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Tarc

(10,476 posts) Wed Dec 23, 2015, 10:05 AM Dec 2015

Why that now-retracted Washington Post cartoon is a gift to Ted Cruz

Media-bashing Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz was handed a political gift Tuesday night when The Washington Post retracted an editorial cartoon that depicted his two young daughters as monkeys.

The animated cartoon, by Pulitzer Prize winner Ann Telnaes, sketched the Texas senator in a Santa suit turning a Jack-in-the-box-style crank that made the monkeys dance. A headline said, “Ted Cruz uses his kids as political props” — a reference to a recent viral campaign video in which Cruz and his daughters spoofed familiar Christmas stories.

- https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2015/12/23/why-that-now-retracted-washington-post-cartoon-is-a-gift-to-ted-cruz/

We all abhor Ted Cruz and his nutty, dangerous rhetoric, but everyone's kids have to be of-limits in the political season. This is a prize piece of red meat he can use from now until election day.

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Why that now-retracted Washington Post cartoon is a gift to Ted Cruz (Original Post) Tarc Dec 2015 OP

It would not with a free and independent media. Mass Dec 2015 #1

The thing with the media though is it has to appeal to how it's PERCEIVED, alp227 Dec 2015 #6

If you don't want your kids to be brought up in the campaign - don't use them to campaign! liberal N proud Dec 2015 #2

Obama used his kids in his campaign. DesMoinesDem Dec 2015 #3

False equivalence. Obama's kids didn't join in the political parts of the campaign, alp227 Dec 2015 #7

Please. It's amazing what people will come up with to DesMoinesDem Dec 2015 #9

There's nothing wrong with having your family assist in your campaign Tarc Dec 2015 #5

You do not see anything wrong with Cruz having his 6 year old daughter attack Hillary Clinton with Mass Dec 2015 #10

I'm with Cruz on this. (Never thought I'd say those words). Nye Bevan Dec 2015 #4

I don't think he's gonna be able to milk this one for very much, frankly. Warren DeMontague Dec 2015 #8

Mass

(27,315 posts)

1. It would not with a free and independent media.

Reply to Tarc (Original post)

Wed Dec 23, 2015, 10:11 AM

Dec 2015

The cartoon did not attack Trump's daughters. It attacked Cruz for USING HIS DAUGHTERS AS PROPS. And the criticism is very justified in this case.

But our media cannot be bothered telling the truth. You want to counter that. (I question the choice of monkeys but for the rest, this is a perfect example of political BS). He is the one who used his daughters, and he is so shocked people noticed he is again using them to fundraise.

alp227

(32,034 posts)

6. The thing with the media though is it has to appeal to how it's PERCEIVED,

Reply to Mass (Reply #1)

Wed Dec 23, 2015, 05:20 PM

Dec 2015

instead of how their message is.

Telnaes cartoon was far too open to misinterpretation and yet only gives ignorant right wingers another reason to justify their crap.

liberal N proud

(60,338 posts)

2. If you don't want your kids to be brought up in the campaign - don't use them to campaign!

Reply to Tarc (Original post)

Wed Dec 23, 2015, 10:37 AM

Dec 2015

DesMoinesDem

(1,569 posts)

3. Obama used his kids in his campaign.

Reply to liberal N proud (Reply #2)

Wed Dec 23, 2015, 11:20 AM

Dec 2015

I'm sure you would have a problem with some cartoonist drawing his kids as monkeys.

alp227

(32,034 posts)

7. False equivalence. Obama's kids didn't join in the political parts of the campaign,

Reply to DesMoinesDem (Reply #3)

Wed Dec 23, 2015, 05:21 PM

Dec 2015

unlike Cruz's kids who I've heard participated in that "skit" where TC was mocking Obama policies.

DesMoinesDem

(1,569 posts)

9. Please. It's amazing what people will come up with to

Reply to alp227 (Reply #7)

Wed Dec 23, 2015, 05:45 PM

Dec 2015

combat their cohesive dissonance.

Tarc

(10,476 posts)

5. There's nothing wrong with having your family assist in your campaign

Reply to liberal N proud (Reply #2)

Wed Dec 23, 2015, 12:07 PM

Dec 2015

That does not make minor children subject to scorn and ridicule by the media, even if it is just as a tool to attack the parent.

We're better than this.

Mass

(27,315 posts)

10. You do not see anything wrong with Cruz having his 6 year old daughter attack Hillary Clinton with

Reply to Tarc (Reply #5)

Sun Dec 27, 2015, 06:43 PM

Dec 2015

sentences she probably does not understand. Sorry, but I do. I feel sorry for her daughter to be used this way. This is far beyond the usual "my dad is the best" kids that young kids are traditionally used for.

Nye Bevan

(25,406 posts)

4. I'm with Cruz on this. (Never thought I'd say those words).

Reply to Tarc (Original post)

Wed Dec 23, 2015, 11:31 AM

Dec 2015

Leave the kids out of it. And especially don't portray partly Hispanic kids as monkeys. DUers would be furious if a cartoonist did this to the children of a Hispanic Democrat.

Warren DeMontague

(80,708 posts)

8. I don't think he's gonna be able to milk this one for very much, frankly.

Reply to Tarc (Original post)

Wed Dec 23, 2015, 05:28 PM

Dec 2015

It's the kind of conversation the beltway punditocracy loves to have because it's by them and about them, but it has very little relevance to the American voter.

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