![]() We're both Dads of young kids, and it's hard enough on them. We’re both Dads of young kids, and it’s hard enough on them,” Cruz tweeted. The Post saying the kids are “fair game” is even worse.- Marco Rubio December 23, 2015 Wash Post cartoon featuring children is disgusting. The Post saying the kids are ‘fair game’ is even worse,” he tweeted. “Wash Post cartoon featuring children is disgusting. Ted Cruz December 22, 2015Įven Marco Rubio, who has been tangling loudly with Cruz for several weeks, came to his defense. 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.Ĭlassy. ![]() In the 90-second spot, “Cruz Christmas Classics,” which had nearly 1.5 million views as of Tuesday afternoon, the daughters and Cruz’s wife, Heidi, read from a fictional holiday-themed children’s book while sitting together on the couch. Spokespersons for the Post did not respond to the Washington Examiner's request for comment.Ted Cruz obtained new ammunition Tuesday to shoot at his favorite bogeyman, the mainstream media, after The Washington Post depicted his two young daughters as monkey-like characters doing the bidding of their father.īy early Tuesday evening, backlash to the cartoon had swelled to the point where the Post took down the image and replaced it with an editor’s note.Īnn Telnaes, a Post cartoonist, drew an animation of the Republican presidential contender in a Santa outfit, with two hatted creatures, after the family gamely appeared in a parody television advertisement that aired during “Saturday Night Live” this weekend. However, tonight a Republican staffer is out of a job after something she wrote on social media about the first daughters," then-NBC News anchor Brian Williams said on Dec. "It is one of the few rules that the news media and the mob usually both adhere to: Leave families out of the fight. Outside of social media, Lauten's comments also created a media firestorm, and even led the networks one evening in December. I'd like to apologize to all of those who I have hurt and offended with my words, and I pledge to learn and grow (and I assure you I have) from this experience." And certainly don't make faces during televised public events."Īfter her comments sparked an avalanche of online criticism, she later apologized, saying "After many hours of prayer, talking to my parents, and re-reading my words online, I can see more clearly just how hurtful my words were. ![]() Dress like you deserve respect, not a spot at a bar. Act like being in the White House matters to you. In a now-deleted post published on Thanksgiving Day, Elizabeth Lauten wrote in reference to the annual White House turkey pardon, "Dear Sasha and Malia, I get you're both in those awful teen years, but you're a part of the First Family, try showing a little class. "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 concluded. "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). "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." 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," Telnaes wrote Tuesday. "There is an unspoken rule in editorial cartooning that a politician's children are off-limits. The Post's Ann Telnaes followed up with this statement by publishing a cartoon depicting the 2016 GOP presidential candidate as an organ grinder and his two young daughters as dancing monkeys. Ted Cruz's daughters, Caroline, 7, and Catherine, 5, are "fair game" for criticism now that they've appeared in a Christmas-themed video with their father, a Washington Post editorial cartoonist declared Tuesday. 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. "It's generally been the policy of our editorial section to leave children out of it," Post editor Fred Hiatt said in a statement. UPDATE 12.22.15: The Washington Post removed the cartoon late Tuesday evening, and issued an apology explaining that they did not review Telnaes' work prior to publishing.
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