I stumbled on this article today and I must admit it’s hilarious:
John McCain doesn’t use e-mail. So it was downright odd to see one of his aides hold up a BlackBerry on Tuesday and claim that the Arizona senator somehow deserves credit for its existence.
“He did this,” economic policy adviser Douglas Holtz-Eakin told reporters, referring to a BlackBerry, according to a report on Politico.com. “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.”
This may join the ranks of the-Internet-is-too-hard-to-use statements personally made by the Republican candidate, including this remarkable admission from July: “I am learning to get online myself, and I will have that down fairly soon, getting on myself. I don’t expect to be a great communicator, I don’t expect to set up my own blog, but I am becoming computer literate to the point where I can get the information that I need–including going to my daughter’s blog first, before anything else.”
And then there was the rather sad claim, captured on video, from a campaign representative that “John McCain is aware of the Internet.” Plus McCain’s statement early this year that: “I am an illiterate that has to rely on my wife” for the Internet, presumably meaning such taxing matters as visiting a Web site.
Holtz-Eakin’s unfortunate improvisation is likely to add to the narrative of a presidential candidate out of touch with technology, just as Al Gore’s improvident boast about “creating” the Internet reinforced suspicions that the vice president liked to exaggerate his accomplishments.
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The McCain campaign fell into that trap this week. If Gore could take credit for “creating” the Internet, then why can’t ex-Senate Commerce Committee Chairman McCain claim credit for “creating” the BlackBerry, never mind that it was developed by a Canadian company? Or Wi-Fi, which the McCain campaign also seemed to do this week? Or, for that matter, every computer and technological gadget used today? McCain, the father of the iPhone, anyone?
Of course the adviser wasn’t referring to the BlackBerry itself, but it doesn’t change the fact that John McCain isn’t aware of what’s happening in the technology world today and I guess it wasn’t that different 15 years ago…
Oh and there’s also the fact that Research In Motion is a Canadian company.
Hi Ben, congratulations for your great blog and uncovering of hoaxes.
Have you ever heard of I-Doser ( http://www.i-doser.com )? These guys sell mp3 files claiming that they produce the same reaction as cocaine, marijuana, ecstasy or even an orgasm.
This smells like an hoax all the way.
daniel, i looked at that website and i actually dont know what to make of it lol
ive been doing some not-so-extensive and quick research on it, and some people actually say it works. everything on yahoo answers, the forums on the given website, i actually think its plausible.
and i am incredibly skeptical when it comes to this sorta crap. my only explanation is that its simply the power of suggestion. its like that crystal power stuff: the only reason anyone thinks it works is because they think it does. its INCREDIBLY surprising how powerful the power of suggestion is.
and so literally, i dont think it really works. but since some people really believe it will work, they will feel the effects of it even though the source of the feelings are from their mind. it really doesnt matter what they are hearing but they will feel the effects of the “sound drug”
i guess another conclusion that can be drawn that if someone who has never done drugs were to listen to the “marijuana” mp3 (for example) they would feel how they think real marijuana would feel even though it would feel much different in reality.
damn this is a long post….but its just what it seems like to me and i may be far from the truth.
@Daniel: Pretty weird stuff honestly. They claim to have sold 10,000 “doses”, so either people are just trying for fun and never coming back or it really works. I don’t know what to think honestly as I don’t have much knowledge on the subject, but I would be really surprised to learn this really works. At 3$, I might give it a try just to see
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