Reply #8: his communications director is quite the prize, too: [View All]

you remember Swiftboat Veterans for Truth, I'm sure. that connection is at the link, but not included here....read link for that. this is to show what they think of the media

http://www.antifascistencyclopedia.com/allposts/fla-governor-elect-rick-scotts-communications-director-hailed-from-veterans-for-truth-ties-to-fascist-regnery-press


The right-wing roots of Scott’s press strategy
By Tristram Korten | Florida Independent | October 28, 2010

… Scott … didn’t sit down with one newspaper editorial board. That was a strategic decision, according to Scott’s Communications Director Brian Burgess.

“Almost all of them endorsed Obama,” Burgess explains in an email. “They praised his health care plans. So you tell me, what is the point in trying to win over people who are so wrong? Rick Scott gets better use of his time going straight to the voters than trying to convince misguided editorial board members to endorse him.”

Instead, Burgess says, the campaign is making an end-run around the tradition of answering questions from editorial writers. “We go straight to the voters by using ads, Facebook, and other social media, grassroots events. And of course it’s a myth that we don’t talk to the press. We do that too,” Burgess writes. “We just don’t waste time with editorial boards because they have already shown a failure to understand reality when talking about health care, or the negative impact of Barack Obama’s policies …

Burgess, who has been working with Scott since before the governor’s race, knows about non-traditional media campaigns.

He is a 1992 graduate of Friends University, a Christian college in Kansas, and a former U.S. Army communications specialist. In 2007 he began work as spokesman for Johnson County, Kansas, District Attorney Phil Kline, a crusading anti-abortionist who had earlier, as attorney general, attempted to prosecute abortion provider George Tiller. Tiller was later killed by an abortion rights opponent. …

Burgess was also known for his tough handling of the press. After he left the D.A.’s office in August 2008, the weekly newspaper The Pitch, in Kansas City, asked Burgess for a comment on Kline’s handling of medical records in the abortion case. Burgess gave a detailed response, during which he complained about the “no-longer-credible Kansas media.” At the end of the email, Burgess wrote: “I really don’t miss some of you dipshits at all. Have fun in your world of make-believe.”