McCain camp: McCain invented Blackberry

Via Jonathan Martin:

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.”

I invite you to imagine if this had been said in the name of a Democrat, taking partial credit for an invention he helped facilitate through legislative action. Imagine the absolute evisceration he’d receive from the so-called liberal press. Now I invite you to imagine what the response from that same so-called liberal press is going to be about this story.