'This is an emergency - all hands on deck,' his fundraising letter added. I knew I'd be facing attacks from day one of my campaign, but I never expected anything like this.'Ĭruz accused the 'liberal media' of attempting to 'attack and destroy me (and my family) by any means necessary.' 'My daughters are not FAIR GAME,' he wrote in a fundraising email sent late Tuesday. On Tuesday, Cruz launched an 'emergency' appeal seeking to raise $1 million in 24 hours in response to the cartoon. That has no place in politics.'Ĭruz also said that he 'appreciates' the support of his fellow Republicans and that he's glad that the Washington Post removed the image. But don't be attacking five year-old girls. Leave kids alone And if the media wants to attack and ridicule every Republican, well that's what they're gonna do. 'It used to be for a long time the rules across the board that kids are off limits,' he added. 'Not too much ticks me off, but making fun of my girls, that'll do it,' Cruz said in response to the cartoon, which has since been taken down. Ted Cruz hammered the Washington Post on Wednesday for publishing an online editorial cartoon depicting his two young daughters as dancing monkeys, telling a crowd in Tulsa that the attack 'has no place in politics.'

You’ll get the Monitor Weekly magazine, the Monitor Daily email, and unlimited access to. If you’re looking for bran muffin journalism, you can subscribe to the Monitor for $15. We’re about kicking down the door of thought everywhere and saying, “You are bigger and more capable than you realize. We have a mission beyond circulation, we want to bridge divides. Ted Cruz hammered the Washington Post on Wednesday for publishing an online editorial cartoon depicting his two young daughters as dancing monkeys, telling. We’re known as being fair even as the world becomes as polarized as at any time since the newspaper’s founding in 1908. We’re run by a church, but we’re not only for church members and we’re not about converting people.

The Monitor is a peculiar little publication that’s hard for the world to figure out. And I’m going to argue that we change lives precisely because we force open that too-small box that most human beings think they live in. Montel it was wrong of Cruz to use his daughters as props for political gain. We’re the bran muffin of journalism.īut you know what? We change lives. presidential campaigns when it published - and then retracted - a political cartoon portraying Republican candidate Ted Cruz as an organ grinder and his. Horrible, shame on them for depicting his kids this way in their cartoon. We’re seen as being global, fair, insightful, and perhaps a bit too earnest. If you were to come up with a punchline to a joke about the Monitor, that would probably be it. 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. Sometimes, we call things ‘boring’ simply because they lie outside the box we are currently in.” My work in Kenya, for example, was heavily influenced by a Christian Science Monitor article I had forced myself to read 10 years earlier. “Many things that end up” being meaningful, writes social scientist Joseph Grenny, “have come from conference workshops, articles, or online videos that began as a chore and ended with an insight. I’ll use my own server,” one of Cruz’s daughters reads aloud from the Hillary-Clinton-themed book “The Grinch Who Lost Her Emails.”Ībout a year ago, I happened upon this statement about the Monitor in the Harvard Business Review – under the charming heading of “do things that don’t interest you”: “I know just what I’ll do, she said with a snicker. Some of Cruz’s “timeless Christmas classics” include, “How Obamacare Stole Christmas, “Rudolph the Underemployed Reindeer,” and “Frosty the Speaker of the House,” which takes a jab at former Speaker John Boehner. The Washington Post pulled a political cartoon depicting GOP presidential candidate Ted Cruzs school-age daughters as monkeys and him as an organ grinder. But in the vein of SNL parody ads, each title is revised for a GOP chuckle. In the 90-second ad, Cruz is reading classic Christmas stories on the couch with his wife, Heidi, and two daughters. But when a politician uses his children as political props, as Ted Cruz recently did in his Christmas parody video in which his eldest. With the caption “Ted Cruz uses his children as political props,” the cartoon, drawn by Ann Telnaes, the paper’s editorial cartoonist, references a political ad the Cruz campaign aired during the holiday episode of Saturday Night Live last week. The cartoon depicted Cruz's daughters as trained monkeys. Caroline & Catherine are out of your league,” Cruz tweeted Tuesday. The Washington Post published, and then quickly retracted, a cartoon Tuesday depicting Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz as Santa and his two daughters as compliant monkeys.

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