I find his politics extreme and his demeanor, well, indicative of someone who just isn’t trustworthy.

So, basically, we’re talking about two girls, one of whom is in, I would assume, First Grade and the other of whom isn’t old enough for Kindergarten yet.Īs I think I’ve made clear many times here, I am no fan of Ted Cruz in any sense of the word. Just for reference, the Cruz’s have two daughters, Caroline, who was born in 2008 and Catherine, who was born in 2011. Seuss’s “Green Eggs And Ham” during his budget filibuster that was part of the debate over the 2013 government shutdown, explaining that he needed to read them their bedtime story. That commercial, in turn, refers back to the time in 2013 when Cruz read from Dr. You can find a representation of the cartoon, which was apparently originally an animated GIF, in the story posted at Mediaite, and Telnaes appears to have based her cartoon on an ad that Cruz ran in Iowa over the weekend in which he reads a politicized version of “The Night Before Christmas” to his daughters while a narrator speaks. 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. In place of the cartoon Fred Hiatt, the Post’s editorial page editor, wrote in a post why it was taken down. Cruz frequently jokes that reporters and editors will “check themselves into therapy” when he is elected because they will be so distraught. “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.Ĭruz frequently cites his two grade-school daughters in his stump speech, which also frequently ridicules coverage of Cruz in prominent national publications like the Post and The New York Times. She added that Cruz had now made his kids acceptable targets for satire. “Ted Cruz has put his children in a political ad - don’t start screaming when editorial cartoonists draw them as well,” she wrote. Telnaes, however, defended her cartoon on Twitter.

We’re both Dads of young kids, and it’s hard enough on them,” Cruz tweeted. The Post saying the kids are ‘fair game’ is even worse,” he tweeted. “Wash Post cartoon featuring children is disgusting. Stick w/ attacking me–Caroline & Catherine are out of your league,” Cruz tweeted Tuesday.Įven Marco Rubio, who has been tangling loudly with Cruz for several weeks, came to his defense. In the 90-second spot, “Cruz Christmas Classics,” which had nearly 1.5 million views as of Tuesday afternoon, the daughters and Cruz’s wife, Heidi, read from a fictional holiday-themed children’s book while sitting together on the couch.

Ted Cruz obtained new ammunition Tuesday to shoot at his favorite bogeyman, the mainstream media, after The Washington Post depicted his two young daughters as monkey-like characters doing the bidding of their father.īy early Tuesday evening, backlash to the cartoon had swelled to the point where the Post took down the image and replaced it with an editor’s note.Īnn Telnaes, a Post cartoonist, drew an animation of the Republican presidential contender in a Santa outfit, with two hatted creatures, after the family gamely appeared in a parody television advertisement that aired during “Saturday Night Live” this weekend. The Washington Post has pulled a political cartoon depicting Senator Ted Cruz and his two young daughters after largely bipartisan push back erupted over the way the children were depicted:

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