On November 2, Telnaes depicted supporters of Trump as rats, on December 2, she depicted then-Attorney General William Barr as a rat, and on December 11, she depicted the GOP as rats. The Daily Wire cited previous cartoons by Telnaes and the Post depicting Republicans as rats, and those images are still on the Washington Post’s website and Telnaes’ Facebook page. The problem is, this is not the first time the pair have run such a cartoon.
In Telnaes’ and the Post’s defense, political cartoons are supposed to be provocative, and if you believe that a group of politicians is trying to subvert the Constitution and unfairly change the results of an election, such a cartoon might be historically tone-deaf but is at least within the bounds of satire. Steve Milloy, founder of JunkScience, tweeted a picture of the cartoon next to a Nazi propagandist cartoon depicting Jews as rats. What are 150 million+ voters on both sides of the political divide to make when a flagship of journalism mainstreams imagery introduced by Nazis, then refined by Soviet Union to demonize the enemy? In an email, the Wiesenthal Center’s Rabbi Abraham Cooper told CBN News, “Beyond belief! The Washpost editorial page publishes cartoon dehumanizing Republicans as rats? That’s what Der Sturmer did in the 1930s. With this latest cartoon likening Republicans to treacherous and scheming rats, the Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Ann Telnaes has been accused of dehumanizing Republicans in a way similar to Nazi propaganda. That makes their willingness to run such cartoons a concern. The Washington Post is anything but a bastion of conservatism, but it is still considered an institution of journalism despite its hatred for President Trump. One cartoon does not a propagandist make, but unfortunately, this is a practice by both the Post and Telnaes that has now crossed a line, regardless of their intentions. Congress members who collaborated with President Trump in his attempt to subvert the Constitution and stay in office.” The cartoon drew criticism due to the historical context of Nazi propaganda that dehumanized Jews before sending them as a group to death camps. Telnaes described the cartoon as “All of the state attorneys general and U.S. The cartoon, titled “All the Republican rats,” featured a name next to each “rat” and took up nearly an entire page of the paper. The Washington Post recently ran a cartoon by editorial cartoonist Ann Telnaes that depicted more than 100 Republicans as scheming rats. Ted Cruz’s daughters as monkeys and the Post published the cartoon, before retracting it. Telnaes has created multiple cartoons featuring Republicans as rats.The Washington Post published a political cartoon by Telnaes depicting Republicans as rats.Unfortunately, this is not an isolated incident by Telnaes or the Post. this is not the time to relax.The Washington Post has drawn criticism for publishing a political cartoon by Ann Telnaes depicting Republicans as rats. He said in a tweet not to forget that Austin Mayor Steve Adler "took a private jet with eight people to Cabo and WHILE IN CABO recorded a video telling Austinites to 'stay home if you can.
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