FOX News got at least one thing right in its report last week that Gov. Bill Richardson said he was running for president.
Former Ambassador Joe Wilson and his wife, former CIA agent Valerie Plame, are moving to New Mexico, the Santa Fe New Mexican is reporting.
But the network reported they are moving here to work on the presidential campaign of Richardson. Wilson told the newspaper that isn’t true.
“FOX News once again proved itself the master of make-believe,” he was quoted as saying. “Our relocating to New Mexico has nothing to do with Bill Richardson or his own future plans. It has everything to do with the beauty of the state and the hospitality of its citizens.”
Wilson didn’t tell the newspaper when they’ll move here, but said he, his wife and their 6-year-old twins are moving to Santa Fe.
“For the record, I have never worked for a campaign and don’t expect to in the future,” Wilson told the newspaper. “What I have done is support candidates, including John Kerry in the last presidential election and Patricia Madrid in the congressional election. All my efforts have been voluntary, a simple citizen exercising my right to support the candidate of my choice. I would expect to do so in the next election, whomever that candidate might be.”
Wilson and his wife came to New Mexico twice this year for the Madrid congressional campaign.
It was the release of Plame’s identity in 2003 that led to the criminal investigation into who in the Bush Administration leaked classified information.