That Deleted Ted Cruz Cartoon Wasn’t the Worst Thing the Washington Post Published This Week

By Published on December 24, 2015

By now, you’ve probably heard about the early Christmas gift that The Washington Post gave to Ted Cruz: A quickly pulled cartoon depicting the Texas senator dressed as Santa Claus and an organ grinder (because editorial cartoonists are awful), with his two daughters as organ-grinder monkeys.

Thus begins the conservative-media outrage of the week, made more fun by the fact that it’s conservatives who always complain about what sissies and lily-livered weaklings we all are, getting so easily offended by every micro-aggression here, there, and everywhere. How are we going to defeat ISIS and make desert sand glow green if we get offended by a cartoon that doesn’t even show Mohammed with a bomb in his beard?

Since the cartoon ostensibly included Cruz’s young kids (who, like politicos’ kids everywhere, are used as props throughout campaigns), there’s a sense that a line was crossed. How dare you write about/draw/do SNL skits about Amy Carter, Chelsea Clinton, the Bush girls, blah blah blah.Β Didn’t the Post learn anything from its notorious takedown of First Daughter Margaret Truman’s rotten singing circa 1950? “Some day I hope to meet you,” wrote Give ‘Em Hell Harry to the critic. “When that happens you’ll need a new nose, a lot of beefsteak for black eyes, and perhaps a supporter below!”

 

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