McCain Invented The BlackBerry?????
Filed under: Politik > Barack Obama > John McCain
So, did Presidential hopeful John McCain help create the BlackBerry?
According to a staffer, he did.
Douglas Holtz-Eakin, a top McCain policy adviser, waived his Blackberry around and told reporters today, "You're looking at the miracle that John McCain helped create."
Riiiight.
Did Holtz-Eakin also work for Al Gore when he claimed to have helped invent the internet??????
So did McCain do the same for the Blackberry?
Turns out not.
After Holtz-Eakin's comments, another McCain aid dismissed the remark simply as "a boneheaded joke by a staffer."
We don't think talking to the press and claiming a fact is a "joke."
And, oddly enough, McCain has acknowledge that he doesn't even know how to use a computer or send out emails.
Holtz-Eakin claims that McCain's "service on and leadership of the Senate Commerce Committee put him at the intersection of a number of economic interests, including the telecommunications industry." McCains "handling of regulation and deregulation of that industry in particular left him with the skills to help revive the economy amid a mortgage crisis, an energy crisis and a Wall Street meltdown."
Uh huh!
Holtz-Eakin added, "He can and has the judgment to put people in place with technical expertise, with the history of experience in the areas necessary, that we're going to get reforms."
But Matt McDonald, a senior McCain aide, says that McCain "laughed" when he heard the BlackBerry comment.
McDonald said, "He would not claim to be the inventor of anything, much less the BlackBerry. This was obviously a boneheaded joke by a staffer."
As for Barack Obama's side, they couldn't help but comment.
A statement by Obama's spokesman, Bill Burton said, "If John McCain hadn't said that 'the fundamentals of our economy are strong' on the day of one of our nation's worst financial crises, the claim that he invented the BlackBerry would have been the most preposterous thing said all week."
And there you have it.
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…he invented the whiteberry. Or was it the dingleberry…"One Fine Day' everyone will be treated equally. f*ckers…
I'm feeling a little disenchanted now
Andy: I need to take a nosedive between those asscheeks
Swimstud: you need to sit on my dick and do carousels
Obama invented the wireless watermelon.
Re: abercorey – Head over to Tech and butt slam Jerry!
The only thing that McCracken created was black balls….trying to take out Obama by kicking him in the balls…
By the way, does his VP pronounce her last name "Puuuutin?" because isn't Puta mean WHORE in spanish?
Haha, Cindy has to deal with the old man's dingleberry's every day!
Hey LettyB, I found one of your cats,it's under my tire.
August 2007: McCain voted to codify a controversial legislation that allows states to make an embryo or fetus—but not a pregnant woman—eligible for healthcare coverage. "Touch Me When We're Dancing". Then again fuhgetaboutit.
hahah. suure
Right… He admitted he doesn't even know how to email.
Re: abercorey – why dont you, swimstud, and i all fuck-rape harrybalsac? it's always fun with the homos force anal on the straight boy.
Re: harrybalsac – HAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!! LOVES IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
OBAMA INVENTED THE WIRELESS WATERMELON!!!
OBAMA INVENTED THE WIRELESS WATERMELON!!!
OBAMA INVENTED THE WIRELESS WATERMELON!!!
OBAMA INVENTED THE WIRELESS WATERMELON!!!
Re: karencarpenter – Yes, because Obama invented the BLACKberry!
I don't see this too bad. Economy has much to do with psycology and the atmospere among consumers. I think it would be sad to start competing who can be most negative as in the end there are severe problems that need to be solved but US is going to survive.
I am now convinced that way too many Americans are idiots! The economy is in the shit hole, over 600 thousand americans have lost their jobs and republicans and conservatives want to put this war monger and elitist back in power for another 4 years. God help us!!
got my iPhone the day they came out. beat the shit out of it, gym, drop it, thrown in a bitch fight and the thing works like a champ. Love it. fuck blackberry.
From the Huffington Post : On the campaign trail on Monday, Mr. McCain, the Republican presidential nominee, struck a populist tone. Speaking in Florida, he said that the economy’s underlying fundamentals remained strong but were being threatened “because of the greed by some based in Wall Street and we have got to fix it.”
But his record on the issue, and the views of those he has always cited as his most influential advisers, suggest that he has never departed in any major way from his party’s embrace of deregulation and relying more on market forces than on the government to exert discipline.
While Mr. McCain has cited the need for additional oversight when it comes to specific situations, like the mortgage problems behind the current shocks on Wall Street, he has consistently characterized himself as fundamentally a deregulator and he has no history prior to the presidential campaign of advocating steps to tighten standards on investment firms.
He has often taken his lead on financial issues from two outspoken advocates of free market approaches, former Senator Phil Gramm and Alan Greenspan, the former Federal Reserve chairman. Individuals associated with Merrill Lynch, which sold itself to Bank of America in the market upheaval of the past weekend, have given his presidential campaign nearly $300,000, making them Mr. McCain’s largest contributor, collectively.
This is just stupid. It seems like people will take ANYTHING and make it negative.
does he even know how to use a typewriter?
Re: Andy27 – Re: abercorey – Yeah, i'm in the mood for some double penetration. think harry's ass can handle it.
Andy, corey taught me you can't rape the willing.
Re: Swimstud – I heard someone accidentally dropped an iphone like 4 stories and there was only a tiny scratch on it.. crazy.
Re: Nurse Allison – Does this look swollen to you , nusre al?
The Huffington Post is the only news source carrying this story. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.
Forty-nine more days of Perez's ddesperate pleas to his uneduated followers.
"fundamentals of our economy are strong" ? God help us if he is elected!
Re: sweetpiece – Really? You get your news from Huffington? I'm not surprised. Anyway, the fault for this debacle lies squarely on the shoulders of both sides. They all get money, Greenspan and the housing bubble he helped created served all two Clinton terms and most of Bush's terms as Chairman of the Federal Reserve, and we have had a Democratic congress for two years now who could have legislated more oversight and regulations, and who failed to do so. EVERYONE's fault people.
Re: Andy27 –
OMG….that would make my week…that's even funner then swirlin him out GHB and each takin turns fuckin him!!!
Enough of these fucking distractions, can we get to real issues at any point?!
Re: Angelina_Is_A_Dirty_Whore – If you people bother to get your political news anywhere other than Perez, you would know that by "fundamentals" McCain meant "American people". Here is the whole quote if you're interested, which you probably aren't, but w/e.
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""Today we are seeing tremendous upheaval on Wall Street. The American economy is in crisis. Unemployment is on the rise and our financial markets are in turmoil. People are concerned about our economic future. But let me say something: this economic crisis is not the fault of the American people. Our workers are the most innovative, the hardest working, the best skilled, most productive, most competitive in the world. My opponents may disagree, but those fundamentals of America are strong. No one can match an American worker. Our workers sell more goods to more markets than any other on earth. Our workers have always been the strength of our economy, and they remain the strength of our economy today. "
A statement by Obama's spokesman, Bill Burton said, "If John McCain hadn't said that 'the fundamentals of our economy are strong' on the day of one of our nation's worst financial crises, the claim that he invented the BlackBerry would have been the most preposterous thing said all week."
And that ladies and gentleman is what you call OWNED!
OBAMA/BIDEN 08!!!
Re: Swimstud –
lol my friends iphone is WRECKED….he need's to get his money back….you can barely see the screen…it looks like someone ran over that shit 10 times with a semi…lol did you pull a Naomi and throw your iphone at some bitches head?
It was a joke, Perez! So, do you think that Obama's plan to raise corporate taxes are going to get us out of the economic mess we're in?! Brilliant!
Re: harrybalsac – THAT MAKES NO SENSE, MABE IF I HAD CATS! I HATE CATS! KING OF FUCKTARDS!
ok so we want someone that cant even use a COMPUTER to run a country????? WTF??? he cant use a computer (which functions never change) but thinks he is qualified smart enough whatever…. to run this COUNTRY along with the "PITBULL" whose own family structure and upbringing goes against everything she stands for??? we are f**cked if the plain/mccaine party wins!!! OBAMA!!
Ohhh come on——-that is obviously a joke Perez. STOP BEING A PARTISAN DOUCHE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And I'm pretty sure if McCAin could learn to fly a fighter jet, he could learn how to use email. He's just old school and doesn't use it—WHO CARES!!!!!!!
Re: QuEEn Bee BitCheZ –
Do you know how to fly a fighter plane? Judging by your picture I think now. Idiots.
The internets is a series of tubes…
By the way, for all you McCain haters out there, the reason he can't use a computer or a blackberry for that matter is because of his war injuries, duh! If you haven't noticed, the guy can barely move his arms and doesn't have great use of his fingers. Makes it a bit hard to text when you have these issues.
Re: Andy27 – Re: abercorey – Re: Swimstud – Evil homos.
ha?
umm… earth to McCain…. the blackberry was invented in CANADA, by a CANADIAN. Actually by Mike Lazaridis president and co-CEO of RIM…. a CANADIAN COMPANY.
Seriously.. to my southern neighbours, if McCain/Palin are elected, you've proven why your country is in financial ruin… you keep electing uber-rich republican's who have no interest in the "little people", who will lie, steal, cheat… and even go so far as to commit treason to protect their own interests. PLEASE.. stop watching TV and start reading about who you are going to have run your country. Seriously! How stupid are you??
Additionally, I'm sure McCain is feeling A-OK with the economy the way it is–the guy is rich beyond belief. I know where this guy lives (that's not suppose to sound as creepy as it seems, really) and he's LOADED. I can't help but think he has a distorted view on how bad it really is.
Meanwhile, at my college graduating commencement this past May our featured speaker could only talk about how awful the economy, how many of us wouldn't be able to find work and if we did, it would probably be a lousy filler job until the economy shaped up. And you know what? She was right! I couldn't get a job at Wendy's right now even if I wanted to, it sucks. But hey, at least I get to spend all my free time on the perezhilton.com message board with some of you fine people, haha.
YEAH RIGHT!!
Check my USERNAME out!!
Re: abercorey – lol nah, i wasn't Naomi, someone else was. the secret is the crystal film shield you put on the screen.
McCain has said he CAN'T use a computer or email NOT that he doesn't know how. You know why he can't? Because the North Koreans crushed all of his fingers and broke both his arms and he is unable to use a computer without pain. The Obama ad was completely misleading. McCain was written up in Forbes and other magazines years ago for being the most technically savy senator. I think Obama's people need to get the facts straight before spew more lies. It makes the Obama people look like the idiots they are.
"If John McCain hadn't said that 'the fundamentals of our economy are strong' on the day of one of our nation's worst financial crises, the claim that he invented the BlackBerry would have been the most preposterous thing said all week."
LOLOLOLOLOLOLOL best quote ever.
Obama FTW
come on Barrack you can do it, America and the whole word needs you.
Obama is throwing a $28,500 a plate, $2,500 concert=$31,000 fundraiser in Bev. Hills. How about sending that money down to Texas instead? Oh wait thats right, Mr. Obama broke his promise on public financing and now has to relay on people who have no idea what real americans go through to get money…
I think thats a bigger issues than the blackberry thing. BTW, McCain was on the committee that pushed blackberry forward…jesus I wish people would do some reseach!
nah he created dirt.. get it right