Posted on 12/23/2015 1:42:49 PM PST by Isara
After crying foul over a Washington Post editorial cartoon that depicted his children as "political props," presidential hopeful Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) turned the tables Wednesday with a drawing of his own.
"Seems like a better idea for a cartoon: Hillary and her lapdogs," Cruz wrote on Twitter.
Attached to the tweet: An image showing Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton walking two dogs labeled as The New York Times and The Washington Post.
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Seems like a better idea for a cartoon: Hillary and her lapdogs. pic.twitter.com/dou9c7fS4U— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) December 23, 2015 |
The Post on Tuesday retracted their original cartoon after a firestorm of controversy.
The animated cartoon featured a Santa Claus-costumed Cruz winding a music box as two leashed monkeys dance in elf costumes. The monkeys represent Cruz's daugthers, Caroline, 7, and Catherine, 4.
"Classy. @washingtonpost makes fun of my girls. Stick w/ attacking me--Caroline & Catherine are out of your league," Cruz tweeted Tuesday with a link to the cartoon.
Cartoonist Ann Telnaes wrote that Cruz waived the "unspoken rule" to leave politician's kids out of campaigns with a TV ad that ran during last week's "Saturday Night Live."
"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," Telnaes wrote when the cartoon was published.
On Tuesday evening, a note from editor Fred Hiatt appeared on The Washington Post's website reading: "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."
Ouch
A brilliant idea! It could have been drawn better, but that’s a minor quibble.
I'm not a Cruz fan, but that was way below American standards and that news agency should be shut down permanently....
He should have had a whole pack of dogs, CNN, MSNBC, ABC, CBS, NBC, Time, etc.
The media is disgusting. They have chosen to use their resources to promote democrats.
2015: A Year Fighting for Freedom, Texas, and America
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-D02_qv_kU
Nice video and worth your time.
no time to shop around get out there quick..This worked and I am sure there will be more.....
What a gorgeous family!
I would sure like to see them living in the White House.
Maybe a dog sled version on the horizon
BwaaaHaaHaaa!
Go Ted Go!
Or Hillary holding the leashes on a pack of wild dogs dragging her across the finish line.
It’s instructive to notice that so many of those who are now attacking Trump are the same ones who were savaging Palin from 2008-2012. The Journolist operated by Ezra Klein has undoubtedly been reactivated.
Touch’e!
OMG, that's rich!
Good for Cruz.
The two dogs look like weiner dogs!
Oh come on. They already went there with Trig Palin. Do you expect the media to become human?
Take THAT, beotches !!!!
My name is Bill, and I got this dog for Hillary.
“Good trade, Sir...”
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