Senator Ted Cruz, for his part, blasted the Washington Post, telling a crowd in Tulsa that the newspaper went too far. Her tweet included a link to a parody ad from the Cruz campaign, showing him reading books to his daughters with titles such as, “Frosty, the Speaker of the House,” “How Obamacare Stole Christmas,” and “The Grinch Who Lost Her Emails.” Ted Cruz has put his children in a political ad- don't start screaming when editorial cartoonists draw them as well. However, Telnaes clarified her position on Twitter, writing: We reached out to Hiatt and to Telnaes for comment, but both directed us back to the above statement. 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. It’s generally been the policy of our editorial section to leave children out of it. The cartoon was up for several hours before the Washington Post’s editorial editor, Fred Hiatt, retracted it and issued the following statement in its place: The cartoon, which was created by Pulitzer Prize winner Ann Telnaes, depicted Senator Ted Cruz as an organ grinder while two monkeys - apparently depicting his 4-year-old and 7-year-old daughters - danced in front of him. > Follow J.D.The Washington Post has pulled a political cartoon from its site - a rare move for a major newspaper. I understand why Ann thought an exception to the policy was warranted in this case, but I do not agree.Ī screengrab of the original Tweet from Telnaes is here: 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 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. 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?).
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