Posted by JumpyPants
As the avalanche of McNutjob's lies continues to take down the mountain of his reputation, he and his team are now lying about truly insane shit.
The latest, in an eerie echo of the "Gore invented the internet" lie the GOP played like a fiddle in 2000: that McCain is responsible for the invention of the BLACKBERRY!
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."
As Reed Hundt at TPM points out, BlackBerries are made in Canada, by a Canadian company, Research In Motion, that has absolutely nothing to do with telecom laws in John McNutjob's America:
"John McCain is so out of touch that his economics adviser thinks he deserves credit for creating a Canadian company."
Out of touch? Full of shit? Senile? One thing is clear: UNFIT.