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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