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Yet because his daughters were featured in his Christmas Parody video, she decided to make an exception and cartooned his little girls as though they were little monkeys doing. The newspapers Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist Ann Telnaes drew a. Ted Cruz (tedcruz) DecemThe WaPo author, Ann Telnaes, even admits that there’s an unspoken rule that a politician’s children are off-limits. The cartoon, which portrayed Cruz as a Santa suit-clad organ grinder, and his two daughters as dancing monkeys, was removed with an editor's note explaining it's the newspaper's policy to leave children out. The Washington Post has been monkeying around, and Sen. 'There is an unspoken rule in editorial cartooning that a politician’s children are off-limits,' Telnaes said in introducing the cartoon. Click here to make an instant, emergency contribution and help me fight back." He was bashing Post cartoonist Ann Telnaes, who depicted Cruz's daughters Caroline, 7, and Catherine, 4 as monkeys leashed to their father's organ-grinder in a cartoon published earlier Tuesday. The cartoonist, Pulitzer Prize winner Ann Telnaes. Ann Telnaes who drew the controversial cartoon of 2016 GOP contender Ted Cruz’s two daughters as monkeys won Planned Parenthood’s Maggie Award for Media Excellence in 2002, for her editorial cartoons in support of reproductive rights. Telnaes has since deleted the tweet that showed the cartoon, but not before Cruz caught it: Classy. "My daughters are not FAIR GAME," the Republican presidential candidate wrote in an email late Tuesday, seeking to raise $1 million in 24 hours. "I'm sickened.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 trying to attack and destroy him as well as his family and said in the email, "This is an emergency - all hands on deck. Post has retracted a cartoon depicting presidential candidate Ted Cruzs children as monkeys. Ann Telnaes (AnnTelnaes) December 22, 2015. The cartoon which portrayed Cruz in a Santa outfit with an. The cartoon, by Ann Telnaes, depicted Mr Cruz as an organ grinder dressed as Santa Claus while two similarly-dressed monkeys danced on leads in front of him. Ted Cruz blasted the Washington Post and launched a fundraising appeal in response to an online editorial cartoon by Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Ann Telnaes depicting his two young daughters as dancing monkeys, NBC News reported. The animation by Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Ann Telnaes sparked immediate controversy and was later taken down by the Post.