Washington Post Yanks Cartoon of Ted Cruz’s Kids

Senator Ted Cruz has blasted the Washington Post after it published a cartoon depicting his daughters as dancing monkeys.

At midnight on Wednesday, the webpage containing the cartoon was replaced by a note from the newspaper’s page editor Fred Hiatt.

Cruz, who spent his 45th birthday Tuesday campaigning across several SEC primary states responded swiftly to the Washington Post cartoon on Twitter. “I understand why Ann thought an exception to the policy was warranted in this case, but I do not agree”.

Little kids in general should be kept out of a lot of things including cartoons, Star Wars and political campaign videos.

Even some of Cruz’s political opponents criticized the cartoon and the defense of it.

“Wash Post cartoon featuring [Ted Cruz’s] children is disgusting”, Rubio tweeted. “The Post saying the kids are “fair game” is even worse”, he tweeted.

The Washington Post has pulled the Ted Cruz cartoon in response to the uproar.

The animation by Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Ann Telnaes sparked immediate controversy and was later taken down by the Post.

Telnaes was herself unapologetic, posting a link on Twitter to a parody campaign ad released by Cruz’s campaign which showed him reading Christmas stories to his daughters with titles such as “How Obamacare Stole Christmas” and “Rudolph the Underemployed Reindeer”.

The cartoon, featuring the Texas senator as an organ grinder in a Santa Claus hat and his two daughters as monkeys, was removed from the paper’s site and the editorial editor issued a statement. There are plenty of adults in the political world who act childish, so there is no need for an editorial cartoonist to target actual children. Jenna and Barbara Bush, the daughters of President George W. Bush, attracted media coverage early in their father’s presidency when they were caught with liquor.