I’ve been insistent on staying away from politics, but I thought this is such an exceptional example of the previous post (Winning isn’t everything, CLAIMING victory is) I just have to post it.
The presidential nominee John McCain’s staff has announced that McCain helped invent the Blackberry, the famous email-checking phone.
Technically speaking, the statement refers to the telecommunications bills that McCain dealt with, which in turn allows the Blackberry to run. Not quite the inventor. At least, not how we commonly refer to as inventors.
But the way that Douglas Holtz-Eakin, a McCain policy adviser worded it, it certainly sounds closer to an invention, as he waved his Blackberry around in front of reporters saying “You’re looking at the miracle that John McCain helped create.”
Then again, who knows, maybe he was one of the original Canadians who started Research In Motion, the company that “Officially” created the Blackberry. Pesky Canadians.
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