McCain claims iPad, iPhone are made in US
Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) believes Americans should buy products made in the US, but he seems a bit confused about what those products might be.
In an interview with ABC's Christiane Amanpour Sunday, the senior senator from Arizona incorrectly declared that Apple's iconic iPhone and iPad products were made in the US.
ABC News dedicated several segments of their World News broadcast last week to furnishing a home only with products that were made in the US. In the end, the house was left without key electronic products like televisions and computers.
McCain told Amanpour that the ABC News team should have simply purchased products from Apple.
"I would also point out that if you emptied that house, if you had left a computer there or an iPad or an iPhone, those are built in the United States of America," he said.
In fact, both Apple products are designed in the US but manufactured in China. United Steelworkers President Leo Gerard corrected McCain in a later segment.
"The iPad and iPhone are made in China," he said. "They're not made in America."
More shocking than that, John McCain knows what an iPhone is.
But he knows what Aflac Insurance is.
American Exceptionalism I guess. iPads are "exceptional" so they MUST be made here, right?
It blows my mind that anyone who has a gripe about Obama's performance as president can honestly say that this idiot would have done better. I can't imagine the mess we'd be in with a McCain administration.
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this country would be in Libya right now.
"No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master." - Hunter S. Thompson
McCain would be right.....if we were still living in 1980.
Harry Chapin wants you.
That IBM decided that outsourcing the OS and chip manufacturing for it's PC's was a good idea. And a couple of relatively unknown upstarts got their big chance to bury the biggest player in the field.
When I was an environmental engineer int he late 80's to mid-90's I did a lot of work at IBM facilities that 1/2 to 3/4's fallow. They had the brainpower to write on OS rather than outsource it to Micro$haft...they had plenty of brainpower and manufacturing abilities to make their own chips rather than send the work to Intel.
How'd that work for IBM?
I guess Santayana was correct...
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It left Windows 95 in the dust. Alas, we see how that worked out; marketing might makes right. *eyeroll*
"Whatever your particular problem is, I promise you, the Republicans are not the least bit interested in solving it. They are interested in two things, and two things only: making you afraid of it, and telling you who's to blame for it."
Micro$haft has not had an idea of it's own. Even MSDOS (which was quite a leap forward in its day) was purchased from some poor slob who felt it was easier to cash in for the few thousand dollars than try to be a businessman.
The same can be said for Apple - they are masters of advertising. They have managed to create a business model where they can can extort 30% from everyone participating in their "walled garden"...so they'll be far more immune to making silly mistakes like IBM did.
I will say this - M$ for all it's failings did bring a large measure of stability and standard practice to IT. Not sure it was/is good or bad - after all, Pax Romana was peace, even if it took way the self determination of almost all who suffered under it. One the same side of the coin there are aspects of Apples preogramming model I appreciate - the "walled garden" is far more secure, even if it means that the end user get's squadouche in terms of dictating their own computing experience.
In the mid 90's I worked with an engineerthat preferred using DOS over Windows. "Windows makes it too easy" he'd say. Decade and a half later I am understanding what he meant...
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And 50 million plus Americans voted for this fucker to be Prez.
?
“The greatest evildoers are those who don’t remember because they have never given thought to the matter, and, without remembrance, nothing can hold them back,”
http://www.dembonessolee.com/daily_mirror_bus...
"No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master." - Hunter S. Thompson
By a Welshman! :D
Who now runs the company.
From Wales.
But to the premise itself, that there actually is anything to buy in the US that is made in the US.
I suggest everyone walk around their living rooms right now and see what you can find that is US made.
Best of luck on that.
"Why don't you love me, you b!*ch! I burned your house down for us!"
-Modern American diplomacy
...and you will find toilet paper made in the USA.
Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.
(Original Flavor only-- not mint, not gels!) is the only remaining brand-named one still made in the USA. This is indicated boldly on the box, but curiously, isn't indicated on the tube.
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
That's probably about it.
That really nice Wilson tennis raquet I just got? "Engineered" in the USA, made in China.
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Gibson and Fender both offer 'made in the USA' models.
But what about the pickups, knobs, trim pots, steel and plastic bits, i don't know.
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-
The tuning pegs on my 2004 Rick Laredo bass are German Schallers...Same with the 2000 Dakota six string.
Nothing is truly built in one country anymore.
American Fenders are great axes...Gibby's....ehhhh...they have QA/QC issues. When I bought my 6 string Ricky Dakota in 2000, I was jonesing for a Les Paul. I spent about 4 hours at a major music store that had about 50 LP's on the wall, of various cost. I played about half of these...and the best one was a Japanese made Epiphone model that cost about $500. It far outplayed the $1200-$1500 American Gibson LP's I tried...
That's not to say the Rick I got was not without faults. I was never happy with it - I wanted to retire my 66 Fender (I play really HARD, and wanted to preserve that museum piece), I felt the Rick Dakota sounded like crap. Eventually I migrated back to bass and didn't touch the 6 string for years. When I finally took it out it had a bad pickup that I needed to replace.
When the local luthier was putting in the new PU he called me..."the other pickup is reverse wound...it sounds kinda muddy like that. Do you want me to reverse the wiring on that PU?" I said "shit yeah!"...and now that axe is everything I wanted.
I guess there are a couple lessons...the made in "xxxx" meme is basically bullshit in the modern world, and also you get bad apples in every bushel.
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Inconsistent quality from axe to axe, each one feels so different that if you want to buy a new one you have to play practically every axe on the wall to narrow it down to those you find acceptable.
I quit US made guitars for Ibanez RG's in the early 90's. They were consistent, I could find at least 8 out of 10 that played well right off the wall where as I would only get 2 or 3 Fenders out of a dozen that I would call acceptable.
I hate Gibsons, like playing a baseball bat.
And they hold their value just fine, the 6 I have are now all worth more than $2000 a piece, I paid around $400 for the standards and $700 for the DX models.
"Why don't you love me, you b!*ch! I burned your house down for us!"
-Modern American diplomacy
I'll hang on to my Starck.
http://www.usstuff.com/pianos.htm
"No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master." - Hunter S. Thompson
There still is a computer assembled in the US. Systemax Computers are built in Fletcher, OH.
Apple products are built in Taiwanese factories located in China.
check to see if there's a "Made in USA" tag on his McDepends!!? He seems to have a hard time paying attention to the ramifications of the bills he voted for - like Cafta, Nafta etc.
A couple years ago, when I still had a job and some money to spend, I decided to buy only stuff made in the US - in particular, clothing. I found 1 jacket.....every other piece of clothing I looked at was made in Colombia, or Viet Nam, or China, or Cambodia.
"Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of Stupidity" - Frank Leahy
for sale at an army surplus store. About 20% larger than common Pakistani ones and only a buck apiece.
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
...that iPads are the brand of adult diaper his wife buys for him.
Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.
I have no doubt that in his "mind" they are made here in the USA. Apple is here, the owners are here, their offices are here. Manufacturing is just a cost of doing business and where its done does not play into "Made in the U.S.A".
we'll have more from tech expert John McCain...
NOBODY 2012
He's senile. What do you expect?
far left loon >.<
Don't forget that this simple entitled angry bastard was virtually at the bottom of his graduating class at Navy.
But his stupidity actually reflects more on the idiocy of the Sunday morning bobblehead shows who insist on booking him every week than it does on him. He's stupid, yes, but these shows are even more stupid for constantly having him on to spout his senile-dementia-based nonsense.
"Whatever your particular problem is, I promise you, the Republicans are not the least bit interested in solving it. They are interested in two things, and two things only: making you afraid of it, and telling you who's to blame for it."
Time to retire that preposterous clown.
Christianity. What a damnable disgrace.
The really funny part? McSenile is still on every Sunday to share his insightful knowledge.
...now that's a shocker
Our liberal media in action
was a Kotex product.
“The greatest evildoers are those who don’t remember because they have never given thought to the matter, and, without remembrance, nothing can hold them back,”
mclame like the ipad and iphone, though he is far less intelligent,
was made outside of America in central America, but he
claims to be an American. of the two candidates in 2008,
mclame is the real foreign candidate in that election.
Meanwhile McStain misses the point the way republicans ALWAYS do. His point, while wrong, is also IRRELEVANT. It does not change the facts and would not serve as a useful counter-argument even it it were true !
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-
...when he was called out on his inaccuracies.
He's dead too.
That's the funniest, damn, post I've read today...
Hehehe...
Oh "sheet"...LOL...!
Gramps
Wouldn't be great if they had a Democrat on TV every Sunday to set Crashy McManson straight.
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-
with a pea green background.
he probably knows full well that they are not manufactured in the US but the sound bite will propagate on Faux News and he will be seen as the conswervative (sp is correct) hero for standing up for American companies despite the opposite being the case.
Right Wing Nut Jobs never let the facts get in the way of a misleading sound bite.
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and no one in the media would bother to look it up. So mission accomplished, America misinformed.
iPod are or what they do either.
"The greatest tyranny is censoring information in order to be better able to control people." - Cristina Saralegui
running mate on tv? Such an emabarassment !!!!!
No wonder the repubs do not understand about needing jobs..They must a mccain think all this crap we have is made in secret factories!
They understand jobs just fine. They just have no interest in trying to create any here in the USA why the n***** is President.
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Two days ago, a friend came to my office and showed me an Iphone and offered to see it for 50 Euros. Of course I hit the roof. I took it. Carefully examined it. Beautiful. I asked if it was stolen. No. It was Chinese. Perfect imitation. In other word. Steve Jobs gave away also the technology to the Chinese.
Additionally, the Army, Air Force, Navy, etc etc, stores, caled the PX (Post exchange) do not sell a single
American product. Everything is made in China, Taiwan, India, Pakistan...you name it.
Last! If McCain is a 100% disabled like I read, why is he a Senator. HE IS 100% DISABLED! Am I missing something here?
especially mental disabilities...
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Most it not all of the parts are made in China/Japan and the units are assembled in the Socialist realm of Canada.
Well, like everything else in the fact-based realm, that'll be news to McCain.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRayUWkKX50
Democracy don't rule the world
You'd better get that in your head
This world is ruled by violence
But I guess that's better left unsaid...
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
Remember the news stories a while back about abusive working conditions at the iPad subcontractor? Things such as n-hexane solvents being used for cleaning screens (without a fume hood to pull away the vapor, workers were basically sniffing glue all day.)
As noted above, the only thing scarier than a US Senator being this clueless is a news organization's bookers thinking this bozo is an "expert."
Oh, that's right - it isn't news anymore - they're all "entertainers" now, like Rush Limbaugh. Comedy Central has the only hard news shows left: the Colbert Report and The Daily Show.
He'll say anything, including contradicting himself, to pander to the far right-wing fringe. I would encourage everyone to go to YouTube and listen to Michael Moore's speech yesterday from Madison, Wisconsin. It sure puts many things into perspective, especially about how the rich are getting richer and the poor are paying the tab...I would have to include Mr McPalin and his wealthy wife in the equations. Why is this guy still getting a salary from the taxpayers to sit in the Senate or on the Sunday morning talk shows and pontificate about things he knows nothing about??? Oh, and BTW, he wants to "bomb, bomb, bomb" Libya!
Bomb bomb Iran" to the tune of "Barbara Anne"????
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made the most stoopid statement this weekend...
I'm torn beetween Michael Moore.... "America isn't broke"
and McCain't.... "I-phones are made in the US"
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the fact that Moore is correct and McCain is completely wrong should make that childishly simple. America isn't anywhere NEAR being broke but the Right Wing Nut Jobs definitely want you to think so thus making their actions, no matter how reprehensible, necessary and the proven failure of austerity measures are their next gouge and scam on the American people. Look it up.
That Michael Moore speech was fantastic. Everyone should see it, and use it as inspiration for the battle against plutocracy we are faced with. We want our money back!
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-
Under any other political organization would be a liability. Under republicans it’s a mark of excellence.
When ego trumps competence, its time to give it up! Unfortunately, like an addict, the sufferer seldom considers himself afflicted and continues in his ruinous behavior until stopped due to damaging self or others.
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Christianity. What a damnable disgrace.
...the top 20 most ignorant statements ever uttered by politicians.
here are a few others in that same hall of shame.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fG0Jpu9geWY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNZczIgVXjg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EpGH02DtIws
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There are 50 STATES in the US....
Six US TERRITORIES.
1. Puerto Rico
2. Virgin Islands
3. American Samoa
4. Guam
5. Northern Mariana Islands
6. Minor Outlying Islands (Wake Island and Johnston Island)
And one US-Administered REGION:
1. Guantanamo Bay
If you do the maths, the US A president is in charge of these 57 states, territories or regions...you know this from civil classes and before one becomes a USA constitutional lawyer or in charge of Harvard Law review, he will know this and more..
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-
Humpty Dumpty was pushed.
I’m a seventy-three year olde soldier, John’s an old airman with some two or three, years on me….before the election in 2008, John had multiple senior moments…
March 20. 2008…
McCain Thinks, Iraq Borders Pakistan…
Then Joe has to hep’ Jo’n again…with respect to AQ in Iran…
Now mind you folks it’s been three years since March 2008…
Lottsah water has passed under [or over] Johnny's "bridge" [olde naval term] ...!
Will we eventually learn that “Jonny Mac” has the same problem the “Gipper” exhibited in office, in his last term as President…according to his son, Ron?
Gramps
... there is no evidence that McCain hasn't been a complete dumbass his entire life.
What you call a senior moment, for McCain is a pattern not an exception.
CTHULHU 2012 "Why vote for a lesser evil?"
How the "hell" did yah know I was writin' a damn book...
Are you psychic...?
You're either the babe or dah man...
Hehehe...!
Or perhaps you weren't addressing me...?
Gramps
His daughter probably does all his computer work for him so how would he know.
His pretty daughter, doesn't exactly fit Mac's, political mold...
Gramps
You had me at "he seems a bit confused"
he shouldnt even be a senator any longer
he should be in a rest home...sucking apple sauce through a straw
hey mcstupidoldman....WE DONT MAKE SHIT HERE ANY MORE
have your hot daughter open a computer for you and show you even one component manufactured in the states.....you wont find it
Every time I or someone in my family has bought an Apple product (and we have bought a lot of them) it has shipped from China. Wait, I take that back once or twice it came from Ireland. My bad, but that was years and years ago.
Where does he get this information?
I'm not at all a fan of McCain. But I do agree that we should be
making more of an effort to “Buy American-Made”.
I wish this was something that was encouraged more by left-wing sites
(and even right-wing sites).
There used to be much more that was made in America, but there
still are some things that are still made in America. For those
interested in supporting American jobs by buying American-made
I made up a google page with links to American-made and
fair trade products and directories:
https://sites.google.com/site/shoppingguiltfree33/
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http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/china-and-...
First, he was corrected, now he will hate that guy 4-ever.
2nd. this is the same dumb-ass who said "HE" would pay $50 an hr for people to pick lettuce in Az, but you would work the hole season. This guy is so out of tuch with anything. why would any perso vote for him. Are people just that much of a tard like him. I guess sooooooooooo.
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