Organ Grinders and Their Monkeys Once Entertained on DC Sidewalks via Telnaes December 23, 2015 She tweeted a link with the history of organ grinders in Washington in an apparent attempt to prove her cartoon wasn’t racist and tasteless. Jordan Chariton Decem 5:41 AM The Washington Post removed a cartoon that featured Ted Cruz’s children amid pushback from the presidential candidate and his supporters. Telnaes hasn’t been quiet about WaPo’s decision to retract her cartoon. I understand why Ann thought an exception to the policy was warranted in this case, but I do not agree. The cartoon by Ann Telnaes, which originally ran under the headline Ted Cruz uses his kids as political props, came after the Texas senator featured his two young daughters in a campaign. I failed to look at this cartoon before it was published. In the 90-second spot, Cruz Christmas Classics, which had nearly 1.5 million views as of Tuesday afternoon, the daughters and Cruz’s wife, Heidi, read from a fictional holiday-themed children’s. It’s generally been the policy of our editorial section to leave children out of it. Earlier Tuesday, The Washington Post had published a cartoon by Ann Telnaes, the paper's editorial cartoonist, that depicted Senator Cruz dressed like Santa Claus accompanied by his two daughters. On the page where the drawing originally appeared there is now a note from editorial page editor Fred Hiatt: The tweet from Telnaes trumpeting her Cruz-kids-as-monkeys cartoon has since been deleted, and the Washington Post has retracted the cartoon. Others attacked WaPo for having a double standard given its breathless and critical 2014 coverage of a Hill staffer who privately criticized President Barack Obama’s daughters in a post on her personal Facebook page.
The cartoon drew instant Internet ire, with many saying it was a blatantly racist attack on Cruz’s Hispanic heritage. In the ad, Cruz reads aloud parody versions of popular Christmas stories to his daughters that attack his political rivals. Telnaes says her caricature of Cruz and his daughters, all of whom are Hispanic, was inspired by a jokey holiday campaign ad that ran in Iowa on Saturday. The illustration Cruz tweeted closely resembles the WaPo cartoon published and then retracted on Tuesday, which depicted Cruz’s daughters as dancing monkeys leashed to their Santa-suit wearing father. Someone send some ice and ointment to WaPo’s new building, because they’re going to need it for that sick burn. Seems like a better idea for a cartoon: Hillary and her lapdogs. Republican presidential hopeful Ted Cruz says a Washington Post cartoon depicting his 5- and 7-year-old daughters as monkeys is inappropriate and that. Cruz’s alternate cartoon idea depicts WaPo and the New York Times as Hillary Clinton’s personal lapdogs.
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