Posted on 12/22/2015 3:43:10 PM PST by Isara
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. 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.
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.
Ann Telnaes is an....
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Kennedy kids and almost every kid since has been used as a photo-op prop for both TV, print and palm cards.
There has generally been a double standard. Candidates can and do use them in positive ways. But opponents cannot use them in negative ways.
Another political prop in Iowa.
http://a.abcnews.go.com/images/Politics/GTY_barack_obama_sasha_bumper_car_2007_jt_150621_4x3_992.jpg
Seems I recall prez Jimma’s daughter being in the mix
during his admin.
Hey, Little Annie Ahole. Show me just ONE politician who doesn’t, you hypocrite scumbag! You commies are going to have to better than this.
Uh, you may want to check your human biology texts.
As for the WaPoop - If the Dems do it, it is family values. If a Republican, how dare they stoop so low!
It s hard to disagree with your sentiment...
Wow. That photo of the Obamas with their YOUNG girls. Just goes to show how long that bum has been in office.
Are those the kids Hussein and Michael rented from Morocco?
I corrected the year in a separate post. FR needs to have a feature to allow a post to be edited within say a few minutes of being posted that hasn’t been responded to.
Ann Telnaes better hope Cruz wins the primary, Ted is a gentleman. But if Trump wins, Hillary and Webb's daughter Chelsea will become a whipping horse to be beaten with a stick, the ugly stick.
What a joke.
Every democrat in office uses his/her family as props every time they get in trouble.
The Clintons were masters at it.
Probably still are.
This comment at wapo site nails it:
Obama did the same thing with his daughters as recently as this past Thanksgiving. I dare you to change the adult to Obama and make his two daughters monkeys dancing on the end of a string.
How many positive news stories about Hillary and Webb Hubbell’s grandkid do you think the press wont hesitate to run in a few months?
I am a Trump supporter, but attacking the Cruz children and portraying them as monkeys is beyond the pale!
Shame on Ann Telnaes!
as a Cruz supporter I hate to say this but he needs a fashion makeover...clearly he picks his clothes not his wife.
I saw that AFTER I responded and as for the ability to post-edit - OH YEAH!
But we will just have to continue to live with our blotted copybooks. Have you tried white-out or is that too much white aggression?
However the fix for the '’' needs to come FIRST!!!
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