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Bartiromo InnuendoWhat exactly is the Wall Street Journal trying to say?

By Jack Shafer
Updated Monday, Jan. 29, 2007, at 6:02 PM ET

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No evidence, but plenty of room for innuendo. Devroy's collaborators were Maralee Schwartz and current NewsHour senior correspondent Gwen Ifill, and their lede reads (emphasis added):

Jennifer Fitzgerald, who has served President-elect George Bush in a variety of positions, most recently running the vice presidential Senate offices, is expected to be named deputy chief of protocol in the new administration, sources said yesterday.

Whether Thomson and Bartiromo were getting it on, I can't tell you. Neither, despite their elbow nudges, can the Journal or Newsweek.

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