{"id":194523,"date":"2008-09-16T17:19:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-16T22:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/09\/16\/john-sidney-mccain-iii-invented-the-blackberry\/"},"modified":"2008-09-16T17:19:00","modified_gmt":"2008-09-16T22:19:00","slug":"john-sidney-mccain-iii-invented-the-blackberry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/09\/16\/john-sidney-mccain-iii-invented-the-blackberry\/","title":{"rendered":"John Sidney McCain III Invented the BlackBerry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No, this is not a report from Declan &#8220;Draw By Crayon Libertarian&#8221; McCullagh, this is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/blogs\/jonathanmartin\/0908\/HoltzEakin_McCain_helped_create_BlackBerry.html?showall\">an actual claim from the McCain campaign<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>Asked what work John McCain did as chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee that helped him understand the financial markets, the candidate&#8217;s top economic adviser wielded visual evidence: his BlackBerry.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He did this,&#8221; Douglas Holtz-Eakin told reporters this morning, holding up his BlackBerry.  &#8220;Telecommunications of the United States is a premier innovation in the past 15 years, comes right through the Commerce Committee. So you&#8217;re looking at the miracle John McCain helped create and that&#8217;s what he did.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It would be less laughable if he had not become chair of the commerce committee until 1997, by which point, RIM had been in existence for <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">seven years<\/span>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No, this is not a report from Declan &#8220;Draw By Crayon Libertarian&#8221; McCullagh, this is an actual claim from the McCain campaign: Asked what work John McCain did as chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee that helped him understand the financial markets, the candidate&#8217;s top economic adviser wielded visual evidence: his BlackBerry. &#8220;He did this,&#8221; &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1051,1228,977,982],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hypocrisy","category-john-sidney-mccain-iii","category-presidential-campaign","category-stupid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194523"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194523\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}