President Obama to Do “Full Ginsburg” on Sunday

Lots of teaparty folks will be watching to see if anyone asks a question beyond “what flavor ice cream do you like?

Fox News Sunday did not make the cut.
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I never again want to hear him complain about Fox not carrying his prime time speeches on all three of their networks.

why doesn’t he spend that time with the people that really matter: the senate. my god, my Sunday is ruined.

“Such a Sunday round-robin was called “The Full Ginsburg” in years past, named after Monica Lewinsky’s attorney William Ginsburg, achieved the feat in February 1999.”
So THAT’S why he had lunch with Bubba. They needed to extrapolate the data between lying to the public the first 232 times about HC and hitting the “talk show” circuit to see if it was worth his time explaining the same old talking points over and over and over and…

Maybe after the 117th time, he can finally convince his sheeple that he is their leader, and they should just follow.

Boy Jake,
You have quite the following. These comments are better suited to Free Republic than a news site

Heads up for the Non-watchers.
Watching Fox (Hannity). More ACORN video to be released tomorrow. This one is supposed to be “devastating.”
Obama is just as quiet on this as he was with the Van Jones story.
So is the MSM. Sad.

“I never again want to hear him complain about Fox not carrying his prime time speeches on all three of their networks.”
Agreed. Our Boy King has the temerity of a petulant child.
“But the people he needs to win over are the ones who watch Fox, whether he likes it or not.”
BINGO!

Wow! The President will be on TV?! That’s amazing Jake. Meanwhile a single young man and woman are toppling ACORN with real investigative journalism! But hey, this is waaaaay more important that a federally funded organization the President has had ties to is crumbling on account of their support of child sex slavery and tax evasion for pimps!
Hooray for the MSM!

Obama can hang out with Bill Ayers a terrorist but cant hang out with Fox news for awhile. He knows that Fox will CALL HIM OUT. He cant handle the truth.This man is weak.

Pres. Obama should of devoted Sunday to taking calls on C-spans Washington Journal and answering to the Public he asked to hold his feet to the fire. Imagine a 3hr free-for-all that would make Rep. “You Lie” Wilson look like a gentleman instead of the Neocon he is.

There is an old Hollywood joke that certain celebs who crave attention and want to be interviewed and have their photos taken will “show up at the opening of an envelope”. This constant media exposure for the president is starting to feel that way. I used to think that Axelrod was a communications genius but I now think the opposite. He is not serving Obama or Obama’s agenda well with the public by trotting him out so much. (I suppose the network anchors are very flattered, though.)

Of course the Administration’s silence on ACORN would be a good subject of discussion for the President this weekend -given his prior ties. But, of course, he’ll probably be asked nothing about why the President is mute on this issue because, of course, this story is poised to become a major black eye for the President.

Oh please no, not another media rounds by Obama geez time to make this stop am getting sick of all this coverage geez.

Hey, this is a terrific idea.
Because if there’s anything we have a shortage of is media exposure of President Obama.
I hate it when he hides under a bushel like he has been the last week.

“course he’s not on Fox – you never once saw Bush Jr on MSNBC did you?”
Of course not–hardly anyone watches MSNBC. Fox outtdraws them about three to one. We never saw Bush on the Foood Channel either, and for the same reason: it’s not a place for serious discourse on matters of public policy, and thus is not watched by people interested in such discourse.

bonneytruth – the last century was a heck of a lot better than now. Crime at 20 percent that of current stats. People controlled their paychecks. Kids learned a heck of a lot more in school…… YOU WOULD THINK WE WOULD LEARN FROM OUT PAST SUCCESSES!!!!

I think he needs to give his friends at ACORN another pep talk.
I saw him on tape telling ACORN he would consult with them after he became president.
Is he still planning on giving ACORN a possible $8 billion from the stimulus?

No time for Van Jones
No time for ACORN
Obama, Obama, Obama
24/7/365/in omne tempus

‘Did we ever see Bush give one on one interviews on any station other than Fox, ever?”
Unlikely you would have, since you only watch FOX. :-)

Did we ever see Bush give one on one interviews on any station other than Fox, ever?
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I don’t know what you say, but yes, Bush gave one on one interviews to networks other than Fox.
Now…why are we talking about Bush?

Please please put Obama out there every single day.
And put Pelosi, Reid, and Michelle out there too.
Let them keep talking.

I am glad to see Obama out there and promote his program. It is about time we had a president who is not afraid of debate and discussion of his proposals, unlike the last president who told us just to accept them or else you are un-American.

Jake you don’t belong on ABC.
Like John Stossel you need to be on Fox.
The MSM is holding you back.
You are way too fair and balanced to ever be a part of the MSM.
Free yourself!

Now…why are we talking about Bush?
MayBee | Sep 14, 2009 10:30:57 PM
To provide context to the personal insults being hurled at Obama. It is very common to use historical comparision for this purpose. Really, knowledge of history is generally a good thing.

jhw: Really, knowledge of history is generally a good thing.
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Then I am happy I was able to tell you more about his interviewing history. Any more questions?

I think ABC did us a great service in having the health care forum, and allowing us to hear Obama’s answers to questions from a mixed audience.
I don’t think it’s right to see ABC be so dissed.

Isn’t it ironic that Obama, in all of his hundreds of speeches, is unable to look the people straight in the eye.
He looks from side to side because of his beloved teleprompters.
But is that the only reason he can’t look us in the eye?

It is about time we had a president who is not afraid of debate and discussion of his proposals
Posted by: Hamilton | Sep 14, 2009 10:36:36 PM
Riiiiiight. Which is why the GOP has not been invited to discuss HC with the president since April even though he says he welcomes all opinions and his door is always open. And why he packs his townhall meetings with “ringers” – and the rest of the time gives press conferences or one-on-ones with his fav liberal media outlets. And why he sends union goons to real town hall meetings. Yea, he’s a real debater, Hamilton.
(rolls eyes)

“It will be interesting to watch them defend an organization that would help you get a house with government funding in order to run your prostitution “business” with underage teenagers from El Salvador.”
Oh yeah…while helping you avoid paying taxes on any income.
This story should be huge in the MSM. It has corruption at every level – sex, abuse of power, ties to the President, tax evasion, likely cover up at the highest level of the organization. But will anyone cover it, nope.
Not until the President is forced to mention it, and then it will be all about racism and “swift boating” while the video is never run and the MSM digs deep into the juvenile records of the two “kids” (they’re under 25, they’re kids to me) who made the MSM look foolish.

“Somebody mentioned the other day that Bush’s final interview was with Charlie Gibson. Does that count?”
D’Oh! | Sep 14, 2009 10:51:12 PM
Yup. So lets see if Obama ends up giving Fox another interview in his 8th year in office. (Another because he did go on Fox as a candidate of course.)

Dismiss us at your own risk White House.
Call us racist MSM, just for fighting for our freedom and our kid’s future.
But you will end up paying the price.

“Yup. So lets see if Obama ends up giving Fox another interview in his 8th year in office. (Another because he did go on Fox as a candidate of course.)”
Let’s see: You ask for evidence. Evidence is given. You pretend it doesn’t count.
Or were we not supposed to notice your tactic?

Trust in media at a 20 year low.
Are you listening LeftWing Media?
Is Obama worth it?

He’s lately been saying he will pay for this by cutting waste in the system (if he could, he’d be doing that), or he will have spending cuts if it gets too expensive.
MayBee | Sep 14, 2009 11:17:08 PM
Clearly you haven’t been following to closely or you would have caught the HUGE detail that he’s also been talking about taxing insurance and pharma companies.

“What I’ve said is we could lower the itemized deductions that I can take on my income tax returns every year, so that instead of me getting 36 percent, 35 percent deductions, I’ll just get 28 percent, like everybody — like people who make less money than me.
If I’m writing a check to my local church, I don’t know why Uncle Sam should be giving me a bigger tax break than the person who makes less money than me, because that donation means just as much.”
Sheesh. Obama trotted this one out in February in one of his prime-time pressers. And he *still* doesn’t understand the basic fallacy of what he’s saying?

“We need a public option now.”
Although your premise concerning why we need one is rubbish, it doesn’t matter because you’re not going to get one. The Democrats will not give it to you, even though they have the votes.
Make of that what you will.

Clearly you haven’t been following to closely or you would have caught the HUGE detail that he’s also been talking about taxing insurance and pharma companies.
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Oh yeah. He’s going to tax insurance companies for offering the kind of plans the UAW negotiates for (and wins!).
Here is the “fine print” from his “plan”:
===Won’t add a dime to the deficit and is paid for upfront. The President’s plan will not add one dime to the deficit today or in the future and is paid for in a fiscally responsible way. It begins the process of reforming the health care system so that we can further curb health care cost growth over the long term, and invests in quality improvements, consumer protections, prevention, and premium assistance. The plan fully pays for this investment through health system savings and new revenue including a fee on insurance companies that sell very expensive plans.===

“… so that instead of me getting 36 percent, 35 percent deductions, I’ll just get 28 percent, like everybody — like people who make less money than me.”
I’ll try to explain, although it’s clear from the start that you may well not get it.
It’s because it’s a “deduction,” I.e. an amount that is subtracted from your taxable income. After the subtraction has been performed, you pay tax at the appropriate rate on the remainder.
If your tax rate is 70%, you have saved 70% of the amount of the deduction. If your rate is 15% you have saved 15%. (Don’t be embarrassed. I honestly believe that Barack Obama doesn’t understand it either.)

“If your tax rate is 70%, you have saved 70% of the amount of the deduction. If your rate is 15% you have saved 15%. (Don’t be embarrassed. I honestly believe that Barack Obama doesn’t understand it either.)”
Fascist Hyena | Sep 14, 2009 11:39:48 PM
Uh, you’re just reinforcing that what the original poster said and Obama proposed were accurate. Not sure why you think you’re saying anything new or revolutionary (unless you’re advocating a return to the early Reagan era 70% ‘millionaires’ marginal tax bracket).
There are good arguments for reducing the deductions for giving to charities – like ACORN, the NRA, or Planned Parenthood. But it doesn’t matter, there are enough photogenic charities that this idea is now dead.

Planned Parenthood.
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Wow.
Planned Parenthood is actually an excellent charity, and one that is excellent in the area of low-cost health cares.
Sure, they are most known as abortion providers.
But I have a group of even the most ardent Catholic women friends who attend Planned Parenthoood fundraisers. They provide much needed low cost gyn care in their urban clinics.
For women with limited resources, they are a fantastic health resource.

“Planned Parenthood is actually an excellent charity, and one that is excellent in the area of low-cost health cares.”
MayBee | Sep 14, 2009 11:50:41 PM
That’s great, but there really is not a compelling reason the government should subsidize them at 36% rather than just 28%. I’d love for government to subsidize all charities at 100%, but we need to get government focused back on its core duties. Matching charitable donations with tax dollars (the defacto effect of the tax exemptions) is a luxury that can be trimmed to get the budget under control.

That’s great, but there really is not a compelling reason the government should subsidize them at 36% rather than just 28%
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The compelling reason is that they are taxing the person doing the donating at 36% rather than just 28%.
Pretending the person being taxed at the higher rate has some kind of advantage is just a rhetorical game.

“Pretending the person being taxed at the higher rate has some kind of advantage is just a rhetorical game.”
MayBee | Sep 14, 2009 11:59:59 PM
Sure thing. There’s no difference between earning $60k a year and $300k a year and to suggest otherwise is a rhetorical game. I swear I recall God himself commenting that an old woman’s penny was worth a hundredth of a rich man’s dollar – or something like that. I might be misremembering it a hair.

Sure thing. There’s no difference between earning $60k a year and $300k a year and to suggest otherwise is a rhetorical game.
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No.
Suggesting they have an advantage because they are taxed at a higher rate is a rhetorical game.
Not sure why you are invoking God.

Please keep in mind that for a lot of Americans waiting for reform can be the difference between life and death. Literally.
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Mark, I understand that.
But most of the reforms aren’t scheduled to go into effect until 2013.
A few months in 2009-2010 aren’t going to be a deal-breaker.
As I said, President Obama says he knows where there are savings to be had. He could implement those now without needed a different make-up of Congress.
Also, I consider war to be kind of a life and death decision.

Of course FOX News didn’t make the cut. Obama doesn’t want any hard questions to be asked of him.
Plus it’s because of FOX news (and talk radio, conservative websites) that he’s in the pathetic situation he is in right now.
Within just the last week, FOX news & etc got Van Jones fired, the NEA director “reassigned”, got Obama’s Census Board to sever ties with ACORN, got the senate to vote and a 83-7 in favor of defunding ACORN and got 10′s and 10′s and 10′s of thousands of hard working Americans to rally against Obama’s agenda in Wash, DC for the first time in their lives!!!
And while doing all this, FOX has made the Obama adoring media of ABC/CNN/NBC/yada yada look weak and uninformed.
If there was no FOX news, Obama’s piece of crap healthcare legislation would already be law by now.

“Of course FOX News didn’t make the cut.”
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FOX is a propaganda station.

If obama and the dems hate the insurance companies so much, how come they want to the government to be one big insurance company? People who already have insurance will have to pay for other peoples’ insurance – what a greedy hypocritical group this administration is!

“We have been waiting for over a hundred years for universal health care”
Who is “we”? A minority of Americans.

“If obama and the dems hate the insurance companies so much, how come they want to the government to be one big insurance company?”
Here’s the dirty little secret: While Obama demonizes the insurance companies, his cronies have cut back door deals the insurance companies themselves (just as he has done with the pharmaceutical industry).
Insurance companies (well, the FOBs – “Friends of Barack”) stand to GAIN 10 MILLION NEW CUSTOMERS if ObamaCare is passed (to administer Medicare benefits).
Barack Obama is a pathological liar. It’s as simple as that. But, the public is catching on. Making the rounds on Sunday isn’t going to boost his cause. The more he talks, the less people are willing to buy what he is selling. But in his arrogance, he thinks otherwise.

No FOX because he can’t spoon feed the questions to his minions like he does at the other ‘so-called’ MSM. He needs to go on FOX because those are the people he needs to win over. Not the MSM Obama-bots that follow his every word and can do no wrong in their eyes. Don’t be SCARED!! Chris Wallace doesn’t bit….

Just shows how afraid Obama is of Fox News, the only real news organization today.

The Sunday show is Chris Wallace. Mike Wallace’s son. How conservative does Obama think Chris is? Anyway, he is afraid of Chris, apparently. As I said when he first started his tirade against Fox, he doesn’t want or need my vote. And, he won’t get it.

So, substituting Univision for Fox, it’s not a true “full Ginsburg.” Kinda like the Tiger Slam isn’t a true Grand Slam. Shall we call this the “full Obama”? I am disappointed that, since he’s actually doing the interviews on Friday– the better to leave Sunday free for golf– he did not see fit to include Fox. Chris Wallace is hardly Glen Beck or Shaun Hannity, and his show runs on the Fox network, not Fox News (although it is rerun later on Fox News).

D-E-S-P-E-R-A-T-I-O-N…..What happened Mr.Pres?…couple hundred thousand people marching in Washington spook you out….forget about a one term president, you are on the cusp of becoming a one year lame duck president…

Why won’t the coward go on Fox; because hehas no facts to support his claims.

How so Bobbi? If they didn’t do the outstanding job that they do, we’d already be a Socialist state under the ACORN-SEIU flag! Thank God for them!

Geez…can’t he just stay in the White House for a while and leave us alone? All he’s going to do is make Americans more angry since they can’t get away from him.
No Obamacare…EVER!

If you look at the orginal time line for the health care bill and the recovery theift bill to get forced to his desk… Picking out his dog took longer.