Don't know with whom you are "softie", as I am thinking of writing a similar complain for you Mr. JJG.
This is exactly what I'm talking about. He's more clever than most but he's molded his entire persona around being a JJG suckup. Its nauseating.
OK I will just use Ignore more frequently and I promise not to talk about it anymore. At least not here. At least not until next year...