PBS Celebrates Artistic Freedom for Cartoonist Who Drew Trump With Swastika

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.”

Telnaes has had nasty scraps with Republican subjects of her pen and ink before, like going after the children of Sen. Ted Cruz in 2015, in a cartoon withdrawn by editor Fred Hiatt after outcry, but not before Telnaes defended it by saying Cruz’s children “are fair game.”