This is, in a word, nasty.
Ted Cruz uses his kids as political props https://t.co/gKT8Jhjm17 pic.twitter.com/GNfoP4batF
— Ann Telnaes (@AnnTelnaes) December 22, 2015
You’ll note that I skipped the gif, because it depicts two children with Hispanic ancestry as monkeys, and unlike Ann Telnaes I don’t want to subject my readers to anything that nasty. You can look it up on Twitchy. Anyway, Marco Rubio’s response works for me:
Wash Post cartoon featuring @tedcruz’s children is disgusting. The Post saying the kids are “fair game” is even worse. — Marco Rubio (@marcorubio) December 23, 2015
Note, by the way, that the Washington Post was the institution that turned ‘macaca’ into a Holy Crusade. I wonder if any of them over there understand the irony? Or irony at all, really?
this clearly means that Chelsea is fair game too…. or are we above all that?
Actually, Chelsea’s child is fair game according to their rules. After all, Hillary has been using her as a prop.
Fred Hiatt pulled the cartoon, said he hadn’t seen it before it went online, but didn’t apologize.
Time to stop dong business with any company Jeff Bezos controls . Payback is a b—h.
If an “editor” doesn’t exercise editorial control or do any editing, what does he do?
IF Democrats didn’t have double standards, they wouldn’t have any standards at all.
Guess who deleted her tweet?
Won’t help, of course.
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Seriously, deleting ’em is close kin to admitting the tweet’s offensive, at this point.
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Mew
We really need to bring back dueling. Tomorrow should be fun tho.
The dumb bint keeps digging:
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https://twitter.com/AnnTelnaes/status/679508807089786880?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
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Apparently she has no clue that the organ grinder imagery was used to denigrate Italian immigrants.
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So she’s managed to create a racist two-fer that insults two ethnic communities.