That's like calling Obama's kids "Kenyan," because they have a grandfather from there! It's a long way to Tipperary, and it's a long way to Havana, too! One single, solitary grandparent has heritage in way of European Spain. Three of their four grandparents were born in the Good Old USA. Their mother was born in USA, and their daddy was born in CANADA. If you really hate how politics makes people behave, direct your ire at the guy who caused this mess-Ted Cruz. You know what isn't "OK?" Telling little kids who don't know a Republican from a fig to spew hate-filled screeds about Democrats, and then reward them like, dare I say, TRAINED MONKEYS when they deliver their lines properly. You know who deserves "mocking ridicule?" Ted Cruz-for exploiting his children in a craven and obvious way. Ted Cruz-his callous disregard for his family's integrity is truly shameful. Then, as Cruz crows about how much money he raked in, and demands more, MORE people will go look at the stupid little hateful video yet again-and you, knowingly or not, are HELPING that effort with your hand-to-forehead "Think of the CHILLLLLDREN" complaining.if Cruz had thought of the children AT THE OUTSET, there'd be no problem. So people went and looked at the video AGAIN and sent in money. Then they were hurt again by the "Send Me Money Because the LIBRULS were MEEEEEEAN to My Little Darlings" campaign that he ginned up to cadge more money with faux poutrage. Not a cartoon of their father as an organ grinder with two anonymous monkeys on leashes.
It would be nice to see you gin up this sort of hot-breathed defense for a Democrat on occasion. I have never ONCE heard Ted Cruz speak a single word of Spanish, either-I don't even know if he has that ability.īut you go ahead and keep whining about "Poor Ted." He's a VICTIM, because he cravenly uses small children who don't have an understanding about how their persons are being abused, for political purposes.
His ancestors were privileged 'European' elites in Cuba, not hardscrabble former slaves. It's like trying to claim that the Pope is a person of color because he, too, is "Hispanic." This man has nothing in common with indigenous peoples from Mexico or Central/South America. To try and equate these people-simply because the cultural heritage of one of them points to a Spanish language background-as anything other than privileged white people is a bridge too far for me. His wife is a caucasian, blonde investment banker whose name was Heidi Nelson when she married him.
He is a very pale (there's a reason he's been likened to the vampire-like Grampa Munster) white man with a heritage that goes back to European Spain. Back when immigration was picking up, a rather cruel rumor was circulated that they had tails.īlack people have had to deal with that bullshit from way back, but Ted Cruz is NOT black (just like Porgie-see? NUANCE). There is only one subset of white people that I know who have been routinely likened to monkeys, and that's the Irish in the 19th Century. I really want you to point me to all your OUTRAGED posts complaining about the gleeful, indeed joyful depictions of Porgie Bush, also a caucasian, as all sorts of monkeys and apes, that I've seen down the years, here-I must have missed them.Īnd while we're at it, let's ban the children's tune about the "Little Monkeys Jumping On The Bed!"
What is "racist" about depicting two blonde, caucasian children as trained monkeys? Inquiring minds want to know.I know of no "racist tradition" that calls that an insult, given the race and coloring of the individuals in question. "It was the right thing to do," he said.Īfter he made the CHOICE of using them (to the point of forcing them to ACT, rather like a monkey grinder does to his trained monkeys) for blatantly political and partisan purposes, then SCREECHING like he was burnt when someone notices, then using the "Think of the CHILLLLLLDREN" excuse to raise a million bucks for his campaign, and then whipping up poutrage some more!Īnd look at you, jumping on that bandwagon? You sure you want to die on THAT hill? That has no place in politics."Ĭruz also said that he "appreciates" the support of his fellow Republicans and that he's glad that the Washington Post removed the image. But don't be attacking five year-old girls. Leave kids alone And if the media wants to attack and ridicule every Republican, well that's what they're gonna do. "It used to be for a long time the rules across the board that kids are off limits," he added. "Not too much ticks me off, but making fun of my girls, that'll do it," Cruz said in response to the cartoon, which has since been taken down. Ted Cruz hammered the Washington Post on Wednesday for publishing an online editorial cartoon depicting his two young daughters as dancing monkeys, telling a crowd in Tulsa that the attack "has no place in politics."
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