Tuesday, September 15, 2009

Obama To Attempt


The “Full Ginsburg”.

From Wiki:

The "full Ginsburg" is a buzzword that refers to an appearance by one person on all five American major Sunday-morning interview shows on the same day: This Week on ABC, Fox News Sunday, Face the Nation on CBS, Meet the Press on NBC and Late Edition on CNN.[1] In January 2009, Late Edition was replaced by State of the Union on CNN; no one completed a full Ginsburg involving the newer show until May 3, 2009.


From Huffington Post:

Obama On Letterman, Sunday Shows In Media Blitz


NEW YORK — President Barack Obama is visiting David Letterman on Monday, part of a media blitz to sell his health care plan.
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The president is scheduled to visit Sunday morning talk shows this weekend on ABC, CBS, NBC and CNN. That's a highly unusual schedule, even for a president eager to get his message across throughout the media.



Media purists will of course note the omission of “FoxNews Sunday” from the President’s schedule and argue that this disqualifies him from scoring an authentic “Full Ginsburg”.

Such people are sad, pedantic wankers who desperately need to get laid.

They are also factually wrong, as the International Ginsburg Commission recently noted in a 7-to-2 decision which said, in part:
...given that the “corporate and political interests of Fox News” have always been “so incestuously commingled with the interests of the Republican Party as to constitute a single entity”, the IGC would consider “having Joe Wilson scream ‘You Lie!’ at him for 6-7 minutes, either in-person or via satellite” to be the exact mass-energy-douchbag equivalent of appearing on Fox News and would qualify the President for “Full Ginsburg Honors”.

There is no word at this hour as to whether the President is considering this alternative, or if he will perhaps simply exercise a so-called 'Bush Manuever' and issue a signing statement to the effect that silly, little rules don't apply to him anyway.

6 comments:

tanbark said...

Great!

Did he use the words "public option" when he was making his pitch for healthcare reform?

I only ask because if he didn't, and since his people keep saying how that's "negotiable", it means that the robber barons won't have to face the competition from a government run option, and that is what they very much do NOT want to do.

lostnacfgop said...

Fox News should be devoutly ignored by thinking people of all stripes.

Fran / Blue Gal said...

I think George Steph was calling his interview an exclusive. douchebag.

tsisageya said...

WHORES. Either you use them or you don't.

Anonymous said...

The Full Ginsburg, eh? Not bad...but can he do a Triple Lindy?

Oilfieldguy said...

Nowadays, a President who speaks in sentences that contain both a subject and a predicate is deemed a brilliant communicator who uses soaring rhetoric.