Scott Adams Passed Away Today. The Media Couldn’t Wait One Second Before They Trashed His Memory.

Scott Adams died today after a very public battle with cancer. And the media could not even give him the dignity of a normal obituary.

Not one. Not five minutes. Not even the headline.

Instead, they tripped over themselves to turn his death into a political hit piece. The Boston Globe led with “racist, far-right commentator.” People magazine went with “disgraced.” The New York Times made sure to remind everyone he had said the wrong things before he ever had the audacity to die.

Scott Adams was the creator of Dilbert, one of the most influential comic strips in American history. He was a thoughtful, quirky, sometimes provocative conservative voice who spent decades skewering corporate nonsense and political hypocrisy. He was also, by most accounts, kind, generous, and deeply human. None of that made it into the first draft of his legacy.

But that’s how it works now.

If you are on the right, the press doesn’t just disagree with you. They wait. They wait for you to stumble. They wait for you to get sick. They wait for you to die. Then they unload.

And what makes this even more grotesque is how selective their moral outrage is.

The same media that cannot write Scott Adams’s name without stapling “racist” to it once ran an obituary of ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi that described him as an “austere religious scholar.” A mass-murdering terrorist got nuance. A cartoonist did not.

We have also watched violent or reckless figures on the left get sanded down into sympathetic archetypes. People who put themselves into confrontations with law enforcement get remembered as poets, activists, and moms. Their choices are blurred. Their agency disappears. Their politics are protected.

But a conservative who made jokes, questioned narratives, and didn’t bow to the cultural mob? He gets a scarlet letter forever, even in death.

This is the ugliest part of modern progressive politics. Not disagreement. Not debate. Erasure. Dehumanization. The need to prove moral superiority by spitting on someone’s grave.

They hated Scott Adams while he was alive. They trashed him when he died. And they will tell themselves they were being righteous the entire time.

That is not compassion.

That is not justice.

That is just cruelty with better PR.