Cartoonist Andy Marlette just loves to let me rent space in his head. It is so funny. Between his never ending barrage of attacks on Christianity, our President, the First Lady, our Congressman, our State Representatives, Well-established and well-respected local employers, and others that are conservative-he still manages to do cartoon after cartoon about me...One after another. I'm almost like a "regular" in his rotation, LOL.
Apparently--he also likes to be "Catfished", as evidenced by today's cartoon of me that he did and which I have improved above.
You see, Andy's compromised, conscripted.
He takes money from people and does their ideological bidding. He intimates in his cartoon of me today that I do likewise.
Of course, this simply is not true. I have never taken anything of value, not one thin dime, from International Paper. Nothing, nada. What I have done is meet with the experts at FDEP who dispute Andy's propaganda about IP. Then I met with IP executives and toured their facilities and saw the wetlands firsthand. I requested a tour to learn about what was going on (Something, ironically, that neither the PNJ nor Andy Marlette has requested from IP). I am paying for independent analysis of water samples from the bay in an attempt to validate the findings. I look into things and I do research, I do NOT let folks just get over on me--because I am an independent free thinker.....
Sadly, the same thing cannot be said of Andy Marlette. He takes money from his Patron du jour-whomever that happens to be at any given time--- and allows himself to be used like the tool that he is. Sound's kinda like the world's second oldest profession. And Andy really likes it!
Yes--he has already been catfished by whomever his "Patron" Du Jour is today--and maybe he doesn't even realize it?
Yes, yes, anyone who he is told to keep the gloves on with----or who pays him--- and Andy subserviently, obsequiously, and like a good boy does just that. No cartoons. No dumb articles. He is very, very obedient.
Everyone else is a target though--particularly if Andy's Patron says so and doesn't like the target.
But here is something for Andy's microscopically small brain to ponder: What if Andy's Patron du jour is/was the real bad guy, or at a minimum an opportunist and a user--or a fake or a phony? What