The Post saying the kids are "fair game" is even worse. Ted Cruz DecemWash Post cartoon featuring children is disgusting. Stick w/ attacking me-Caroline & Catherine are out of your league. Senate, as recounted in a piece by the Washington Times.Ĭlassy.
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At a public event in 2013, Ted Cruz told his audience that at the age of 2, Catherine professed an interest in working with him at the U.S. Their daughter Caroline is 7 and their daughter Catherine is 4. The caption of the cartoon read, "Ted Cruz uses his kids as political props."Ĭruz, 45, has two daughters with his wife Heidi. Also appearing in the one-panel comic were Cruz's children who were attached to strings and drawn as monkeys.
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Indeed, a recent row with the Washington Post found Cruz hitting back against the paper's editorial staff in short order and in a unique twist, he even garnered the public support of one of his most vocal opponents, Florida Senator Marco Rubio.Īs reported by CBS News, the flap started early Tuesday when the Washington Post published a political cartoon by Ann Telnaes depicting Ted Cruz in a Santa suit. The Tweet and cartoon in question by WaPo cartoonist Ann Telnaes.Although Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz has been quick to turn the other cheek against his outspoken rival Donald Trump, he has few qualms about taking on the media in a campaign-themed dust-up. After all, I love this country far too much to condemn it our current status quo. So instead of calling and emailing me all day for comments on The Washington Post’s blatant double-standard, know this: Right now, I’m simply reminded that we can ALL do better. I believe it was part of my destiny to live through something so unimaginably embarrassing and emotionally awful to teach me deep painful lessons and set me on a new trajectory. And that then served as a catalyst for an inexplicable change deep within me. But in it all there was a divine humility: It took falling to the lowest of lows for me to stop and make my relationship with God a priority again. It was a level of hopelessness I still have a hard time describing. What I experienced the week after that day I’d never wish on anyone. I learned a great deal myself last year when my Facebook post turned my world on its head. Should this be a learning lesson for her, the paper, and the nation reminding us yet again that kids should not be made targets in politics? Absolutely. Alas, I’m reminded we’re all humans and we all make bad choices sometimes.ĭo I think Washington Post political cartoonist Ann Telnaes is evil? No. Needless to say, I would have thought The Washington Post of all places would try and be the standard-bearer in the “kids are off limits” arena having vilified me incessantly, writing nearly two dozen stories in less than a week, for my thoughtless Facebook post last year. The comments were relatively tame but the media reacted with a fury as though Lauten posted an ad in the middle of Times Square calling them out.” One day on her private (or so she thought) Facebook page, she made some comments about President Obama’s daughters. She was the communications director for Rep. I know what he’s talking about all too well.Ĭaruso continued, “People may forget the name Elizabeth Lauten, but not what happened to her. “… the media, who as a whole favor Democrats over Republicans, never focus on the act when something like this happens – when it happens to a Republican.” “The interesting part of all of this is how the media saw it,” Caruso wrote at Redstate. If we’re going to be a society that endeavors to set national standards Americans respect and adhere to (else suffer the consequences), the media needs to do its part in helping maintain those standards rather than breaking them when it’s politically expedient.
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I don’t have public opinions about too many things in politics these days, but Jay Caruso’s piece over on Redstate – WaPo Depicts Cruz’s Daughters As Monkeys, Media Focuses On His Reaction – caught my attention so bear with me.