One would think that maybe the Washington Post would offer an apology to Ted Cruz for depicting his daughters as trained monkeys.
But we are dealing with the craven despicable Liberal legacy media, so don’t hold your breath.
Via Washington Post:
Media-bashing Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz was handed a political gift Tuesday night when The Washington Post retracted an editorial cartoon that depicted his two young daughters as monkeys.
The animated cartoon, by Pulitzer Prize winner Ann Telnaes, sketched the Texas senator in a Santa suit turning a Jack-in-the-box-style crank that made the monkeys dance. A headline said, “Ted Cruz uses his kids as political props” — a reference to a recent viral campaign video in which Cruz and his daughters spoofed familiar Christmas stories.
…one thing should be obvious to any political observer: This is a win for a candidate who is rising in the polls thanks to support from more conservative Republicans and who has been highly critical of the press — most memorably during the third Republican presidential debate, when he blasted the moderators’ questions as being illustrative of “why the American people don’t trust the media.”
The cartoon episode does two things for Cruz: It gives him a piece of evidence to pull out whenever he wants to argue that the loathsome “mainstream media” doesn’t treat him — or conservatives in general — fairly. And it makes his and his supporters’ anti-establishment pushback seem effective, by virtue of the retraction.
….Having The Post yank the cartoon allows him to look like he gets results from those predisposed against his — and his supporters’ — worldview.
Related:
NY Post: Washington Post pulls cartoon depicting Ted Cruz’s kids as trained monkeys
Breitbart: 6 Times the Mainstream DC Media Ridiculed Children of Republicans
I can hear whining from my house.
Sore loser miffed that it didn’t get its participation medal.
FWIW, the 2014 Bezos appointed CEO of WaPo, Fred Ryan, was a Chief of Staff for Reagan following his Presidency. Wonder if there’s any connection with recent NYT article that Reagan wouldn’t recognize Republican Party (Trump and Cruz).
I’m not really sure, but I doubt that cartoon meme would have been used in 2008 or 2012. It’s just a guess.
If something remotely similar would have been done to the Obamas, we would still be hearing it 24/7…MSLSD would have cried ‘racist!!’ for friggin’ decade. The WaCompost, Politico…the NY Crimes…Clinton NN, the loons at MSLSD have all sunk to the lowest common denominator in what they call “journalism”; the rest of us call it …Shi’ite
The Washington com.Post point would seem to be that evidence of the blatant liberal double standard is used by those sneaky unprincipled conservatives as evidence of the liberal double standard.
I think that the editorial cartoon was in the 12/22 paper (posted late 12/21). For contrast, this picture of Obama was on the 12/22 front page above the fold. http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/national/2015/12/22/obama-faith/
I don’t recommend reading the article, but this one sentence on, allegedly, how Obama views faith is illuminating. “For Obama, faith is a means to move from that dire reality — the world as it is — to the promise of the world as it ought to be.” Hmmm, so ‘faith is a means…to the promise of the world as it ought to be.’ Don’t believe that the WaPo reporter realized what he was writing with that sentence.
Norm, Shi’ite is real good description of the Washington Post and this cartoon of Ted Cruz and his little girls. Ollie North calls the post, Pravda on the Potomac.
The unabated discredititation of the MSM is a universal gift.
In other WaPo and Ted Cruz news; WaPo in discussing Cruz leading Iowa while being against the ethanol requirements, has this sentence this 12/29 morning: “Fox News producers and national talk radio hosts, not the Farm Bureau, set the agenda now.”