Mashable executive editor Jim Roberts seems pretty irritated about Ted Cruz. No, not so much about the fact that Washington Post cartoonist Ann Telnaes depicted Cruz’s daughters as trained monkeys, but more about the fact that Cruz decided to turn around and stick it to the kind of people who think his daughters are “fair game”:
Ted Cruz complained that WashPost cartoon was offensive…but he republished it in a fundraising email. https://t.co/EiK6BykUgN
— Jim Roberts (@nycjim) December 23, 2015
Ted Cruz was shocked & outraged that WashPost would post cartoon of his daughters. Then he used it for fund-raising. https://t.co/EiK6BykUgN
— Jim Roberts (@nycjim) December 23, 2015
Here’s a screenshot of the fundraising email, via Mashable:
.@tedcruz already out with a fundraising email off the cartoon controversy asking for "emergency" donations. pic.twitter.com/GyAfdJuYLp
— Gideon Resnick (@GideonResnick) December 23, 2015
Yeah? And? What’s your point, exactly?
@nycjim so?
— Ben (@ben_woods15) December 23, 2015
— Joe Slater (@jpslater1) December 23, 2015
Fundraising email or no fundraising email, that doesn’t make Telnaes’ cartoon or her justification for it any less repugnant.
@nycjim @mashable Good for him-WP attacking little girls-disgusting!
— ?SouthernSteph❤️POTUSTrump??? (@StephMcMurphy) December 23, 2015
Did Roberts kick up any fuss when Hillary fundraised off of making herself look bad?
https://twitter.com/RobProvince/status/679758696763813888
https://twitter.com/RobProvince/status/679758821498171392
Or when Planned Parenthood fundraised off a deadly shooting?
@nycjim @mashable Far less loathsome than @PPact using the CO Springs shooting for fundraising, no?
— Hammerjack (@MarcGiller) December 23, 2015
Seems to us that Cruz’s fundraising effort is relatively reasonable.
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