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|artist=Ann Telnaes, | |artist=Ann Telnaes, | ||
|subject=Political/Economic/Social Opinion, Youth | |subject=Political/Economic/Social Opinion, Youth | ||
|confronting_bodies=Ted Cruz 2016 Presidential Campaign, The Washington Post | |confronting_bodies=Ted Cruz 2016 Presidential Campaign, ''The Washington Post'' | ||
|medium=Mixed Media, Online, Personal Opinion, Public Speech | |medium=Mixed Media, Online, Personal Opinion, Public Speech | ||
|date_of_action=December 22, 2015 | |date_of_action=December 22, 2015 | ||
|location=Washington, D.C., United States | |location=Washington, D.C., United States | ||
|description_of_content=Ann Telnaes, a former winner of the Pulitzer Prize, created a cartoon for ''The Washington Post'' that featured Republican Presidential Candidate Ted Cruz dressed as Santa Claus | |description_of_content=Ann Telnaes, a former winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning, created a cartoon for ''The Washington Post'' that featured Republican Presidential Candidate Ted Cruz and his daughters. Cruz, dressed as Santa Claus, operates an organ grinder leashed to two dancing monkeys. The cartoon was posted to Twitter by Telnaes with the text, "Ted Cruz uses his kid as political props." | ||
The cartoon references | The cartoon references a campaign ad featuring Cruz, his wife, and his two daughters styled as an infomercial for Christmas books with political topics, such as "Auditing St. Nick" and "How ObamaCare Stole Christmas." His daughter Caroline reads from "The Grinch who Lost Her Emails," and his daughter Caroline asks him to read "The Senator Who Saved Christmas." | ||
Telnaes published with the work with an explanation, stating, "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." | Telnaes published with the work with an explanation, stating, "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." | ||