Some didn't appreciate the rather obvious window-pane-as-cross. Is any publicity good publicity? That hasn't always held true on social media, but in this case, it's working in the candidate's favor.Īnd because it's Christmas, I'm reminded of Mike Huckabee's video in 2007. The Washington Post removed an editorial cartoon from its website late Tuesday that depicted Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz's young daughters as trained monkeys. The cartoon portrays Cruz as an organ grinder. The catalyst for the cartoon was a Christmas ad Cruz ran. The Texas senator was responding to a cartoon from Washington Post cartoonist Ann Telnaes captioned as, Ted Cruz uses his kids as political props. The controversy may have given Cruz's campaign a nice Christmas jolt: so far, his family video has been watched more than 1.7 million times. The cartoon in question featured Cruz as Santa along with his children as two monkey-like creatures. I understand why Ann thought an exception to the policy was warranted in this case, but I do not agree. Ted Cruz launched an 'emergency' fundraising appeal seeking to raise 1 million in 24 hours in response to a Washington Post online editorial cartoon depicting the Republicans two young. The Washington Post has removed an editorial cartoon from its website that showed Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz as an organ grinder dressed as Santa Claus with is daughters depicted. 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. Cruz’s daughters as trained monkeys dancing to his. However, The Post editor Fred Hiatt disagreed: Ted Cruz won a victory over the mainstream media on Tuesday night when The Washington Post withdrew an editorial cartoon that depicted Mr. Like us on Facebook Follow us on Twitter. who insisted that the cartoon is a form of child abuse. I’ve kept to that rule, except when the children are adults themselves or choose to indulge in grown-up activities (as the Bush twins did during the George W Bush presidency). 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. The most hysterical response to a Washington Post cartoon depicting Senator Ted Cruz’ daughters as monkeys has got to belong to Peter Johnson, Jr. 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.
There are plenty of adults in the political world who act childish, so there is no need for an editorial cartoonist to target actual children. The Washington Post ignited a debate over the role of children in U.S. There is an unspoken rule in editorial cartooning that a politician’s children are off-limits. People 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.
The cartoonist, Pulitzer Prize winner Ann Telnaes, defended her cartoon: The Washington Post has retracted a cartoon depicting presidential candidate Ted Cruz's children as monkeys.
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