McCain 'invented the BlackBerry' ..

[WildernessBride]

The reps are having a bad week

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/new...1297/John-McCain-invented-the-BlackBerry.html

 

[JCJRSmith]

It was a joke. Not a very good one, but old John McC got a laugh out of it.

 

[tinkryansmom]

Oh come on...you can do better than this. Everyone knows Al Gore invented the internet....

 

[manning]

The reps are having a bad week

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/new...1297/John-McCain-invented-the-BlackBerry.html

Oh, come on, your letting us down. You can do better than that !!!!!!

 

[JCJRSmith]

Oh come on...you can do better than this. Everyone knows Al Gore invented the internet....

Oy vey, not that old saw again.

http://www.snopes.com/quotes/internet.asp

 

[Laugh O. Grams]

It was a joke. Not a very good one, but old John McC got a laugh out of it.

Actually, you can listen to the tape and hear the inflections and passion in his voice...no matter how the McCain camp wants to spin it...sadly, Douglas Holtz-Eakin wasn't joking.

 

[Guy Incognito]

Oh come on...you can do better than this. Everyone knows Al Gore invented the internet....

that one was a classic....




and as far as McCain inventing the blackberry..... the reporters obviously misunderstood.... they didn't mean he invented that new fangled techy device.... they meant he invented the actual berry

 

[JCJRSmith]

By the way, had that staffer done his homework, he would know that the Blackberry is a device invented by a CANADIAN company, Research In Motion.

 

[minniecarousel]

wow - again the McCain backers will revert to the old "yeah, well Al Gore said...."

I got news for ya - Gore isn't running for Pres - McCain is.

Always interesting on how the Republicans spin stuff.

 

[Reflection]

Oh come on...you can do better than this. Everyone knows Al Gore invented the internet....

Despite DIS conservatives' ad infinitum postings to the contrary, Gore never said this.

http://www.snopes.com/quotes/internet.asp

 

[WildernessBride]

Despite DIS conservatives' ad infinitum postings to the contrary, Gore never said this.

http://www.snopes.com/quotes/internet.asp

Of course they won't comment on that....

 

[Suzie Zoo]

No, Gore never claimed he invented the internet. He claimed he took the initiative to create it. Same thing.

 

[tinkryansmom]

Despite DIS conservatives' ad infinitum postings to the contrary, Gore never said this.

http://www.snopes.com/quotes/internet.asp

Hey look you guys!!! I made them use snopes again!!



How many points do I have now??

 

[CPT Tripss]

Hey look you guys!!! I made them use snopes again!!



How many points do I have now??

I'm reminded of an Al Franken book . . . no not "Rush Limbo is an Obese Idiot," another one, something like "Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them." it, like Snopes separates the fact from the fiction.

 

[bumbershoot]

No, Gore never claimed he invented the internet. He claimed he took the initiative to create it. Same thing.

No, it's not.

Helping to get the funding for a communication method between gov't agencies isn't creating anything. It's helping to get the funding, to get the ball rolling.

Criminy.

Note: my now late mom and still living stepdad both worked for the CIA and I got the inside scoop on stuff like that, so despite being one of the most unpolitical people EVER, even I can see the difference between what the dude did and said, and what people SAY he said.

And Al was hilarious on SNL.

 

[mickey2000]

Here is the proof ! Its NOT a lie ...........

 

[Minnie824]

Wow, every flat out lie that comes from McCain/Palin, or is about them, everyone jokes about. Then they make up stories about Obama, which people stand behind, even when they're false. I do not understand.

 

[Charade]

Actually, you can listen to the tape and hear the inflections and passion in his voice...no matter how the McCain camp wants to spin it...sadly, Douglas Holtz-Eakin wasn't joking.

And he also didn't say "invented". Did he.

 

[livie1205]

well if he did invent it I am NOT voting for him!!! lol I just got one and I will never learn how to use this thing!

 

[WildernessBride]

Wow, every flat out lie that comes from McCain/Palin, or is about them, everyone jokes about. Then they make up stories about Obama, which people stand behind, even when they're false. I do not understand.

Get used to that around here....it's really something to watch.