Adviser: John McCain Invented The Blackberry

The gadget blogs are going wild with this one: A John McCain advisor claimed the GOP candidate - who doesn't know how to use e-mail - invented the (Canadian) Blackberry. At first I thought this might be deliberate, like Al Gore's inventing of the Internet, hoping it might stick instead of turning into a joke, but according to Gearlog, this is what was said:

"According to McCain adviser Douglas Holtz-Eakin, the Republican presidential nominee was actually the driving force behind RIM's uber-popular BlackBerry smartphone. When 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 pointed to his PDA.

"He did this," said Holtz-Eakin, referring to his BlackBerry during a press conference this morning. "Telecommunications of the United States is a premier innovation in the past 15 years, comes right through the Commerce committee so you're looking at the miracle John McCain helped create and that's what he did."

emily | 9:08 PM | News, Buzz |
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