Friday’s PBS News Hour celebrated liberal political cartoonist Ann Telnaes, who resigned in a huff from the Washington Post when a cartoon mocking Post owner and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos was rejected, part of PBS’s “Art in Action” coverage, “exploring the intersection of art and democracy.” PBS showed some of Telnaes’s latest work, now available on Substack, including President Trump conducting at the Kennedy Center with a swastika-tipped baton. Ha?
Telnaes has had nasty scraps with Republican subjects of her pen and ink before, like going after the daughters of Sen. Ted Cruz in 2015, in a cartoon withdrawn by editor Fred Hiatt after an outcry, but not before Telnaes defended it by saying Cruz’s children “are fair game.” They were four and seven.
Brown went on to lament about the decline of editorial cartooning in this day and age and name-checked “legendary…
