Yes, we have heard of computers crashing --- and no, we're not stupid

A White House official said Monday that “it’s a fact” that two years’ worth of subpoenaed emails belonging to disgraced former Internal Revenue Service official Lois Lerner were wiped out in a mysterious computer crash.

“You’ve never heard of a computer crashing before?” Josh Earnest, who will soon replace outgoing White House press secretary Jay Carney, asked a group of reporters on Air Force One on Monday.