Yet, the former president may not end up running again - continuing legal issues could kill his bid - but there’s little question that he leaves the party reshaped in his image. Trump plans to address the crowd on Sunday and anything he says about his future political ambitions will inevitably overshadow the entire event. “Are your votes being distorted?” one ominous video asked, flashing photos of President Biden on the big screen. This year has been no exception, with speaker after speaker focusing on the pet issues of the former president. In recent years, CPAC has evolved from a family reunion of Republican libertarians, social conservatives and a hawkish foreign policy establishment into Trump-chella. > Follow J.D.But if you were looking for clues about the direction of the Republican Party after the Trump years, an effigy of Donald Trump in an American flag bathing suit may be as symbolic as any golden calf. I understand why Ann thought an exception to the policy was warranted in this case, but I do not agree.Ī screengrab of the original Tweet from Telnaes is here:
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.
ET: It appears as if the Washington Post has caved to the pressure amid backlash from Senator Cruz, as the original post has been removed and Telnaes’ original Tweet - which we originally embedded up above - as been deleted.Īn Editor’s Note from Fred Hiatt on the link that formerly included Telnaes’ cartoon includes the following:
Ted cruz daughters monkey cartoon update#
We will update this post with the latest in the great Winter Solstice cartoon war of Cruz v. Ted Cruz has put his children in a political ad- don’t start screaming when editorial cartoonists draw them as well. On Tuesday morning, Telnaes hinted of the possibility that she might take square aim at Cruz’s decision to use his daughters in the comedy sketch, cryptically Tweeting the following: Stick w/ attacking me–Caroline & Catherine are out of your league. Within an hour, Ted Cruz took to Twitter to bash the “classy” display from The Washington Post cartoonist, noting that his daughters “Caroline & Catherine are out of your league.”Ĭlassy.
Ted Cruz uses his kids as political props /GNfoP4batF Telnaes wasted no time in hitting at the heart of the parody, and illustrated Cruz as a boot-sporting Santa organ grinder making his children monkey dance: Seuss “classics” like “How Obamacare Stole Christmas”. The video in question stars the Texas Senator alongside his two daughters reading parody Dr. In her write-up for The Washington Post online, Telnaes acknowledges that, “There is an unspoken rule in editorial cartooning that a politician’s children are off-limits.” However Telnaes clarified why her recent artwork was deserving of exemption status from that unspoken rule:īut 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. Ann Telnaes, an editorial cartoonist from The Washington Post, created and published a cartoon recently that depicted GOP candidate Ted Cruz and his children (the cartoon was actually a GIF since it’s 2015 - what would Charles Addams say to GIFs, I wonder?).
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