Just in general, journalists should avoid portraying and mocking the kids of politicians, including the kids of Hispanic politicians, as dancing monkeys. I’m not a Ted Cruz apologist, but could you imagine if Sasha and Malia were depicted this way? Not cool. I seriously don’t see the problem.”- Just wow. I’m not sure if the dehumanization was done because of that, because of their father’s politics or some other reason, but it compounds the error in ways that make you wonder how in the heck the cartoon received editorial approval from The Washington “His kids were in ads so I can portray them as dancing monkeys. Just because the Cruz kids are adorable and funny doesn’t mean you can go after them any more than you can go after Sasha and Malia for being adorable when pulled out on stage at political events either.Īs if going after children weren’t enough, Telnaes thought it would be a grand idea to portray the daughters of the first Hispanic senator from Texas as monkeys. Telnaes doesn’t understand this bc, again, she doesn’t know *why* we have the rule, only that there is one. That Cruz cast his children in a good light does not mean that Telnaes is relieved of the rule protecting them from being cast negatively.
The reason, in case you were wondering, why kids are off limits is because they lack culpability AND the capacity to respond. But her reasoning - Cruz did it, so they’re fair game - does not actually address the reason for the rule. So Telnaes simply thought she could reason her way to an exception to the rule: kids are off limits. She knows there are rules, but she doesn’t know *why* there are rules. The core problem here is that Ann Telnaes has no moral foundation.
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Gabriel Malor had an interesting series of tweets on this matter that I will condense here: Since all politicians put their kids (and grandkids!) in ads, and this was just a particularly effective featuring of the same, this makes you wonder just how ideologically blinded Telnaes might be. She was also quoted by CNN as saying she thought that the kids were, and I quote, “fair game” because of the ad that showed them being cute and funny. Īgain, I believe this was many, many hours before the cartoon was noticed by anyone - perhaps before it was even published - so the defensiveness on display was probably some vestigial conscience showing up. Ted Cruz has put his children in a political ad- don’t start screaming when editorial cartoonists draw them as well. Many hours before anyone had noticed Telnaes’ cartoons (her cartoons are boring and usually not worth paying attention to), she tweeted out a pre-emptive defense and pre-emptive justification for why she broke this rule. You don’t have to abide by these rules, of course, but one key rule governing civilized behavior by the media is that kids are off limits. Maybe she should read her own newspaper for an explanation of this thing she thinks Cruz invented:Ī Washington Post story from 2012 on Obama using his kids as a “political asset” in ads: /34FkcRQyzs
So unless Telnaes was born on Saturday, there is no excuse for being ignorant of this. Telnaes is a Pulitzer Prize-winning political cartoonist, so I’m surprised she didn’t know this, but something approaching 100 percent of all politicians feature family members in political ads. 1) All Politicians Put Their Families In Their Ads There are so many things wrong with Telnaes’ cartoon and the subsequent defense of it that it’s hard to know where to begin, but let’s just dig in. As now realizes with perhaps some small regret, The Internet is forever.
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