All right everyone, settle down. You were all wrong to openly mock John McCain's perceived lack of technical expertise. The man may have admitted publicly that he's never checked his e-mail, but he would never let something so trivial as that come between him and the creation of one of the early 21st century's most popular pieces of consumer electronics.

According to McCain adviser Douglas Holtz-Eakin, the Republican presidential nominee was actually the driving force behind RIM's uber-popular BlackBerry smartphone. When 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 pointed to his PDA.

"He did this," said Holtz-Eakin, referring to his BlackBerry during a press conference this morning. "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."

In related news, I'm fairly certain that Barack Obama can materialize iPhones out of thin air by blinking his eyes.