Ann Telnaes, who has worked at The Washington Post as an editorial cartoonist since 2008, says her cartoon below

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Ann Telnaes, who has worked at The Washington Post as an editorial cartoonist since 2008, says her cartoon below was killed — and now she has quit the paper

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[riversedge]

1. "As an editorial cartoonist, my job is to hold powerful people and institutions accountable. For the first time, my ed

Ann Telnaes, who has worked at The Washington Post as an editorial cartoonist since 2008, says her cartoon below was killed — and now she has quit the paper
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"As an editorial cartoonist, my job is to hold powerful people and institutions accountable. For the first time, my editor prevented me from doing that critical job. So I have decided to leave the Post."

https://anntelnaes.substack.com/p/why-im-quitting-the-washington-post
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[Blue_Tires]

32. Censorship...

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

2. it;s true

[C0RI0LANUS]

3. What would these two say about the Washington Post today?

[calimary]

5. Those were the days...

[C0RI0LANUS]

6. You said it. With all of the subsequent investigations and commissions, we ended up at square one.

[MadameButterfly]

21. or worse

[C0RI0LANUS]

22. ...

[MadameButterfly]

20. I remember them then

But they looked much older to a younger me.
I thought Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman glamorized them a bit, but now I think they were spot on.

[C0RI0LANUS]

23. Ah, Bob Dylan!

"Ah, but I was so much older then, I'm younger then that now."

[MadameButterfly]

4. Man, how brilliant that cartoon is

It looks dashed off, but that convincing corner of Trump--his tie, his posure--she says so much with so little. The Ceasar crowns, I especially love the depiction of Bezos, and of Micky Mouse prostrate. Offerings of money to the idol on the altar. Oh, and the very tiny Trump hands.

I didn't know her work before but I do now. Will look for where it next appears. A loss to WaPo

[calimary]

7. No kidding!!!

Outta the ballpark and onward into the void!

You picked up on the “cartoonist’s code”, too, and figured out who the fat giant (with the itty-bitty hands: key clue!) is. And there’s the fat gut and the ridiculous long necktie - additional familiar trump “symbols”.

Cartoonists soooooo expertly boil it down, visually. They get you thinking in symbols. I find their work absolutely fascinating! You can say, imply, and suggest soooooooooo much more than mere words can. Just adds to the richness of the underlying message.

[PJMcK]

8. I think this was a first draft of the cartoon

The editor spiked it before she finished.

Journalism is dying.

[MadameButterfly]

19. Wow. I'm an artist and I so admire

that kind of raw talent

[riversedge]

18. OH my my!! I missed Trumps Tiny Hands!! Thanks for pointing them out. ha ha ha

[Irish_Dem]

26. See the little Mickey Mouse dead at the feet of Trump.

[no_hypocrisy]

9. I recognize Bezos. I kinda wonder if she planned to quit

and this cartoon would be the catalyst.

[MadameButterfly]

24. Or at least she was staking her claim,

setting her terms. Showing the integrity the billionaires won't.

[BoRaGard]

10. Post continues to crap on integrity

sad. It's as if they are just another corporate news puppet.

[Paladin]

11. May her brilliant career continue elsewhere.

God knows she has talent, and God knows there's not going to be any shortage of worthy targets in the foreseeable future.

[tanyev]

12. WAPO: Democracy dies in darkness--so we need to turn off the lights.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

13. The Borowitz Report - Democracy Dies in Bezos

I agree with Andy Borowitz. Bezos and the Washington Post have sold out on defending democracy
https://bsky.app/profile/sharyn420.bsky.social/post/3lewl5tndok2a

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Ann Telnaes, Pulitzer-winning cartoonist for the Washington Post since 2008, quit the paper this week after her editor killed her cartoon depicting WaPo owner Jeff Bezos and other craven billionaires debasing themselves before Donald J. Trump.

This act of censorship, of course, isn’t an outlier: anticipatory obedience to fascism has risen ominously in recent months. It began with WaPo and the Los Angeles Times spiking endorsements of Kamala Harris, only to be outdone by Disney, who gifted Trump $15 million instead of fighting his flimsy defamation claim in court. Oh, and let’s not forget Joe and Mika’s humiliating field trip to Mar-a-Lago.

I don’t know Ms. Telnaes but I admire her work, integrity, and courage. I’m publishing the rough draft of her cartoon above in the hopes that you’ll share it. If enough people do, it will reach a larger audience than if her WaPo editor had had the cojones to run it. Actually, given how many subscribers have fled the paper in recent months, reaching a larger audience than the Washington Post isn’t a daunting task.

Love,
Andy

[dalton99a]

15. +1

[Irish_Dem]

27. How else is supposed to afford a half a billion dollar second wedding?

[LetMyPeopleVote]

36. Moral Courage and its opposite

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[LAS14]

14. Sorry. I don't get the Micky Mouse reference. Could someone explain? nt

[C0RI0LANUS]

17. Perhaps Disney World quietly capitulated somehow to Trumpf and the GOP in Florida?

[Irish_Dem]

29. Disney rolled over and played dead for Trump.

[C0RI0LANUS]

34. Hi Irish Dem. How have you been?

[Irish_Dem]

35. Imma doing fine. How about your Corio?

Did you survive the holidays?

I had covid in November and it wiped me out, but I am finally back to normal.

[C0RI0LANUS]

37. Glad to hear you recovered.

I almost made it thru the holidays unscathed. The other day I caught a 24-hour stomach bug. But my wife helped me recover.



This will be a tough four years on the world and all of us, worse than Nixon.

[Irish_Dem]

38. Adorable little kitty.

Glad you recovered from the flu bug.

Yes it is going to be a difficult four years.
Yes it may make the Nixon era look like a walk in the park.

[MadameButterfly]

25. The only connection I'm aware of is Disney owns ABC

which settled a lawsuit, giving Trump 15M for a museum/foundation, and compelling George Stefanopolous to apologize for a statement theough he likely would have won in court.

I don't know if she was holding Disney responsible for that, or something separate.

[C0RI0LANUS]

33. That could be it. Subtle, the reader must remember that Disney owns ABC.

Well, MAGAts here is your Messiah! You own it. Live long and prosper under these next four grueling and weathering years.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

39. ABC settled a weak defamation case brought by trump for $1 million in attorneys fees and $15 million for trump library

The $15 million will be in escrow until trump provides proof that a valid 501(c)(3) entity is formed for a presidential library. I wonder what happens if trump never forms this entity.

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[Kid Berwyn]

16. Not Art, Truth.

True, while Hitler called the Surrealists "Degenerate," more than art Fascists hate truth.

[Blue_Tires]

28. Who killed the cartoon... Bezos?

[Irish_Dem]

30. Our billionaire overlords own the media and all three branches of US government.

[Oneironaut]

31. Talk me down from the idea that this country is fucked.

Just a few billionaires are gobbling up all popular media and killing stories not only about themselves, but, the government itself. We're already in Fascism.