Hillary Clinton has emerged from, in her own words, “taking selfies in the woods” to embrace the latest Democratic excuse for her election loss: so-called fake news.

The latest, that is, in a growing list of scapegoats that so far includes FBI Director James Comey, Russian interference, Anthony Weiner’s cellphone, Fox News and the alt-right.

It includes everything, in fact, save the most obvious reason she lost: She was a lousy candidate who ran a lousy campaign.

Now, Clinton didn’t explicitly blame what she denounced as the “epidemic” of fake news for Donald Trump’s victory.

Speaking at a retirement ceremony for Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, she seemed to be referring mostly to the now-famous incident in which a man brought a gun to a pizza parlor after reading online that it was the center of a pedophilia ring.

But she also denounced “foreign propaganda” (see above) and called on Congress to “protect our democracy” — which sure sound like election references.

Fake news and conspiracy theories have long been with us, sadly enough, and always will — all the more so now, thanks to social media. But Hillary Clinton was hardly a special target.

Think back to Dan Rather’s doctored memos targeting George W. Bush. For that matter, what about Clinton’s own claim — initially parroted by most news outlets — that the deadly terrorist attack in Benghazi was triggered by an Internet video?

Besides, as Trump’s former campaign manager, Kellyanne Conway, noted, the biggest fake news of all turned out to be the drumbeat from nearly all major media that Trump could never be elected.

We’re not surprised Clinton still can’t accept the fact she lost — and to Trump, of all people. But there were a lot of reasons for that, and phony stories played at most a tiny part.

As Conway notes: “A little self-awareness would do for a team that is blaming everyone but themselves.”