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Sept. 10, 2010 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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September 10, 2010, Friday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Why is he talking this way?
He's even got a teleprompter in there, and he's still talking like he putting a period, not at the end of every sentence, but at the end of every word.
I'm talking about Obama and this abomination of a press conference.
Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida, it's open line Friday!
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Yeah, he said he wanted to close Guantanamo Bay sooner, but we missed the deadline.
We missed the dead line.
This thing's been going on for over an hour, and that's why he's putting a period at the end of every word.
Greetings, folks.
Great to have you here.
Telephone number if you want to be on the program, 800-282-2882, and the email address, LRushBaw at EIBnet.com.
So Jake, Jacob Tapper, he actually call him Jacob Tapper out there, ABC News, one of the remaining employees in ABC News that David Weston hasn't jettisoned out there.
Jake Tapper stood up there and asked Obama some healthcare questions.
He said, you know, costs are really going up out there, but he said the costs are going to be going down out there.
And what do you have to say about the Democrats running ads against health care on the campaign trail?
And Obama said, we never said it was going to be free.
You didn't say it, but you pretty damn well implied it.
He said, well, you can't, you can't, well, you can start adding 32 million new people to the insurance rolls.
It's going to have to cost some money.
Yeah.
But he didn't say that during the run-up to all this.
In fact, I think I'm paraphrasing this.
He said, the reason healthcare costs are going up is because we're now insuring 31 million more people.
But that's not true.
We're not doing that right now.
At the moment, we are not.
There are no previously uninsured people who are being insured.
That hasn't kicked in yet, and yet the cost is still going up.
And the government's out there saying, don't blame us.
Blame the insurance companies.
The insurance companies, don't blame us.
Blame the government.
And the people walking into the free clinic said, how much is this going to cost?
I thought it was free.
Obama said, no, we never said it was going to be free.
What Obama said was insuring the uninsured was going to make costs go down because we were paying for them anyway, but now we're going to get them insured.
And somehow this was going to make them go down.
This has been incoherent.
It has been, and there's a prompter.
I had a friend of mine send me a note.
Why is he talking like this?
Throughout the breath.
And I said, obviously there's no prompter there.
He's unsure of himself.
There is a prompter.
Obama's answers to questions.
There's a picture of Jacob Tapper in the East Room, and there's a prompter right over his shoulder, what looks like the corner.
So somebody is feeding Obama answers, and maybe the prompter is rolling slow.
He's got a prompter at a press conference.
I was trying to cut him some slack.
No, there's no prompter in there, but obviously there is.
He also said, Jake Tapper asked him about the fringe figure in Florida, the minister with the flock of 50.
And Jake Tapper said, why are you elevating this guy?
It's clearly somebody, clearly somebody on the fringe.
And Obama said, burning the sacred text of another person's religion is contrary to our religion.
What religion is ours?
I didn't know that we had a religion.
If he said that, that would be newsworthy because I don't think we have a national religion.
I might have misheard this because as he was talking like that, I'm sitting here going nuts.
Would you please speed it up?
We're still away.
He's an hour and 10 minutes into this.
Why do one of these press conferences an hour before this program starts, knowing full well I'm going to have all this time to dissect it?
There's a word for, yes, snurdly, I'm going to talk about the preacher, but I'm going to do it in my own time.
This guy is from my high school graduating class, Terry Jones.
And the media, there's some media out there accusing me of hiding this fact from all of you.
And I didn't even know it.
I got an email yesterday afternoon, right before the program.
And do you know this guy was in your graduating class?
No, no.
I told who I'm trying to think who it was.
And then somebody sent me the picture from the yearbook.
Oh, and the media is saying, Limbaugh had to know the guy.
This guy's picture is on page 130 of the yearbook.
Limbaugh's on 132.
Well, it's a small town, but yeah, but don't you remember everybody you went to high school with?
Do you?
My high school class was like 2,000 people.
Do you remember everybody in it?
Look, if this guy's name happened to be Enos Slobodnik, then I would remember it.
But how many Terry Joneses are there out there?
And this guy's to boot in Florida.
He's not in Missouri.
He'd have a mustache.
This guy, I'll tell you who this guy was.
This guy was a pitcher.
He was a left-hand pitcher.
I remember him not from school.
I don't ever remember seeing him in school.
Not denying it had to happen, but I don't remember it.
But this guy was, we were in the Babe Ruth League together, which is the next stage after the Little League.
He tried out for the high school baseball team and made it.
I didn't.
I didn't make it.
That ticked my dad off, but that's another story.
My dad knew the coach.
Couldn't understand what happened, but it was a good life lesson for me.
But anyway, this guy was a left-handed pitcher, and he threw the ball faster than most of the kids in the league at that time.
And he had his father that was practically at the pitching mound during the game, guiding the kid as he pitched in the game, teaching him how to throw curveballs and sliders and stuff.
And you got the impression it was a very involved, I'll be gracious about it, father, who was obviously trying to shepherd the kid here to a major league baseball career.
We've all seen these kind of little leap fathers.
But that's the extent.
I had no idea the guy was devoted to the man in the cloth religion.
No clue.
And I, when I saw this news yesterday, I said, this is just unbelievable.
I said, wait till the media finds out about it.
I called Levin.
I sent Levin a note, 5.30 yesterday.
I said, you won't believe this.
This guy in Florida is from my high school graduating class.
He said, this is too good.
Can I announce it?
I said, go ahead.
He said, do you remember the guy?
I said, I don't, other than from playing baseball.
He wasn't even on my team.
I don't remember seeing the guy in the class.
I certainly don't remember anything a guy ever did or said in class.
I had no clue.
Look at this town.
Look at this.
Cape Girardo, Missouri.
Me, this preacher, Terry Jones, former Babe Ruth baseball star.
Do you know my uncle and cousin are federal judges?
Cape Girardeau, Missouri.
You wouldn't believe.
I mean, there's stuff the media hasn't discovered about people.
Grew up and born in Cape Girardeau.
I sent another friend a note.
I said, You won't believe this.
This guy is in my high school graduating class.
He said, You wait.
World War III is going to start in Cape Girardo.
So, anyway, it's funny.
What is Limbaugh hiding?
Why didn't Limbaugh admit this?
Why is Limbaugh not being forthcoming?
I've got this.
I got this email.
I'll tell you who informed me: the North Carolina mistress, who's what, a year or two behind me in high school, sends me this note.
You won't believe this.
I must have had four people yes.
My cousin Steve said, you better go to the KFES Channel 12 website because they got this guy's picture up there.
It says in your high school class.
It doesn't mean anything.
It has nothing to do with anything, but the media is trying to make it out that it has a big deal.
You know what they want to write.
You know what they want.
They're hoping that somewhere in Sarah Palin's genealogical tree, that some of her relatives might be from Cape Girardeau.
They're hoping that Glenn Beck, somewhere in his genealogy, Glenn Beck's family might have drank the water in Cape Girardeau.
They're hoping, you know, doing everything they can.
Sean Hannity once went through Cape Girardeau.
You just, you know what they're hoping to do.
Well, no, Terry Jones' house is not a tourist stop.
I...
Mine is, meaning my old house in Cape Girardo is a tourist.
There's a whole map.
Places in Cape Girardeau you go that I was.
I don't think.
Well, there might be now.
People are going to start researching.
This is where Terry Jones grew up.
This is a picture's mountain where his dad oversaw his throwing sliders.
Just, you know, sternly what they're trying to do with this.
I know it's high school.
I know it's high school.
It doesn't.
No, I hated high school.
I got out of, in fact, I didn't, nobody, I did not get one signature in my yearbook.
That guy got out of there.
I skipped.
I shouldn't admit this.
Well, I can do my parents have died.
I can't get in trouble here.
I cut two months in high school my senior year.
I hated it.
I got an excuse.
I was hanging around the radio station.
How did I get out of it?
The teachers, they were so mad when I brought in the excuse.
The notes the absence was excuse.
I mean, it wasn't two straight months, but the last two months of my senior year, I might have been there an aggregate of 10 days.
Everybody knew where I was.
I was on the radio every day.
And I come in with the note saying the absence is excuse.
And the teachers say, yeah, this is just, this is not right.
So forth.
But I mean, I was slated for graduation.
I just didn't like it.
I've told, we're not going to hold me over for another year.
Of course not.
I've told you people, this is nothing new.
I despised it.
School was prison to me.
My parents made me go to college for one year.
I mean, when I finally had to go to ballroom dance as a PE course, taught by a former drill sergeant in the wax.
I said, this is just not for me.
And I never went to that class.
And my mom found out about it.
They took my car away from the car that I bought.
They took my car away from my mom was driving me to school in college.
You think I had time to figure out where the preacher was?
I was trying to get out of there.
It's Open Line Friday, Rush Limbaugh behind the golden EIB microphone serving humanity.
Obama kept complaining about the Republicans in this press conference.
He can't get anything done because of the Republicans.
He's got 59 Senate Democrats.
He has 255 Democrats in the House.
All he needs is 219 to 14, whatever it is.
And the Republicans are to blame.
This foretells exactly why I don't think he cares if the Democrats lose the House or even the Senate in November.
I mean, he's trying to blame the Republicans.
Can't stop him on anything.
Maybe in the Senate with Scott Brown, depending on how he goes.
But I mean, Jake Tapper was right.
Mr. President, how come so many Democrats running for re-election are campaigning, running ads against health care?
You should have heard that wandering answer.
Well, elections.
Well, this impotent is the word to describe this.
The more Obama talks, the less he becomes.
You know what?
If the media, three years ago, if the media had spent half the time trying to figure out who Barack Obama is, just half the time as they have spent on who is this pastor in Florida, Terry Jones, if they would have invested half as much time in Obama as they have in this preacher, he might not be president today.
Do you realize a guy with a flock of 50 in the church who's talking about burning some books?
He's getting more media attention than the president of the United States got in terms of who he is, what motivates him, what's inspired him, how did he turn out this way?
How did he become such a fringe figure?
They're looking far more into, which is understandable because that's who they are.
They're protecting Obama.
They're all members of the ruling class.
He's one of them.
But I tell you, the more he spoke in this press conference, the less he became.
What we have here is a man wandering aimlessly in vain search of a thought in this press conference today.
He has no answers for his failures.
None.
Other than it was really bad when I got here.
And if I hadn't done what I've done, why would we be even worse now?
Bush this, bush that.
Okay, I'll do that.
I'll summarize his opening remarks before he got to the questions.
We believe in government.
We believe in regulations.
We don't believe in free markets.
We have good intentions, and those that oppose our central planning don't.
Progress is slow.
That's how he started it out.
It's essentially what he said.
And then he gave a really over-the-top goodbye to Christina Romer.
I think he might be trying to buy her silence.
I mean, really, she has nothing, no great shakes here, no great service.
He just talked about this woman who said the greatest thing ever happened to economics.
And she splits a scene, heads back to Berkeley.
And then this another professor has been named to replace her at the Council of Economic Advisors, Austin Goolsby.
And he's, yeah, and the Washington Post has a story.
He's the funniest man in the administration.
If this guy, this guy is a dryball, this guy Makes watching bread bake exciting.
And they say he's the funniest guy in the administration.
Austin Goolsby is the new chairman of the Economic Advisors.
Tomorrow he says we're going to be commemorating the heartbreak of 9-11, the heartbreak, 9-11, with a day of service.
A day of service.
He said that last year, too.
He wants to turn this into a day of service where people give their time to the government.
He said, middle class, this is 11.10.
This is about 10 minutes into the press conference.
Middle-class families have been struggling for a decade before I got into office, which is a decades.
I mean, he rips Clinton as well, not just Bush.
And then he said, for all the progress that we've made, we're not there yet.
What progress?
That's a good question.
Who is Terry Jones' spiritual mentor?
Well, I mean, we know who Barack Obama's spiritual mentor is, and they tried to keep that news from everybody.
That would be the Reverend Jeremiah Wright.
We're going to know everything about this Terry Jones guy before it's all said and done.
And, of course, that graduated from my high school, Cape Central High Class, 1969.
Go Tigers.
That was the mascot.
Third question.
Second question Obama got from a Reuters reporter.
Says he cannot understand why he can't get a small business bill passed.
Says it's been over two months.
He said he can't understand why he can't get it passed.
That looks weak, impotent.
He's got huge majorities.
His party owns Congress.
He can't get anything done.
Third question, he lamented that he can't get Democrats or Republicans to agree on a beefed up highway bill.
That makes him look impotent as well.
He says he ought to be trying to stimulate growth and jobs, but he has failed to do that so far.
I'm paraphrasing this, but this is how it all came out.
See, I'm concerned about a lot of Senate confirmations these days.
I can't get a vote on it.
Well, more impotence.
He's got historically high majorities in his party in the Congress.
And he can't get votes.
Look at this election year.
Everybody wants to get reelected, and the Democrats are telling us exactly what the American people think of the Obama regime.
They don't want to be tied to it in any way, shape, manner, or form because it is a huge failure as far as the country is concerned.
And if Chuck Todd came in there, how do you change Washington?
I can answer, Obama made it bigger.
And he says he hasn't been able to do much.
You know what essentially the Democrat campaign slogan is this campaign, this election?
It would have been even worse without us.
Now, you might be able to get tenure at some university by saying, yeah, it would have been worse without me, but you're going to get elected to office by saying, which is what they're essentially going to have to say, which is what Obama's press conference today was all about.
Well, it would have been much worse we hadn't implemented the ideas, the policies that we did.
Most of the questions in the presser today seem to have a common theme, and the theme is, why have you failed?
Why haven't you delivered on what you promised?
Why haven't you changed?
Well, they didn't use the word.
Why haven't you changed Washington?
Why haven't the sea levels sunk?
Why haven't F. Chuck Todd?
How do you change Washington?
Obama made Washington bigger.
He says, well, he's not been able to change Washington.
He says it's frustrating that he hasn't been able to change Washington.
The economy was bad.
The Republicans are to blame.
And I haven't been able to change things.
I really wish I could.
My budget is by virtue of his aura and presence.
Things are going to change.
I have some questions that I would have asked Obama at the press conference.
One of the questions would have been: what do you think of Fidel Castro saying that ideas like yours won't work?
You have any reaction, Mr. President, to El Presidente conceding that the Cuban model is not even working for them.
Of course, we weren't going to get that question.
Obama's out there saying, well, you know, in the housing problem, the problem is people were exploited.
Folks didn't understand their mortgages.
Well, folks didn't understand their mortgages.
And now, thanks to Obama, folks can't understand their health care.
I mean, there's a whole lot more that folks aren't going to be able to understand anymore because Obama's dipped his finger into the jar here.
Okay, so here are my questions.
If I had been an accredited journalist at the Obama press conference today, if the Ground Zero mosque is built, Mr. President, will you assist with the ribbon cutting or will you send Michelle Obama to assist with the ribbon cutting at the mosque?
Or how will you handle that?
Number two, what's been more difficult since you were emaculated?
A fadeaway jump shot from the three-point line or keeping the ball in the fairway off the tee referring to the Gulf oil leak, Mr. President.
You said your daughter asked you while shaving, did you plug the hole yet, Daddy?
Mr. President, anybody in the family ever asked you if you created a private sector job yet, Daddy.
Anybody ask you why Democrats don't want to appear with you in public and won't advertise their votes on Obamacare the stimulus bill?
Of course, Jake Tapper did ask him that.
How would you answer your daughter, Mr. President, if she said, why are so many Democrats in favor of extending the Bush tax cuts, Daddy?
You felt the need to appoint a commission to advise you how to cut the deficit that you and Pelosi and Reed created.
You have a Secretary of State that says your deficits are a national security threat.
We talked about this yesterday.
Hillary Clinton categorized them that way.
You promised that your $1 trillion stimulus bill would keep unemployment under 8%, and now you're asking for more money because unemployment stuck at nearly 10%.
Do you realize how ridiculous you sound blaming John Boehner for this?
I mean, these are some of the questions that I would ask.
Your friend, the domestic terrorist Bill Ayers, was once photographed in the New York Times proudly standing on an American flag.
Would it bother you if he was pictured standing on a Bible or a Koran?
And if defiantly standing on a flag, Bible, or Koran now seems inappropriate to you, why isn't a mosque backed by an imam who supports terrorist groups such as Hamas offensive to you?
I mean, the New York Times has had pictures of Muslims burning Bibles and standing on the American flag in Gaza and elsewhere.
And this has not incited Americans to riot.
Yet, Mr. President, you agree with the Imam that if some Korans are burned, it's natural to expect that our troops will be in danger and that the militant Muslims are going to rise up out there.
Isn't this a tantamount admission?
That our whole policy in this area is ridiculously flawed.
That's just some of the stuff that I would ask.
I mean, it really impotent the word that I would use.
Could not be the way he was.
I mean, people have told me William Shatner used to do his lines like that.
I know William Shatner.
I've got to know William Shatner.
William Shatner has never sounded like Obama sounded today, not even when he was Spock or Kirk.
William Shatner, when he recited his lines in Boston Legal, I'm going to rat, tat, tat, tat, some of the funniest stuff.
I don't know what people are talking about.
William Shatner sounding like Obama today.
Well, I know.
There was no um or ah with William Shatner.
Speaking of Castro, this guy's press conferences, Obama's are becoming more tedious than Castro's.
Castro's press conferences everywhere.
A quick phone call before we go to the break, since it is Open Line Friday, Crystal in Irvine, California.
Nice to have you on the EIB network.
Hi.
Hi, Rush.
I was just watching a couple minutes of the press conference, and Obama said that Afghanistan is the second poorest country in the world.
Did you hear that?
No.
He said that.
I don't really know what the point he was making, but as an econ teacher, I knew that wasn't true, so I looked it up, and they're the 19th poorest country in the world.
And the only citation I found that had them in the top ten was under the U.N. rankings.
So I don't know if they just misspoke, but I know that liberals lie for a reason usually, but I didn't know what...
A lie to suit the occasion.
Well, they do.
So, you know, Afghanistan's, he was asked during this press conference, look, you haven't captured bin Laden yet.
I mean, and Afghanistan is the focus of some military efforts now that he owns.
And I think it's just, look, he's a liberal.
It's natural.
He looks at suffering.
That's all he sees anywhere in the world.
And he just come out of nowhere with the second poorest country in the world.
And no one in the press conference said that's, you know, Ethiopia, Somalia.
You know, it's not even in the top 10.
Crystal, they don't know either.
I know.
I know.
Anyway, I think they're not what the press offices tell them in the White House.
That's all they know.
I guess.
I didn't know if there was a larger point to that.
You know, sometimes they lie to set a foundation for some bigger lie, but I was like, maybe he just misspoke.
Maybe he doesn't know.
In this case, it's sort of pathological.
Whatever you say is true, even if you make it up.
And maybe he has to make it so bad, and then he's the savior of Afghanistan.
Remember, these people are all about creating victims.
Yes.
Everybody's a victim, and the bigger victim you are, so for the, but you're right.
Afghanistan's a 10th or so poorest country in the world.
The other 10, 9 are in Africa.
Yeah, and for someone who's so well traveled, I don't know how you can mix up 19 with two.
Anyway, I'm a stay-at-home mom.
Speaking of that, world travel.
I wonder if the press is going to go back to his high school yearbook in Kenya.
Try to find any pictures of people who might be in the news today.
And we're back at Rush Limbaugh on the cutting edge, Societal Evolution Open Line Friday.
Let me be serious for a moment on this press conference.
I mean, obviously, I was adding a little flavor, a little vigor to this thing.
But, folks, we have a serious problem because if you watch this, we're looking at somebody who is totally out of his league in this job.
And this has serious consequences.
He looks small up there.
He looks small and frail.
He looks like a boy, a man-child, a teleprompter at a press conference.
A cheat sheet.
The pictures I saw of the teleprompter, what was on it, were answers about economic questions.
He went for an hour and 10 minutes and took 10 questions.
That's six or seven-minute answers.
Speaking like this, throughout the S. Conference.
I just look at this.
It's scary to me.
Seven minutes per question in his answer to this stuff.
I mean, just, but this look tiny, frail and tiny up there.
I have a couple soundbites.
This is a question about health care.
Jacob Tapper said a study from February predicted a 6.1% increase.
And now they post healthcare a 6.3% increase.
So it seems to be going up.
No, as I said, Jacob, I haven't read the entire study.
Maybe you have.
But if what the reports are true, what they're saying is that as a consequence of us getting 30 million additional people health care, at the margins, that's going to increase our costs.
We knew that.
We didn't think that we were going to cover 30 million people for free.
Did you hear that?
30 million people for free.
But he told it, he implied that.
People walked into health clinics after they signed this thing wondering where their free health care was.
We know damn well the Democrat Party implied this was going to be free, that a bunch of millionaires are going to be paying for this.
And that costs were going to go down because we had to get costs down because the only way we can save the national debt and reduce the deficit was to pass health care.
And we've seen nothing but rising costs here and there, various states, insurance company policies, medical treatment.
Costs are skyrocketing.
Nothing's changed in that regard.
And we haven't insured 32 million people yet.
That hasn't kicked in.
But yeah, here's Obama.
So look, 30 million people, additional health care at the margins, that's going to increase costs.
We knew that.
We didn't think we were going to cover 30 million people.
You did too.
You told us that covering the 30 million people would bring costs down because they were going to the emergency room now.
You know, this stuff does have comp.
This is not a theory, a game, a conversation over port and cigars in the faculty lounge.
This is serious stuff.
He touted, well, I got my start in politics, a community organizer.
In the factories of the shadows of shutdown factories, South State of Chicago.
He's back to saying when he got his start in politics as a community organizer.
You put all of this together.
It's just we have a frail, small, totally ill-equipped, unequipped for the job with this massive ego that's got a grudge against the country.
And he's got some mission to make amends for whatever he thinks the transgressions in the past have been in this country.
Here's the Q ⁇ A with Ann Kornblut, the Washington Post, nine years after the September 11th attacks.
Why do you think it is that we're now seeing such an increase in suspicion and outright resentment of Islam, especially given it's been one of your priorities to improve relations in the Muslim world?
One of the things that I most admired about President Bush was after 9-11, him being crystal clear about the fact that we were not at war with Islam.
We were at war with terrorists and murderers who had perverted Islam, had stolen its banner to carry out their outrageous acts.
And I was so proud of the country rallying around that idea, that notion, that we are not going to be divided by religion.
We're not going to be divided by ethnicity.
We are all Americans.
We stand together against those who would try to do us harm.
And that's what we've done over the last nine years.
And we should take great pride in that.
Well, her question was, why is there so much more suspicion, resentment of Islam?
Because he was going to make it all.
Yeah, he went to Cairo.
Big speech in Cairo.
We're going to bring us all to go.
NASA be used for Muslim outreach.
Now, I do have a question in regards to all this.
Mainstream Christians, mainstream Christians from across the fruited plane have risen up to uniformly, publicly denounce the actions of Reverend Jones in Florida.
All well and good.
I have not seen Muslim counterparts rising up in unison to condemn terrorism.
That's different.
I said, now, why?
I'm sorry.
That's different.
That's a little, it's different.
There's a pressed minority.
I just said, it's different.
Okay, right.
Now, what's happened here is nobody would have known about this except the media had nothing to talk about one day.
So they've been elevating Terry Jones, burning a couple Korans.
And now some other wacko ministers are saying, if he doesn't, I'm going to.
There's a bunch of them out there saying, well, if he doesn't do it, I will.
So AP, the trusty, trustworthy, dependable AP, has sent out a directive to all of their subscribers.
By the way, AP, only wire service out there for all intents and purposes.
And AP has sent out a directive.
If any Korans are burned on 9-11, we are not going to report it.
We are not going to feed any pictures.
Don't expect any of that from us.
But if somebody happens to trash the American flag or set it on fire, we'll be the first to show you.
We will be the first to tell you.
You can count on the AP.
Somebody stands in the flag, somebody burns a Bible, somebody sets the flag on fire.
You can count on us at AP.
We'll be in there.
We'll have the first stories and the first pictures.
But don't look to us for any pictures or graphics of any holy Qurans that might erupt in flames on the front lawns of oddball preachers' churches back in the moment.
Open Line Friday, Rush Limbaugh, having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have a little observation here as we go into our prophet center timeout here at the top of the hour.
President Obama is left-handed.
Not wearing the wedding ring today, by the way.
I'm not saying anything, just not wearing the wedding ring.
President Obama left-handed today, just like Reverend Terry Jones.
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