This important part of the cartoon was lost immediately in the social media outrage fueled by tweets and comments from the senator and his supporters that mischaracterized the cartoon as attacking his daughters. Because the point of my cartoon was to criticize Cruz’s decision to exploit his children for political gain, I drew him as a campaigning organ grinder with performing monkeys. The visual metaphor in this cartoon was an organ grinder, an early 20th century street musician who used leashed animals, usually monkeys, to collect coins from appreciative audiences. They are the language we use to convey our point of view. Visual metaphors are an important component of editorial cartooning. In addition to comments like the ones above, I was Twitter trolled, my archived cartoons doctored, and my photograph tweeted with the caption: “Makes fun of Ted Cruz’s children, aborted all of her own.”
In my almost 25 years as an editorial cartoonist, I have never received the level or amount of misogynistic vitriol I did over that cartoon.
Many of my colleagues have received death threats as well-but this was different. This has been especially true during the volatile 2016 presidential campaign.Įditorial cartoonists are a thick-skinned group we’re used to getting negative feedback from irate readers telling us we’re idiots and how terrible our cartoons are. Although passionate criticism over a provocative cartoon isn’t new, the introduction of social media into politics and election campaigning has dramatically increased the speed and intensity of those reactions, and the repercussions for the editorial cartooning profession. Under the spotlight cast by a Washington Post cartoon that depicted his children as monkeys, Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz launched an “emergency fund-raising campaign.” Ted Cruz: Cartoon of daughters has no place in politics.Since my cartoon ran in December, I’ve thought a great deal about the role of social media in stoking the resulting outrage. Ann Telnaes, an editorial cartoonist from The Washington Post, created and published a cartoon recently that depicted GOP candidate Ted Cruz and his children (the cartoon was actually a GIF since. The animation by Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Ann Telnaes sparked immediate controversy. The cartoon – which the Post removed from its website this morning – poked fun at Cruz, saying he was using his two young daughters as political props. Caroline, 7, and Catherine, 4, have occasionally joined their father onstage, including at last week”s debate in Las Vegas. In response to Ann Telnaes” cartoon, Cruz launched an “emergency” appeal Tuesday night seeking to raise $1 million in 24 hours. “… I knew I”d be facing attacks from day one of my campaign, but I never expected anything like this.” “My daughters are not fair game,” he wrote in the email soliciting contributions. In response to right-wing outrage, The Washington Post has taken down a cartoon by Ann Telnaes that depicted Ted Cruz as an organ grinder and Cruz's daughters as dancing monkeys. The Post removed the cartoon from the site and replaced it with a note from Editor Fred Hiatt: “It”s generally been the policy of our editorial section to leave children out of it. Before it came down, Telnaes explained the cartoon this way: There is an unspoken rule in editorial cartooning that a politician's children are off-limits. I failed to look at this cartoon before it was published. Ann 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. The cartoon depicts Cruz’s five- and seven-year old daughters as monkeys on a leash. WaPo Depicts Cruz's Daughters As Monkeys, Media Focuses On His Reaction. I understand why Ann thought an exception to the policy was warranted in this case, but I do not agree.”Ī tweet on Telnaes” Twitter account Tuesday said: “Ted Cruz has put his children in a political ad – don”t start screaming when editorial cartoonists draw them as well.
Cruz is portrayed wearing a Santa Claus outfit holding a crank music box. In April 2019, Telnaes drew Trump as the devil. After she posted the cartoon, Pulitzer-Prize-Winning cartoonist Ann Telnaes Tweeted that Cruz’s children were now fair game for the chattering class.
By contrast, here’s how Telnaes saw Barack and Michelle Obama. Telnaes was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for cartooning in 2001 in 2015, a cartoon she created depicted the two young daughters of Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) as monkeys. Cruz’s daughters were four years old and seven years old at the time.
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