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July 8, 2004

Christian Crumlish

"That foul-mouthed red-haired vixen known as the Wonkette... has leveraged her popular political gossip site, Wonkette.com, into a gig with MTV News," the Washington Post reports. "The network will announce today that it has hired Cox, 31, to cover all the incredible tension and excitement that is the Democratic National Convention."

Posted by xian at July 8, 2004 7:32 PM

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