Law & Crime reports:
After a shooter armed with a semi-automatic rifle gunned down numerous people at a California festival on Sunday, Scott Adams, who is the creator of the comic strip Dilbert, used the mass act of violence to promote his new app and urged survivors to download it.
“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. Use keyword Gilroy,” tweeted Adams, despite police stating at the time that the shooting scene — where three people were killed and over a dozen were injured — was still active.
Adams, whose app appears to be a do-it-yourself PR network for supposed experts to get in touch with the media, has since doubled down on his attempts to monetize mass violence, tweeting on Monday that the coverage of his promotion-by-shooting ad campaign is all “fake outrage.”
You may recall that in 2016 Adams declared that if there were no more mass shootings before the election it would “prove that ISIS loves Hillary Clinton.”
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. Use keyword Gilroy. https://t.co/ilASD9kVAt
— Scott Adams (@ScottAdamsSays) July 29, 2019
You’re really using an in-progress mass-shooting to promote your app, Scott? https://t.co/wcVh8DU6X3
— Frank Luntz (@FrankLuntz) July 29, 2019
Ethical journalists do not pay for interviews, and jfc the Dilbert comic strip guy monetizing mass shootings is painfully 2019. https://t.co/hsytNu0OvA
— Tony Webster (@webster) July 29, 2019
There are grifters. There are filthy grifters. And then there is “Hey, mass shooting survivors, download my app!” https://t.co/Fqoboer18K
— Matthew Chapman (@fawfulfan) July 29, 2019
How much are they paying you to post this after a shooting? How much is the grift worth to you?
— Sleeping Giants (@slpng_giants) July 29, 2019
Which fake news group will run the best hit piece on me today while getting all the facts wrong? The fake outrage is a thing to behold.
— Scott Adams (@ScottAdamsSays) July 29, 2019