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Friday, September 19, 2008
Amateur Video Pokes Fun at McCain Adviser's Blackberry Claim

This voter-generated, independently made video remixes news footage of the media's response to the claim made by an adviser that McCain had a role in the invention of the Blackberry. The claim was quickly debunked, and also was dismissed as a joke by the McCain campaign. Comparisons were quickly made to a similar flap about Al Gore's assertion that he had a role in the development of the Internet.

Independently made video about McCain and Blackberry:

Ad for George Bush in 2000 mocking Al Gore about Internet: