You may contact him at or (512) 458-2963.“It’s generally been the policy of our editorial section to leave children out of it. In Cruz-world, every cloud has a silver lining.ĭAVE MCNEELY is a politial columnist. Some of us can’t help wondering how the other Republican candidates might have responded if Cruz had poked fun at them, in the voices of his daughters, instead of Democrat Clinton.Īnd, just in case any of Cruz’s supporters hadn’t seen the Post cartoon that he was railing about, he emailed it to them - with a fund-raising pitch for an “emergency donation,” trying to raise $1 million in 24 hours. Jeb Bush said on “Fox & Friends.” “This is off limits and Ted Cruz was absolutely right to be outraged, and I’m glad The Washington Post took the cartoon off.” “I’m also a father that was in public life and I totally agree,” former Florida Gov. Several of Cruz’s competitors for the Republican presidential nomination chimed in, supporting Cruz’s expressed affront. 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,” Hiatt wrote. “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.”įred Hiatt, the editorial page editor of the Post, pulled the cartoon off the newspaper’s website, leaving a statement in its stead. She also had another written explanation:
“Ted Cruz has put his children in a political ad - don’t start screaming when editorial cartoonists draw them as well,” she tweeted. Telnaes responded on Twitter about why she had involved Cruz’s children in her cartoon: because he had. Leave kids alone.”Īctually, she was criticizing Cruz. “It used to be for a long time the rules across the board were that kids are off-limits. To the media on Wednesday, he said, ““Not too much ticks me off, but making fun of my girls, that’ll do it. “Stick w/ attacking me–Caroline & Catherine are out of your league.” makes fun of my girls,” he tweeted Tuesday. That’s what triggered Ann Telnaes, a Post political cartoonist, to draw an animated cartoon of Cruz in a Santa suit, with his two daughters dressed as monkeys, much like those that might be used by an old-time organ grinder.Ĭruz took huge affront, quickly blasting the Post’s cartoon on Twitter. “’I’ll use my own server, and no one will be the wiser!’” “’I know just what I’ll do,’ she said with a snicker,” Caroline chirps. So here’s where Cruz employs daughter Caroline to criticize Clinton: That’s a dig at Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton, a former Secretary of State, who has been hammered by Republicans in Congress for using her own private e-mail server rather than the State Department’s. The narrator says “The whole family will enjoy reading stories like, ‘The Grinch Who Lost Her Emails.’” On the screen is an orange ish snowman, walking through the snow - carrying a wine glass and smoking a cigarette – familiar companions to the well-tanned former speaker.Ĭruz then says, “Look! The speaker is melting before Congress!”Ī little later, here’s the one that provoked the cartoon by Pulitzer-prize winning cartoonist Telnaes. In this case, read festive stories like: ‘Frosty the Speaker of the House.’” A narrator’s voice, acting as the sales agent, says “Act now, and you’ll get a leader who does exactly what he says he’s going to do. House Speaker John Boehner, who had called Cruz a “jackass,” and who resigned the speakership after tiring of battling with the House’s Tea Party contingent. This time, Cruz substituted other words, intended to poke fun, or worse, at some of his political opponents.įor instance, here’s one aimed at former U.S. Seuss book, “Green Eggs and Ham.” Cruz had read from that children’s classic during a 21-hour fake filibuster in 2013, as part of his effort to defund Obamacare. The infomercial-style ad was a fictitious sales pitch for a knock-off of the Dr. It featured Cruz, wife Heidi, and daughters Caroline, 7, and Catherine, 5, sitting comfortably on a couch amid Christmas decorations. He used them in a political stunt, laying the groundwork for a Washington Post cartoon questioning Cruz involving his kids in an attack ad.Ĭruz made a lampoonish ad for Saturday Night Live, to air in first-in-the-nation election primary state of Iowa, on Dec.
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