Sign of desperation? Obama on 5 TV shows Sunday

Jake Tapper of ABC News reports:

Fans of President Obama are in for a treat this weekend. The president is going on a massive publicity blitz as he steps up his push for health care overhaul.

Obama will be interviewed Sunday on five shows -- ABC News' "This Week With George Stephanopoulos," CNN's "State of the Nation," CBS's "Face the Nation", NBC's "Meet the Press" and Univision's "Al Punto with Jorge Ramos" -- in what is called a "full Ginsburg."

In modern media lore, the first time someone pulled the five-show feat was 11 years ago, in 1998, when Monica Lewinsky's attorney, William Ginsburg, made the rounds to defend his client.

Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., did a full Ginsburg in 2007 after launching her presidential bid.

For both Ginsburg and Clinton, Fox News Sunday was on the list but not Univision.

Such is not the case for Obama: Democrats said the Fox News Sunday audience is largely entrenched in its opposition to the president, essentially beyond persuasion, and so submitting to an interview might not be the best use of Obama's time.

But isn’t the real reason Obama is avoiding Fox is the fear that he may be asked tough questions instead of receiving a back-slapping endorsement of ObamaCare?

CNN, CBS, ABC and NBC will be working hard Sunday trying to sell ObamaCare. However, if ObamaCare was a good product he wouldn’t need to have the media try to sell it.

Many think this media overload can only mean he is acting in desperation. Mark McKinnon doesn’t think so, however.

"I don't think he's overexposed at all," said public strategist Mark McKinnon, media consultant to former President Bush and presidential candidate Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz. "In fact, I think, in some ways, he's underexposed.

With McKinnon as a consultant, it’s no wonder George W. Bush and John McCain had media problems!

With all this overexposure, one wonders what could be next - a new reality show called Obama Dancing with the Czars?

From a Lucianne commenter:

The people pulling Obama’s strings - the people who write his teleprompter scripts - must be exasperated with him for proving to be such a bad salesman.

After spending all that time and money grooming him to become the William Jennings Bryan of the Third Millennium, all they got was a one-trick campaign pony. And now that campaign mojo is gone.

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