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Did John McCain invent the Blackberry? (Wikimedia Image)

The John McCain camp is now laying claim that the aging war vet invented the Blackberry. This morning, McCain’s economic adviser, Doug Holtz-Eakin, held a conference call and claimed John McCain was partly responsible for inventing the Blackberry.

Holding up his BlackBerry, Holtz-Eakin announced, “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.”

On damage-control, another McCain staffer, Matt McDonald, refutes the claim, “He [McCain] would not claim to be the inventor or anything, much less the BlackBerry,” McDonald said. “This was obviously a boneheaded joke by a staffer.”