CRbGkAYHqU - Sean Davis December 23, 2015 This will surprise no one, but the childless woman who mocked Ted Cruz’s children won a Planned Parenthood award. The Maggie Award is named for racist Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger and is given to media outlets and reporters who push its abortion agenda. The offensive cartoon should not be surprising given that the Post editorial cartoonist, Ann Telnaes, won an award from Planned Parenthood. I understand why Ann thought an exception to the policy was warranted in this case, but I do not agree.” I failed to look at this cartoon before it 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.
Stick w/ attacking me–Caroline & Catherine are out of your league. Stick w/ attacking me–Caroline & Catherine are out of your league,” Cruz tweeted Tuesday with a link to the cartoon.Ĭlassy. The monkeys represent Cruz’s daughters Caroline, 7, and Catherine, 4. The animated cartoon featured a Santa Claus-costumed Cruz winding a music box as two leashed monkeys danced in elf costumes. The cartoon depicts his grade-school daughters as dancing monkeys for their appearance in a presidential campaign ad Cruz ran talking about conservative Christmas book selections. The Washington Post retracted the editorial cartoon after Cruz scolded the newspaper and a massive conservative backlash online. I understand why Ann thought an exception to the policy was warranted in this case, but I do not agree.”Ī tweet on Telnaes’ Twitter account Tuesday said: “Ted Cruz has put his children in a political ad – don’t start screaming when editorial cartoonists draw them as well.Conservatives are up in arms today by a controversial cartoon the Washington Post carried on Tuesday night that depicts pro-life Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz’s children as monkeys. The Post removed the cartoon from the site and replaced it with a note from Editor Fred Hiatt: “It’s generally been the policy of our editorial section to leave children out of it. “… I knew I’d be facing attacks from day one of my campaign, but I never expected anything like this.” “My daughters are not fair game,” he wrote in the email soliciting contributions. In response to the cartoon, Cruz launched an “emergency” appeal Tuesday night seeking to raise $1 million in 24 hours. In Ann Telnaes’ cartoon, Cruz held the leashes of two dancing monkeys in costume.
Caroline, 7, and Catherine, 5, have occasionally joined their father onstage, including at last week’s debate in Las Vegas, and were featured in one of his recent television commercials. The cartoon – which the Post removed from its website this morning – poked fun at Cruz, saying he was using his two young daughters as political props.
Under the spotlight cast by a Washington Post cartoon that depicted his children as monkeys, Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz launched an “emergency fund-raising campaign.”
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