I love it when people take credit for inventing something they quite obviously didn’t, especially if the invention is in a field that they are, personally, rubbish at.
So it is with senator and presidential candidate, John McCain, who supposedly invented the Blackberry, according to The Register.
Er, what, you mean the mobile phones?
Ok, to be fair, McCain himself never said that, it was an aide, and the aide was (in the words of a higher-up elf on McCain’s team) ‘bone-headed’. Ok, to be even fairer, the aide didn’t exactly use the precise words ‘John McCain invented Blackberry mobile phones, he can do technology, yahboosucks, we win.’
It would’ve been veeeeeery funny, if he had, though…
So, anyway, what the aide actually said was that McCain had served on what amounted to senate steering committees about telecommunications, that had helped shaped the modern world, and coincidentally, held up a Blackberry as he said it. I suspect, though, given the fact that John McCain has openly said he can’t see the point of emails, any mobile phone he invented would have 2 key features:
1. A big ‘ON’ button.
2. A single button marked ‘Do important stuff’.
Somehow, the mental image of him using a Blackberry Bold 9000 just won’t come together in my head. I’m sure he uses mobile phones, but we’ll all remember him much more fondly for his oven chips.
Oh, and Sarah Palin, frankly, terrifies me…
Want to get the phone John McCain quite categorically DIDN’T invent? Grab yourself the Blackberry Bold 9000!
