Hillary Clinton faced the press on Tuesday, addressing her use of a personal email address and private server to conduct her business as secretary of state in depth for the first time.
Her press conference, held at the United Nations after delivering a major speech on women’s rights, began with a renewed commitment to furthering gender equality worldwide and her take on Senate Republicans’ recent decision to sign a pointed letter to Iran about its nuclear negotiations with the United States.
Still, Clinton devoted nearly all of the 21-minute media event to so-called “Emailgate” and its implications.
She also talked about some other things. Here’s what you may have missed:
Seriously, Hillary Clinton burned the Republicans’ Iran letter pretty hard
Either these senators were trying to be helpful to the Iranians or harmful to the commander-in-chief in the midst of high-stakes international diplomacy.
Hillary Clinton sends emails about her yoga routine.
At the end I chose not to keep my private, personal emails, emails about planning Chelsea’s wedding … as well as yoga routines, family vacations, the other things you typically find in inboxes.
Which is not exactly new …
It's been going on for years. Bill's involved, too. #yoga pic.twitter.com/YOAy88PLPu
— Justin Wolfers (@JustinWolfers) March 10, 2015
… but the rightwing blogosphere had fun with that anyway:
#Yoga #HillaryEmail pic.twitter.com/jRM06A0K43
— Free Beacon (@FreeBeacon) March 10, 2015
Hillary Clinton’s life is not easier with one cellphone
But I thought using one device would be simpler, and obviously it hasn’t worked out that way.
NSA has all the emails anyway presumably
— Oliver Burkeman (@oliverburkeman) March 10, 2015
Hillary Clinton is on LinkedIn
From a statement sent by Clinton’s office after the press conference:
You will see everything from the work of government, to emails with State and other Administration colleagues, to LinkedIn invites, to talk about the weather – essentially what anyone would see in their own email account.
Which pretty much makes this joke come true:
Hillary: "I created a private home email server to try and stop getting LinkedIn updates." [Everyone understands, goes home, issue over]
— pourmecoffee (@pourmecoffee) March 10, 2015
Finally: Hillary Clinton’s Guernica moment – add your own metaphor
Yes, there was a special treat today for the art lovers today.
Great day for Picasso on cable news, so far.
— Christopher Hayes (@chrislhayes) March 10, 2015
Only at the UN.
