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Obama To Pull Off Unprecendented Quintuple Sunday Show Circuit – But No FOX

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obama_9-14Do you feel like you haven’t seen enough of President Barack Obama lately? It’s been nearly two days since his last speech!

Well if you need your Obama fix – get ready for the Commander-in-Chief to go on the biggest media push ever: five, yes, five Sunday morning shows this weekend. But no FOX.

According to Mark Knoller‘s Twitter feed:

WH spokesman Robt Gibbs confirms Obama will appear on Sunday shows this coming weekend on ABC, CBS, CNN, NBC and Univision.

That means FOX News Sunday is the odd show out – and Univision completes the five-show sweep. We’ll call it “El Completo Ginsburg“.

This is beyond unprecedented – according to the New York Times Caucus blog, “Newsmakers in the past have managed to pull of the unlikely feat of hitting the big three Sunday interview shows on CBS, NBC and ABC. But this is a presidential first.”

Pres. Obama and the White House may like to take shots at the media – but he sure enjoys going on their news shows. And this only furthers the divide between the administration and Fox News. It’s a striking decision by a White House that continues to talk bipartisanship, while staging what seems like a boycott of Fox and its properties.

Guess that O’Reilly interview isn’t happening?

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  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Chris-Jones/1384303476 Chris Jones

    Go on every channel except the one most people watch — yeah, that’s the ticket!

  • CaptainAmerica

    So he’s not doing Chris Mathews show either? Oh my. How did Chris not get his interview with his messiah.

    But as to the O Reilly question, I’d rather sit down with him for an interview than Chris Wallace.

  • SuperSmart

    Good for him. Hopefully this is the start of a trend of ignoring them, for there isn’t anything that he could do that would calm these people, so they’ve left him no choice but to completely ignore them. Hell, he go on Beck’s show and beat Van Jones unconscious with Nancy Pelosi’s corpse while simultaneously declaring war on Iran and wiping his ass with the health care reform bill… and the racist morons working in the studio and watching at home would still be wanting to see his birth certificate.

    He needs to seat these self-entitled brats where they deserve — at the children’s table — so the adults can get some work done.

  • greenhaven

    Blah, Blah, Blah……Obama will strut into the Liberal media studios this Sunday to preach more of his Socialist healthcare garbage. He’ll sit there with his big smile, while his hosts go gah-gah over him and present their usual softball queries. I’m sure all of his loyal little minions will be on these boards as well on Sunday like smitten little schoolgirls aglow with adoration for the messiah.
    Poor Chris Matthews, he’ll be pouting for the rest of the week because the guy he has a man crush on has snubbed him.
    Hopefully, CNN will challenge the President in a respectful way with some tough questions about healthcare specifics, the war and the economy. There ain’t no way in hell Obama’s going to show up on a FOX program. They play hardball and ask the tough questions. Obama ain’t got game when it comes to that. Robert Gibbs almost always gets flustered when he’s presented with tough questions, and can get downright hostile. There’s no doubt that Gibbs and other advisors have told the President to steer clear of FNC, since FOX doesn’t suck up to any political figure, including the President.
    The only thing I’ll be watching on NBC this Sunday is the Cowboys playing the Giants.

  • JimW

    He’s obviously afraid he’ll be asked about ACORN and the Czars and about his obligations to unions. I don’t blame Obama. (But it does seem that Obama really is in over his head in that cesspool on the Potomac.)

  • greenhaven

    JimW……you’re absolutely right. Those are tough questions to encounter while he’s in “campaign mode” in an effort to sell his version of healthcare reform. As I mentioned in my post, I’m hoping CNN will ask at least one tough question. Who knows, our amigos on Univision might surprise us and ask some interesting questions.

  • ChrisNH

    Of course, these five appearances will be used next week to rip Obama and his media ‘followers & swallowers’ on these five shows. “Anything you say can and will be used against you…” Once you rightly conclude that the questions are going to be about Michelle’s favorite colors and Obama’s favorite ice cream flavors, none of these four (ABC, CBS, CNN, NBC) are doing themselves any favors in terms of rebuilding their credibility.

  • ImNotBlue

    It’s a striking decision by a White House that continues to talk bipartisanship, while staging what seems like a boycott of Fox and its properties.

    Well said, Steve.

    He wants everyone to come together… while giving the finger to the people who don’t bow at his alter. Pah-thetic.

  • StewartIII

    ChickaBOOMer: By Shunning Fox News, Obama Fails Full Ginsburg Record
    http://chickaboomer.blogspot.com/2009/09/by-shunning-fox-news-obama-fails-full.html

  • libra blue

    Who besides FNC does the Obama WH take ‘shots” at?

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