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(Darrin Bell, via gocomics.com)
Recently, umbrage was taken by the reptilian, dangerous demagogue Sen. "Tailgunner Ted" Cruz over a political cartoon by Ann Telnaes, featuring Cruz as an organ grinder and his two young daughters as the organ grinder's monkeys. The cartoon was in reference to Cruz's cynical placement of his daughters in his campaigning, most specifically in an ad where they were scripted to read wingnutty versions of "'How
After the tempest blew up, Telnaes defended her use of Cruz's daughters in the cartoon saying,
“When a politician uses his children as political props, as Ted Cruz recently did in his Christmas parody video in which his eldest daughter read (with her father’s dramatic flourish) a passage of an edited Christmas classic, then I figure they are fair game.”Almost immediately stepping off whatever high ground he occupied and onto his, er, schlong (h/t Rump Trump), the reptilian Cruz begun fundraising off of the Telnaes cartoon tempest ("My kids =sob= have been exploited =sniff= and victimized =sob=. Please send me money =sob=."). If that's not a perfect illustration (and one that supports the basic notion of the Telnaes cartoon) of Cruz's continuing cynicism and lack of scruples in exploiting his own daughters, we're not sure what would be.
Come to think of it, referring to him as "reptilian" is an insult to reptiles.
BONUS: Then there's this:
Ted Cruz is so protective of his children he put raw footage of them online so anybody can use them in an ad. https://t.co/bVbv7Dsu50
— Bob Schooley (@Rschooley) December 23, 2015
