And President Barack Obama has tried to keep his daughters, aged 17 and 14, off limits.Senator Ted Cruz faced a lot of backlash on social media after he tried to blame his daughters for flying to Cancun, Mexico, on Wednesday, February 17, as a winter disaster in his home state left millions without power or water. Bush, attracted media coverage early in their father’s presidency when they were caught with liquor. Jenna and Barbara Bush, the daughters of President George W. Media frequently clash with politicians who try to shield their children from press coverage. Mere hours after the cartoon vanished from the website, Cruz emailed his supporter list asking for an “emergency donation” as he hoped to raise $1 million in the next 24 hours. The brouhaha could prove to be a fundraising magnet for Cruz, who has a strong base of low-dollar donors. I understand why Ann thought an exception to the policy was warranted in this case, but I do not agree.” I failed to look at this cartoon before it was published. “It’s generally been the policy of our editorial section to leave children out of it. In place of the cartoon Fred Hiatt, the Post’s editorial page editor, wrote in a post why it was taken down. Cruz frequently jokes that reporters and editors will “check themselves into therapy” when he is elected because they will be so distraught. “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,” she wrote.Ĭruz frequently cites his two grade-school daughters in his stump speech, which also frequently ridicules coverage of Cruz in prominent national publications like the Post and The New York Times. She added that Cruz had now made his kids acceptable targets for satire. “Ted Cruz has put his children in a political ad - don’t start screaming when editorial cartoonists draw them as well,” she wrote. Telnaes, however, defended her cartoon on Twitter. We're both Dads of young kids, and it's hard enough on them. We’re both Dads of young kids, and it’s hard enough on them,” Cruz tweeted. The Post saying the kids are ‘fair game’ is even worse,” he tweeted. “Wash Post cartoon featuring children is disgusting. Įven Marco Rubio, who has been tangling loudly with Cruz for several weeks, came to his defense. Stick w/ attacking me–Caroline & Catherine are out of your league. Stick w/ attacking me–Caroline & Catherine are out of your league,” Cruz tweeted Tuesday.Ĭlassy. 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 book while sitting together on the couch. Ted Cruz obtained new ammunition Tuesday to shoot at his favorite bogeyman, the mainstream media, after The Washington Post depicted his two young daughters as monkey-like characters doing the bidding of their father.īy early Tuesday evening, backlash to the cartoon had swelled to the point where the Post took down the image and replaced it with an editor’s note.Īnn Telnaes, a Post cartoonist, drew an animation of the Republican presidential contender in a Santa outfit, with two hatted creatures, after the family gamely appeared in a parody television advertisement that aired during “Saturday Night Live” this weekend. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated.
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