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 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. [cite news |first= |last= |authorlink= |coauthors= |title=Lexicon |url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1666276,00.html |quote=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. |publisher=Time (magazine) |date= |accessdate=2007-09-25 ]

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. [cite news |first= |last= |authorlink= |coauthors= |title=Clinton makes the Sunday talk-show rounds. |url=http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-clinton24sep24,1,4882187.story?coll=la-headlines-nation&track=crosspromo |last=Puzzanghera|first=Jim |quote=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. |publisher=Los Angeles Times |date= |accessdate=2007-09-25 ]

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:

*William H. Ginsburg, February 1, 1998
*Dick Cheney, 2000 [cite news |url=http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0007/30/cf.00.html|publisher=CNN |title=Republican National Convention: Will George W. Bush Get a Unified Convention?| quote=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. |date=July 30, 2000]
*John Edwards, October 10, 2004 [cite news |first= |last= |authorlink= |coauthors= |title=Reliable Sources. | url=http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0410/10/rs.01.html |quote=John Edwards blitzing all five Sunday shows this morning. The North Carolina senator -- in point, what's called a full Ginsberg. ... |publisher=CNN |date=October 10, 2004 |accessdate=2007-09-30 ]
*Michael Chertoff, September 4, 2005 [cite news |first= |last= |authorlink= |coauthors= |title=Officials: Thousands of Dead | url=http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,168435,00.html |quote=On television, Chertoff was omnipresent, dispatched by the administration to appear on all five Sunday news shows |publisher=Fox News |date=September 6, 2005 |accessdate=2008-07-14 ]
*Hillary Clinton, September 23, 2007. [cite news |first=Frank |last=Rich |authorlink=Frank Rich |coauthors= |title=Is Hillary Clinton the New Old Al Gore? |url= |quote=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. |publisher=New York Times |date=September 30, 2007 |accessdate=2007-09-30 ]

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