What can one say about The Washington Post depicting Ted Cruz's seven and five year old daughters as monkeys in a political cartoon?
Could you imagine the furor which would have ensued had President Obama's daughters been depicted as monkeys? The racial connotations alone would have made a front page story for a week. Resignations would have been submitted and editorials chastising conservatives for the coarsening of our political culture would have been the most popular item on the menu.
But since the children in question here belong to Ted Cruz they are offered no sympathy as demonstrated by Melissah Yang of Bustle who blames Cruz for the whole episode:
Could you imagine the furor which would have ensued had President Obama's daughters been depicted as monkeys? The racial connotations alone would have made a front page story for a week. Resignations would have been submitted and editorials chastising conservatives for the coarsening of our political culture would have been the most popular item on the menu.
But since the children in question here belong to Ted Cruz they are offered no sympathy as demonstrated by Melissah Yang of Bustle who blames Cruz for the whole episode:
When you launch a presidential campaign, everything in your life is fair game, and while the ethics of including young children in that scrutiny is questionable, the reality is that the rule cuts both ways. Hours after the cartoon went live, the Cruz campaign sent out a fundraising email that contained the image in full. ...-go to links-
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