Now this is FUNNY!! Ben Smith at Politico.com: "Clinton mailing's gun gaffe"

[DemsUnited]

http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0508/Clinton_mailings_gun_gaffe.html

Sen. Hillary Clinton’s mailing attacking Sen. Barack Obama’s record on guns appears to include a striking visual gaffe: The image of the gun pictured on the face of the mailing is reversed, making it a nonexistent left-handed model of the Mauser 66 rifle.

To make matters worse, a prominent gun dealer said, it’s an expensive German gun with customized features that make it clearly European.

“The gun in the photo does not exist,” said Val Forgett III, president of Navy Arms in Martinsburg, W.Va. Forgett's company was Mauser’s agent in the United States when the gun was released, and it sold Mauser guns here again in the 1990s. “The bolt is facing to the left side of the receiver, making it a left-handed bolt action rifle, indicating whoever constructed and approved the mailer did not recognize the image has been reversed.”

Forgett said the error would be obvious to sportsmen.

“I find it laughable on its face,” he said. “It’s like a picture of Babe Ruth hitting right-handed.”

The gun's image in Clinton's mailing is above; a correct image of the gun is below.

Other rifle enthusiasts e-mailed Politico after an image of Clinton’s mailing was posted to this blog.

“I bet the Clinton folks did a mirror flip on the stock image to make it look more ‘aesthetic,’” wrote one, David Phillips. “What a latte-sipping, Gucci-wearing thing to do.”

The Mauser 66, released in 1966 and no longer manufactured, is a high-end hunting rifle that found military use as a sniper rifle. In Clinton’s mailing, it’s pictured with a double-set trigger, a customization that’s popular in Europe but “almost unheard of in the United States,” Forgett said.

“It’s a $2,200 German import — it’s hardly typical of what the average workingman in Indiana uses,” he said.

Laughing so hard I'm having trouble typing!

[HooptieWagon]

1. Hillary's pandering to the latte-drinking hunting crowd.

How elitist.

[Yael]

2. Bwahaha!

This is classic.

Right up there with the shiny undriven classic red truck parked in front of the bleachers.

Her Tone Deafness hit a new high with this one.

:D

[madrchsod]

3. that`s really a nice gun

the average hunter would not use such a nice gun. that gun is for wealthy game farm hunter. .
her "latte" drinking staff would`t know any thing about guns and hunting...

[masshole]

4. oh come on

it's obvious this rifle was confiscated from a rich left-handed Bosnian sniper during Hillary's visit to Tuzla.

[Coexist]

5. more interesting news: CNN has declared itself a "Wright - Free Zone", "our viewers have asked us to

move on".

http://thepage.time.com/2008/05/05/morning-show-summary-56/

CNN’s “American Morning”: Attacked Clinton’s gas plan and her “obliterate” remark about Iran, comparing it to Bush’s language. “If you’re running for president, you shouldn’t be stirring up international incidents.” John Roberts said CNN has declared a “Rev. Wright-free zone”– “our viewers want us to move on.”



http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/5/5/83154/81072/231/509288

[DemsUnited]

6. Saw that too! Not John Roberts actually saying it, but the

reference in The Page. Mark Halperin (who writes The Page) is pretty reliable when it comes to accurate quotes, so I tend to believe this really happened.

Props to John Roberts!

[faithfulcitizen]

7. HOT DAM! now he has a whopping 20 hours to change the subject.

But still, good news! :applause: :applause: :applause: :applause: :applause: :applause: :applause: :applause: :applause: :applause: :applause: :applause: :applause: :applause: :applause: :applause: :applause: :applause: :applause: :applause: :applause: :applause: :applause: :applause: :applause: :applause: :applause: :applause: :applause: :applause: :applause: :applause: :applause: :applause: :applause: :applause: :applause: :applause: :applause: :applause: :applause: :applause: :applause: :applause: :applause: :applause: :applause: :applause:

[enough]

8. There's something else I really don't like about the graphics on that mailer.

The placement of Obama's face in relation to the trigger. Somebody tell me I'm paranoid.

[formercia]

9. Hillary voted to confiscate legally owned guns during an emergency

Obama voted for the Vitter amendment which prohibits confiscation of guns during an emergency.

The Hillary bots have it backward.