HONOLULU - A deeply conflicted President Obama warned earlier this year when he extended the American troop presence in Afghanistan that he did not support "the idea of endless war."įor Obama, the deaths Monday of six U.S. The war in Afghanistan follows Obama to his vacation in Hawaii Here's something more disturbing the Post did on the day before the Cruz cartoon got its 15 minutes in the sun. Cruz is Santa but also an organ grinder? I thought only Eyetalians were organ grinders and isn't Cruz Canadian or something? And why Santa Claus-just because it's Christmas week? Why not Krampus, who takes things from people? Because Cruz wants to steal old people's Medicare and underwear and shut down the government, doesn't he, according to the liberal consensus…? And that's long before we even get to whether it's wrong to include children in such situations. As Roger Williams said of forced prayers, it stinks in god's nostrils. This cartoon, like virtually all editorial cartoons, is so failed on so many levels that only a Pulitzer-Prize winner could have drawn it.
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. The Post deleted the cartoon, with the editorial page editor explaining: This round completely goes to Cruz and conservative media-bias chroniclers. "When that happens you'll need a new nose, a lot of beefsteak for black eyes, and perhaps a supporter below!" How dare you write about/draw/do SNL skits about Amy Carter, Chelsea Clinton, the Bush girls, blah blah blah. Didn't the Post learn anything from its notorious takedown of First Daughter Margaret Truman's rotten singing circa 1950? "Some day I hope to meet you," wrote Give 'em Hell Harry to the critic. Since the cartoon ostensibly included Cruz's young kids (who, like politicos' kids everywhere, are used as props throughout campaigns), there's a sense that a line was crossed. How are we going to defeat ISIS and make desert sand glow green if we get offended by a cartoon that doesn't even show Mohammed with a bomb in his beard? Thus begins the conservative-media outrage of the week, made more fun by the fact that it's conservatives who always complain about what sissys and lily-livered weaklings we all are, getting so easily offended by every micro-aggression here, there, and everywhere. Updated at 10:43 A.M.: Scroll down for cartoonist Ann Telnaes' comments on controversy.īy now, you've probably heard about the early Christmas gift that The Washington Post gave to Ted Cruz: A quickly pulled cartoon depicting the Texas senator dressed as Santa Claus and an organ grinder (because editorial cartoonists are awful), with his two daughters as organ-grinder monkeys.
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