Full Ginsburg
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] State of the Union replaced Late Edition on CNN in January 2009.
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]
Completed full Ginsburgs
| Name |
Office |
Reason for appearance |
Date |
| William H. Ginsburg |
Attorney for Monica Lewinsky |
Allegations that his client had a sexual relationship with President Bill Clinton |
February 1, 1998 |
Secretary Dick Cheney |
Republican nominee for Vice President of the United States, former Secretary of Defense and U.S. Representative from Wyoming |
2000 Republican National Convention |
July 30, 2000 |
Senator John Edwards |
Democratic nominee for Vice President of the United States, United States Senator from North Carolina |
Approaching Presidential Election |
October 10, 2004 |
Secretary Michael Chertoff |
Secretary of Homeland Security |
Hurricane Katrina |
September 4, 2005 |
Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton |
Junior Senator from New York, Candidate in 2008 presidential election |
Her Presidential bid |
September 23, 2007 |
Secretary Kathleen Sebelius |
Secretary of Health and Human Services |
Swine Flu |
May 3, 2009 |
Secretary Janet Napolitano |
Secretary of Homeland Security |
Dr. Richard Besser |
Acting Director for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention |
Former President Bill Clinton |
Former President of the United States |
Haiti Earthquake |
January 17, 2010[3] |
Former President George W. Bush |
Former President of the United States |
Dr. Rajiv Shah |
Administrator of United States Agency for International Development |
Lieutenant General P.K. “Ken” Keen |
Deputy Commander of United States Southern Command |
Rep. Michele Bachmann |
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives |
Her Presidential bid |
August 14, 2011[4] |
Special cases
In September 2007, Univision debuted its Spanish-language Sunday talk show, Al Punto. As such, the term "Full Ginsburg" has also occasionally been applied to a person appearing on five of these six programs (since there were only five shows when Ginsburg achieved the feat). So far, only one person has achieved this: Barack Obama, the President of the United States, who did so on September 19, 2009 to promote his health care reform proposals; he appeared on Al Punto instead of Fox News Sunday.[5]
There has yet to be anyone who has appeared on all six shows in the same week.
References
- ^ Newton-Small, Jay. "Lexicon". Time (magazine). http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1666276,00.html. Retrieved 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."
- ^ Puzzanghera, Jim (September 24, 2007). "Clinton makes the Sunday talk-show rounds.". Los Angeles Times. http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-clinton24sep24,1,4882187.story?coll=la-headlines-nation&track=crosspromo. Retrieved 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."
- ^ "the talk shows". The Washington Post. January 17, 2010. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/16/AR2010011602830.html.
- ^ "Bachmann Takes Post-Straw Poll Victory Lap on Sunday Shows". National Journal. 2011-08-14. http://www.nationaljournal.com/bachmann-takes-post-straw-poll-victory-lap-on-sunday-shows-20110814. Retrieved 2011-08-14.
- ^ Javers, Eamon. "Obama's Risky Full Ginsburg". The Politico. http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0909/27300.html. Retrieved 2009-09-18.
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