Cruz makes an ad...
Washington Post cartoonist mocks it...
To which I reply... Where was the Obamas cartoon?
.@tedcruz @TrucksHorsesDog @washingtonpost the Obamas used their daughters... Where is the Obamas cartoon? https://t.co/9mYLgosy9T
— Lem (@Lemang01) December 23, 2015
The Washington Post has retracted the cartoon with this statement posted at the original link:
Editor’s note from Fred Hiatt: It’s generally been the policy of our editorial section to leave children out of it. I failed to look at this cartoon before it was
published. I understand why Ann thought an exception to the policy was warranted in this case, but I do not agree.
Edit by Chip:
19 comments:
Of course the press covers this as either how Cruz reacts, or that the cartoon should not have involved the kids. No mention of the obvious racism that the left automatically attaches to all things right and assumes impossible by the left.
Personally, I think the cartoon is fine and should not have been pulled. Cruz chose to use his kid in a campaign ad, and it's up to him to prepare them to handle this kind of mild attack, which obviously is against Cruz's use of his kids, and not designed to attack the kids.
Meh, pretty tame. But its one that I had to have someone explain to me.
I knew Cruz had done some kind of cutsie Christmas ad, but had not seen it and had not sought it out. I did not know his kids were in it.
The cartoon does not look like a father and daughters- (btw I have never seen an organ grinder & monkey in real life or in movies or on TV- only in cartoons)
So I guess I could sort of get that he is playing the tune and the monkeys are dancing for tips? Is that what this is supposed to mean? Or that the father is treating his kids like trained monkeys?
Pure click bait.
"not designed to attack the kids"
"Or that the father is treating his kids like trained monkeys?"
We're dense here this morning. The problem is that the cartoon draws Cruz's two little girls, two real children, as monkeys. Monkeys dancing to their father's tune. The attack on the girls is inherent in the design, Bags. The issue is not how the father treats his kids, Jim, but their depiction as monkeys. This is generally considered to be in poor taste, to say the least.
The hum you're hearing is Howard Cosell spinning in his grave.
The hum you're hearing is Howard Cosell spinning in his grave.
That's what i remembered this morning when i first heard of this.
Cosell got a lot of flack over saying "look at that little monkey go" about a football player.
The thing that bothers me is not so much the cartoon, but the double standard.
The Washington post would never run a cartoon like that about the Obama daughters. Never in a million years.
But people in the other side of their political beliefs, they run it in a heartbeat.
Trump tweets......
The @washingtonpost, which is the lobbyist (power) for not imposing taxes on #Amazon, today did a nasty cartoon attacking @tedcruz kids. Bad.
Trump's staff is fast and sharp.
Here is MS Telnaes' Twitter feed. Scroll thru, if you like, to see that she's a fair minded cartoonist speaking truth to power and attacking the hypocrisy of politicians regardless of their party or positions. Or not.
It reminds me of the Grinch and the little dog that pulls his sleigh. Except there's two. Whatever. Cruz=Grinch.
" This is generally considered to be in poor taste, to say the least."
One word on poor taste: Trump.
As I said, Cruz can't use them and then get upset about poor taste. Using your kids is a troll move. Would you bring your kids to a job interview?
I doubt Ted Cruz or his kids are terribly traumatized by this (and he might end up hauling in a ton of dough from donors), but it is offensive and cartoonist Ann Telnaes is a bitch (sorry, it is the correct term for this) for doing this cartoon and it does show the double standard of hypocrisy between the left and right and the cartoon wasn't even funny (it was stupid). Howard Cossell almost got fired for referring to a black player as a monkey (and in context it was obviously innocent and not intended as a racial put down).
Using kids in ads is a long tradition and Ted Cruz's children book ad was mildly funny and tongue in cheek. You can certainly mock that ad if you wish, but why portray the kids as monkeys? If anything she could have drawn the kids as they look in an organ grinder context and then the reader could draw the inference that Cruz was using them as monkeys (it still wouldn't have been funny, but it would have been less offensive).
If this were done to a candidate on the left's kids, the reaction would be overwhelming condemnation (and rightly so).
Hey, come to think of it, isn't Cruz part Italian? More anti Italian slander at work!
I thought daughter was awesome pointing out Hillary's corruption. Leftwing heads go splopey. Fi w. Eat monkey.
They also drew Condi Rice as the house ni.
I think you are nuts to draw Blacks as monkeys. There is just too much history there, but Cubans love bananas, and Canadians don't shave nearly enough, so this seems reasonable to me, and besides kids love monkeys. I wish I was a monkey. Tell me one thing better about my life as a human than as a monkey. Monkeys don't pay taxes, and males do whatever the hell they want, and they don't even have to go shopping. Nothing is more pathetic and insulting than being a human. Have you ever watched one of them. They're filthy animals.
We're all just monkeys pushing pedals.
Leftist cartoonists are raciss
You know what a really cool cartoon would be? A picture of Chelsea Clinton's daughter with horns.
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