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Washington Post: Ted Cruz uses his kids as political props
Washington Post ^ | December 22, 2015 | Ann Telnaes

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.

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To: Isara

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.


21 posted on 12/22/2015 3:54:54 PM PST by spintreebob
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To: RummyChick

Another political prop in Iowa.
http://a.abcnews.go.com/images/Politics/GTY_barack_obama_sasha_bumper_car_2007_jt_150621_4x3_992.jpg


22 posted on 12/22/2015 3:55:00 PM PST by RummyChick
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To: Isara

Seems I recall prez Jimma’s daughter being in the mix
during his admin.


23 posted on 12/22/2015 3:55:14 PM PST by Sivad (Juan Corona would vote for Democrats)
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To: Isara

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.


24 posted on 12/22/2015 3:55:36 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (The biggest liars in the liberal media have started referring to themselves as fact checkers. Sad.)
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To: spintreebob

25 posted on 12/22/2015 3:56:59 PM PST by RummyChick
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To: CatOwner
Preemptive strike by the MSM before the comments start about Hillary’s campaign prop next summer/fall, aka Chelsea’s next child due in 2017.

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!

26 posted on 12/22/2015 3:57:20 PM PST by SES1066 (Quality, Speed or Economical - Any 2 of 3 except in government - 1 at best but never #3!)
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To: WorkingClassFilth
America loves this stuff, so you can go stuff it, too!

It s hard to disagree with your sentiment...

27 posted on 12/22/2015 3:57:52 PM PST by St_Thomas_Aquinas ( Isaiah 22:22, Matthew 16:19, Revelation 3:7)
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To: RummyChick

Wow. That photo of the Obamas with their YOUNG girls. Just goes to show how long that bum has been in office.


28 posted on 12/22/2015 4:00:25 PM PST by 21twelve (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2185147/posts It is happening again.)
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To: RummyChick

Are those the kids Hussein and Michael rented from Morocco?


29 posted on 12/22/2015 4:00:28 PM PST by MayflowerMadam
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To: SES1066

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.


30 posted on 12/22/2015 4:02:49 PM PST by CatOwner (Trump + Cruz greater than 50% = GOPe on suicide watch)
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To: SES1066
Liberals HATE happy traditional families, they have daddy issues and so they want to tear down what they missed in their own dysfunctional homes.

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.

31 posted on 12/22/2015 4:03:58 PM PST by DaveyB (Live free or die!)
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To: Isara

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.


32 posted on 12/22/2015 4:04:06 PM PST by Iron Munro (The wise have stores of choice food and oil but a foolish man devours all he has. Proverbs 21:20)
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To: Isara
The Washington Post shows it's utter lack of class. Where was the Washington Post when Obama shamelessly used his daughters as political props?
Hey does anyone remember Obama using some kid from the Kennedy family to push Obamacare during Ted Kennedy's funeral which was shamelessly politicized?
33 posted on 12/22/2015 4:05:08 PM PST by SmokingJoe
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To: Isara

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.


34 posted on 12/22/2015 4:05:10 PM PST by lonestar67 (I remember when unemployment was 4.7 percent / Cruz 2016)
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To: Isara

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?


35 posted on 12/22/2015 4:05:46 PM PST by VanDeKoik
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To: Isara

I am a Trump supporter, but attacking the Cruz children and portraying them as monkeys is beyond the pale!

Shame on Ann Telnaes!


36 posted on 12/22/2015 4:07:17 PM PST by MS.BEHAVIN (Women who behave rarely make history)
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To: St_Thomas_Aquinas
Just wait until you see the photos of these grandkids in the Oval Office

And Joseph singing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRZ8yHKq_5U
37 posted on 12/22/2015 4:07:32 PM PST by RummyChick
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To: SES1066
Its nothing new for democrats.

I remember reading that Calvin Coolidge's young son died during the campaign and the democrats immediately attacked him for not dropping out of the race.


38 posted on 12/22/2015 4:07:55 PM PST by cripplecreek (Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.)
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To: Isara

as a Cruz supporter I hate to say this but he needs a fashion makeover...clearly he picks his clothes not his wife.


39 posted on 12/22/2015 4:09:14 PM PST by RginTN
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To: CatOwner
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.

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!!!

40 posted on 12/22/2015 4:09:57 PM PST by SES1066 (Quality, Speed or Economical - Any 2 of 3 except in government - 1 at best but never #3!)
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