{"id":968,"date":"2006-12-07T19:24:00","date_gmt":"2006-12-08T01:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2006\/12\/breaking-news-richardson-denies-fox-news-report-that-he-announced-2008-presidential-bid\/"},"modified":"2006-12-07T19:24:00","modified_gmt":"2006-12-08T01:24:00","slug":"breaking-news-richardson-denies-fox-news-report-that-he-announced-2008-presidential-bid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2006\/12\/breaking-news-richardson-denies-fox-news-report-that-he-announced-2008-presidential-bid\/","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING NEWS: Richardson denies FOX News report that he announced 2008 presidential bid"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>FOX News reported today that N.M. Gov. Bill Richardson told the network he is running for president in 2008, but the governor says his comments were twisted and stuck by previous statements that he\u2019ll make a final decision in January. <\/p>\n

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Using Richardson<\/st1:city>\u2019s speech earlier today at Georgetown<\/st1:placename> University<\/st1:placetype><\/st1:place> as a springboard, the network interviewed him about 2008. On the video report, which you can view here<\/a>, Richardson<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> can be seen touting his credentials \u2013 one of them being that he\u2019s Hispanic.<\/p>\n

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\u201cBut I\u2019m not running as a Hispanic,\u201d Richardson<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> says. \u201cI\u2019m running as an American who\u2019s proud to be a Hispanic.\u201d<\/p>\n

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If you can\u2019t watch the video, you can read a shorter print version of the report by clicking here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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\u201cHe\u2019s in for \u201908,\u201d the reporter says at one point. \u201c\u2026 He said he is running.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Richardson<\/st1:place><\/st1:city>\u2019s office immediately put out a news release disputing the report.<\/p>\n

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\u201cFOX News incorrectly reported that Governor Richardson has announced he will run for president,\u201d said Richardson<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> spokesman Gilbert Gallegos. \u201cWhen asked directly whether he will run for president, Governor Richardson said he will make a final decision in January. Other comments from the interview were taken out of context based on a hypothetical question that FOX News posed about the governor\u2019s strengths, should he run for president.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The network also reported that former Ambassador Joe Wilson and his wife, former CIA official Valerie Plame, are moving to New Mexico<\/st1:place><\/st1:state> to work on the governor\u2019s White House bid. It was the release of Plame\u2019s identity in 2003 that led to the criminal investigation into who in the Bush Administration leaked classified information.<\/p>\n

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In an interview, Gallegos said Richardson<\/st1:city> knows nothing about the couple moving to New Mexico<\/st1:place><\/st1:state> for the purpose of helping his potential presidential bid.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe governor told them that and they still reported it,\u201d Gallegos said.<\/p>\n

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If that\u2019s true, FOX News conveniently left Richardson<\/st1:place><\/st1:city>\u2019s comment out of its story, and asserted its claim about Wilson and Plame as fact.<\/p>\n

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The network also reported that Richardson<\/st1:city> has begun hiring national staff and would visit New Hampshire<\/st1:place><\/st1:state> in mid-January. Richardson<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> has already announced that he will visit the state in mid-December.<\/p>\n

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The network, reporting on Richardson<\/st1:place><\/st1:city>\u2019s immigration policy speech, said he \u201cchided Democrats\u201d for not putting the topic at the top of their agenda. What FOX News failed to report is that Richardson<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> also blasted Republicans for failing to enact meaningful reform and for passing disingenuous legislation.<\/p>\n

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That shouldn\u2019t be a surprise. It isn\u2019t as though FOX News is always fair and balanced.<\/p>\n

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Richardson<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> is generally a brilliant handler of the media. Most I spoke with find it highly unlikely, especially knowing which network reported it, that Richardson<\/st1:city><\/st1:place> actually said he\u2019ll run in 2008.<\/p>\n

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Still, there is that quote in which Richardson<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> says, \u201cI\u2019m running as an American who\u2019s proud to be a Hispanic,\u201d not, \u201cIf I run, it will be as an American who\u2019s proud to be a Hispanic.\u201d<\/p>\n

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To use FOX News\u2019 own words: \u201cWe report. You decide.\u201d<\/p>\n

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A previous version of this posting incorrectly reported that Gallegos said Richardson<\/st1:city> knows nothing about Wilson and Plame moving to New Mexico<\/st1:place><\/st1:state>.<\/p>\n

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FOX News reported today that N.M. Gov. Bill Richardson told the network he is running for president in 2008, but the governor says his comments were twisted and stuck by previous statements that he\u2019ll make a final decision in January. Using Richardson\u2019s speech earlier today at Georgetown University as a springboard, the network interviewed him […]<\/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-968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/968","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=968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/968\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}