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. Suddenly, Telnaes’ editor, Fred Hiatt, yanked the cartoon, offering this lame explanation: “It is generally the policy of our editorial section to leave children out of it. He sent them all an e-mail with Telnaes’ cartoon in it, calling it evidence of the liberal bias of the news media. Telnaes acknowledged that the children of politicians are typically off-limits, but in this case, since the politician had used his kids as political commentators, satirists even, not just as members of his family, depiction of the girls was fair.Ĭruz didn’t bother to disagree: he was busy sputtering outrage and then, in an ingenious effort to turn lemons into lemonade, asking his supporters to donate a million dollars within 24 hours so he could send the Post a message. He was outraged, he said as loudly as he could, that his kids would be used as political fodder by an editorial cartoonist. He began at once frothing at the mouth with protective paternal rage -while at the same time rubbing his hands with mercenary glee. To him, Telnaes was ridiculing his daughters, not their father. To me-and to any but the most fevered Right Wing-Nut viewer-the cartoon is attacking Cruz for turning his daughters into trained performers- monkeys- for the amusement of the passing multitudes.Ĭruz, of course, did not see it that way. Telnaes’ Post cartoons are always animated, so in this one, Cruz the organ grinder grinds his organ and his monkeys dan`ce around.
TED CRUZ DAUGHTERS POLITICAL CARTOON TV
Hers is a Shirley Temple imitation, but, as one viewer reported, the girl looks more like she’s auditioning to be the next Money Boo Boo.Ī few days later-on December 22-the Washington Post’s Ann Telnaes, a Pulitzer-winning cartoonist, posted the cartoon displayed hereabouts, depicting candidate Cruz as that old time entertainer, the sidewalk organ grinder, whose monkeys are trained to dance in tune with the music the organ grinder grinds out-a virtuoso image of precisely what Cruz does in the tv ad.
The words she speaks are clearly not her own: she’s reciting lines written for her (perhaps by her doting father?).
At various intervals during the ad, viewers are invited to send in donations to obtain their very own copies of the books.Īt the end of the bedtime reading, the older of the two daughters speaks up, gesturing and pointing and turning her head dramatically from left to right and back again and again, calling Hillary a grinch and attacking her about her e-mail server. As background, I’m reprinting forthwith the report I filed in my online magazine, Rants & Raves, Opus 347, last winter here it is:Ī week or so before Christmas, Republicon prez candidate Ted Cruz released a self-glorifying tv campaign ad in which the Texas senator and his wife sit on the family couch while attentive, loving father Ted reads Christmas stories to his two daughters, ages 5 and 7, from books with such parody titles as How Obamacare Stole Christmas and Rudolph the Underemployed Reindeer and The Grinch Who Lost Her E-mails. Her article, which appeared at the Columbia Journalism Review website on June 29, 2016, appears below.
Features Social Media, Freedom of Speech, and Editorial CartooningĪnn Telnaes, editorial cartoonist for the Washington Post and a person I am delighted and proud to call “friend,” discussed recently the implications for her profession of the social media reactions to the notorious “Ted Cruz monkey children” cartoon she drew last December.
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