# Mallard Fillmore Creator Arrested **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [December 12, 2006, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mallard-fillmore-creator-arrested/383815 "2006-12-12T14:50:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![yanceylebeef](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yanceylebeef/32/12290_2.png) [@yanceylebeef](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yanceylebeef)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2006, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mallard-fillmore-creator-arrested/383815/1 "2006-12-12T14:50:38Z")
[Lilnkypoo](http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061211/LOCAL/61211035/-1/topstoriesrecache). Posted without comment, but in the pit, because I’m sure others will have their say. yancey ---
**Author:** ![yanceylebeef](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yanceylebeef/32/12290_2.png) [@yanceylebeef](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yanceylebeef)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2006, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mallard-fillmore-creator-arrested/383815/2 "2006-12-12T14:51:45Z")
Of course, that should be Mallard Fillmore. Preview is my friend. Sigh. ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2006, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mallard-fillmore-creator-arrested/383815/3 "2006-12-12T14:54:25Z")
[QUOTE=yanceylebeef] Of course, that should be Mallard Fillmore. Preview is my friend. Sigh. [/QUOTE] Far be it from me to allow another Coloradoan to be embarrassed.\* Fixed. \*You’re not Tom Tancredo, are you? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![yanceylebeef](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yanceylebeef/32/12290_2.png) [@yanceylebeef](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yanceylebeef)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2006, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mallard-fillmore-creator-arrested/383815/4 "2006-12-12T14:58:19Z")
[QUOTE=Frank] Far be it from me to allow another Coloradoan to be embarrassed.\* Fixed. \*You’re not Tom Tancredo, are you? 😃 [/QUOTE] Thanks Frank! Nope, I’m the Anti Tom. I guess that would make me Mot. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2006, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mallard-fillmore-creator-arrested/383815/5 "2006-12-12T14:59:11Z")
And the Prada jackboot of Nancy Pelosi’s liberal tyranny falls first upon the humor impaired! ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2006, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mallard-fillmore-creator-arrested/383815/6 "2006-12-12T15:05:35Z")
His second booze-fueled arrest in four months? Blood alcohol of .14? That does tend to explain the bludgeoning stupidity of the strip, eh? ---
**Author:** ![Lamar\_Mundane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/85f322/32.png) [@Lamar\_Mundane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamar_Mundane)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2006, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mallard-fillmore-creator-arrested/383815/7 "2006-12-12T15:23:07Z")
The preening moralist [hypocrites](http://www.denverpost.com/ci_4822576) seem to be dropping like flies these days, don’t they? ---
**Author:** ![Triskadecamus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b19c9b/32.png) [@Triskadecamus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Triskadecamus)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2006, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mallard-fillmore-creator-arrested/383815/8 "2006-12-12T15:25:19Z")
[QUOTE=elucidator] And the Prada jackboot of Nancy Pelosi’s liberal tyranny falls first upon the humor impaired! [/QUOTE] Oooo! Does Prada make jackboots?! I got to see some of those ads! Tris ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2006, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mallard-fillmore-creator-arrested/383815/9 "2006-12-12T15:25:34Z")
He is just another Heinous Ditchpig. ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2006, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mallard-fillmore-creator-arrested/383815/10 "2006-12-12T15:26:54Z")
When the revoultion comes, comic strip artists will be the first ones up against the wall! ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2006, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mallard-fillmore-creator-arrested/383815/11 "2006-12-12T15:38:00Z")
[QUOTE=Lamar Mundane] The preening moralist [hypocrites](http://www.denverpost.com/ci_4822576) seem to be dropping like flies these days, don’t they? [/QUOTE] I don’t read the comic regularly but I have seen it a couple of times. Maybe you know it better than me. Does this make him a hypocrite? Did he ever say anything about the evils of demon alcohol in the strip? He may be an asshole for the DWI but not a hypocrite unless he has taken a stand against alcohol. ---
**Author:** ![Sailboat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sailboat/32/461_2.png) [@Sailboat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sailboat)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2006, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mallard-fillmore-creator-arrested/383815/12 "2006-12-12T15:39:37Z")
What I want to know is, during the sobriety test, did he indeed walk like a duck? Sailboat ---
**Author:** ![Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/50afbb/32.png) [@Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duck_Duck_Goose)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2006, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mallard-fillmore-creator-arrested/383815/13 "2006-12-12T15:47:46Z")
I don’t get the Pitting, either. I agree it’s a stupid strip, but so the creator’s arrested for DUI, so what? Where’s the “nyah, nyah”? ---
**Author:** ![mhendo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mhendo/32/3159_2.png) [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2006, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mallard-fillmore-creator-arrested/383815/14 "2006-12-12T15:50:43Z")
[QUOTE=Zebra] When the revoultion comes, comic strip artists will be the first ones up against the wall! [/QUOTE] Except for Tom Tomorrow. ---
**Author:** ![Lamar\_Mundane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/85f322/32.png) [@Lamar\_Mundane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamar_Mundane)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2006, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mallard-fillmore-creator-arrested/383815/15 "2006-12-12T15:52:34Z")
[QUOTE=Loach] I don’t read the comic regularly but I have seen it a couple of times. Maybe you know it better than me. Does this make him a hypocrite? Did he ever say anything about the evils of demon alcohol in the strip? He may be an asshole for the DWI but not a hypocrite unless he has taken a stand against alcohol. [/QUOTE] I hardly ever read it myself, unless I am reading an Op-Ed that is adjacent to the strip. I don’t know if he specifically rails against alcohol, but it is well known that he puts himself and like-minded Republicans on a higher moral shelf than “liberals”. Party of Personal Responsibility and all that. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2006, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mallard-fillmore-creator-arrested/383815/16 "2006-12-12T15:54:28Z")
[QUOTE=Zebra] When the revoultion comes, comic strip artists will be the first ones up against the wall! [/QUOTE] No, we have _enough_ graffitti on our walls… ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2006, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mallard-fillmore-creator-arrested/383815/17 "2006-12-12T15:57:18Z")
At least this cartoonist wasn’t [packing heat.](http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=topNews&storyid=2006-11-24T204845Z_01_N24365789_RTRUKOC_0_US-CRIME-GUNMAN.xml) ---
**Author:** ![The\_King\_of\_Soup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a87d85/32.png) [@The\_King\_of\_Soup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_King_of_Soup)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2006, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mallard-fillmore-creator-arrested/383815/18 "2006-12-12T16:10:14Z")
[QUOTE=Duck Duck Goose] I don’t get the Pitting, either. I agree it’s a stupid strip, but so the creator’s arrested for DUI, so what? Where’s the “nyah, nyah”? [/QUOTE] Partly I (and I _hate_ the strip and most of the parched, half-dead “ideas” it stands for whenever it’s convenient) agree, because this is a human failing that would not ordinarily rise above all the other flaws that make each of us human. Except that I’m sure I can remember that on more than one occasion the artist has used drunk driving to tar his targets, including references to Chappaquiddick, decades after the fact and apropos of nothing except his immediate _ad hominem_ attack. Only blind chance separates any drunk driver from being a killer, right? _Other_ than that, however, the strip and its emitter should be excoriated only for the obvious reasons. ---
**Author:** ![Eonwe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eonwe/32/240_2.png) [@Eonwe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eonwe)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2006, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mallard-fillmore-creator-arrested/383815/19 "2006-12-12T16:18:39Z")
[QUOTE=Sailboat] What I want to know is, during the sobriety test, did he indeed walk like a duck? Sailboat [/QUOTE] Well, if it walks like a duck, and drinks like a fish… ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2006, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mallard-fillmore-creator-arrested/383815/20 "2006-12-12T16:19:19Z")
[QUOTE=Lamar Mundane] I hardly ever read it myself, unless I am reading an Op-Ed that is adjacent to the strip. I don’t know if he specifically rails against alcohol, but it is well known that he puts himself and like-minded Republicans on a higher moral shelf than “liberals”. Party of Personal Responsibility and all that. [/QUOTE] I like to think that I have high moral standards. I also generally consider myself conservative. However my morals may not follow what you might think is the party line. For instance most evangelical conservatives think that gambling is a sin. I think it is a great way to pass the time. Does that make me a hypocrite? No I am not violating my own moral code or preaching against something that I do. I’m certainly not defending the DWI. I just object to the use of the word hypocrite without further explaination. The guy was an asshole for putting others lives at risk. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mallard-fillmore-creator-arrested/383815.md?page=2)