Leftist Washington Post editorial cartoonist Ann Telnaes quit her job after Post opinion editor David Shipley killed a cartoon mocking Post owner Jeff Bezos as part of a pack of supine billionaires holding up sacks of cash and bending the knee to Donald Trump.
We noted in 2015 that Telnaes ripped Sen. Ted Cruz by portraying his young daughters at toy monkeys (imagine doing that to a black politician’s daughters). In 2020, she continued the animal theme by drawing everyone she thought aided Trump’s election denials as “Republican rats.”
“I’ve worked for the Washington Post since 2008 as an editorial cartoonist,” Telnaes wrote on her Substack. “I have had editorial feedback and productive conversations—and some differences—about cartoons I have submitted for publication, but in all that time I’ve never had a cartoon killed because of who or…
