![]() His campaign also launched an 'emergency contribution' fundraising email seeking $1 million to 'fend off this most vicious personal attack on my daughters.' Stick w/ attacking me-Caroline & Catherine are out of your league.' '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,' she added.ĭOUBLE STANDARD? Obama's campaigns and his White House have leveraged Sasha and MaliaĬruz wasted no time pushing back, tweeting: 'Classy. Hiatt also removed an essay from the Post's website that accompanied Telnaes' cartoon, in which she defended her decision to break 'an unspoken rule in editorial cartooning that a politician’s children are off-limits.' '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,' Post editor Fred Hiatt wrote on Tuesday. 'It’s generally been the policy of our editorial section to leave children out of it. The Post retracted the cartoon, which also showed Cruz as an organ grinder holding the monkeys' leashes, hours after putting it online.Īnn Telnaes, a Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist, defended her decision to mock Cruz and his children with the controversial artwork, but her editor wrote that the only reason the cartoon was published was that he never saw it beforehand. 'Don't mess with my kids, don't mess with Marco's kids, don't mess with Hillary's kids, don't mess with anybody's kids. 'It used to be for a long time, the rules across the board – that kids were off limits. But my girls didn't sign up for that.'Ĭruz has put his kids front-and-center during some campaign events but said Wednesday that being away from them for days at a time was the hardest thing about running for president. Folks want to attack me? Knock yourself out. "Everyone expects the mainstream media to be liberal, to be biased. It would be terrible if insults and personal attacks were substituted for policy discussions.FRONT AND CENTER: Cruz has made his young daughters a part of his campaign, including a parody video that ran last week as an ad during 'Saturday Night Live' in the early voting state of Iowa Frankly when I heard that Telnaes drew the daughters as monkeys I thought that was a little low, but they aren’t caricatures, merely symbols. ![]() Michael Cavna at the Post has a piece discussing more of this and asking you what you would have done. Ted Cruz has put his children in a political ad- don't start screaming when editorial cartoonists draw them as well. Telnaes was unrepentant but the cartoon was quickly pulled form the Post. In this case Ted Cruz put his two daughters (ages 5 and 7) into a video Cruz read Christmas stories to them with titles such as “How Obamacare Stole Christmas” and “Rudolph The Underemployed Reindeer.” This would seem to indicated that the children were well into getting into the political game but then Pulitzer Prize winning cartoonist Telnaes drew the above cartoon for the Washington Post and Cruz cried foul. Although there is a loose prohibition against involving the kids of presidential aspirants in campaign mudslinging, it sometimes slips when someone in the party you don’t like does something stupid. ![]() This presidential campaign seems to be all about optics so here’s a good one. ![]()
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