now they're just being silly

McCain Adviser: McCain ‘Helped Create’ The Blackberry

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Note to the McCain campaign: The Blackberry was invented in Canada.

UpdateWashington Wire reports that according to senior McCain aide Matt McDonald, the senator "laughed" when told about Holtz-Eakin's comment. "He would not claim to be the inventor of anything, much less the BlackBerry. This was obviously a boneheaded joke by a staffer,” McDonald said.

(Think Progress)
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At least McCain isn't making this outlandish claim, but pretty insane for one of his staffers to do so. What did they think this would accomplish, other than more ridicule?

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