It’s not the material, it’s the delivery.

Here’s the set-up: In its understandable desire to make some hay out of Her Royal Clintonness’ email scandal, the RNC filed a FOIA request with the state department for a bunch of Clinton aide emails.

The state department came back with a response that it would get right on fulfilling the request, but that it would take about 75 years. Thank you for your patience.

Noting that it doesn’t normally take that long to forward some emails, a reporter asked a state department mouthpiece named Mark Toner to elucidate.

The State Department on Tuesday defended its estimate that it would take 75 years to fulfill a request from the Republican National Committee for emails of three top Hillary Clinton aides, and said that length of time is “not an outlandish estimation.”

“That is an incredible number,” State Department spokesman Mark Toner admitted. But he said the estimate is accurate because the RNC’s request is “very complex.”

I read that and had to wonder: Is the federal government now genetically engineering spokesvermin capable of making statements like that with straight faces? Because that would be an amazingly useful gift to breed into the next generation of stand-up comics, and if such an ability exists the industry should get right on it. I went looking for the video…

Nope. He couldn’t do it. He didn’t quite crack up, but he couldn’t hold a straight face.