The cartoon was widely panned by both Democrats and Republicans Tuesday. RELATED: Washington Post pulls cartoon depicting Ted Cruz’s daughters Editorial page editor Fred Hiatt quickly apologized for the cartoon, but Telnaes defended her decision on Twitter, saying that Cruz made his daughters fair game when he included them in a recent campaign video. The Post published – then quickly pulled down – a cartoon from editorial cartoonist Ann Telnaes showing his two daughters as monkeys on leashes and him dressed in a Santa suit, playing an organ grinder.
Don’t mess with my kids, don’t mess with Marco’s kids, don’t mess with Hillary’s kids, don’t mess with anybody’s kids! Leave kids alone and if the media wants to attack and ridicule every Republican, well, that’s what they’re gonna do, but leave our kids alone.” presidential campaigns when it published - and then retracted - a political cartoon portraying Republican candidate Ted Cruz as an organ grinder and his. He added, “It used to be for a long time the rules across the board, that kids are off limits, that should be the rules. Don’t make fun of a 5-year-old girl and a 7-year-old girl.” The Washington Post depicted his young daughters, Catherine and Caroline, as trained monkeys.Tune into World News Tonight with David Muir weeknights at 6:30. “All of us learned in kindergarten – don’t hit little girls. “I have to admit yesterday when I saw that cartoon – not much ticks me off – but making fun of my girls, that’ll do it,” Cruz told reporters after a campaign swing in Oklahoma. The Washington Post pulled a political cartoon depicting GOP presidential candidate Ted Cruz’s school-age daughters as monkeys and him as an organ grinder after an outcry from Cruz supporters. Please let us know if you're having issues with commenting.Ted Cruz said Wednesday The Washington Post editorial cartoonist who depicted his daughters is due for a lesson most others learned in kindergarten: “Don’t hit little girls.” Post editorial cartoonist Ann Telnaes skewered the 2016 presidential candidate for using his daughters Caroline, 7, and Catherine, 4, in a holiday-themed campaign ad. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) for including his young daughters in a recent campaign ad. “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 Washington Post on Tuesday retracted an editorial cartoon mocking Sen. “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. Ted Cruz holds his daughters Catherine (left) and Caroline at a rally in Des Moines, Iowa, on Aug. Cruz’s daughters, ages 5 and 7, were featured recently in an online ad by the campaign that featured political Christmas tales. Ted Cruz has put his children in a political ad- don't start screaming when editorial cartoonists draw them as well. Republican presidential candidate and Sen. On Twitter, Cruz immediately assailed the cartoon as tasteless. 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. 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.”Īt that point, she tried explaining why she was breaking the rules. “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 is an unspoken rule in editorial cartooning that a politician’s children are off-limits,” Telnaes admits. But when a politician uses his children as political props, as Ted Cruz recently did in his Christmas parody video in which his eldest.
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. The cartoon depicted Cruz's daughters as trained monkeys. Cruz’s wife and the girls’ mother, Heidi, is not in the cartoon. Meanwhile, Cruz himself is portrayed wearing a Santa Claus suit holding a crank music box to which the girls’ leashes are attached. 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. “Stick w/ attacking me–Caroline & Catherine are out of your league,” Cruz added. Telnaes insisted that by allowing his daughters to appear on television, he had made them fair game, saying, Ted Cruz has put his children in a political. Stick w/ attacking me–Caroline & Catherine are out of your league.
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