Ann Telnaes: Difference between revisions

|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 operating an organ grinder attached to two dancing monkeys also in Christmas garb. The cartoon was posted to Twitter by Telnaes with the text, "Ted Cruz uses his kid as political props."  

The cartoon references an 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."  

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''."

|source=http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015/12/24/cruz-fires-back-at-washington-post-with-his-own-political-cartoon.html, http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/264076-cruz-pans-cartoon-that-calls-daughters-political-props, http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/24/us/politics/ted-cruz-cartoon-is-pulled-by-washington-post.html?_r=0,

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