{"id":1194,"date":"2007-02-02T08:29:00","date_gmt":"2007-02-02T14:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2007\/02\/national-radio-tv-personality-blasts-richardson\/"},"modified":"2007-02-02T08:29:00","modified_gmt":"2007-02-02T14:29:00","slug":"national-radio-tv-personality-blasts-richardson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2007\/02\/national-radio-tv-personality-blasts-richardson\/","title":{"rendered":"National radio, TV personality blasts Richardson"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>A national radio and television personality who owns a ranch in Northern New Mexico went off on a seven-minute rant against Gov. Bill Richardson on Thursday, calling him a \u201cfat sissy,\u201d and \u201cfat baby,\u201d and telling him in Spanish to \u201ckiss my (you know what).\u201d <\/p>\n

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Don Imus, host of the show Imus in the Morning<\/a>, which airs on television on MSNBC but doesn\u2019t air on the radio in the Las Cruces area, is mad because he claims Richardson and his staff were rudely unresponsive to a community request to turn an old schoolhouse in Ribera, near Imus\u2019 ranch, into a community center. He said the governor\u2019s office promised to consider it and has dodged the community ever since.<\/p>\n

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Imus claimed that Richardson<\/st1:city> was set to appear on his show Thursday but, after the host began talking about the schoolhouse earlier this week, Richardson<\/st1:place><\/st1:city>\u2019s people demanded an apology and, when it was not forthcoming, \u201cthe fat sissy canceled and he\u2019s not going to be on now.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cIf he wants to run for president, he\u2019s got to get his act together, stop being a fat baby about all of this,\u201d Imus said.<\/p>\n

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Richardson<\/st1:city>\u2019s campaign, through its communications director Pahl Shipley, released a statement to the Albuquerque Journal<\/a> saying Richardson<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> supports the renovation project \u201cand has been working to secure the funds.\u201d<\/p>\n

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He also said Imus \u201cis eager and is using his position to advocate and his having some fun at our expense, and that\u2019s OK.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Imus called Richardson<\/st1:place><\/st1:city>\u2019s campaign staff an incompetent group not ready for the presidential primetime, and berated Shipley.<\/p>\n

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You can listen to part of Imus\u2019 rant by clicking here<\/a>. You can watch a video clip here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Imus has often been a fan of Richardson<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> and is known for rants that don\u2019t last. I\u2019ll also say this: Richardson<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> isn\u2019t fat. During his two visits to Las Cruces this week, several people remarked to me that the governor has lost what most estimated to be at least 20 pounds in recent months as he prepared for his presidential run.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A national radio and television personality who owns a ranch in Northern New Mexico went off on a seven-minute rant against Gov. Bill Richardson on Thursday, calling him a \u201cfat sissy,\u201d and \u201cfat baby,\u201d and telling him in Spanish to \u201ckiss my (you know what).\u201d Don Imus, host of the show Imus in the Morning, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1194\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}