Jeb Bush of Florida also decried the cartoon in a tweet and on Fox News.Ĭruz also sent out a fund raising “money bomb” appeal based on the cartoon, asking supporters to help him raise $1 million in 24 hours: “Will you help me fend off this vicious attack on my daughters by making an instant, emergency donation?” 'The Grinch Who Lost Her E-mails' Oh man.
Marco Rubio of Florida, also the father of young children, tweeted that the cartoon was “disgusting.”Ĭruz then thanked him in a tweet. The ad caused a firestorm on social media and GOP candidate Sen. I understand why Ann thought an exception to the policy was warranted in this case, but I do not agree.” As Cruz plays the organ, two little monkeys, who are also Christmas-fied and presumably his daughters, dance. “I failed to look at this cartoon before it was published. The cartoon in questions shows Cruz as an organ grinder wearing a red Santa outfit. “It’s generally been the policy of our editorial section to leave children out of it,” Post Editor Fred Hiatt said in a statement. The Washington Post pulled the cartoon and in its place posted an editor’s note. But leave our kids alone.”ĭespite referring to Clinton’s daughter in a conciliatory manner, Cruz took off after the Democratic front-runner herself in a tweet that showed her walking her “lapdogs,” The Washington Post and The New York Times. And if the media wants to attack and ridicule every Republican, well that’s what they’re gonna do. “It used to be for a long time the rules across the board that kids are off-limits. He said he talked to a student on a college campus who introduced. The cartoon, by Ann Telnaes, depicted Mr Cruz as an organ grinder dressed as Santa Claus while two similarly-dressed monkeys danced on leads in front of him. Ted Cruz on Friday mocked using correct gender pronouns.
Stick w/ attacking me - Caroline & Catherine are out of your league.”ĭuring a campaign swing through Southern states that have their primaries on March 1, Super Tuesday, Cruz told a crowd in Tulsa, Okla.: “Not too much ticks me off, but making fun of my girls, that’ll do it.” Ted Cruz of Texas at the Senate on Wednesday. The cartoonist, Ann Telnaes, said initially that although “there is an unspoken rule in editorial cartooning that politician’s children are off-limits,” she felt that Cruz’s use of them in a political ad reading mock Christmas classics made them “fair game.” Cruz daughters Caroline, 7 and Catherine, 5, are sitting with their parents in a campaign ad as the Texas senator reads Christmas parodies such as: “How ObamaCare Stole Christmas” and “The Grinch Who Lost Her Emails” - slams at the federal health care law Cruz rails against and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who is also running for president.Ĭruz first reacted to the cartoon in a tweet telling the newspaper to back off his children and focus on him. WASHINGTON - The Washington Post pulled a political cartoon Tuesday night depicting GOP presidential candidate Ted Cruz’s school-age daughters as monkeys and him as an organ grinder after an outcry from Cruz supporters and rivals.
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