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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. ‘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.’
“The Miracle John McCain Helped Create”.
BWAHAHAHAHA!
Clearly, the Obama campaign can not avoid hitting a fat one thrown underhand right down the middle of the plate.
“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,” said Obama campaign spokesman Bill Burton.
Sounds an awful lot like Al Gore inventing the internet. I hope it works out just as well for McCain as it did for Gore.
It’s also nice to know that the knowledge of the financial markets that John McCain’s vast experience has brought him in this time of crisis is based on his somehow inventing a device he doesn’t know how to use.
This story should never be mentioned without noting that the company that makes the Blackberry is a Canadian company, RIM.
So even his ludicrous boasts about job-creating “miracles” involve jobs for people who don’t live in America.
What’s even more impressive is that McCain can’t even use a Blackberry, you know, because he was brutally tortured, physically, mentally, and emotionally, for nearly six years in Vietnam, so many years ago.
As stupid a comment as this was by a McCain staffer, what is more impressive is the speed in which this story can be posted while the story about Obama possibly trying to make backdoor deals to delay the return of troops from Iraq isn’t addressed.
while the story about Obama possibly trying to make backdoor deals to delay the return of troops from Iraq isn’t addressed.
Brought to you by the same “journalist” who reported that Jews in Iran are being forced to wear markings on their clothes to identify them.
What you’re wishing for, Hedly, isn’t “addressing” the story. You just want it spread around, true or not.
What you’re wishing for, Hedley, isn’t “addressing” the story. You just want it spread around, true or not.
Not true. If the story isn’t true, and I hope it is not, I would think it would have been raised here. To me, what Obama may or may not have done in regard to the troops coming home is just slightly more important than whether or not John McCain can send an email. Apparently not everyone agrees.
If the story isn’t true, and I hope it is not, I would think it would have been raised here.
So far, I think the story has been reported in just one mainstream outlet–the NY Post. I saw it mentioned at TPM, but other than that, it hasn’t really made it to the left side of the blogosphere yet. Be patient.
To me, what Obama may or may not have done in regard to the troops coming home is just slightly more important than whether or not John McCain can send an email. Apparently not everyone agrees.
Really? Who doesn’t agree? I don’t think anyone has said the email story is more important. Writing about one doesn’t preclude writing about the other. Like I said, watch and wait. If the Taheri column gains any traction, you’ll see it–and Taheri’s earlier fabrications–discussed plenty.
Gore: “During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet. I took the initiative in moving forward a whole range of initiatives that have proven to be important to our country’s economic growth and environmental protection, improvements in our educational system.”
And the misconception spread that Gore claimed he’d invented the Internet and he was widely criticized for the claim he never made. Everyone here who was bothered by that, raise your hand.
McCain aide: “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”
All those with their hand raised, bothered at all by the idea McCain should be criticized for making essentially the same claim Gore did?
Not true. If the story isn’t true, and I hope it is not, I would think it would have been raised here.
Why don’t you start your own blog and raise it there, Hedley? I for one would gladly visit and tell you why this non-story is just another right-wing red herring intended to distract attention from the ghastly spectacle of the McCain/Palin campaign going Hindenburg.
“All those with their hand raised, bothered at all by the idea McCain should be criticized for making essentially the same claim Gore did?”
Al Gore was actively involved in the creation of the internet. He recognized its potential and helped move government resources to support it. The person widely recognized as ‘inventing the internet’ agrees that without Al Gore, there likely would not have been an internet.
McCain did nothing of the sort with the Blackberry, which was invented in another country and he had zero to do with it.
See the difference?
Just in case you don’t.
In the first case a person said something factual, and people lied about what they said.
In the second case, a person lied in a clear manner.
CSS: Al Gore was actively involved in the creation of the internet. … McCain did nothing of the sort with the Blackberry
Fair enough. (And succinctly and non-insultingly said. Tip o’ the Hat to CSS.)
“Hedley? I for one would gladly visit and tell you why this non-story is just another right-wing red herring intended to distract attention from the ghastly spectacle of the McCain/Palin campaign going Hindenburg.
That’s mighty offensive to gas filled antiquities.
No, wait…