Fox 5 Buys Second Loaded Blackberry from McCain Campaign

By GottaLaff

Oh noes! Not another Big Oops! Imagine this kind of carelessness had ::shudder:: Gramm-pa been elected president and been responsible for the entire nation's security:

Personal information for a former Virginia Governor is one of more than 300 'contacts' listed inside a second Blackberry phone purchased by FOX 5 during a fire sale at the McCain-Palin headquarters this week. [...]

FOX 5 has bought a second phone from the McCain campaign which contains even more information: photos from the Republican Convention, a personal calendar for campaign events leading up to the campaign, and more than 260 'contacts' full of personal emails, phone numbers and addresses for McCain supporters.

Included in those numbers was the personal cell phone number for former Virginia Governor Jim Gilmore.

FOX 5 called Gilmore on his cell phone.

“It makes me quite uncomfortable,” he says, because, “it’s a matter of principle. I gave that information to McCain headquarters and to have it sold is bothersome.”

"Bothersome"? As in, "Revelations of felonious behavior can be so 'bothersome', can't they..."? Or, "Affairs in public bathroom stalls are so 'bothersome', aren't they..."?

We’ve also started to receive emails from people claiming to have also purchased a Blackberry phones full of private campaign information. One man told us the info on his phone was “mind blowing.”

"Mind blowing"? As in Rod Blagojevich mind-blowing? Mark Foley mind-blowing? Richard Nixon mind-blowing? Choosing Also Palin as a running mate mind-blowing?

The McCain campaign told FOX 5, “It was an unfortunate staff error and procedures are being put in place to ensure all information is secure."

"Unfortunate staff error"? As in, "Oops! I hope they don't share those nuclear secrets..."? Or, "Oh great. Now I'll have to give up my coke habit..."?

“You don't know who got this information,” he says. “There's possible harassment. And there's an enormous amount of campaign intelligence that shouldn't be sold for such a low-value."

Now that's bothersome. The profit margin was way too low. Damn. Never mind that pesky recession. Better up the price next time.