Here’s another one for the Lie Counter website: A John McCain campaigner is now claiming that the presidential candidate was behind the invention of the BlackBerry. Yes, the self-described computer-illiterate (see video above) now is attempting to appropriate credit for the invention of the Blackberry.

According to The Telegraph:

Douglas Holtz-Eakin, the Republican presidential candidate's economics guru, was being grilled about Mr McCain's qualifications for addressing the current crisis in the markets when he made the claim.

He cited the senator's experience and leadership of the US Senate Commerce Committee, saying it placed him at the intersection of a number of economic interests, including the telecommunications industry.

And when pressed on Mr McCain's achievements on the committee, Mr Holtz-Eakin pulled out his BlackBerry personal digital assistant and declared: "You're looking at the miracle that John McCain helped create."

The 72-year-old candidate has acknowledged he does not know how to use a computer and cannot send emails, one of the BlackBerry's prime functions.

This isn’t necessarily John McCain’s fault, so much as that of Douglas Holtz-Eakin, who may have been “pulling a Kat DeLuna” by speaking at a press conference, which requires spontaneous responses and not acting like an idiot. Perhaps Holtz-Eakin felt like associating McCain with the Blackberry might mollify fears about the republican’s age, ability to manage the economy, and general obsoleteness, but all it really did was call to mind pre-Nobel Prize Al Gore.