Scott Adams, creator of 'Dilbert' and author has died at 68

Scott Adams in Jan. 2014 photo Getty Images

I went on YouTube this morning to watch "Real Coffee with Scott Adams" and the first thing I saw was Shelly Adams, Scott's ex-wife, in tears as she read a paper he had written on January 1st. I immediately knew Scott Adams had died. 

"Dilbert" cartoonist Scott Adams has died at the age of 68, Shelly announced on his show Tuesday morning. "He's not with us anymore." She was quite tearful and had difficulty reading what sounded like his last will and testament, or perhaps a simple message to his huge fan base.

"If you’re reading this, things did not go well for me. I have a few things to say before I go. My body fell before my brain. I am of sound mind as I write this January 1, 2026. If you wonder about any of my choices for my estate, or anything else, please know I am free of any… inappropriate influence of any sort, I promise," Shelly said on behalf of Adams.

Adams who had many skills, including hypnosis and economics, began writing and illustrating the Dilbert comic strip in 1989.

"Next, many of my Christian friends have asked me to find Jesus before I go. I am not a believer, I have to admit the risk/reward calculation for doing so looks so attractive to me, so here I go," she continued on behalf of Adams. "I accept Jesus Christ as my lord and savior, and look forward to spending an eternity with him. The part about me not being a believer should be quickly resolved if I wake up in Heaven. I won’t need any more convincing than that. I hope I am still qualified for entry."

 Adams was a staunch supporter of President Donald Trump, and even predicted his win in the first presidential election in 2016, shared a health update on his podcast.

"I talked to my radiologist yesterday, and it's all bad news — the odds of me recovering are essentially zero," he bravely announced. "I'll give you any updates if that changes, but it won't."

"So there's no chance that I'll get my feeling back in my legs, and I've got some ongoing heart failure, which is making it difficult to breathe sometimes during the day," Scott continued. "However, you should prepare yourself that January will probably be a month of transition, one way or another."

Adams first announced his prostate cancer diagnosis in May, saying that he was in pain every day and had been using a walker for months.

"If you're wondering if I'll get better, the answer is no, it will only get worse," he said at the time. "There's only one direction this goes."

Scott Adams will be remembered not so much for "Dilbert," but for his clear-minded take on world events. He was revered by so many on the conservative side of the aisle, and many folks, including Greg Gutfeld

Rest in peace, and may you wake up in Heaven and hang out with Charlie. I will miss you immensely.

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MSNBC is getting a divorce and it's fantastic

Ladies and gentlemen, brace yourselves for a seismic shakeup in the media world. The liberal bastion known as MSNBC is getting a dramatic rebrand, soon to be dubbed "MS NOW"-- that's "My Source News Opinion World," if you're keeping score. This bombshell dropped on Monday’s "Morning Joe," and let me tell you, it's more than just a name change. It's a corporate divorce that's been brewing for years, and' about to get messy.

For decades, NBC and MSNBC have been joined at the hip, like a power couple in the news game. But Comcast, the parent company, is pulling the plug on this marriage, splitting its NBCUniversal empire. Comcast announced last year it's spinning off its cable networks into a new entity called Versant. That's right, MSNBC, CNBC, USA Network, Oxygen, E!, SYFY, and the Golf Channel are all packing their bags and moving out, while NBCUniversal holds onto NBC News, NBC News Now, Telemundo, and Bravo. It's a high-stakes custody battle over brands, talent, and real estate, and the fallout is already raising eyebrows.

Let's talk about the split. MSNBC’'s Rachel 'Mad Cow' Maddow and NBC's Savannah Guthrie are no longer playing for the same team. Once the divorce is finalized by the end of 2025, these two won't even be colleagues under the NBCUniversal umbrella. And the iconic Peacock is getting a makeover at MSNBC, replaced by a new logo: a striped flag in red, white, and blue, but not an American flag because they really don't like America all that much. Goodbye, fashionable fowl; hello, patriotic flair. Meanwhile, CNBC, ever the steady one, keeps its "Consumer News and Business Channel" name intact. No drama there.

Now, let's get to the real estate drama. 

Rockefeller Center, 30 Rock, has been the beating heart of NBC since forever, and MSNBC called it home since its launch in 1996. But in this divorce, NBC gets to keep the house. MSNBC is being evicted, forced to set up shop temporarily on 43rd Street while they hunt for a permanent new home. They're also vacating NBC's D.C. bureau near the Capitol and striking out on their own. 

Talk about a fresh start, or more accurately, a forced one.

NBC and MSNBC have long shared their so called stars, with hosts and correspondents bouncing between the two like it's no big deal. But now, lines are being drawn. NBC is holding onto Steve Kornacki, their data wizard who has been a staple of MSNBC's election nights. Andrea Mitchell, after wrapping her long-running MSNBC show "Andrea Mitchell Reports" in February, is staying with NBC as their chief Washington and foreign affairs correspondent. José Díaz-Balart is out at MSNBC but keeping his gigs anchoring "NBC Nightly News Saturday" and Noticias Telemundo.

Meanwhile, MS NOW (or as Greg Gutfeld referred to them as: "Miserable Sh*t No One Watches") is building its roster, snagging some heavy hitters from NBC. Justice reporters Ken Dilanian and Ryan Reilly, national correspondent Jacob Soboroff, White House correspondent Vaughn Hillyard, and internet reporter Brandy Zadrozny are all jumping ship to MS NOW. MSNBC's current lineup, including Stephanie Ruhle, who's juggled roles as NBC's senior business analyst and host of "The 11th Hour," will stay put through the rebrand. And in a rare win, Willie Geist, the guy who pulls double duty on NBC's "Sunday TODAY" and MSNBC's "Morning Joe," has scored a deal to keep both gigs post-split, according to a source who spoke to Fox News Digital. 

Now that's some serious negotiating power.

But let's not kid ourselves, this isn't just a corporate reshuffle. MSNBC has been on a hiring spree, poaching big names like veteran journalist Carol Leonnig from the struggling Washington Post, because they know they're losing NBC's news-gathering muscle. The question is, can MS NOW stand on its own without the Peacock’s clout? 

And what does this mean for a network that's leaned so heavily on its liberal identity? The name "MS NOW" screams agenda-driven journalism. And don't let that flag fool you: MS NOW is not pivoting to the center.

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Fox News, Having No Humility, Secretly Celebrates Pride Month

Fox News has given the term 'foxhole' an entirely new meaning. That is, the outlet is digging themselves an even deeper "Fox Hole" than they dug when they fired Tucker Carlson. The network is no longer considered to be the go-to source for conservative views and has gone woke in the spirit of CNN and MSNBC.

When Tucker was fired, ratings fell faster than the skivvies of a Bill Clinton aide, not only in Tucker's 8 p.m. prime time slot, but in the time slots of shows before and after his. Jessie Watters, Sean Hannity, and Laura Ingraham all lost myriad viewers once Tucker left.

Still, the network pretended to be conservative and the voice of those on the right, until Harris Faulkner announced that Fox was going to the DEI agenda [diversity, equity and inclusion] into its business model to comply with New York's marxist laws.

However, Fox was hiding one thing they didn't want to trumpet, but then Daily Wire's Matt Walsh revealed the find on Tuesday. He went on Twitter and unmasked the out-of-the-way page on Fox's website: "America Together: Celebrating Diversity." The theme on the entire page was LGBT "Pride Month." 

“FOX News Media celebrates the contributions to America by the LGBTQ+ community,” the page quietly read. So Walsh tweeted out: 

Your trusted conservative news source is celebrating diversity this LGBTQ+ Pride Month pic.twitter.com/NAXoNuhISm

— Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog)

Conservatives were livid and those of us already angry over the firing of Tucker Carlson were finding yet one more reason to dump Fox and go online to the conservative podcasts and websites.

WTF happened to Fox News? pic.twitter.com/EZvlKdjNXo

— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) June 6, 2023

Another tweeted: 

I’m glad I cancelled our Fox Nation subscription. I wish I could cancel it twice! 🤣

— Tommy’s Garage (@TommysGarageTV) June 6, 2023

And this:

@FoxNews lost me a while ago. Replaced by substack subscriptions, @realDailyWire subscription, and a few other micro subscriptions. It is the way.

— ToBeRight (@ToBeRight) June 6, 2023

Like Bud Light and Target, Fox News is in a hole and doesn't know to stop digging and seems quite happy to jump on the child gender mutilation, diversity, and everybody wins a trophy bandwagon. 

Perhaps it's only a matter of time when Greg Gutfeld goes woke. He and the rest of the Fox News staff are not allowed to utter the words "Tucker Carlson" lest they suffer the same fate.

So who the hell is going to watch Fox News? Liberals certainly won't because as bad as Fox has become, they are still too conservative for their woke taste.  And conservatives who know they have choices also will go elsewhere. 

The not so foxy LGBTQ website is not who put Fox at the top of cable television and it's a betrayal of these conservatives. If you have any principles, you need to consider going elsewhere for your news and information because Fox News has been corrupted. Try Daily Wire, Megyn Kelly's podcast, Breitbart, Newsmax, and there are plenty of other choices.

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Is Geraldo gone from 'The Five' or will conservatives still be annoyed by him?

First they came for Bongino, but he wasn't Bongino, so he did nothing. Then they came for Carlson, but he wasn't Carlson, so he did nothing. Now they are coming for him, but he is too narcissistic to believe them, so he does nothing. 

But perhaps Fox News has heard the people who watched "The Five" in the past, and have finally decided that Geraldo Rivera is too toxic to remain in their employ. 

So now it looks as if Geraldo is Fox history and they will be getting a media divorce, Geraldo's fifth, if you count his five marriages and four previous divorces.

Rivera tends to anger conservatives as he appears to have a superior, somewhat arrogant demeanor but he often has no idea what he's talking about. Case in point is his claiming that the "AR" in the AR-15 rifle stands for "Automatic Rifle." Anyone who knows anything about firearms knows it stands for Armalite, the manufacturing company.

Regarding his current situation with Fox News, he tweeted:

My appearances today and tomorrow on The Five have been canceled. I’m sure there’s a good reason. Never fear, I’ll be back week after next. Stay safe and happy. Thanks 🙏

— Geraldo Rivera (@GeraldoRivera) May 4, 2023

So what does "I'm sure there's a good reason" Geraldo refers to? It sounds as if he doesn't know, but it sure doesn't sound good. 

Geraldo is one of several "liberals" on "The Five," rotating with Jessica "The Voice" Tarlov and Harold Ford Jr., but he appears to be the one who angers the audience, and probably Greg Gutfeld, the most. Recently Gutfeld became visibly angry with Rivera for taking a cheap shot at Tucker Carlson.

You’re a class act Geraldo. A real man of the people. https://t.co/20LOwVzXwS
— GregGutfeld (@greggutfeld) April 26, 2023

Rivera also defended President Biden saying that he could not imagine Biden being involved in a bribery scheme. That went over like flatulence in a crowded elevator with conservatives. 

Why it's almost as if Rivera hasn't checked out Biden's history and his son's laptop. However, the smart money says that it's the Gutfeld situation that has made the biggest impact on the move.

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Adam "No More Tears" Kinzinger gets whiplash going to CNN from Capitol Hill

The definition of a microsecond is for a Republican to act like a leftist and the time it takes CNN to hire them. 

Former RINO Rep. Adam "No More Tears" Kinzinger has been hired by the Comedy News Network as a senior political commentator on Wednesday where he will have the opportunity to talk trash about the party whose ideology he pretended to hold.

“Kinzinger joins CNN with extensive experience in GOP [LOL] politics, having recently retired [aka voted out] from the U.S. House of Representatives after serving six terms representing Illinois’ Sixteenth Congressional District,” the Democrat network said in a statement. 

“Kinzinger most recently served on the high-profile [kangaroo court known as the] House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol as well as the House Committee on Energy and Commerce and the House Foreign Affairs Committee.”

Is Liz next?

The failing network also noted Kinzinger’s experience serving in the U.S. Air Force in both Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom. 

“Happy to join the team @CNN!”  'No More Tears' said on Twitter.

Both Kinzinger and CNN faced mockery on Twitter over the announcement. 

Fox News host Greg Gutfeld had this take:

“I can’t tell if CNN is a dude attracted to crazy women, or a woman attracted to destructive head cases. Either way, this is gunna be hilarious!”

Fox News radio host Jimmy Failla tweeted: 

“WOW – Adam Kinzinger has signed with CNN. He wasn’t kidding when he said he wanted to leave the spotlight.”

Political commentator Stephen L. Miller tweeted: 

“Also, congrats on a new land speed record.”

NewsBusters Managing Editor Curtis Houck tweeted:

“The fact that Chris Licht’s CNN has hired liberal wine mom simp Adam Kinzinger as not only a political commentator but senior political commentator is proof that nothing has changed at CNN from Zucker. By and large, CNN still hates a large part of the country.”

Glenn Greenwald made a great point tweeting:

It's so funny when these liberal outlets know they have to hire "Republicans" to maintain the facade of being a news outlet, but then only hire the ones who agree with liberals on every key issue and won't ever alienate or even challenge anyone in their audience.

So the only question remaining is whether CNN is going to tap Liz Cheney on the shoulder as a tag-team with Kinzinger to attack the GOP.

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Joe Biden is a fracking liar

Joe Biden apparently will say anything to anyone depending on what he believes they need to hear that will get him their vote. That is exactly what he tried to get away with in the second presidential debate.

When President Trump said that Biden would end fracking, an environmentally clean way to remove oil from the earth, the former Vice President denied he ever said it. 

At that moment, Trump probably should have asked Biden if he was lying or if he simply forgot he said it.

But Biden said it and he said it clearly. That was when he was trying to grab the Bernie Sanders' communist followers.

In the first video [below] President Trump played video of Biden and his running mate, Kamala "HaHaHa" Harris both asserting that they would end fracking and the fossil fuel industry. 

The Democrats are hoping your memory is short or you're as gullible as the frog climbing on the back of the scorpion to cross the creek.

This should leave no doubt that the left will do to the oil industry what the Japanese did to Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. Anyone living in Pennsylvania, Ohio or Texas, if they care for their economy, should not vote for these clowns. 

Fox News' "The Five," a show that's becoming increasingly more difficult to watch unless you put Juan Williams on 'mute,' had their take back in September regarding the Biden fracking plan. 

The video [below] is a quick take on Biden in this regard.  Note how Williams seems like a deer caught in the headlights when the question is put to him. But the best part is Greg Gutfeld's take.

So if you want to know who won the debate on Thursday, I believe Trump did, without a doubt. He was disciplined and prepared. 

The one thing I believe he needed to do, however, is put more meat on the bone when speaking about an issue. He often says things in such a way that he leaves out the background, as if the entire audience is familiar with the "story" he's telling. For example, when he mentioned that Biden would ban fracking, had he told the story of when and where he said he would ban it, the denial he ever said it would ring false.

It's too late to change anything now, but let's not forget that Trump won the presidency and he. just. might. go. all. the. way. again!

Vote. Do not think your vote is unimportant. If every Republican thought that way, Trump will lose. 

Vote like your future depends on it.

Because it does.

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CNN worries that someone will flush

Brian "Baldy Bean" Stelter got his twit handed to him after he went on Twitter and actually bragged about how CNN skipped coverage of the Trump rally.

When you brag about what you were supposed to do as journalists but refused to do, that's kind of when the twit hits the fan.

The corpulent munchkin told his Twitter followers that his network didn't air President Trump's rally in Duluth, Minn. which was held just hours after he caved to the left and signed an executive order to end family separation of those who cross the border illegally with their children.

In effect, what Baldy Bean said was CNN covers only what it wants you, their selective-and-low-information audience, to hear.

The CNN cretin tweeted:

"As expected, the only cable newsers carrying tonight's Trump rally are Fox News and Fox Biz." 

So Fox News' Greg Gutfeld in response tweeted:

"President Trump speaks on a day of a major story development; and the nation's hall monitor prides self on not covering it."

Geraldo Rivera, the obnoxious, self-aggrandizing not-so closet liberal responded:

"That doesn't make them wrong."

Clearly Rivera is working for the wrong network. In fact, whenever he's on "The Five" and passionately interrupts a conservative trying to make a point, I go over to a Netflix show and try to guess at what point the initial gay or lesbian sex scene will occur. [FYI: it's usually in the first ten minutes.]

But back to Stelter--after he tweeted the dude was bombarded with more negative comments than likes and retweets.

One Twitter user tweeted:

"'As expected?' Cable news is 24/7. Why would you not broadcast a Presidential rally?"

Another asked:

"Why isn't CNN covering the President? Couldn't you get @Acosta to stand in the crowd & scream questions at him?"

Many of the tweets simply mocked the "in-the-toilet" ratings of the Certainly Not News network. One person tweeted:

"So you're settling for last place again? Awesome!"

Trump's point about fake news becomes increasingly easier to accept. When a so-called news organization brags about not covering a presidential rally [because they don't like the president], and the left is okay with that, it indicates the unweaving of the fabric of democracy.

Ironically, at one point during Trump's rally, the crowd erupted into chants of "CNN sucks."

Maybe that's what CNN anticipated and didn't have the guts to deal with negativity the same way Trump and his family has dealt with enormous animosity from the mainstream media and the vulgarity of the leftist entertainment industry.


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Do's and Don'ts of the Religion of Peace

The new movie, "Noah," is being banned in much of the Muslim world. Places such as Egypt, Qatar, Bahrain, the UAE, Jordan and Kuwait are not allowing the movie to be shown because it violates Islam by portraying a prophet; this, they say, contradicts the stature of prophets "and antagonizes the faithful," according to Al-Azhar Institute of Egypt. 

Egypt has also banned "The Passion of the Christ," "The Da Vinci Code," as well as any future colonization of Mars. They, and most of the Islamic world have also banned:

short skirts
enlarging your burqa-hole so women can see better
women driving cars
leaving the house without a male chaperone
Facebook
bathing suits
Valentine's Day
Christmas
images of Muhammad
the leaving Islam once you're signed up
erecting a Christian church or repairing it in an Islamic country
the Bible in Saudi Arabia along with all Christian articles (they don't confiscate the Jewish ones, they just bury them along with the person carrying it)
Hannukah . . . yes, Hannukah
gays and lesbians
smiley faces
polio shots in several countries
Western music and dancing, of course
women's makeup
women buying bananas and other phallic-shaped fruits and veggies
and more . . . so much more

Greg Gutfeld, a host of The Five on Fox News, said: "You should be confident your religion can welcome skepticism, or welcome other faiths; it seems kind of insecure," he said of the Egyptian decision to ban "Noah."

But Islam seems to be intolerant because it is so insecure.

On the other hand, there are some things that the Islamic world tolerates or rarely complains about:

stoning people for any of the above 
amputation for theft
hanging for being gay
death by Judaism
hanging, stoning, or lethal injection for apostates who try to leave the religion of peace
people blowing themselves up to kill non-believers.

And the liberal media refuses to acknowledge anything wrong with this picture. Even the gay community and women's rights groups are too afraid to say anything negative about how their people are treated.

What's wrong with this picture?

A New York reporter is taken hostage by terrorists. If POTUS refuses to release 3 Gitmo jihadists, the reporter will die in 24 hours—they will behead him and show it on the Internet. There is only one way out but the clock is ticking . . .

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Why I'm No Longer Going to Watch The Five on Fox News

My favorite television program for several years has been The Five on Fox News Network. Nobody in my family will bother me on weekdays at 5:00 pm because they know I'll be glued to my TV. And honestly, I'm not a big TV guy--I generally can do without it, but I enjoy the humor of Greg Gutfeld, the intelligence of Dana Perino (not to say Gutfeld isn't brilliant in his own way), as well as Andrea Tantaros, Kimberley Guilfoyle, and the rest of the regular staff. But I can no longer tolerate Bob Beckel.

Beckel is a foul-mouth liberal whose greatest source of pride seems to me to be the fact that his father marched with Martin Luther King, Jr. fifty years ago. I disagree with most of Beckel's politics, and that's to be expected because he's a liberal, but I will not tolerate him calling white people in Texas, who are in favor of voter ID, "Crackers." He has gone over the line again, and I've decided to use my time more wisely at 5:00 pm.

I am not a person who looks to have people removed from their livelihood. People need to work (except for Obama's Food Stamp Forces) and provide for their family. But I don't have to support them and I refuse to do this in Beckel's case. 

I generally find Fox News to be, as they claim, "fair and balanced." It seems, however, that the fairness they espouse is not reciprocated by most media on the left, and I think it's time conservatives stop accepting this imbalance. I say shut off the microphones on both sides once they've had their time to speak, and allow the other side to respond--that's fair and balanced. 

But Beckel--he needs to be disciplined for his foul mouth. As for me, I'm done with Beckeling.

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Snowden is Missing and So is Transparency

Edward Snowden was fired today from Booz Allen Hamilton (BAH, humbug) and is likely in hiding. This young man is a hero to himself, his girlfriend pole-dancer, and some others who believe that what he did was justified because it is unconstitutional when the government decides to collect information on its citizens without just cause. Others believe that national security trumps the privacy of our phone numbers. Of course, there is that little thing called email that changes the story quite a bit--email contains actual words, messages, private thoughts, that the government can acquire. That sounds over the top, to me.