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|description_of_content=Ann Telnaes, a former winner of the Pulitzer Prize, created drew a cartoon featuring Republican Presidential Candidate Ted Cruz dressed as Santa Claus. He operates an organ grinder. Two small monkeys dance in unison leashed to the instrument and also in Christmas garb. The cartoon was posted to Twitter by Telnaes with the text, "Ted Cruz uses his kid as political props," a reference to a campaign ad released by the campaign. " | |description_of_content=Ann Telnaes, a former winner of the Pulitzer Prize, created drew a cartoon for ''The Washington Post'' featuring Republican Presidential Candidate Ted Cruz dressed as Santa Claus. He operates an organ grinder. Two small monkeys dance in unison leashed to the instrument and also in Christmas garb. The cartoon was posted to Twitter by Telnaes with the text, "Ted Cruz uses his kid as political props," a reference to a campaign ad released by the campaign. " | ||
The ad featured Cruz, his wife, Heidi, and their daughters in a fake infomercial for a book of politically charged Christmas stories. Tales include 'How ObamaCare Stole Christmas' and 'Auditing St. Nick.' Cruz’s daughter Caroline reads from 'The Grinch Who Lost Her Emails,' and Catherine asks him to read 'The Senator Who Saved Christmas.'" | The ad featured Cruz, his wife, Heidi, and their daughters in a fake infomercial for a book of politically charged Christmas stories. Tales include 'How ObamaCare Stole Christmas' and 'Auditing St. Nick.' Cruz’s daughter Caroline reads from 'The Grinch Who Lost Her Emails,' and Catherine asks him to read 'The Senator Who Saved Christmas.'" | ||
Revision as of 13:37, 27 December 2015
Artist: Ann Telnaes
Year: 2015
Date of Action: December 22, 2015
Region: North America
Location: Washington, D.C., United States
Subject: Political/Economic/Social Opinion, Youth
Medium: Mixed Media, Online, Personal Opinion, Public Speech
Confronting Bodies: Ted Cruz 2016 Presidential Campaign, The Washington Post
Description of Artwork: Ann Telnaes, a former winner of the Pulitzer Prize, created drew a cartoon for The Washington Post featuring Republican Presidential Candidate Ted Cruz dressed as Santa Claus. He operates an organ grinder. Two small monkeys dance in unison leashed to the instrument and also in Christmas garb. The cartoon was posted to Twitter by Telnaes with the text, "Ted Cruz uses his kid as political props," a reference to a campaign ad released by the campaign. "
The ad featured Cruz, his wife, Heidi, and their daughters in a fake infomercial for a book of politically charged Christmas stories. Tales include 'How ObamaCare Stole Christmas' and 'Auditing St. Nick.' Cruz’s daughter Caroline reads from 'The Grinch Who Lost Her Emails,' and Catherine asks him to read 'The Senator Who Saved Christmas.'"
Ann Telnaes published with the work 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."
The Incident: In response to the cartoon, Ted Cruz tweeted, "Classy. @washingtonpost makes fun of my girls. Stick w/ attacking me--Caroline & Catherine are out of your league," and linked to the cartoon. He told reporters,"Not much ticks me off, but making fun of my girls? That will do it. Don't mess with my kids. Don't mess with Marco's kids. Don't mess with Hillary's kids. Don't mess with anybody's kids."
Donald Trump and Marco Rubio, other candidates for the 2016 Republican Presidential nomination, also tweeted against the ad.
Results of Incident: On Tuesday evening, December 22, 2015, The Washington Post removed the cartoon from its website. Editor Fred Hiatt published a note on the website, noting, "It’s generally been the policy of our editorial section to leave children out of it. I failed to look at this cartoon before it was published. I understand why Ann thought an exception to the policy was warranted in this case, but I do not agree."
Ted Cruz released a fundraising letter using the incident to try and raise $1 million for his campaign. He also released a cartoon depicting Hillary Clinton walking two Dachsunds labeled "The New York Times" and "The Washington Post."
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