TMB: Hillary’s Emails Indict The Self-Regarding Culture Of Washington

By Matthew Continetti
So she doesn’t know how to use a fax machine. Big whoop. If there is a “smoking gun” in the 3,000 pages of Hillary Clinton emails released by the State Department this week, it’s not in her technological ineptitude, or her calling her hairdresser “Santa,” or her continuing to encourage Sid Blumenthal to offer bad advice despite promises to the contrary, or her fetish for ice tea, or her bizarre demand that John Podesta wear socks to bed.

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