President Obama Ignores Fox News in Five Show Sunday Media Blitz, To Appear on Univision's Public Affairs Show Al Punto Instead

By now you must have heard that President Barack Obama will appear on five Sunday shows this Sunday. That is very notable, but there's another important first concerning his Sunday blitz. The five shows he will appear on are:

• CBS' Face the Nation
• NBC's Meet the Press
• ABC's This Week
• CNN's State of the Union
• Univision's Al Punto

This isn't the first time that Presidents have appeared on Univision: President Clinton appeared on Univision five times, President George W. Bush was on six times, and Obama has done a few interviews with the network as well. What's remarkable is the fact that Al Punto is in the line-up and Fox News, or Faux News as I like to call them, isn't. Sorry, but they deserve to be blown-off by the White House. More significantly is the fact that, according to Univision's corporate communications, Al Punto (531,000) does far better than Fox News (417,000) in the all-important 18-49 demographic and it often beats CBS' Face the Nation in that demographic as well.

Of course, some Rethuglicans are in a tizzy over the President's decision to ignore Fox News. They are crying like babies that President Obama is unfair.

Joe "You Lie!" Wilson, who was reprimanded this week by the House for his outburst at Obama last week, said that by excluding Fox, the president was not being fair. “If people are going to be on the Sunday talk shows, they should be on all of them,” Wilson said.

Rep. Pete Sessions (Texas), chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee, told The Hill that Obama has “handpicked” his audience. “I think that Fox News would ask some realistic questions that members of Congress are asked and the American public is asking. And he’s the one who’s choosing not to take part in that,” Sessions said on Wednesday.

Wait. Once again Joe "You Lie" Wilson is being his usual hypocritical self. You see,incidentally, he appeared on “Fox News Sunday” last week, but not on any of the other Sunday shows. The president has made a wise move to appear on the more popular show.