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It's the Jimmy Door Show.
the show for the kind of people It's the show that makes Anderson Cooper say.
It's hard to talk on your T-Bag.
So sit back or sit up or keep driving.
Because it's the Jimmy Dore show.
And now, here's a guy who sounds a lot like me.
It's Jimmy Dore.
Hi, everybody.
Welcome to the Jimmy Dore show.
I am in studio, as always, with Ben Zelvansky from Ben and Alex.tv.
Next to him is our special guest for this evening from Cinematic Titanic.
It's Frank Conniff, ladies and gentlemen.
And Frank originally from Mystery Science 3000, right?
And I know Frank is a hilarious comedian, Robert Yasimura, on a commercial audition today.
So there you go.
There you go.
I better be a callback.
Yeah, that's all I can say.
Better be a callback.
Otherwise, we got some priorities to fix.
All right, well, let's get to what's coming up.
As we go to the air, we take the show in Los Angeles on Thursdays.
And as we go to air, Hosmi Ubarik has just said that he's going to monitor the situation.
He's not going to step down, and he's going to stay until September.
And he's going to monitor the situation, which is, I'm really glad to hear he's going to start monitoring.
Yeah, that's really.
I was worried he was going to take the Sarah Palin route.
Just kind of bail halfway through his 60-year reign.
No, he's not.
He's going to stay on for the full term 60 years.
That's good.
So when he says monitor the situation, I can relate because I watch a lot of TV too.
So I guess it's 20.
So what's coming up on today's show?
Well, the Congressional Committee that was charged with coming up with a report on what happened during a financial meltdown.
The commission says the Bush and Clinton administrations, the current and previous Federal Reserve Chairman, and Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner all bear some responsibility for allowing this crisis to happen.
Okay, well, I'm glad none of those guys are in charge anymore.
And I'm glad that it's never going to happen again because we learned, right?
Now, the Commission warns it could happen again.
Okay, well, it could happen again.
All right, what else?
So that only leaves one question to ask, and Dylan Radigan is here, and he's going to ask it.
Hold on to your hats.
After that, you know, Ronald Reagan, the patron saint of Republicans, he was probably the nicest president to ever bust a union.
He turned 100 this past week, and despite pushing policies that undermine the working class and redistributed wealth upward and set the country into a 30-wheel-year tailspin that we are now feeling the effects of, yes, despite all that, he was so beloved by the American people that when he died, they had three separate funerals for him stretched out over a week.
And at none of those funerals did anybody remember to cut his head off and drive a steak through his heart.
And we're going to talk.
We're going to talk.
We're going to talk about the Reagan myth, you know, because he was a tax raiser.
He was a cut-and-runner.
And we listened to a caller, Corner Rush Limbaugh, about Ronald Reagan.
And we see Rush Limbaugh do some backpedaling.
Plus, you know, we're in two wars.
We have a broken economy, 10% permanent unemployment.
25% of all mortgages in this country are underwater.
We're laying off teachers, raising your retirement age, cutting your Medicare.
Let's see what's on the news.
One bachelor contestant's affair with a married NBA star at 11.
Okay, so the news is horrible.
We all know that, but it gets even more sensationalistic if you get off the local news and you go to CNN.
That's right.
CNN tried to scare me into thinking the Super Bowl was going to be canceled this year.
And we're going to talk about that coming up.
Plus, with the election of Barack Obama, the GOP turned into the party of no, and then the Party of Hell No, record filibusters, a broken Senate.
How does Bill Crystal feel about it?
I'm actually proud of the Republican Party in the last two years for shunning partisanship.
Okay, so he's proud of them.
We're going to talk more about that clip.
He's proud of them for shunning their partisanship in the last two years.
And Republican pollster Frank Luntz traveled to Iowa to talk to the people that are going to be choosing the next Republican presidential nominee to see how they think.
For instance, how do they feel about the president's foreign policy?
I believe that Barack Obama's religious beliefs do govern his foreign policy.
Okay, well, that's not a big deal, right?
All the presidents have been Christian.
And what are his religious beliefs?
I believe that he is a Muslim.
Okay, we're going to talk more to those Iowa voters coming up.
Plus, is Sharia Law taking over America?
We talk about that in the Oh My God segment.
That's coming up on today's Jimmy Doer show.
Okay, and before we get to the Oh My God segment, Ben, what do you want to say about Milbart?
Just, you know, that I'm stunned that he has announced he's not stepping down.
I didn't expect this kind of a Leno deal.
He's kind of like the scrubs of dictators.
Everyone always thought it was going off the air, and then it never did.
Robert Yasimura made it into the studio.
Hi, Robert.
How was your audition?
Not good.
I'm not going to lie, people.
Who was your corporate master today?
Sony Studios for Fox.
Oh, great.
Rupert Murdoch involved with the Japanese.
I would sell my soul to that guy, but I got to tell you, I don't think he's taken today.
Really?
He's not buying?
He's not buying today.
No offers.
Isn't it bad when you're willing to sell out and nobody's buying?
It's the worst.
That is the toughest.
That sounds so degrading.
Who books that?
Yeah.
So now it's time for.
Okay, so welcome to the Oh My God segment.
Now, it's always tough to pick a clip that's going to make somebody say, oh my God, especially when Paul Gilmartin isn't here because he's very emotional.
And when he hears these things, he has an emotional outburst.
But I'm going to, you know, Frank is not that way.
He's much more stoic.
He plays his cards close to the vest.
He's not going to let that kind of emotional.
I lived in the Midwest for 10 years.
They call him.
Learned how to be stoic.
Yeah, he was a big Dallas Cowboys fan.
They call him the Frank Landry.
Tom Landry.
I said, Frank.
The Tom Landry of comedy is what they call him.
I call Tom Landry the Frank Conniff.
Oh, the football.
You know, Frank could be up 30 laughs in a set, and you couldn't tell.
He'd be up 30 laps, could be down 30 laps.
Senior psychologists call that flat affect.
They don't.
It's not stoic.
Oh, really?
It's clinical.
Oh, okay.
Just lightning up.
Oh, that's good.
Okay.
Well, so here's a lot of people are afraid that the Muslim Brotherhood is going to take over in Egypt.
And that, you know, there's been a lot of people on the right that are afraid that Sharia law is going to take over America.
I don't know if you've heard about that.
So I was watching Fox and Friends, and here's what they had to say, that Sharia law was coming.
And if it comes.
Death by stoning and legally sanctioned domestic abuse could become common practices in America.
Okay.
What?
What?
Okay, that was.
Sorry.
Oh, my God.
I'll say it.
Okay, okay.
And tune it next week for what the Robert Guesamura.
This has been, oh, my God.
Okay, and that was it.
That was, oh, my God.
It was supposed to, that goes on to say with Paul Gilmartin, but he's not here today.
He's in Mammoth.
Okay, so let's move on to the rest of the show.
Okay, now Ronald Reagan may be the nicest president to ever demonize the poor.
I liked him.
Oh, Personally.
Personally, I liked him.
On a one-to-one basis, I thought he was awesome.
Yeah, I mean, I could separate out from when he was vilifying those less well-off than me and when he was just talking to me about having a sandwich.
I go old school.
I liked him when he was red baiting.
That was my favorite partner.
Who missed that?
I go homeschool.
I like him when he brought the Christian right into the mainstream of American politics.
I dug that first LP he put out about how Social Security was communist.
That's pretty old.
That's a deep cut.
I don't know if anybody remembers that.
That was Medicare, he was saying Medicare.
This is a subtle one, but I like the fact that he managed to never say AIDS his entire presence.
He got through it.
He got through it.
Some other reasons to like him.
Here's some other great quotes from Ronald Reagan.
Quote, a tree's a tree.
How many more do you need to look at?
Isn't that?
Now there's a leader.
Right?
That was from when he was governor of California March 3rd, 1966.
He said that.
Really?
You've seen one tree.
You've seen him all.
I'm with you.
Who needs trees?
He just was bitter that he wasn't cast in the Wizard of Oz.
That's what he said.
Another great quote from February 15th, 1980.
Quote, all the waste in a year from a nuclear power plant can be stored under a desk.
And that desk could kill a million people.
Another quote from this is from October 10th, 1965.
It's silly talking about how many years we will have to spend in the jungles of Vietnam when we could have, when we could pave the whole country and put parking stripes on it and still be home by Christmas.
Well, I mean, he's from California.
Parking in L.A. is just a nightmare.
Right.
He was thinking about more parking spaces.
Just annexing Vietnam for the parking.
Yeah, I mean, what's wrong with that?
I would reserve it for valet, I feel like.
I like that.
You can hear the growth in that because when it comes to the IR and Contra affair, he knew to keep his mouth shut.
Like, he knew to keep the secret.
Like, we're going to try to pave the country, but let's keep it on the QT.
In 1965, Ronald Reagan gave this description of Medicaid recipients.
A faceless mass waiting for handouts.
Oh, the poor people when they get sick, huh?
When you want to be treated by a doctor because you lost your face and you're faceless, that's what happened.
And this is from October 27th, 1964.
We were told four years ago that 17 million people went to bed hungry every night.
Well, that was probably true.
They were all on a diet.
Ronald Reagan.
That was funny.
He said that on the Murph Griffin show, actually.
He scored big time.
He's guest hosted.
He always had a lot of quips like that when he came on.
Okay.
Now, I'm going to play.
I just got this.
Steph alerted me to this.
Friend of the show.
The friend of the show, Steph Zamarano, emailed me this this morning, actually, and so I'm going to play it.
This is from Ronald Reagan from 1948.
And so this is because this is the 100th.
This is his 100th birthday, right?
So that's why we're talking about Ronald Reagan.
And they had a big celebration for him as a halftime.
They mentioned him all at the Super Bowl.
They kept mentioning Ronald Reagan.
Fox News at a big tribute.
And in 1982, FDR turned 100, and not a peep.
Wow.
I appreciated Christine Aguilera's tribute to Ronald Reagan by forgetting stuff.
Forgetting stuff.
That really was.
That really was.
Okay, so I'm going to play.
This is three minutes long, so let's sit back and relax.
This is Ronald Reagan, and this might shock you a little bit.
Ronald Reagan in Hollywood.
This is Ronald Reagan speaking to you from Hollywood.
You know me as a motion picture actor.
But tonight I'm just a citizen, pretty concerned about the national election next month, and more than a little impatient with those promises the Republicans made before they got control of Congress a couple of years ago.
I remember listening to the radio on election night in 1946.
Joseph Martin, the Republican Speaker of the House, said very solemnly, and I quote, We Republicans intend to work for a real increase in income for everybody by encouraging more production and lower prices without impairing wages or working conditions, unquote.
Remember that promise, a real increase in income for everybody.
But what actually happened?
The profits of corporations have doubled, while workers' wages have increased by only one quarter.
In other words, profits have gone up four times as much as wages.
And the small increase workers did receive was more than eaten up by rising prices, which have also bored into their savings.
For example, here's an Associated Press dispatch I read the other day about Smith L. Carpenter, a craftsman in Union Springs, New York.
Seems that Mr. Carpenter retired some years ago, thinking he had enough money saved up so that he could live out his last years without having to worry.
But he didn't figure on this Republican inflation, which ate up all his savings, and so he's gone back to work.
The reason this is news is Mr. Carpenter is 91 years old.
Now, take as a contrast the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey, which reported a net profit of $210 million after taxes for the first half of 1948, an increase of 70% in one year.
Boys, let me just break in and say, boy, how times have changed.
That's quite.
Isn't that something?
The oil company is still making profits that are obscene.
Isn't that something?
Hmm.
In other words, high prices have not been caused by higher wages, but by bigger and bigger profits.
The Republican promises sounded pretty good in 1946.
But what has happened since then?
Since the 80th Congress took over.
Prices have climbed to the highest level in history, although the death of the OPA was supposed to bring prices down through, quote, the natural process of free competition, unquote.
Labor has been handcuffed by the vicious Taft-Hartley law.
Social Security benefits have been snatched away from almost a million workers by the Gearhart Bill.
Fair employment practices, which had worked so well during wartime, have been abandoned.
Veterans' pleas for low-cost homes have been ignored, and many people are still living in made-over chicken coops and garages.
Tax reduction bills have been passed to benefit the higher income brackets alone.
The average worker saved only $1.73 a week.
In the false name of economy, millions of children have been deprived of milk once provided through the federal school lunch program.
This was the payoff of the Republicans' promises.
And this is why we must have new faces in the Congress of the United States, Democratic faces.
This is why we must elect not only President Truman, but also men like Mayor Hubert Humphrey of Minneapolis, the Democratic candidate for senator from Minnesota.
Mayor Humphrey of 37 is one of the ablest men in public life.
He's running against Joe Ball, who was a member of the Senate Labor Committee, helped write the Taft-Hartley law.
The Republicans don't want to lose Ball, and they're spending a small fortune on his campaign.
They've even sent Dewey and Warren out to Minneapolis to speak for him.
President Truman knows the value of a man like Hubert Humphrey in the Senate, and he has been in Minneapolis too, campaigning against Joe Ball.
Mayor Humphrey and Ball are the symbols of the political battle going on in America today.
While Ball is the banner carrier for Wall Street, Mayor Humphrey is fighting for all the principles advocated by President Truman for adequate low-cost housing, for civil rights, for prices people can afford to pay, and for a labor movement freed of the Taft-Hartley law.
That was Ronald Reagan.
Oh, really?
I thought that was a Keith Olbermann special comment.
How much Kool-Aid did he drink?
That did sound like a Keith Olverman special comment, did it not?
So, how does that happen?
How does it happen?
I think he was an actor's guilty.
So, did somebody just get to him?
He actually, he wasn't in the union for that gig.
He was taft heart.
I think he's just rightly disappointed that there weren't at that time there weren't Republicans like the ones he grew up with, you know, Lincoln.
I kind of think, you know, just from a Hollywood perspective, that, and by the way, the one statement he made that was absolutely false was the first thing he said in that was, you know, me as a motion picture.
Which I don't think really people did at that time.
But I think it might, you know, from a Hollywood point of view, I sort of think that maybe some of his transformation just came career-wise.
Like, that was like what was good for his career was to kind of gravitate towards like GE.
That's what I think happened, right?
So he sniffed out, wait a minute, I know where my bread is buttered.
I see who has the deepest.
Like, he wasn't getting a lot of acting gigs, but he was getting, you know, GE hired him as a spokesman, and he was hosting GE Theater, and that led to him speaking to a lot of conservative groups.
And I think he saw, hey, this is going to be my niche here.
To my knowledge, what happened was that when he was working for Screen Actors Guild, there was a strike, and he got so many death threats basically saying, like, if you cave, we're coming after you.
Really?
And it made him become very anti-union, very anti-communist, all these things.
And I got to say, like, look, that's why I don't hang out with actors.
Like, I don't go to sag meetings because I want to love those people.
I know.
And they're probably going to be a little bit more.
So that was like 48.
That was around the whole, when the whole witch hunt was starting.
And then, you know, you really, to preserve your career, you really had to kind of go right back then.
Reagan was never called in front of the committee.
He volunteered.
He called the HUA committee and said, I want to come and testify.
No, and you say Hoooked the House on Un-American Activities Committee.
Yes.
And he did that.
And he turned in other actors to the FBI.
He did do that.
Any good actors?
No.
So remember, this is 48, and that's like, what, 52, 53?
So his transformation.
It happened pretty quickly.
It happened very quickly.
It's surprising that he went to work for GE and then suddenly wasn't concerned about wages stagnating anymore.
Right.
It's amazing.
Hey, everybody, wages are going up.
He sounded like a normal human being who could see the world for what it was at 1948.
And then in 1952, he's like, hey, you know, all that stuff I said about people and workers and, you know, our tax policy favoring the wealthy.
And, nope, I'm going to go back to demonizing working people and the poor.
That's who he is.
If his career, you know, if his career floundering contributed to his conservatism, then history could have literally been changed if he had been cast into France as the talking mule and not Donald Mott.
You know what?
And we wouldn't be having the scourge on our country right now if he would have just gotten that.
That's the first thing that I've got.
He's gotten a few good gigs.
I'm putting that at the top of my time machine to-do list.
It's still below Kill Hitler, but it's on there now.
It's neck and neck.
Yeah, I would say.
It's up there.
I mean, there's been a lot of pain and so.
Oh, boy, a lot of suffering because of that guy.
I mean, it's not over, by the way.
I mean, Barack Obama is a Republican because of it.
Okay, we have to move on.
You know what?
Let me play this Rush Limbaugh backpedaling.
Some guy called into Rush Limbaugh and brought up the fact that the right wing has mythologized Ronald Reagan and made him out to be something he wasn't.
In fact, today, Ronald Reagan would be considered a rhino, a Republican in name only, because he raised taxes.
He had the biggest tax increase in peacetime in the history of our country, Ronald Reagan.
And he dealt with terrorists.
He sold arms for hostages.
He was for amnesty.
He gave amnesty to illegal immigrants.
I mean, he did everything that they hate, he did.
He wouldn't fit in with the Tea Party presidential candidates now because he was electable.
Yes.
So let's listen to a guy calling in.
This is Mike Stark, by the way, I believe.
This is a guy who does this.
Oh, really?
Often.
I'll call up these shows.
But Reagan, I mean, amnesty to people that were breaking the law and living in this country illegally.
He said, oh, forget about it.
Just stay here forever.
He cut and ran from Lebanon.
How many hundreds of Marines were killed?
And he just decided, well, instead of fighting the bad guys, I'm going to run away.
Why is Reagan a hero to conservatives?
Why is Reagan a hero to conservatives?
I don't think you, given what you said, I'm not trying to avoid the question.
I don't think you'd ever understand it.
He's not trying to offend.
He certainly didn't sound like a consolidation.
He's not trying to offend.
Let's see if he dodges again.
Well, he's a tax raiser, an amnesty giver, a cut and runner, and he negotiated with terrorists.
Why is he a hero to conservatives?
I don't think you understand it.
Oh, I do.
Most assuredly I do.
I don't think that you would understand it.
Where did you get this silly notion that Reagan raised taxes on Social Security?
What websites do you read?
Where did you pick that up?
Look up the Greens.
Is it true that Rush has a dump button for when he actually starts going humming a humming humming?
That's why you don't hear that over there.
That was pretty close to doing that, right?
Okay, here we go.
It's not too hard to find.
I mean, it's a matter of it.
Where did you get it?
I mean, you're asking me questions.
I'm just reversing one on you here.
I'm sorry.
It's just general knowledge.
It's something I've known for a long time.
I can't remember where I got it from.
You've never heard of a website called Media Matters, which highlighted it yesterday.
Oh, no, I know Media Matters very well, but that's not where I got it.
So I like that Rush doesn't debate the fact.
He just wants to go, where'd you get that fact from?
Oh, you got it from that place we don't like.
Yeah, well, we don't like those facts.
You got that from the Nambla website, didn't you?
He goes, where'd you get that fact from?
Not like that fact's wrong.
That's like saying, well, Reagan was elected president.
Where'd you get that from?
It's a thing that happened.
Yeah, it's a thing that happened.
What do you mean, where'd you get that?
Perfect, Ben.
There's 10 more seconds of this.
But maybe not a liberal.
Of course I know.
They're a fantastic website.
But why are you guys going to question?
I want to know why a tax raising, amnesty giving, cut and running, negotiating with terrorist guy is a hero to the conservative motion.
Well, because you understand Reagan in a way that is flawed.
You know, this is...
Somebody like you just has to be defeated.
Okay.
Oh, a screener got fired over there.
How does he get through?
How did he get through?
I don't know.
There must be some, you know, people do.
Oh, he's a genius.
He didn't say, hey, here's what I'm going to say, Rush.
Probably said I just want to talk about Ronald Reagan or whatever.
Okay, okay.
Yeah, you're probably right.
Probably said I just want to talk about Ronald Reagan.
He said he could get cheap oxy.
Okay, I want to tell, I don't know if you've heard the news yesterday, but the congressman, who was the congressman?
I don't even know.
I don't have this written down.
Christopher Lee.
Christopher Lee, that's how I remember his name because it's the same as the Hammer Horror star, Christopher Lee.
Oh, look at that.
It was the same one from Lord of the Rings.
Is that Chris for Lee or is that a difference?
Well, I don't know if he was in.
So he answered a personal ad.
He was recently elected.
He got a position on the Appropriations Committee.
He's a Republican, correct?
Oh, yeah.
And Don't Ask, Don't Tell guy.
I got to tell you, he's in shape.
Yeah, he was buff.
He really is in shape.
He reminds me when I was 18, and he takes care of himself.
He's married.
He's a Republican.
He's a family value.
You could say hi, Mark, from the Family Values Voters Group, Voters Group.
And he answered a personal ad on Craigslist to a young lady, said he wasn't 45, but he was 35.
Said he wasn't in Congressman.
He said he was a lobbyist.
And said he was divorced.
And said he was divorced.
And he wasn't any of those things.
It was on the women seeking hypocrites section of Craig's list.
Okay, so he resigned through an email.
He didn't even give us the pleasure of remembering Mark Sauter when he stood up and apologized, and he was proud that he didn't bring his wife with him.
I get points for that, right?
So anyway.
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That's really nice.
Well, it was great.
Okay, we have a few minutes before the break.
Howard Feynman, well-respected, noted columnist, and now he works for Huffington Post.
He's their political, he's their senior political.
They call him the senior political correspondent because he's the only one that gets paid.
I was now, Frank, have you ever blogged for them or done anything for the High School?
I have.
The only thing I've done is they, my tweets have made their comedians tweet the news list.
Oh, okay.
But other than that, I've never.
They tweeted Jen Kirkman, who's on the subversive comedy show in Burbank Flappers tonight at 8 p.m. with, along with Bill Burr and Todd Glass, myself, Jen Kirkman tweeted it.
Oh, that's a great show.
That is quite a show.
And they posted it on Huffington Post.
That's as close as I've come.
And then when I write insulting things about their bloggers.
But on the upside, that pays just as well as Bayes.
It plays just as well.
Yeah.
They're like, oh, you're just a commenter.
I'm like, I'm getting paid the same.
And she made $300 million.
Harian Huffington made $315 million off the sale of that.
And, you know, say what you want about Dennis Miller.
Everybody who wrote for him got paid well and had got health insurance.
So it's weird when you work for a lefty, you don't get paid or nothing.
I mean, I don't know much about all those business dealings and anything, but the idea that AOL would pay all that money for a website that is mostly stuff from other websites and unpaid bloggers, that that's worth $300 million.
I mean, they're just suckers.
That's all I can say.
You don't think that there's numbers?
I mean, you don't think Huffington Post generates revenue?
I read somewhere that they do generate revenue that averages to $1 per person that reads the Huffing, that is one of their hits or whatever.
And that's compared to like a cable channel where people pay, you know, $30 a month or whatever.
to it's Yeah, and but besides that, I don't really understand that, but I just think that like, why is something like that so valuable that's that's all stuff you can click on to see what the New York Times wrote or click on to see what some you know, what funnier die videos, you know.
They're buying somebody's bookmarks.
Yeah, yeah.
I mean, it just seems crazy to me.
It seems crazy to me, too.
It seems crazy that nobody who works, and people are still blogging for free.
Right, yeah.
Like now you're working for AOL for free.
You're working for AOL for free.
Well, the people who already work for AOL work for close to free.
And there was some memo that came out where they, you know, their so-called journalism on AOL is they're supposed to like do 10 stories a day, and it all is based on how much how profitable the stories are, like how many hits.
It has nothing to do with the quality of the public.
Okay, we're up against the break, and we'll pick this up on the other side.
But before we get to the break, now it's our good friend Jim Hightower.
This new Republican-run House of Representatives is looking a lot like the old Ethics Be Damned house run just a few years ago by the convicted money launderer Tom DeLay.
Only more so.
Back when DeLay was the GOP's corrupt majority leader, he got caught hustling campaign funds from an energy corporation whose legislation he then helped pass.
This flagrant cash for legislation exchange was so stinky that even DeLay's pals on the Ethics Committee had to slap his wrist, ruling in 2004 that a Congress critter should not engage in fundraising, quote, that gives even an appearance that donors will receive special treatment.
Now, fast forward to last year, when the independent investigative arm of the House Ethics Committee charged two Republicans and one Democrat with delay-style money hustles, the investigators found compelling proof that these powerful members collected checks from Wall Street lobbyists just before voting their way on regulatory reforms.
Emails and other incriminating documents show that one of the eager check collectors even left the Capitol while the House was debating the reforms so he could attend the fundraiser being thrown for him at a lobbyist's home.
He then returned to the floor to vote against the reforms exactly as his grinning Wall Street donors wanted.
The punishment for these miscreants?
None.
In one of its first acts this year, the new ethics committee merely dropped all charges against their delighted colleagues.
In an Alice in Wonderland moment, the committee declared on January 26th that there was no connection between the vote and the cash, adding that no, quote, reasonable person would see even an appearance of impropriety in the exchange.
This is Jim Hightower saying, excuse me for being unreasonable, but it appears obvious that what the committee has done is to set an ethical standard for this Congress that's even lower than the dark days of Tom DeLay.
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Hi, everybody.
Welcome back to the Jimmy Door Show.
I'm in studio with Ben Zalovansky, Frank Conniff, and Robert Yasamura made it.
We're all excited.
Coming up on today, on the rest of the show, you already heard Jim Hightower.
We're going to talk about the Super Bowl and the weather reporting by CNN.
Okay, it was a little sensational.
You'll be the judge.
After that, we're going to talk about Frank Lund's focus group that was down in Iowa, picking the next Republican presidential candidate and what they think about the president's religion, foreign policy, and you know, all the other stuff they get wrong.
Okay, so, and then Moron calls in.
Moron has some idea.
I don't want to tease it too much.
Moron has some great stuff today.
I don't want to say what it is, but you'll hear it.
Okay, right now.
How did you know that before he calls?
You know what?
Just assuming that he's assuming he's got some great stuff.
I was watching the Friday before the Super Bowl.
I was watching CNN, and you know, because I like to get scared so I can lose weight.
And they didn't, I'm just going to play, they were talking about some crazy weather that went through Dallas.
Nobody's saying we didn't have any crazy weather that went through there, but here's how they reported it over at CNN.
Earlier this week, it was the North and the Midwest of the country being slammed by winter weather.
Now it's the South's turn, threatening to be one of the biggest, oh, it is threatening one of the biggest sports events of the year.
Oh my God, the weather is threatening one of the biggest sports.
That sounds serious.
Let's get a weather guy on there.
Let's get a meteorologist.
Tell me where we are.
Give us an update on the weather around the Gulf Area.
It's the same cold air that made the snow last time.
And then Moisture says, hey, this is the Gulf of Mexico.
I have to go somewhere.
And so the moisture tried to come out of the Gulf of Mexico again.
First of all, I like how...
What is that called?
Anthropomorphism.
Anthropophore.
Yes, thank you.
Say it again.
Anthropomorphize.
The weather is what he's doing.
He also gave it that kooky voice like a person.
Yeah.
It's fine.
It's funny how I like how because it's all about it.
It's not news delivery.
It's news acting.
I really love the way the weather is threatening a sporting event.
Okay, not like homeless.
Okay, hold on, hold on.
Hold on, Robert.
I don't want, I can't.
And so the moisture.
Okay, ready?
Let's listen to him say it again.
You're trying to come out of the Gulf of Mexico again, and it encountered what just should have been a rain event, but it wasn't rain because it was too cold there.
Right.
So it's one thing after another.
Now, you do know that all this talk about how cold it's going to be.
We can go to Google right here, right?
Okay, so now you can't see this at home.
But he's got one of the big video screens, and he's tapping it all over the place, and stuff's flying.
So he's tapping it.
Like a Google Earth.
So he's got a satellite view of the weather of the country, but then he taps it and it zooms in really, really, really close to where they're going to be playing the football game.
And well, take it from here.
Our boys have set this up.
The men and women at Google are pretty phenomenal when they can actually build the stadium right on the ground.
See what that is, though?
So they have zoomed in so close that you can actually see the stadium where they're going to be playing the Super Bowl.
What is that?
What is that?
What would you call that?
It's a roof.
I call it a roof.
The roof is not on fire.
The roof is going to be closed.
So they're not going to worry about what the temperature is inside.
It's going to be like 60.
It's going to be perfect.
So they might cancel the game, except it's being played inside.
And this is the segment they're wasting on.
And so, okay, we're going to move on.
Sometimes we get accused in this business of being a little sensationalistic.
Sometimes we get accused.
Really?
Really?
I can't imagine myself.
I wonder why that would be.
Sometimes we get accused in this business of being a little sensationalistic.
Is the Super Bowl really at any risk?
No.
Okay.
Okay.
It's at any risk.
So then he asks the question, which this is one of my favorite questions ever.
It's going to happen.
No, absolutely.
They're not going to.
Should we stop saying that the Super Bowl is at risk?
Yes, you should probably stop.
He says that on CNN.
The guy who's been pushing this lie all morning and trying to scare us.
Hey, they're going to start.
They're going to, they might cancel.
It's threatening the biggest super.
And it's threatening the biggest sporting event of the year.
Let's go to the weatherman.
Oh, so should we stop saying that?
As if someone else is, as if he's the guy straightening stuff out.
But that's the spin they put on like real aberrant weather.
Like, this is actually like a dangerous thing.
Like, the deep south got hit by really strange weather.
And there were a lot of like elderly and homeless people in danger.
Like, wait a minute, this is the spin they put on.
This is the spin.
Elderly and homeless football players?
No.
Hey, I did a football joke.
I can't believe it.
Look at that.
You were here to hear it, folks.
Yes, Robert.
I didn't mean to stop your joke earlier.
I didn't know what you were going to say.
If you're going to tip it, that it was held in a dome.
No, no, no.
I'm just furious.
Like, of all the things you have to talk about, you can talk about this substantively.
It's a real story.
The economy and lives are at stake.
And this is a real story.
It's worthy of discussion.
So you're saying that it's already sensational.
There's enough meat in this story to talk about.
You don't have to make stuff up.
But I'm telling you, that's just how the gears work over at CNN.
It's like, huh?
Why wouldn't we make something up?
Well, the first question is, so should we stop saying that the Super Bowl might be canceled?
And I think the second question is, should we stop having our production meetings on the air?
Fenzelansky.
Fen Zelovansky putting a nice button on that.
Okay, so, you know, I like to make fun of the news because it's a lot easier than actually doing the news.
And, you know, if I was going to do, you know what, I burden with the gift of humor.
You burden us with it every week.
You lighten our burden with your humor.
Isn't that nice?
And I don't mean ice cream.
I mean real comedy.
Okay, when I say good humor.
Good humor.
I got it.
You got it.
Okay, so let's move on.
That was nice.
That worked out real good.
Frank Luntz, ladies and gentlemen.
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If I knew what that was, I'd be really excited.
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Really?
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RSS actually stands for Real Simple Syndication.
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Waiting for the new logo to get done.
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I know nobody else cares about this but me.
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Now let's move on.
We're going to talk about Frank Lunt.
He's a pollster.
You've seen him.
He's about 35 years old and he wears works George Burns hairpiece.
And he looks fantastic.
Anyway, so he went down to Iowa to visit with the voters.
And I'll just play this and then we'll talk about it.
I believe that Barack Obama's religious beliefs do govern his foreign policy.
And what are his religious beliefs?
I believe that he is a Muslim.
You do?
Yes.
How many do you believe that here?
Yes.
How many believe?
Wow.
Okay, so you can't see it, but there's about 20 people sitting there and 20 Republican voters.
Very.
Oh.
Did you hear their knuckles went from the ground up into the air?
Yes, you heard them scrape as they raised their half of them raised their hands.
And that wow from Frank Luntz, what you know, that the translation of that is my work here is done.
My work here.
Okay, here we go.
Do you believe he's a Muslim?
Yes.
And you think that's having an impact on what he says and does?
Fundamentally, yes.
Fundamentally, I think so.
And you found that out because, well, he's black.
He doesn't look anything like me.
First of all, why should I believe him?
And second of all, Reverend Wright, how could they do all that stuff with Reverend Wright and then call him a Muslim?
How could you sit in a church for 20 years and listen to a guy?
Well, because he's a Christian?
No, no, no, but then they still think he's cover deep cover.
Isn't I mean, isn't that crazy?
I mean, what are you going to talk about it?
Go ahead.
How can you believe in fiscal responsibility and cutting taxes on the rich?
So contradiction software.
I think it's that they've, you know, racists have found a socially acceptable way to express their race.
If you say the N-word, you'll get in trouble.
You'll get thrown off the air.
But it's very acceptable, especially on Fox News, to say Obama is a Muslim, which is an overtly racist thing to say.
But what they say, they actually say stuff that's kind of even more insidious in a way.
They'll go, well, I take him at his word.
Yeah, they all say that.
But they never said, oh, I take Bush at his word.
You know, Mitt Romney, I take him as his word that he believes in magic underpants.
I take him as a.
I take him.
And it's going to be interesting when the primary happens because these are the people the Republicans have to appeal to.
So you're going to see a lot of that kind of waffling from the candidates, like saying, oh, well, I take him at his word, but he's a Muslim.
But I mean, I believe what he's saying.
Yes.
Well, here's when they played that clip for Andrea.
Now, you all know Andrea Mitchell.
She's married to Ellen Greenspan, the man who drove our economy off a cliff and smiled all the way, stuffing his pockets in the friends of his pockets.
Friend of the show.
Friend of the show, Alan Greenspan.
And then when the thing all went belly up, he said, Yeah, I knew it was going to go belly up, but I couldn't tell anybody because nobody would have listened anyway.
That's true.
I have that quote, and I can play it for you if you want to hold my peace at the fire.
What's the one where he said, I just had something fundamentally wrong in my philosophy, which was all by like saying, oops.
Yes, oops, whoopsie-daisy.
Everybody, all my friends became billionaires, and everybody else lost their house.
Can we agree that the word fundamentally is really starting to lose its meaning?
Really, fundamentally losing its meaning.
Frankly.
Something don't need to.
I just think there's a fundamental misuse of that word.
I really do.
And then so they play that clip that I just played for you guys, and then they come back to Andrea Mitchell, and she says this.
I don't know what you have to say to people to make them understand the facts.
Okay, I don't know either, Andrea.
That's Andrea Mitchell.
You know, that's like someone's grandma going, I can't get, I don't get these kids today.
Andrea Mitchell couldn't be more right-wing, or he could be more.
Couldn't be more mainstream.
How about that?
Mainstream.
Couldn't be more mainstream.
She's never going to say anything that rocks the boats above anybody or anything.
And so is that.
So the fact that I saw it's not just Republicans, by the way, who think that he's Muslim, right?
Isn't that weird?
Like, I should probably have statistics at my fingers if I'm going to bring this up and talk about it.
But it is because his name is Barack Obama.
It is because he's black.
And people in Iowa.
The birther thing is the same thing.
You know, it's a very racist way.
It's a very overt way of expressing racism.
It just boils down to he's not one of us.
Yeah.
Even though, in fact, he couldn't possibly be.
But you know what?
It's like as much of their racial undertones to the, like, he wasn't born, he's from Keys Canyon, and he's Muslim and all this.
Like, they, most of the right-wing, not like the Tea Party nuts that are kind of coming out of their woodwork now, but they did a lot of this stuff to Clinton, too.
And it was based on class.
Oh, sure, they did.
Because he wasn't, they said, I can't remember.
I wish I could remember who's sake.
No, but there's a thing there's one quote.
They pushed him.
They impeached him.
But there's one quote, and I can't remember who it was.
It was somebody, I want to say like William Sapphire or somebody like that who said he came, like he's talking about Washington, D.C. He's like, he came into this, he came into this town, and it wasn't his place.
He trashed him.
David Broder said that 10,000-year-old man.
Yes, Sally Quinn, Ben Bradley's wife at the Washington Post, wrote this article, which people should, it's online somewhere.
People should check it out.
Yeah.
About, you know, from the late 90s of interviewing all these people, all these establishment people in Washington.
And that was like the most memorable quote.
He came there and he trashed, and they just thought that they were uncouth.
And so that's why they tried to get him out of office.
It had nothing to do with what he believed in or what he was doing.
He's not one of the club.
He's not one of those people.
He grew up for.
He was a self-made man.
Whatever you want to say about what he did when he was in the middle of the year.
There's also a difference between, you know, like speaking of racists who are in the club, racists who aren't in the club, like Glenn Beck and people at Fox News aren't in the club.
Pat Buchanan, Don Imus at a certain point, you know, those are people who have extremist views, but who are accepted by the Washington establishment.
Right, because they would never say anything against them.
Is that the question?
Well, I think it's because they, you know, someone like Pat Buchanan who Hunter Thompson liked Pat Buchanan.
You know, he's like an affable guy.
He can fit into the social circle.
Yeah, he's a good person.
And they're all friends and they all really like him.
And he comes on and says, sort of sort of so to my ear is an affirmative action hire.
He can say all kinds of crazy stuff like that, but he's still part of the club.
Well, he said that America was built by white men and white people.
Yeah, yeah.
He said this like recently on MSNBC.
This is like a quote from 82.
Yeah, no, no.
And he's, and also someone like Pat Buchanan, you know, has been able to insert racist policies into government as part of the Knicks and Reagan.
So he's actually a better bigot than Glenn Beck or Dr. Luzzy's people.
Yeah, he's better at it, but he's accepted by the Washington establishment.
You talk about when they date trash Clinton because he wasn't one of them.
Do you remember the stories about when the Bush administration moved into the White House about how they had trashed the White House?
Yeah, they stole furniture.
They took all the W's off the typewriters completely.
All that stuff was not true.
All that stuff turned out.
They just made that stuff up.
They wanted to either think he was riding off in the Beverly Hillbillies mobile, you know, with his mother-in-law in a rocking chair strapped to the back.
Yeah, well, there were a couple of frat guys trashing the place, too.
That was also another fame.
That was a nice one.
Well, Vanity Fair, you know, a year or two years ago, had a Todd Perdum article that was about Clinton's post-presidential life, and it was the same thing.
It was all about how he goes on these private jets and he parties, and there was like no sources to the story or anything.
You know, I mean, there's just not a lot of remnants of that anymore, but that still exists.
And it just shows you that there's no consistency to this whole school of thought because the same way they can say Obama's whatever sticks is fine.
He's an extreme Christian, he's a Muslim, he's a Kenyan.
Clinton is, you know, he's not one of us.
He's not an outsider.
He's from the poor himself.
But at the same time, he's an elitist.
Or he's a draft dog.
There's no.
You say, like, well, how can they say these things?
You know, one thing is completely opposite of the other.
Because it doesn't matter.
Like, people are just, the people that are in these focus groups are just regurgitating whatever has been absorbed into their heads.
And there's a whole industry of just bringing these guys down, no matter what.
Just punch punch.
It's what Stephen Colbert calls truthiness, right?
It's this knowledge gain not from facts or empirical evidence, but just something you feel in your gut.
Yeah, but I don't even think it rises to that level because these people wouldn't feel it on their own.
Like they're just yeah, it's just it's not even like a thought process.
It's just like something that goes in one ear and out another.
Oh, I'm sorry, we got a call.
I'm gonna take this.
Hey, it's Jimmy.
Who's this?
Hey, Jimmy, how you doing?
It's Moron.
Hey, Moron.
What's going on, buddy?
Ah, Jimmy, you know me.
I'm a good American.
I'm easily manipulated to vote against my own economic interests.
Yes.
And to blame those less fortunate than me for my economic problems.
Yeah, how do they get people like you to do that?
I don't understand.
The thing I do take comfort in, Jim, is that my Lord Jesus the Christ hates exactly the same people that I hate.
Hey, well, what's on your mind this week, Moron?
What did you notice?
Jim, I noticed it's Sarah Palin's kid, Bristol Palin.
Right.
She's writing a book.
Yeah, I know.
I'm laughing.
Yeah, I didn't.
Did you know she could write right?
I was thinking that me and Therese were thinking of some good titles for it.
Oh, what?
I'd love to hear him.
Tell me some.
How about this?
Everything I know about sex, I learned by doing it.
Okay, all right.
I like it.
That would be a good one.
Yeah, that's good.
Oh, let's hear it.
Men are from Mars, women are from Venus, and Barack Obama is from Kenya.
That's good, right?
Yes, Moron.
You're at a roll.
How about Crazy from the Cold?
Simple.
Makes sense.
Clean.
Therese got one.
Therese, what's the one that you made up for the book for Bristol Palin?
Palindron!
Yes, she keeps saying that.
I don't know.
I know.
She's saying palindrones.
I don't even know what I know.
You're saying what?
I don't know what it is, but I bet it's funny.
It's just a play on words, Moron.
Palindrones, and her name is Palin.
Get it?
Oh, it's a play on words, Jim.
I didn't know that.
Thanks.
I think I detect a little sarcasm in your voice, Maura.
Oh, no, Jim.
Never from me, buddy.
Natrice, Jimmy, explain that palindrones thing to me because her name is Palin and the word is palindrones.
Maura.
Why is he being a smarter?
I'm not being as smart as I can.
I think it gets him a kick, Teres.
It doesn't give me a kick, Maura.
And I apologize for being condescending.
Do you have any more names for the book?
I like those.
Yeah, how about Moose Bumps?
Isn't that a good one?
Yeah.
Or how about the Baby Havers Club?
Isn't that good?
Instead of the Joy Luck Club, the baby?
Or how about Little House on the Tundra?
I got it.
These are all good names for the book, Jim.
Wow, these are great.
Do you got more?
I'd love to hear them, buddy.
I got plenty.
Let's go.
How about The Seven Habits of People Who Fell Ass Backward International Prominence?
I think that would be a good.
How about the dunce who came in from the cold?
The dunce who came in from the cold.
The sun also rises because God made it that way.
Okay.
Bill O'Reilly could.
I think that might be his new book, too.
How'd that book get there?
Who put it there?
How about When the Levi Breaks?
What?
See, Jim, that is also a play on words.
Oh, when the because Levi is the father of the kid to Bristol Palmer.
Yes, was the father to Bristol's kid, and that is his name was Levi Johnson, and that's why that is funny.
Okay, I got it.
How does it feel, Jim?
It doesn't feel good, moron.
I already said I was sorry.
Okay, I got two more.
Okay.
Daughter of the American D-Evolution.
Right?
Very good.
And one more.
Stop, or my mom will put crosshairs by your name on campaign literature.
Okay.
And that's it.
Moron, those were really good.
How did you think of them?
Jim, they just come to me sometimes when I'm driving.
I was driving a pretzel truck over the weekend.
What for, buddy?
It's on my bucket list.
Oh, okay.
Yeah, my dad used to drive one.
I used to think it was cool.
I love the smell of them.
Yeah, who doesn't, right?
Yeah, and I think, I don't know what it is, but I think it's the combination of yeast and shortening.
It just makes me think funny things.
I'm the same way with the 7-Up and Wheat.
Yeah, it's a natural bread pretzel truck.
Oh, really?
Hey, Moron, what did you get?
What did you get, Trees, for Valentine's Day?
I got a booty toot, shoe, and boot dryer.
It's cordless.
What is it?
What does it do, buddy?
Well, Jim, first of all, you know, it's been the crazy weather.
Right, right.
Right?
And it's been snowing like a maniac, even in the south, all over the country.
So it's getting snow.
Global warming.
And thank you for the global warming right here.
What?
And so I figured I'd get in a boot and glove dryer.
It gently dries boots, shoes, and gloves.
Oh, really?
Yeah, it keeps your boots, gloves, even your tennis shoes dry and odor-free with this clever boot and glove dryer.
Well, what makes it so clever?
Well, it's cordless, and it has a fan built right into the base so it gently circulates air and dries the shoe, boost, gloves, or mittens.
How does it keep the stuff fresh and smelly?
Well, you filled the top pan with the baking soda to deodorize, and you keep the shoes smelling fresh.
Will it work on leather?
It's ideal for all materials, Jim.
Organic and man-made.
And do you use it for other stuff?
You can use it for boots, gloves, or accessories of any length.
Moron, I gotta tell you, maybe I should give you a little warning.
It doesn't sound very much of a romantic gift.
Huh?
Maybe you should get something more romantic.
I think she'll love Trinson.
I'm just telling you, Moron.
I'm just telling you.
Nothing, Trace.
All right, Jim, listen, I gotta go.
Okay, buddy.
Have a happy Valentine.
See you next week.
Did you just wish me a happy Valentine's, Jim?
I was just being nice.
Moron.
What the hell does that mean?
What happened?
Jimmy wished me a happy Valentine's Day.
Oh, that's nice.
I never thought he'd have a gay friend.
He's not gay.
He's married.
Okay, that was another episode of Tuesdays with Moron.
Moron calling in, letting us know what's happening.
Isn't that nice?
He seemed unusually funny this week.
He was really, I got to tell you, he thinks of when he drives that pretzel truck.
I don't see what it is.
I don't know what it is.
Maybe I'll try that.
Yeah, if things just come to his head.
I don't know.
You don't think he's reading Twitter while he's driving the pretzel truck, dude?
He might be reading Twitter.
He might be reading Twitter.
All right, so we have Bristol Palin.
We have three minutes left on this show.
I'll just say Bristol Palin's releasing a book.
And O'Donnell, or what's her name from Minnesota?
Christine Bachman?
Bachmann.
She's running for president.
Yes.
There you go.
I'm just saying we're through the looking glass people.
I did hear that Bristol Palin's book is in its third printing already.
The first two were blurred.
Okay, so I'll play, you know what?
I have a couple minutes, so I'll play this clip by Bill Crystal that we didn't play earlier.
And so he's talking about he's proud of the Republicans for being nonpartisan.
Okay, here we go.
I'm actually proud of the Republican Party in the last two years for shutting partisanship in foreign policy and being really more bipartisan, obviously, than people were in the preceding couple of few years of the Bush administration.
Okay, really?
What did they?
How were they bipartisan?
The Republicans have been bipartisan in their foreign policy.
How so, Mr. Crystal?
Elected Republicans have stood with President Obama, despite their dislike for him and their desire for a new president, on Afghanistan.
They stood with him on Iraq.
Okay, well, there you go.
They stood with him on the two things they wanted to do.
Isn't that something?
The two wars they started and didn't want to end.
That's funny how they could stand with a guy who's doing exactly what they want him to do.
Isn't that amazing how they bend the pressure like that?
It's great when two sides can meet on one side.
Yes, it really is.
By the way, Bill Crystal, that era is over because they're coming out of the woodwork saying everything he's doing in Egypt is wrong.
Yeah.
Well, Bill Crystal, too, he says that now he's saying that Glenn Beck is crazy.
Yes.
Which is the first time I've ever thought that maybe Glenn Beck isn't crazy.
Bill Crystal says it.
It has to be wrong.
He's been wrong about everything he's ever said.
He's wrong.
He is wrong about everything.
It's amazing how he's, That's the thing that bothers me, I think, the most.
It's like there's no price to pay for being wrong anymore.
No.
Ever.
There hasn't been for years and years and years.
This is something that came in with Bush.
And it all has to do with we are accepting intellectual laziness as absolutely okay.
Not just that.
That's virtue.
That's the virtue.
That's really what happened when Bush came in.
And it has to do with like we have so much information coming at us now that everybody's freaked out.
So not checking a fact is completely acceptable behavior, even though it's right at your fingertips.
So like those people who said like Obama's a Muslim, they think that's completely acceptable to say something that they don't know at all.
Well, it's just because it's a difference of opinion.
I think that political laziness in politics, I think, is wrong.
Although in show business, I have tried to build my career on it.
That's Frank Connant from Cinematic Titanic.
Are you going to be touring with that show?
Yeah, we're going to be in a week from this coming Friday.
We're going to be in Milwaukee.
Oh, fantastic.
Yeah, so go to cinematictitanic.com, and we have a bunch of shows coming up.
So if you want to find out more about all of that.
Now, that's a show kind of based on the Mystery Science Trade.
Yeah, it's basically a live Mystery Science Theater show where we have a movie and the five of us from Mystery Science Theater just riff on the movie and do commentary on it.
It's just like Mystery Science Theater.
All right.
I would like to go to that.
Yeah, it's a lot of fun.
It's a good show.
Well, thanks for being on the show.
Thanks for having me.
I'm glad you could do it.
We'll look forward to having you on more often.
And we've seen.
Now, Keith Oberman, you were a regular.
I was a regular, and I thought, hey, this cake's going to last forever.
But now hopefully I'll be on his show on Current, which means I'll be seen by even less people than I'm.
You know, of course, good luck for him for that.
Okay, I want to thank everybody who helped me out with the show today.
Ben Zelovansky, Stan Stankos.
I want to thank Step Zamorano.
I want to thank Ali Lexa, my producer.
Frank Connoff, thanks again for coming in.
Robert Yasimura.
And if I missed anybody, I apologize.
But thank you the most for listening.
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