Retaliatory Cruz Cartoon Depicts New York Times, WaPo As Clinton’s ‘Lapdogs’

Republican presidential candidate, Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, speaks during a campaign stop at the Republican Liberty Caucus, Friday, Oct. 9, 2015, in Nashua, N.H. (AP Photo/Jim Cole)

After a Washington Post cartoonist depicted Sen. Ted Cruz’s daughters as props in his presidential campaign, the Texas senator fired back with a cartoon of his own. In a hastily Photoshopped drawing posted on Twitter Wednesday, the Post and New York Times appear as the “lapdogs” for his Democratic opponent Hillary Clinton.

The initial drawing by Post cartoonist Ann Telnaes, pictured below, lampooned Cruz for featuring his two young daughters in a campaign ad by showing the Cruz girls as trained monkeys. His campaign lashed out, launching an “emergency” fundraising effort that used the ad to fundraise against the “desperate” “liberal media.”

In a fundraising email obtained by NBC, Cruz wrote, “My daughters are not FAIR GAME. I’m sickened.”

The fundraising campaign aimed to raise $1 million in 24 hours in response to the cartoon, according to NBC.

Telnaes’ cartoon has since been pulled and replaced with an editor’s note explaining that the paper’s editorial section’s policy is to “leave children out of it.”

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  1. Is that the best he can do? PS Fail.

    Edit to add: Cruz is a schlong.

    Additional edit to add: I will attempt to work the word “schlong” into all my replies from now until New Year’s Day.

  2. I see the TexAssHole is pouring on the lies! The two biggest propaganda rags that endlessly lie about the Clintons are in the tank for Hillary? What bullshit!!!

  3. As if we needed any more proof, RWNJ’s just don’t do humor. As a group, these are people who are mean-spirited, vindictive, punitive, frightened, and angry. They’re irony-impaired, and aren’t reflective enough to engage in any sort of witty self-deprecation. Trying to be funny is simply too much of a stretch for them.

  4. to wit: Dennis Miller is the best they’ve got.

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