They were also silent when Rush Limbaugh called Chelsea Clinton a dog and sadi Amy Carter was the most unattractive presidential daughter in history. These same cartoonists were very silent when a cartoon ran in The New York Post depicting Obama as a monkey. It annoyed me they would side with partisanship over professionalism. I saw a lot of posts on social media from conservative cartoonists who also also failed to grasp the issue. That got me very angry. What angered me the most was that none of the talking heads understood the issue. I watched CNN and MSNBC all day, and nobody defended the cartoonist. Ted Cruz sent out an email with the cartoon to his supporters, saying he needed a million dollars within 24 hours to send the Post a message. I understand why Ann thought an exception to the policy was warranted in this case, but I do not agree.” Later, the Post pulled the cartoon off their site with editorial page editor Fred Hiatt writing, “I failed to look at this cartoon before it was published. How dare a cartoonists attack his children and draw them as monkeys? He said this was typical of the “liberal media.” Daddy is upset that someone exploited his children to make fun of him exploiting his children. If the politician puts them into the fire and political mix, then they’re in the fire, and you can go at it. Politicians posing with their children or letting the public get a glimpse of their family life - which every politician does - isn’t really exploiting the kids. But we do bend and break that rule when the politicians themselves use them as props. Normally, we cartoonists have a rule where we don’t go after children. She did not caricature the daughters or name them. A few days later, Ann Telnaes, a Pulitzer Prize-winning political cartoonist for The Washington Post (and creator of the best Dick Cheney caricature ever), published a cartoon on their site where she draws Ted Cruz as an organ grinder and his children as the monkeys. In this witty little satire, Cruz has his daughters reading lines one even attacks Hillary over her email server and calls her the Grinch. By comparison, it makes Dick Cheney appear warm and cuddly. Stop acting out bits from “The Princess Bride.” Anyone else can do it. Stop reading “Green Eggs And Ham” on the Senate floor. First off, Ted, you gotta stop reading out loud and trying to be cute. Ted Cruz created a little satire of him and his family reading holiday classics with a twisted conservative bent. Cruz is mad at the “liberal media.” Ah screw it. OK, that’s not unique either, and I’ll try again. I know that’s not breaking news, and he’s usually upset and angry however, this time it’s for an interesting reason and an extremely stupid reason. From cartoonist Clay Jones about ‘Ted Cruz Battles Cartoons,’ the Ann Telnaes cartoon, depicting children in cartoons, and backing up one of your own
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