“I don’t know what wiped means,” Brian Fallon, press secretary for inevitable Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton, told CNN’s Brianna Keilar yesterday. Unlike Mrs. Clinton’s ungainly joke to the same effect—“What, like with a cloth or something?”—Fallon’s comment provoked horselaughs.
But they were laughing at him, not with him. National Journal’s Josh Kraushaar described it as “the new ‘definition of is’ line.” The Federalist’s Sean Davis noted a tweet from Aug. 18 in which the press secretary replied comprehendingly to a...