Full Ginsburg

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The "full Ginsburg" is a slang term that refers to an appearance by one person on all five American major Sunday-morning interview shows in the same week: This Week on ABC, Fox News Sunday, Face the Nation on CBS, Meet the Press on NBC and Late Edition on CNN.[1]

The term is named for William H. Ginsburg, the lawyer for Monica Lewinsky during the sexual conduct scandal involving President Bill Clinton. Ginsburg was the first person to accomplish this feat, on February 1, 1998.[2]

[edit] Completed full Ginsburgs

Since 1996, when Fox News Sunday's debut brought the number of Sunday talk shows to five, the following people have appeared on all five shows in the same week:

[edit] References

  1. ^ "Lexicon", Time (magazine). Retrieved on 2007-09-25. "the full Ginsburg DEFINITION The ful gins-burg n. The appearance on all five political TV talk shows on the same Sunday morning. CONTEXT On Sept. 23, Senator Hillary Clinton filmed segments from her home in Chappaqua, N.Y., for ABC's This Week with George Stephanopoulos, NBC's Meet the Press, CNN's Late Edition, Fox News' Sunday with Chris Wallace and CBS's Face the Nation. USAGE Ironically, the term was coined by Washington insiders after Monica Lewinsky's attorney William Ginsburg shuffled between studios to make the full circuit in February 1998." 
  2. ^ Puzzanghera, Jim. "Clinton makes the Sunday talk-show rounds.", Los Angeles Times. Retrieved on 2007-09-25. "Appearing on all five major Sunday talk shows -- the political equivalent of hitting for the cycle in baseball -- is known among TV producers and political operatives as a "full Ginsburg," after the first person to pull it off, Southern California attorney William H. Ginsburg. He made the circuit on Feb. 1, 1998, in defense of his client Monica S. Lewinsky, the onetime White House intern at the center of a Bill Clinton sex scandal." 
  3. ^ "Republican National Convention: Will George W. Bush Get a Unified Convention?", CNN, July 30, 2000. "Dick Cheney arrived after completing a so-called full Ginsburg, appearing on all five Sunday morning talk shows. With new national polls showing a consistent lead, George W. Bush continued his pre-convention buildup through six states that the Republicans haven't won in two election stops, with four stops in Ohio, a critical battleground state." 
  4. ^ "Reliable Sources.", CNN, October 10, 2004. Retrieved on 2007-09-30. "John Edwards blitzing all five Sunday shows this morning. The North Carolina senator -- in point, what's called a full Ginsberg. ..." 
  5. ^ Rich, Frank. "Is Hillary Clinton the New Old Al Gore?", New York Times, September 30, 2007. Retrieved on 2007-09-30. "This scenario was made official last weekend, when Senator Clinton appeared on all five major Sunday morning talk shows — a publicity coup, as it unfortunately happens, that is known as a "full Ginsburg" because it was first achieved by William Ginsburg, Monica Lewinsky's lawyer, in 1998." 
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