WaPo Attacks Cruz Children – The Washington Post is backpedaling after publishing a cartoon depicting Ted Cruz’s two young daughters as trained monkeys. Ann Telnaes the cartoonist, however, is not. For some reason she thinks it is fair game to attack the daughters of a Conservative candidate for President. Hey Ann, would you ever draw a cartoon depicting President Obama’s daughters as trained monkeys? I thought not.
This is an example of why I canceled my subscription to the Washington Post years ago. I refuse to give them a dime of my money.
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I wonder what would have happened to the cartoonist who portrayed the Obama girls as monkeys.
This should not be part of politics. People often complain that there are no good politicians but why would good people want to subject themselves and their families to this abuse – especially when people let it happen. Only by speaking up, will this ever change.
It’s because the polarization of politics has ruined manners. By attacking and belittling our politicos for cheap points, debate and decorum has taken a back seat.
I cringe when I hear pundits twist names and automatically disrespect electeds.
Their character and how they do their job, is the only business of the electorate — everything else is off the table.
whether this offends Sen Cruz (or anyone) or not, it is the price of big politics. If he is truly outraged & worries about the consequences of this cartoon or any other campaign/political related media, he should get out of the race. Surely, as smart as he is, he thought of this before he announced?
Name me one Democrat President or Presidential candidate where the media said their children were not off limits.
Name me one other President or Presidential candidate, Republican or Democrat, whose children were portrayed as trained monkeys.
When you can do that, I will consider your comment seriously. Until then, it is just sniping at a candidate you don’t like.
1st: the media claims that all children are off limits. whether they abide by that declaration is another matter.
2: i don’t know why the girls were portrayed as trained monkeys. the cartoon was in bad taste.
3. if you don’t consider me a serious commenter at TBE, the editorial staff will surely ban me.
4: Merry Christmas
So you are acknowledging that the cartoon was wrong and shouldn’t have been published and that all children should be off limits. Are you also acknowledging that your criticism of Cruz was wrong as well?
i acknowledge that the cartoon is in poor taste. Cruz is a big boy. He knows how many souls must be sold to become president, even his. even his children’s. He is making hay over this. It is helping him.
Cruz is a big boy, his little girls are not. They’re young children.
In this age of cyber-bullying being a great crime against humanity, there is no way even the Washington Post can justify lampooning young ladies not yet of age.
All true, the cartoon was still wrong. Almost all politicians use their kids to further their candidacy, in literature, in public, as some kind of spokesmodels. And they expect a free pass on kids because of ‘they’re only kids’ propriety.
But because they are kids, the media has to suck it up, until one of them crosses the line. The candidate then replies with righteous indignation, makes a big deal of it, rally’s the troops, and gets a bump in the polls. It happens.
I think that was just as likely the WaPo’s way of giving Cruz a helpful push… Against Trump.
And on compromising integrity, just look how many souls were sold to bury heads in sand and ignore Constitution about Natural Born Citizen requirement.
i thought that maybe this was a way to skewer Trump because it engenders sympathy for Cruz. Cruz is also getting alot of press because of this. a win for Cruz
Even if the cartoon was hilarious and perfectly rendered, Children should not be used — even if the Candidate straps the kids to his back and front and goes door to door, the children should not be used.
They should not be used because of the boundaries of taste, class, and propriety. This should be known to the cartoonist, the cartoon editor, and the newspaper editor.