McCain 'invents' BlackBerry

13:34 17th September 2008

A senior aide to John McCain has claimed that the US presidential hopeful is responsible for the BlackBerry.

Top McCain policy advisor, Douglas Holtz-Eakin, held up his BlackBerry at a press conference and suggested that it would not have been created without his boss.

"He did this," Mr Holtz-Eakin told reporters from the Boston Globe.

"Telecommunications of the United States is a premier innovation in the past 15 years and comes right through the Commerce Committee. So you're looking at the miracle John McCain helped create and that's what he did," he added.

John McCain has previously admitted that he doesn't know how to operate a computer or use email and relied on his wife to use the family PC.

Nevertheless, this is not the first time Senator McCain has claimed technological prowess, as in a written response to Sciencedebate 2008 McCain suggested that he had a leading role in the development of Wi-Fi.

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