Bill McMorris offers a humorous take in the Washington Free Beacon on Hillary Clinton’s standard reaction to emails from toadies and sycophants.
Hillary Clinton could have printed the Bible and then some with all of the paper she used to print out fawning emails, news coverage, and shopping lists, according to a Washington Free Beacon analysis.
Clinton ordered underlings to print out more than 500 emails and articles during her four-year tenure as secretary of state. On a typical day, staffers, friends, insiders, thought leaders, and activists, including Gigli star Ben Affleck, would send emails about their pet issues, offering analysis, or giving Clinton praise. The frontrunner for the Democratic presidential nomination would then forward the message or article to an underling with orders to “Pls print.” …
… A Free Beacon review of every “Pls print” email by the State Department estimates that she would have used 1,849 pieces of paper to print out all of the materials requested—enough paper to print out a standard Bible and Clinton’s second memoir, Hard Choices.
Those estimates come from the page breaks in the emails, as well as the Print pages of news articles linked therein. The list is not yet complete, as the State Department has only released over 60 percent of the 55,000 pages of emails she delivered—in paper form—to the State Department.
The 1,849 pages are the minimum amount of paper needed to handle Clinton’s frequent requests. Many of the messages were cut off because they contained classified material, while others contained reading material with missing links or attached documents, which were not disclosed in the State Department releases. In some instances, staffers responded to her printing instructions by acknowledging that they printed out back-up copies, as well.
