon before it was published. With the cartoon receiving a lot of backlash, the Post not only pulled the image from the site, but it was also replaced by an editor's note from Fred Hiatt which stated, "It’s generally been the policy of our editorial section to leave children out of it. "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." "There is an unspoken rule in editorial cartooning that a politician’s children are off-limits," Telnaes said in introducing the cartoon. Ted Cruz DecemHe was bashing Post cartoonist Ann Telnaes, who depicted Cruz's daughters - Caroline, 7, and Catherine, 4 - as monkeys leashed to their father's organ-grinder in a cartoon published earlier Tuesday. The Washington Post has retracted a cartoon that showed Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz as Santa and his daughters as monkeys. Stick w/ attacking me-Caroline & Catherine are out of your league. I understand why Ann thought an exception to the policy was warranted in this case, but I do not agree.”Ī tweet on Telnaes’ Twitter account Tuesday said: “Ted Cruz has put his children in a political ad – don’t start screaming when editorial cartoonists draw them as well.Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz slammed a cartoonist at The Washington Post for satirizing the Texas senator's two children, whom he used in a campaign ad reading parodies of two Christmas classics.Ĭlassy. On Tuesday, the Washington Post published a cartoon by Ann Telnaes, the papers editorial cartoonist, that portrayed. The Post removed the cartoon from the site and replaced it with a note from Editor Fred Hiatt: “It’s generally been the policy of our editorial section to leave children out of it. Washington Post retracts cartoon depicting Ted Cruzs daughters as monkeys. “… I knew I’d be facing attacks from day one of my campaign, but I never expected anything like this.” “My daughters are not fair game,” he wrote in the email soliciting contributions. The Washington Post removed a cartoon that featured Ted Cruz’s children amid pushback from the presidential candidate and his supporters. In response to the cartoon, Cruz launched an “emergency” appeal Tuesday night seeking to raise $1 million in 24 hours. Ted Cruz hammered the Washington Post on Wednesday for publishing an online editorial cartoon depicting his two young daughters as dancing monkeys. In Ann Telnaes’ cartoon, Cruz held the leashes of two dancing monkeys in costume. which allowed an outrageous cartoon showing Ted Cruz dressed up as Santa Claus. Caroline, 7, and Catherine, 5, have occasionally joined their father onstage, including at last week’s debate in Las Vegas, and were featured in one of his recent television commercials. The Washington Post is the leading political newspaper in the country. The cartoon - which the Post has removed from its website - poked fun at Cruz, saying he was using his two young daughters as political props.
Under the spotlight cast by a Washington Post cartoon that depicted his children as monkeys, Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz launched an “emergency fund-raising campaign.”
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