'Dilbert' Creator Scott Adams Tries to Sell Interviews With Gilroy Garlic Festival Shooting Survivor

[demmiblue]

After the mass shooting, he advertised his new app that would somehow let people set a price for their stories—and give him a 20 percent cut.

As police in Gilroy, California, processed the crime scene at a mass shooting at the Gilroy Garlic Festival on Sunday that left three people dead, Dilbert comic strip creator Scott Adams decided to make some money off the tragedy.

In a message to his more than 300,000 Twitter followers, Adams urged any Gilroy shooting witnesses to make an account on an app he co-founded that allows experts to make money by discussing issues over video calls. By signing up for the app, “Interface by WhenHub,” Adams claimed, witnesses could “set your price” and make money by selling interviews about the mass murder, while Adams’ company took a 20 percent cut.

“If you were a witness to the #GilroyGarlicFestivalshooting please sign on to Interface by WhenHub (free app) and you can set your price to take calls,” Adams tweeted. “Use keyword Gilroy.”

Adams soon faced an online backlash, with Republican pollster Frank Luntz and others accusing Adams, who has rebranded himself as pro-Trump internet personality, of using the shooting to promote his app.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/dilbert-creator-scott-adams-tries-to-sell-interviews-with-gilroy-garlic-festival-shooting-survivors

[blogslut]

1. What vile leach

Not just promoting and profiting from tragedy but scamming from it.

[dalton99a]

2. Scott Adams is a despicable Trump apologist and a fascist at heart.

[maxsolomon]

10. I saw him explain that Trump was a Con Man and what techniques he used.

On Bill Maher, long before he won the GOP nomination. It was informative.

[BlueStater]

3. I'm proud to be one of his Twitter blocks.

Who would have thought that the creator of one of the most popular comic strips around was such a vile asshole.

[marble falls]

4. Love Dilbert, absolutely loathe Scott Adams.

[Wellstone ruled]

5. Scott is a true A---Hole

!!

[yonder]

6. Many years ago I read a transcript of an interview with him.

This was before I knew anything about him except his strip. He came across as very set-in-his-ways, unkind, authoritarian - pretty much a jerk. Since then, he has confirmed that first impression many times.

[Demovictory9]

9. as I recall, he's hates women

[stillcool]

7. why would Frank Lutz go after him?

sounds like perfectly normal business practice for a Republican.

[ProfessorPlum]

8. competition

[Caliman73]

12. Luntz and others are mad that Adams and his ilk are taking off the mask...

Remember that Luntz is all about using language to manipulate and re frame unpopular concepts in right wing ideology into more palatable terms. Trump and Adams coming straight out and saying racist, misogynistic, and generally hateful things, that are completely in line with right wing ideology, makes Luntz's job manipulating the language a lot more difficult.

If you are trying to mask racist language and someone from your team comes along and just yells out, "We hate nig@@rs!", you will probably be pissed, not that they hate Black people, but that they said it so clearly for others to hear the true thought process guiding your politics and policies.

[Fritz67]

11. It still boggles my mind...

...that one of the guys who has most illuminated the creative and moral bankruptcy of corporate culture for nearly a third of a century, through a comic strip that frankly still bullseyes it more often than it doesn't, is also one of the loudest proponents of everything his art decries.

I wonder if he was always this way, just doing it make a buck? Or did his success go so thoroughly to his head he became a Pointy Haired Boss because of it?

The cognitive disconnect is staggering.