I failed to look at this cartoon before it was published,” Hiatt wrote. The cartoon (which you can see here) implies that two monkeys depicted in a scene with Cruz are his daughters and appears to be in response to a new ad dripping with sarcasm that features the. “It’s generally been the policy of our editorial section to leave children out of it. Congress members who collaborated with President Trump in his attempt to subvert the Constitution and stay in office as rats. One of the Washington Posts editorial cartoonists clearly felt this way, so she included presidential candidate Ted Cruzs two young daughters in a cartoon. BUT /ted Cruz CHOSED to put his daughters in a political add bashing Hilary Clintons cell phone use. “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 wrote.Įditorial Page editor Fred Hiatt disagreed, taking the cartoon down and leaving an editor’s note in its place.Īlso Read: Ted Cruz Runs Wild on CNBC, Media for Propping Up Democrats On Friday, The Washington Post published a cartoon by its editorial cartoonist, Ann Telnaes, that depicted what she called All of the state attorneys general and U.S. I agree the cartoon was totally in bad taste. The cartoon in question featured Cruz as Santa along. Telnaes added that Cruz using his children as “props” made them fair game for satire.Īlso Read: Trevor Noah Rips 'Asshole' Ted Cruz for Post-San Bernardino '2nd Amendment Event' (Video) The Washington Post removed a cartoon that featured Ted Cruz’s children amid pushback from the presidential candidate and his supporters. “Ted Cruz has put his children in a political ad - don’t start screaming when editorial cartoonists draw them as well,” she tweeted.
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