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Cruz fires back at Washington Post with a cartoon of his own
The Hill ^ | December 23, 2015 | Elliot Smilowitz

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.

Hillary's Lapdogs

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."


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: anntelnaes; canadian; cartoon; cruz; hillary; ineligible; lapdogs; newyorktimes; tcruz; tedcruz; telnaes; washingtonpost; wp
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To: pocat
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61 posted on 12/23/2015 4:32:31 PM PST by timestax (American Media = Domestic Enemy)
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To: Isara
"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."

Libs - including Obama - use children as props all the time, and sometimes they even have the children mouthing obscenities and making obscene gestures.
62 posted on 12/23/2015 5:15:51 PM PST by Steve_Seattle ("Above all, shake your bum at Burton.")
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To: Bubba_Leroy
"We all know that the media is blatantly biased. That is a given. But this is truly breathtaking hypocrisy. Imagine the media reaction if anyone had published this cartoon:"

Exactly. For years, libs routinely referred to Dubya as "the chimp" and "the monkey man," whereas any such characterization of Obama was verboten. I once got in a huge argument with my liberal sister on that issue, her argument being that "given the historical racist association between blacks and apes blah blah blah.
63 posted on 12/23/2015 5:21:20 PM PST by Steve_Seattle ("Above all, shake your bum at Burton.")
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To: Isara

But I laughed all through the ComPost cartoon-laughed and laughed-all the way through completing my monthly Cruz donation form.


64 posted on 12/23/2015 5:59:16 PM PST by tanuki (Left-wing Revolution: show biz for boring people.)
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To: Isara

I’ve heard the analysts talking today about this pic of Cruz’s kids and calling them “hispanic” children and how awful it was to show them as monkeys. I thought it was a stupid cartoon, but it had nothing to do with his daughters being hispanic because they’re not. And if that was the cartoonist intent he’s an idiot. Their mother is 100% anglo American and their father is half anglo and half Cuban. That makes the two little girls 1/4th Cuban (or hispanic) if that’s what you want to call it. Cruz is not culturally hispanic and speaks no Spanish. He was raised in Canada, then in Texas. His support is almost exclusively white conservatives. His opponent in the US senate race killed him in the hispanic vote. I just think it’s strange to keep calling Cruz hispanic because of his last name. His daughters certainly are not hispanic. My wife’s g greatmother is a full-blooded Mohawk but she damn sure does not call herself an Indian. She’s an American, mostly of Irish ancestry.


65 posted on 12/23/2015 6:28:52 PM PST by NKP_Vet (In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle,stand like a rock ~ T, Jefferson)
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To: All

What is the difference between the liberal media and the ayatollahs of Iran?

Liberal media has Fridays off.


66 posted on 12/23/2015 6:32:32 PM PST by Peter ODonnell (I just learned that DC now stands for Division of the Caliphate)
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To: Isara

Love it!!


67 posted on 12/23/2015 6:42:14 PM PST by MarMema
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To: stanne

Let’s hope this embarrassing incident doesn’t reflect badly on Ann Telnaes’s role as spokeswoman for the Crackwhore Babysitting Agency.


68 posted on 12/23/2015 7:51:35 PM PST by Carl Vehse
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69 posted on 12/24/2015 1:52:48 PM PST by timestax (American Media = Domestic Enemy)
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To: timestax
Who else would you pick?

Schlepper Sniff.

70 posted on 12/24/2015 1:56:03 PM PST by ROCKLOBSTER (Celebrate "Republicans Freed the Slaves Month")
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