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"One, it gives him a piece of evidence to pull out whenever he wants to argue that the loathsome 'mainstream media' doesn't treat him - or conservatives in general - fairly," the Post reported wrote. "Whether you agree with Telnaes's original reasoning or Hiatt's overriding rationale, one thing should be obvious to any political observer: This is a win for a candidate who … has been highly critical of the press," he added.īorchers went on to explain the two things that the cartoon flap does for Cruz's campaign.
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"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," wrote Callum Borchers. I understand why Ann thought an exception to the policy was warranted in this case, but I do not agree," he added.īut even after removing the offending image, the Post mostly avoided talking about its content, and instead focused on the senator's response. "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," Post editor Fred Hiatt said in a statement. The Post eventually deleted the cartoon from its website late Tuesday evening, and an editor issued a statement explaining that he hadn't reviewed her work prior to publication. That headline has since been amended so that it now reads, "Washington Post removes cartoon depicting Ted Cruz's daughters as monkeys." The original version of the Politico story also failed to mention that the cartoon depicted Cruz's children as primates. "Cruz lashes out at Post cartoonist for depicting his daughters as monkeys," read the original headline to a story published on Dec. In its initial coverage of the story, Politico turned its focus away from the content of the cartoon, and fixated instead on the senator's response. The online backlash to the cartoon was immediate, sparking furious debate on social media about whether Telnaes had too far. "But 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 added. People don't get to choose their family members so obviously it's unfair to ridicule kids for their parent's behavior while in office or on the campaign trail- besides, they're children," Telnaes wrote Tuesday. "There is an unspoken rule in editorial cartooning that a politician's children are off-limits.