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This is, in my opinion, the lowest and most trashy thing I have seen the Washington Post pull so far and there have been a lot of things. No wonder it is in the financial toilet. NM

Ted Cruz Strikes Back at Washington Post Cartoonist for Mocking His Daughters: They’re ‘out of Your League’
Ann Telnaes / Washington Post

by MATTHEW BOYLE
22 Dec 2015

UPDATE 6:00 PM: The Washington Post has officially yanked the cartoon down, un-publishing it late Tuesday evening after this Breitbart News story.

After pulling the cartoon down, the post issued this statement from editor Fred Hiatt: “It’s generally been the policy of our editorial section to leave children out of it. I failed to look at this cartoon before it was published. I understand why Ann thought an exception to the policy was warranted in this case, but I do not agree.”

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) , a 2016 GOP presidential candidate who’s currentlysurging in polls six weeks ahead of the first primary contests, fired back at a Washington Post cartoonist for mocking his daughters Caroline and Catherine.

“Classy,” Cruz tweeted in response, obviously sarcastically.

“Stick w/ attacking me–Caroline & Catherine are out of your league,” Cruz added.

The Post cartoonist, the Pulitzer Prize-winning Ann Telnaes, drew up a Christmas-themed cartoon where the senator’s 5 and 7 year-old daughters are portrayed as monkeys on a leash. Meanwhile, Cruz himself is portrayed wearing a Santa Claus suit holding a crank music box to which the girls’ leashes are attached. Cruz’s wife and the girls’ mother, Heidi, is not in the cartoon.

Telnaes–who won the Pulitzer Prize drawing cartoons mocking Republicans during the 2000 presidential election recount controversy–wrote a lengthy diatribe attempting to explain why she abandoned journalistic norms to attack Caroline, 7, and Catherine, 5.

“There is an unspoken rule in editorial cartooning that a politician’s children are off-limits,” Telnaes admits. “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. 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.”

At that point, she tried explaining why she was breaking the rules. Her argument centers around the belief that Cruz–the senator and candidate–includes his daughters on the campaign trail and in some videos from his campaign.

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Ted Cruz has put his children in a political ad- don't start screaming when editorial cartoonists draw them as well. http://wapo.st/1U0FF7M
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“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),” Telnaes wrote. “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.”

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DECEMBER 22, 2015


RACISM STRAIGHT UP:

Washington Post cartoonist Ann Telnaes depicts children of Hispanic presidential candidate as monkeys:

Commenting 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 “[t]hey are fair game.”


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.”

Here’s the cartoon:


“Tell me, if Obama’s daughters were, hypothetically, in his most famous campaign ad, the 30 minute ad he ran on most networks on the eve of the 2008 election, would they be ‘fair game’ too?”, Ace asks, noting that at about the twenty minute mark, “You know what I see there? ‘Fair game,’ according to the Washington Post. That’s what I see there.”


As T. Becket Adams adds at the Washington Examiner, “In 2014, an obscure GOP Hill staffer was forced to resign from her job after a Facebook post criticizing President Obama’s daughters, Sasha and Malia, went viral on social media:”

Outside of social media, Lauten’s comments also created a media firestorm, and even led the networks one evening in December.


“It is one of the few rules that the news media and the mob usually both adhere to: Leave families out of the fight. However, tonight a Republican staffer is out of a job after something she wrote on social media about the first daughters,” then-NBC News anchor Brian Williams said on Dec. 1, 2014.


Spokespersons for the Post did not respond to the Washington Examiner’s request for comment.

Not to mention, the Washington Post’s staffers twisted themselves into knots in 2006 to depict George Allen’s impromptu response to his omnipresent Mohawk-coiffed Democrat video tracker as a racist slur — and then proceeded to run an estimated 100 stories on Allen’s “racism” from mid-August to election day to simultaneously swing the race to his opponent, hand the Senate to the Democrats, and knock out a leading 2008 GOP presidential candidate. But hey, the Post’s excuse for practicing racism towards Republicans and their kids? Eh — “fair game.”

http://pjmedia.com/instapundit/222133/

Disgusting. The media is just rotten to the core. They are all losing every ounce of credibility. Talk about "carnival barkers" and "side shows", they're the barkers putting on the show. No American can take any of them seriously any more and they are quickly raising themselves up to Public Enemy No. 1.

Disgusting, not surprising, but disgusting.

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Here is a photo of Ann Telnaes who drew this cartoon. If someone knows how to post it here direct, please do so. That way if we ever run into her on the sidewalk, we'll know to cross the street.

Here you go Judy.

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.”

Illegals and their supporters use children all the time as props, but I don't see any racist cartoons published on them.

There is no excuse for this cartoon. And it's white on black racism in its pre-civil war finest style. This is actually less of an insult to Cruz or his girls, than it is to black Americans because this racist Ann Telnaes thought depicting Cruz's girls as monkeys, a common cartoon for blacks in the old days, was the ultimate put down of these children. Also, her cartoon was so badly drawn, I thought they were little mice like Mickey Mouse cartoons and didn't even connect it to the girls. I'm always the last one to get a mean joke even when it's well done, let alone one done badly.

It's just a disgusting thing all the way around and I'm glad people saw it, recognized it for what it is, complained and forced WaPo to pull it.

The arrogance of this vicious little liberal is breathtaking.

Thank you!! Was that you Newmexican who fixed my post? If wish we had a hug smiley!

Originally Posted by Judy

Thank you!! Was that you Newmexican who fixed my post? If wish we had a hug smiley!

You are welcome Judy.