‘Morning Joe’ Rips WaPo over Cruz Cartoon: ‘We Await’ Them ‘Mocking’ Obama’s Kids

RUSH TRANSCRIPT:

BRZEZINSKI: “‘The Washington Post’ has retracted a political cartoon over the way of presidential candidates children. They tweeted out this cartoon of Ted Cruz and his two daughters as monkeys with a caption he uses his daughters as political props.”
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UNKNOWN MALE: “Imagine the greatest Christmas stories told by the senator who once read green eggs and ham from the Senate floor.”
CRUZ: “All of the other reindeer couldn’t afford to hire Rudolph.”
UNKNOWN MALE: “Act now and you’ll get a leader who does exactly what he says he’s going to do.”
CRUZ: “Look, the speaker is melting before Congress.”
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BRZEZINSKI: “Cruz tweeted that —“
SCARBOROUGH: “That is funny. I’m not a fan of him but it’s funny.”
BRZEZINSKI: “What was the rule broken?”
SCARBOROUGH: “I don’t know. I guess nobody ever uses their kids in campaign adds. Maybe that’s what they’re suggesting. Marco Rubio chimed in calling it disgusting.”
BRZEZINSKI: “He can do it on a Saturday night live skit but you can’t. It’s the rule we have with some words too.”
SCARBOROUGH: “I’ve seen it time and time again when you have a candidate that people don’t like, editors don’t like and the main dream media don’t like. They’ll do this. Barack Obama never did anything like this, did he? Let’s see if he did. 
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M. OBAMA: “He works every day to be the father he didn’t have and takes his responsibilities as dad very seriously. He puts our girls first.”
B.OBAMA: “I love you both more than you can imagine and you have earned the new puppy that’s coming with us to the White House.”
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SCARBOROUGH: “Very cute. And we await ‘The Washington Post’ cartoon post mocking Barack Obama’s children.”
GEIST: “People look for moments of bias in the media. You can’t be selectively offended by cartoons. If that had been a Democrat, they would lit the house on fire. Leave kids out of it but this depiction.”
SCARBOROUGH: “It’s outrageous.”
GESIT: “To the paper’s credit.”
FORD JR. “He’s a good man, by the way.”
GEIST: “He pulled it down.”
BRZEZINSKI: “I’m saying their argument about the push back to Cruz.”
GEIST: “This is the editorial page editor. It’s generally been the policy to leave children out of it. I failed to look at the cartoon before it was published.”
SCARBOROUGH: “Again, I would look at the person that did this cartoon and just say you can’t have one standard for harsh conservatives you don’t like and have another standard for progressive presidents and Democratic candidates that you do like.”