This is a blog about the hogwash that enters lives on a daily, hourly, second by second basis. For instance, as most of us have seen over the last eight years or so, every sound that pours out of George W. Bush’s mouth is hogwash. No, this is not another “bash W. blog.” I just could not think of a better example of metaphorical hogwash. So, be prepared. Whether it is religion, politics, sports, technology, or your mother’s dirty laundry, it’s all Hogwash.Sep 16 2008
McCain “invented” the BlackBerry - Politico.com
That John McCain, his campaign is getting really good at telling “The Maverick Truth.”
Jonathan Martin’s Blog: Holtz-Eakin: McCain helped create BlackBerry - Politico.com
Asked what work John McCain did as chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee that helped him understand the financial markets, the candidate’s top economic adviser wielded visual evidence: his BlackBerry.
“He did this,” Douglas Holtz-Eakin told reporters this morning, holding up his BlackBerry. “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.”
Al Gore, call your office.
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Aw, come on Karl, let the man’s record speak for itself!
With the Telecommunications Act of 1996, the Senate passed the first major revision to telecommunications law in 62 years which provided the foundation for much of the cell phone and Internet regulation over the next decade. The bill passed 81-18 and was signed into law by President Clinton. McCain voted against the act.
In 2002, McCain authored the “Consumer Broadband Deregulation Act of 2002″ which eliminated the requirement of the 1996 law that telecommunication companies provide access to competitors. It didn’t pass.
In 2003, the Internet Tax Freedom Act was passed, putting in place a moratorium on taxes for activities on the Intenet. The bill had 11 cosponsors – McCain wasn’t one of them. He did vote for the bill, but since it passed 97-3, that’s definitely “guiding” with a small ‘g.’ Granted, this wasn’t directly a bill about wireless, but since McCain doesn’t seem to have authored any law on wireless technology, I’m having to search for connections.
Of pending legistlation, McCain is not a sponsor of the “Connect the Nation Act” – though Senator Obama is. McCain is not a sponsor of Senator Rockefeller’s call for a universal next generation broadband by 2015 – though Senator Obama is. And of course, McCain isn’t a sponsor of the “Internet Freedom Act” that would ensure net neutrality – though Senator Obama is. That last is no surprise. McCain has repeatedly opposed net neutrality, saying that companies have a right to restrict speed or even limit access to sites “when you control the pipe you should be able to get profit from your investment.”
Whew, I was gonna be humorous but the previous guy bums me out. Anywho, I believe, probably read it in your column, that Al Gore also invented Algorithms and Goretex.
Very funny stuff!!
I think the humor is in McCain’s hubris.
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