Ted Cruz Blasts Washington Post Cartoon of Daughters as Monkeys

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Ted Cruz Blasts Washington Post Cartoon of Daughters as Monkeys

by HALLIE JACKSON and HENRY AUSTIN

http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2016-election/ted-cruz-blasts-washington-post-cartoon-daughters-monkeys-n484901

 

 

 

 

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[rudywoofs (Pam)]

can you imagine what would have happened if President Obama's daughters were depicted as monkeys?  

[CoAspen]

Taste is quite often missing in the media...of all types. We are in the age of anything goes, it my right. His only mistake, in my opinion, is to have the kids so out front in all that he does, inviting the tastelessness of the world around us.

[Tom Wetmore]

I am not trying to excuse the monkey portrayal of the kids, but I see a significant difference in how Cruz involved his two young children in his campaign ads and how most other politicians have used their  children.  He effectively scripted them to speak his political views and positions.  Not just a few cute quips in one or two ads.  He has frequently used them with significant speaking roles.  Now for him to hide behind his own kids when faced with mocking of him and his tactics of  doing very much like the cartoon illustrated.  It was him using his own kids like cute animals on a leash to Put money in his coffers and to distract attention away from his own lack of any discernible talent himself cranking away on his cheap one tune music box.  

To fiiegn outrage at picking on his tow sweet little girls seems more than a bit disingenuous given his own crass pandering use of them to be his cute little political poo slingers.  We should be outraged using kids as political props, and more so when we fill there little mouths with political rhetoric that I doubt they really understand and would not otherwise have the remotest concern about at their age.  

That is hugely different than typically showing a politicians family as a normal family without theatrics and scripting the little kids with political palavering.

Shame on Cruz too. Shame on the Washington Post for helping him drag the kids through the political cesspool.