Ted Cruz Strikes
Back at Washington Post Cartoonist for Mocking His Daughters: They’re ‘out of
Your League’
by
Matthew Boyle 22 Dec 2015
UPDATE 9:00 PM ET:
The Washington
Post has officially yanked the cartoon down, un-publishing it late
Tuesday evening after this Breitbart News story.
After pulling the cartoon down, the post issued this
statement from editor Fred Hiatt: “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.”
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) 97%, a
2016 GOP presidential candidate who’s currently surging in polls
six weeks ahead of the first primary contests, fired back at a Washington Post cartoonist
for mocking his daughters Caroline and Catherine.
“Classy,” Cruz tweeted in response, obviously
sarcastically.
“Stick w/ attacking me–Caroline & Catherine are
out of your league,” Cruz added.
The Post cartoonist, the Pulitzer Prize-winning Ann
Telnaes, drew up a Christmas-themed cartoon where the senator’s 5 and 7
year-old daughters are portrayed as monkeys on a leash. Meanwhile, Cruz himself
is portrayed wearing a Santa Claus suit holding a crank music box to which the
girls’ leashes are attached. Cruz’s wife and the girls’ mother, Heidi, is
not in the cartoon.
Telnaes–who won the Pulitzer Prize drawing cartoons mocking Republicans
during the 2000 presidential election recount controversy–wrote a lengthy
diatribe attempting to explain why she abandoned journalistic norms
to attack Caroline, 7, and Catherine, 5.
“There is an unspoken rule in editorial cartooning
that a politician’s children are off-limits,” Telnaes admits. “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.”
At that point, she tried explaining why she was
breaking the rules. Her argument centers around the belief that Cruz–the
senator and candidate–includes his daughters on the campaign trail and in some
videos from his campaign.
“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),” Telnaes wrote. “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.”
Pulitzer Prize
Eugene Robinson
is a member of the Pulitzer Prize Board,
and a columnist for the Washington Post.
Note:
Donald E. Graham
was a member of the Pulitzer Prize Board,
a publisher for the Washington Post,
the chairman & CEO for the Washington
Post Co., is married to Amanda
Bennett, and the chairman & CEO for Graham Holdings Co.
Steve Coll is a
member of the Pulitzer Prize Board, was
the managing editor for the Washington
Post, and the president & CEO for the New America Foundation.
Jonathan Soros is
a director at the New America Foundation,
George Soros’s son, and was the vice
chairman for the Foundation to Promote
Open Society.
George Soros is Jonathan Soros’s father, was the
chairman for the Foundation to Promote
Open Society, and a benefactor for the Harlem
Children's Zone.
Foundation
to Promote Open Society was a funder for the New America Foundation, the Harlem
Children's Zone, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think
tank), and the Brookings Institution
(think tank), and Media Matters.
Michael R.
Bloomberg was a benefactor for the Harlem
Children's Zone, is the founder of Bloomberg
LP, and the founder of Everytown for
Gun Safety.
Bloomberg News
is a division of Bloomberg LP.
Robert Blau is an executive
editor for the Bloomberg News, and a
member of the Pulitzer Prize Board.
Amanda Bennett was
an executive editor for enterprise for the Bloomberg
News, a member of the Pulitzer Prize
Board, and is married to Donald E.
Graham.
Everytown
for Gun Safety is a “Gun Safety, Gun
Control” group for guns.
Warren E. Buffett
is an advisory board member for Everytown
for Gun Safety, the chairman & CEO for Berkshire Hathaway Inc., an adviser for the Nuclear Threat Initiative (think tank), and was a director at the Washington Post Co.
Berkshire
Hathaway Inc. is a stockholder in Graham
Holdings Co.
Graham
Holdings Co. is the successor company for the Washington Post Co.
Donald E. Graham
is the chairman & CEO for Graham
Holdings Co, married to Amanda
Bennett, was a publisher for the Washington
Post, the chairman & CEO for the Washington
Post Co., and a member of the Pulitzer
Prize Board.
Carnegie
Endowment for International Peace (think
tank) was a funder for the Nuclear
Threat Initiative (think tank).
Jessica Tuchman Mathews is a director at the Nuclear Threat Initiative (think tank),
was the president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think
tank), a director at the American Friends of Bilderberg (think
tank), an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank), an
editorial board member for the Washington
Post, and a 2008 Bilderberg conference participant (think tank).
Ed Griffin’s interview with Norman Dodd in 1982
(The investigation into the Carnegie Endowment for
International Peace uncovered the plans for population control by involving the
United States
in war)
Gregory B. Craig
was a trustee at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think tank),
the White House counsel for the Barack
Obama administration, and a lawyer for the Washington Post.
Robert Kagan was a
senior associate for the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think
tank), is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution (think tank),
and a columnist for the Washington Post.
E.J. Dionne is a senior
fellow at the Brookings Institution (think tank), and a columnist for
the Washington Post.
Sidney
Blumenthal was a reporter for the Washington
Post, a consultant for the Bill,
Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation, is a consultant for Media Matters, and Hillary Rodham Clinton friend & confidant.
Open
Society Foundations was a funder for the Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation.
George Soros is the
founder & chairman for the Open
Society Foundations, a co-chair, national finance council for the Ready PAC (Ready For Hillary), and was
the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society.
Foundation
to Promote Open Society was a funder for Media Matters.
Hillary Rodham
Clinton (AKA “The Grinch Who Lost
Her Emails”) was a director at the Bill,
Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation, is Sidney Blumenthal’s friend & confidant, and the candidate for
the 2016 Hillary Rodham Clinton
presidential campaign.
Ready PAC (Ready For Hillary) supported the 2016 Hillary Rodham Clinton presidential
campaign.
Cruz Christmas Classics
Hillary Rodham Clinton (AKA “The Grinch Who Lost Her Emails”)
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