September 16, 2008 · Lessig
From Politico:
Asked what work John McCain did as Chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee that helped him understand the financial markets, the candidate’s top economic adviser wielded visual evidence: his BlackBerry.“He did this,” Douglas Holtz-Eakin told reporters this morning, holding up his BlackBerry.
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And this is “new” politics or the same questionable Bush twist of Al Gore’s words, twisted even more???
From CBS news:
http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2008/09/16/politics/horserace/entry4452193.shtml
The Obama campaign has already seized on the comment. It sent the Politico report around to reporters this morning with the only this editorial comment: “um, what?”
UPDATE: Asked about the comment today, senior McCain aide Matt McDonald said the Republican nominee “laughed” when he heard what Holtz-Eakin had said.
“He would not claim to be the inventor of anything, much less the BlackBerry,” said McDonald. “This was obviously a boneheaded joke by a staffer.”
I did NOT realize John McCain worked at Research in Motion or, allegedly, NTP, Inc.
Hmpt.
Heh.
The vandalism and retification of wikipedia’s Blackberry entry mildly amused me.
Disclamer: I did neither. I just smirked to see the page sed John McCain invented the Blackberry and then to see the page revert back so quickly. Talk about internet time.
Al Gore didn’t invent the Internet, his opponent did. That’s why all the sites start with Dubya, Dubya, Dubya!
sorry, couldn’t resist the pun
Didn’t McCain also create the raspberry?
Regarding the Al Gore smear, see my page:
Al Gore “invented the Internet” – resources
He didnt invent blackberries, but he was born before plant life evolved berries.