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March 8, 2011 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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March 8, 2011, Tuesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Holy cow, folks, Barack Obama morphing into Dick Cheney on Gitmo.
I can't tell the difference between the two now.
Barack Obama Dick Cheney on Club Gitmo.
I tell you what, Obama owes Bush and Cheney Rumsfeld an apology here.
And I am due a lot of huzzahs.
I am due a lot of attaboys.
I am due a lot of way to call it Rush on his whole Gitmo business.
Boy, do we have lots to do on the program today?
Great to have you here, El Rushmo at 800-282-2882.
Email address is L Rushmo at EIB net.com.
Look, if I've gotten one, I must have had a thousand emails from people.
Rush, you may not have seen this.
But there's his video tape.
James O'Keefe went back in there.
He got some NPR people to admit some stuff.
I want you people to know it wounds me to the heart that you think I don't know things.
It wounds me deeply for anybody to think I might not know what's going on in the world or in the country.
We've all heard about this.
We've got the sound bites from it.
Another undercover tape made by the same J uh same James O'Keefe who made the acorn tapes.
And this one features what appears to be a top NPR executive, Ron Schiller.
I wonder if he's related to Vivian Schiller.
She is the president and CEO, the one who uh who canned Juilliams.
I don't know if they're related or not.
Wouldn't be surprised.
But any rate, this guy makes some startling comments to people he thinks are potential Muslim donors.
These guys are the O'Keefe and the boys are out there pretending to be a branch of the Muslim Brotherhood.
And NPR is happy to meet with them.
Now I don't know which of the things that uh that Ron Schiller said will prove to be the most damaging.
I mean, trashes the Tea Party as racist.
Uh, of course, he he calls them bigoted Neanderthals, but that's only gonna help his career at NPR.
But he said something of the comment that's gonna get him into trouble is when he says that NPR could get by without federal funding.
Okay, fine, then let's defund it.
If an executive NPR says they don't need the money, then let's just get rid of the money.
Let's just take it back.
So, yeah, we've got the uh we got the sound bites, we've got uh some excerpts from the uh for from the the uh undercover session, and we'll have those for you coming up.
But I'll tell you what, folks, the what watch now for the uptick in terrorist recruiting all around the world.
Remember Obama said that Gitmo, and Biden, the Democrats all said that Club Gitmo was one of the largest terror recruitment things that we could have done.
Keeping it open why it just shows how unfair we are that we are remember all that talk about America is denying its own values.
I never got so damn sick of hearing a bunch of dribble as I heard about how America was sacrificing its values or diluting its values by having Club Gitmo open as a prison and all it was doing was recruiting terrorists, and I want to take because Obama says he's not gonna close it now.
He said he wasn't gonna close it.
I want to take you back to January 16th.
This was even before he had the signing ceremony with Greg Craig.
Now, if you remember the signing ceremony had an executive order announcing that Gitmo would be closed within the next 12 months.
And he's reading the executive order, and he gets lost in the process of reading it, and there's some things he's reading he doesn't obviously understand.
So he turns to Greg Craig, who the White House counsel at the time who actually wrote the executive order.
Uh, what what do we uh what do we mean by that here, Greg?
And Craig steps in and explains what Obama means.
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yeah, yeah.
Yeah, So we're we're going to uh we're gonna close it, executive order, and this January 16th is before the immaculation.
January 16th is before Gitmo, before Obama's inaugurated, and this, ladies and gentlemen, is what I said on January 16th.
Don't deal in things that aren't real.
Don't get yourself worked up about something that isn't gonna happen.
We got real things to get worked up about here.
But closing Gitmo isn't gonna happen.
It is not gonna happen.
It is not going to happen.
They're not gonna close Gitmo.
There you have it, plain and simple.
Okay, Ron and Vivian Schiller are not related.
We've looked it up from NPR.
At least at least they don't know if they're related.
Um did I know they weren't gonna Well the the You know, you know, you you um my answer is gonna not satisfy anybody, but it's not complicated.
They're liberals and they lie.
They're liberals and they lie, and they were talking about this all through the war to rock.
It was simply a campaign talking point.
It was simply a bone they were throwing to their base.
Well, what I knew was that once power transferred to them, they were not going to openly preside over defeat.
They would more than happily saddle defeat around Bush's neck.
If they could have secured defeat in Iraq while Bush was still in the White, they would have done it.
If they could have succeeded in a humiliating United States military defeat in Iraq or in Afghanistan while they were not in power in the White House, they would have done it.
But once by the way, did I also not tell you I don't care what the exit date he says for Afghanistan, don't believe that either.
Well, yesterday they announced we're gonna be there long past the 2014 drop dead get out of there date.
Remember the it's this summer, by the way, this summer later part of this year that we're supposed to begin the drawdown of troops in Afghanistan.
It's not gonna happen.
Uh 2008, yeah, it was it all of these, uh all of these dates thrown out, this is gonna happen, this is gonna once they are in charge of this, they are not going to openly secure defeat when that defeat ultimately would fall on their shoulders.
They're just not gonna do it.
And another reason that I because I another reason I knew they were gonna close Gitmo's because I also knew that everything they were saying about the war on terror was a lie.
Everything they were saying about it, everything we're saying about Gitmo being a uh recruitment tool, all it was was political posturing.
They didn't really believe any of it.
You go back and find these people when they really believe so.
Go back to 1998 when Clinton's president.
These guys, the Democrats, were the first to stand up and excoriate Saddam Hussein for happiness having weapons of mass destruction.
They were the first to support Clinton's call for military action to get rid of them.
I don't know.
It just it's it's it just to me it's it's not complicated and it's not difficult.
Another reason, because they made such a big show of it.
Because they made such a big show of it, I knew it wasn't going to happen.
They make a big show of it.
What all they were doing was trying to buy off their base, which they didn't care about servicing for the next four years with an immediate attempted uh uh policy directive designed to satisfy them.
So for three, four years, all during the Bush's bad years, and all during the campaign against the Iraq War, all they had done is campaign against Gitmo and they had their lawyers out there trying to sabotage what was going on and portray the United States as the focus of evil in the world.
Well, they had to do something once they're in immaculated.
So the left's expect there's Obama announcing it.
Okay, that's off the table for a while.
I'll deal with the problems of it not closing later on when it happens.
Guess what?
He's doing it right now, announcing it's not gonna close as we ramp up the presidential election year, and he knows that his base, eh, where else are they gonna go?
They might get ticked off at him for not closing Gitmo, but it comes down to re-electing him, they're gonna be right there.
Uh and uh who?
You doubted me, Yate.
uh uh I did not know this.
My chief of staff is admitting for the first time here with the IFB that he doubted me on both of these.
On club Gitmo.
What what what when you say the war?
What else are you saying that you doubted me?
Mm-hmm.
Ah.
All right.
Gotcha.
Okay.
I also said the Iraq war would not be election issue, be a big in the campaign of 2008 on HRs telling me he didn't believe me on that, and he didn't believe me when I said Gitmo was not going to close because I was the only guy saying it.
Uh I I know I'm going to resist calls to fire the chief of staff.
Uh some people already saying that I can't have such dissension and doubts in the ranks.
But I'm gonna I'm gonna resist the immediate.
These are just emotional calls to fire the I. You know, uh okay, I don't know how else to ex Snardley is sitting here saying you don't understand how huge it is.
I really don't.
I don't understand why everybody I guess this is my problem.
I guess because I live in Littleville.
I don't know why anybody believed him in the first-that that's the big thing.
Why'd anybody believe him?
Well, the entire world was not on our butt about gitmo.
You are falling prey to all of gunk that was in the media.
If the rest of the world was on our tail about Gitmo, how come when it came time to the rest of the world to take some of the prisoners they didn't take them?
Don't think Obama didn't try, by the way.
He tried to get some of these guys expatriated.
Their home countries don't want them.
Other countries do not want these detainees.
Remember, we were told that they just a harmless bunch of falsely imprisoned, falsely charged young people that were plucked from unfortunate socioeconomic circumstances in the desert, in the depths of poverty, and we didn't lose, and there was no just cause.
We had no legal reason to charge them, no legal reason to hold them, yet we won't let them go.
If they're so harmless, why wouldn't anybody in the rest of the world take them?
We wanted to get rid of them.
He knows what's in there.
It's like there's another thing going on here.
I'm I'm sorry, uh these the the Peter King hearings.
Now, folks, how many decades has this country been under assault from terrorists acting in the name of Islam, in the name of Allah?
How many decades have gone by?
And now Congress is just now getting around to having hearings on the problem, and people are upset that there are going to be hearings?
They're not upset at how long it's taken to address this subject, but there are going to be hearings is what has them all ticked off.
Now this is crazy.
Everything's 180 degrees out of phase.
These hearings should have been done decades ago.
Well, we're just now getting around to it, and we're upset that the hearings are even taking place.
So, like you know, I I would say to you, and Snurza, how did you know this is a bigger deal than you were even admitting?
Why does anybody believe him?
Why does anybody believe we know what they lied about what did they not lie about when it came to the war in Iraq?
They were calling our troops terrorists.
They were uh it was it was it was just unconscionably horrid what these people were saying.
Why did anybody believe them?
Why does anybody believe liberals?
That's my question.
The question is not what big secret did I know.
They lie.
How did I know global warming's a hoax?
Because who's behind pushing it?
Liberals.
They lie.
Now we got we got two satellites.
Two years to the day.
Same problem.
Failing fails to open.
Satellites instead of being in orbit or not at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean near Antarctica.
You know where they were up there to do?
You know what they were up there to study?
They were up there to study whether or not there are naturally occurring events that might cause climate change.
Well, now they can't find whether or not there are naturally occurring things.
Meaning also they were there to investigate whether there is a man-made component, the climate change.
Well, can't find that out now.
Well, who benefits?
I'm I don't want to go getting off in the conspiracy stuff here, but two satellites, two years to the day apart, both end up in the same spot.
Who benefits?
When you look at the if you one of my old axioms always follow the money.
One of the reasons that there is this big, never-ending man-made push or push for man-made global warming is because that's who gets the money.
When the grant money comes around, if you believe man-made global warming, you get your share of it.
Well, the last thing that bunch needs is scientific proof that man has nothing to do with it.
If there ever is scientific proof, and see, I don't need scientific proof because to me the people who are promoting man-made are a bunch of frauds.
They are liberals, they lie.
It's not a generalization.
It is an undeniable truth of life.
So, whereas you might find it odd that I would be so confident that Obama did not mean it, because Club Gitmo is going to close, I turn right around and you ask, why did you believe him in the first place?
Why do you why does anybody believe Obama when he talks about caring about private sector jobs?
Why does anybody believe him?
Why does anybody believe Obama when he talks about wanting economic growth?
Where's the evidence?
Why does anybody believe him?
Why does anybody believe anything Obama says about his stated goals and intentions?
Because folks, if he had been honest, he wouldn't have been elected.
And if he was being honest since he's been elected, he would have been impeached because this none of it is what anybody bargained for when they went to the polls in 2008.
So why does anybody believe what he's not just Obama?
The Democrat Party at large, liberalism at large.
Why does anybody believe him?
The safe bet is to never believe them.
You'll be wrong a lot less than if you do believe them.
By the way, the AP story, I'm looking for it here on the closure of Club Gitmo is amazingly forgiving.
Oh, yeah, folks, they don't hold Obama accountable here at all.
Now they're not at half that they're not happy at the Washington Post, Dana Bilbank is not uh not too crazy about it.
But the AP is amazingly forgiving.
Yeah, yeah.
Oh, oh, here it is.
Let's see.
Uh yeah.
Obama restarts Guantanamo trials.
President Barack Obama reversed course Monday, ordered a resumption of military trials for terror suspects at Guantanamo Bay making his once ironclad promise to close the prison look even more distant.
Obama made the change with clear reluctance, bowing to the reality that Congress vehement opposition to trying detainees on U.S. soil leaves them nowhere else to go.
So you see, it's not even his fault.
It's the fault of the Republicans in Congress.
Now you remember, don't you?
That story from way back when the Associated Press explained that it was Congress's fault that George H.W. Bush reneged on his read my lips, no new taxes promise.
Well, yeah, I remember that story.
Bush read my lips, no new taxes, and all of a sudden changed his mind.
He raised taxes.
And the AP had a story, don't blame Bush.
That was uh Tom Foley in Congress.
I mean, they were responsible.
They gave him no wiggle.
You don't remember that story.
Well, good, because this story didn't happen.
But here, the AP blaming Republicans in Congress.
Republicans in Congress refused to allow Obama to conduct military trials on U.S. soil.
So poor old Obama, our young poor man-child president, sadly had no choice.
No choice whatsoever.
He had to break his promise.
We have to understand.
It was a meddling Congress.
Ladies and gentlemen.
Poor Obama.
So I guess Gidmo no longer the source of terrorism recruitment, right?
Month after month, year after year, story after story, repeating the liberal mantra about Gitmo.
Even McCain took debate for crying out loud.
No, Obama reverses course he's not closing it.
Now what about all those terrorists there who will be held indefinitely against their let me tell you another reason snartly they're keeping Gitmo open.
Someday they're going to need a place to put all of us, folks.
We have lots to do.
Yes, and I'm going to go back to my CPAC speech, as promised yesterday with a brief little excerpt about how we ought not get caught up in policy at the expense of principle and philosophy.
And I'm also going to back and we're going to we're going to, we had some people called yesterday and tried to tell us how Reagan dealt with Jimmy Carter and others.
And we'll listen to how Reagan dealt with political enemies.
And we'll just see.
We also had a number of people say, you know, we rush we gotta be very careful.
We've got to stick to opposing Obama on the grounds of policy.
So he's a popular guy.
I mean, everybody likes him.
He's a warm guy.
He's not.
Everybody doesn't like him.
We're tying our hands behind our backs, all kinds of self-imposed limitations when we tell ourselves this.
Byron York has a great piece today in the DC examiner.
It's about the Republican presidential field and how weak it is.
And not only how weak the Republican presidential field is, but how timid those in the field are.
As though they just don't really think it's even right to campaign against them.
But we've got to tiptoe here for whatever various reasons.
He's really unbeatable.
At this stage, Obama's really unbeatable.
The economy's gonna come back, and Byron York says, well, let's go back to 1991, shall we?
1991, George H.W. Bush with a 90% approval number coming out of the Gulf Wall.
Now what happened?
It's almost identical.
Back in 1991, leading into the 92 presidential year, I could go back and I probably could get sound bites of me from my own program back then saying, looking at the Democrat field, man, the lightweights here, none of the Democrat heavyweights want to even take a take a run at this.
Democrat heavyweights want no part of this.
I mean, it's a guaranteed losing proposition.
We all thought that.
90% approval coming out of the Gulf Wall.
Almost identical to what's happening today.
Democrat field back then was looked at a bunch of pansies.
But there was one guy in that field who was the energizer buddy who never didn't get the memo.
And he kept plugging away and plugging away and clubbing away.
And even after he got shillacked in debates, if we got shellacked here and there, he's losing here, he's getting all kinds of embarrassing stories about Whitewater in the New York Times.
Just keeps plugging away.
Bill Clinton and Hillary out there.
Then Perot surfaces, and all bets are off, and we all know what happened.
And so the analogy is we got a guy with a 48% approval rating who is not all that likable.
He's not all that warm and cuddly.
He's not coming off of any singular policy success anywhere, and our side says he's unbeatable.
And furthermore, he's so unbeatable that we don't dare talk about him.
He's so loved and popular, we don't dare talk about him.
No, no, we gotta stay focused on policy.
That's right.
We gotta make sure that we don't offend anybody and being too critical of the beloved Obama.
The independents will run away from us.
So we're tying our hands behind our backs.
We got ourselves tagged as losers before the thing even starts.
Ignoring he's ways it's plainly viewable.
So we'll get into that in detail.
Yes, I've got the sound bites.
Thanks, Joe Babe.
I got the sound bites of the uh of the uh meeting with NPR.
Judging by my email, everybody's heard those.
We'll get to it in due course.
Your phone calls as well.
Sternly, you didn't hear me because you were busy screening there's another reason I knew they wouldn't close Gitmo.
They need some sizable prison to put all of us in someday.
Yeah, what better place than out of the country?
Do you remember this?
You remember speaking about Obama's belovedness.
The vid.
Oh, he's so warm and cuddly.
So unique.
So special.
You remember, for example, all of these things happening.
That's enough.
So we had all, and that was one of many examples that we retreated to almost regularly the first year of the regime.
In high schools, junior high schools all over the country, kids were singing to Obama, wearing uniforms for Obama.
Barack Hussein Obama.
Well, guess what, folks?
An internal White House memo indicates that the White House is facing a shortage of applications less than a week before the deadline.
Applications for what, you might be asking.
Applications that equal requests for commencement speech by the president.
There is a shortage of requests from high schools all over the country asking Obama to be the commencement speaker.
There is a shortage.
The internal White House memo indicates the White House are facing this shortage of applications less than a week before the deadline that the schools face.
The competition was extended from the February 25th deadline until Friday, March 11th, after few schools met the original application deadline.
CBS News has learned that the White House Communications Office internal memo dated February 22 noted a major issue with the commencement challenge, which is a program they let people enter a contest.
The real enda has a chance to get Obama to be their commencement speaker.
Absolutely right.
A follow-up memo on February 28th reported the receipt of 68 applications, noting the competition among more than 1,000 schools last year, down 68 this year.
The memo said something isn't working.
Called on staffers to ask friendly congressional gubernatorial mayoral offices to encourage the screws to apply.
And we should also make sure the cabinet is pushing the competition out to their lists, the memo said.
So last year more than a thousand schools requested Obama to come in speak.
Sixty-eight this year.
But folks, he's unbeatable.
He's lovable.
He's well liked.
Uh smooth guy.
I mean, every, you know, it's a mistake here to uh to to get personal with Obama.
We gotta keep it focused on uh on policy.
Yeah, Barack Obama, folks, winning the future with higher gas prices.
Winning the future.
That's his slogan.
Winning the future with what?
Higher gas prices, winning the future with higher health insurance premiums, winning the future with higher budget deficits, winning the future with more public sector unions, winning the future with fewer private sector jobs, winning the future by ignoring federal court rulings.
And of course, nonstop smears against anybody who objects to this agenda.
So here we have the audacity of Barack Obama saying he's winning the future.
mind boggling.
You know, Barack Obama Charlie Sheen are giving winning a bad name.
Well, I mean, that's the Sheen's out there saying he's winning, too.
Sheen says he's winning the future.
So does Obama.
Quick timeout.
We'll be back.
We will continue here on the EIB network, El Rushbo just getting started.
Having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have.
Rush Limbaugh, great to be with you.
Uh ladies and gentlemen.
So we had a uh we had a caller late, I think it was the last caller that we had yesterday.
Nice guy, as all of our callers are.
What would you expect from paid actors?
You know, I gotta be careful with this, or they're gonna they're gonna purposely take me out of context.
But anyway, it does no good, folks.
It does no good to tell us to be nice about Obama personally, because that's how Reagan did it.
You know, people are confusing the way Reagan is remembered now with the way Reagan was treated at the time.
Folks, Ronald Reagan was despised.
He was hated every bit as much as George W. Bush, every bit as much as me, anybody today that's vilified by the left, Reagan.
I mean, they accused Reagan of actually creating AIDS.
Because he didn't talk about it.
They accused Reagan of creating homelessness.
They said Reagan's elections were a triumph of selfishness and greed.
They accused Reagan of sneaking out of the White House at night, going over Cross Street to Lafayette Park and stealing the pork and beans cans from homeless people, going back to the White House, heating them up, eating them, and being happy about it.
They portrayed Reagan as a venomous hate monger.
So now that Reagan is dead and can't undermin him anymore, they think it's to their advantage to paint him as some nice guy, so they can use the comparison to make Bush and Palin and me and so forth look bad.
Look me.
Reagan was the model, conservative, they're saying now.
Some of them will say it about Mr. Buckley.
Some of them say it about Reagan.
Reagan's a nice guy.
You need to go back and look at Reagan.
Reagan.
At the end of the day, I'm sure you've heard him say this.
Reagan at the end of the day went over there and had a beer with Tip O'Neill.
They put it all aside, not like Palin today, and not like Limbaugh, and not like Bush and Rove.
And it's all fake.
It's all history.
You know, if Reagan were around today, Reagan would be harsh about Obama.
Reagan wouldn't put up for a moment with what Obama's doing.
You go back and look at Reagan's words, look at Reagan's speeches to 64 Barry Goldwater's speech.
He's not put up with this.
Ronald Reagan wouldn't be passing jelly beans around here to Obama like they would have you believe.
He'd be gentleman about it, don't misunderstand.
He was a decent guy, but he would not mince words.
What I'm saying is we can't be afraid of who they say Obama is.
You know, I we even even the geniuses on our side.
They they they want to keep this as a policy-only disagreement because they think that Obama's personally popular.
In the sense that he polls higher than his policies do.
But even so, he's at 48% approval.
But he is personally popular.
You know, it's like what came first, a chicken of the egg.
Obama is personally popular precisely because he's personally off limits.
There's not a person in the world that's got the guts to tell the truth about Obama from the media to our side for whatever reason, either first black president, or we think we're gonna get creamed by being critical.
So there isn't any real examination of who Obama is as a guy.
Well, there is for me, you know, this this notion he's some warm, nice guy we just have to disagree with wrong.
This is a cold man.
This is a cold, he's not even cool.
This guy is cold.
He's arrogant, he's uber calculating.
He's the kind of person most people don't like when they meet him.
Rove described him.
He's the guy at the country club at the cocktail party standing in the corner with the good looking girl, the drink and the cigarette, passing judgment on everybody going by, not deigning to talk to him.
Good family men, they say.
Why would his personal approval ratings go down much when there's nobody going after him like they did Bush, like they did Reagan?
Nobody's driving down his negatives like they did Bush.
Nobody's driving down his negatives like they do me, like they do Palin.
So we sit here when he's immensely popular.
We don't know that.
He's not nobody's.
You know, we're we're living once again, just you all believed him when he said he was going to close Gitmore.
No way.
And I sometimes I grow weary of saying, don't doubt me.
You know, if I if I had a weaker backbone, I'd I'd have I I'd I'd be so depressed, I don't know what I would do, and nobody believes me.
Right out there in the open for one and all to see.
If I had a weaker constitution, I'd say, what is it about me that people?
And I remember it's nothing about me.
It's all about what some people want or don't want to see, no matter what kind of truth that they're told.
Barack Obama went a couple of years without having a single meeting with Republican leadership.
His only early meeting with the Republican caucus, right after the 2008 immaculation, right after he was immaculated.
He said, Don't listen to Limbaugh.
That's not how things get done here.
And then when uh one of them said, I want you to think about tax cuts, well, fine, but I won, you lost, deal with it.
This is not a nice guy.
Reagan O'Neill, after work, go have a beer.
Does anybody want to go have a beer with Obama after work?
They had to drag that cop from Cambridge down to the beer summit.
But Obama's not a nice guy.
But the media has painted Reagan as this nut job while he was president.
Obama's portrayed as personally popular.
It's remarkable.
And it's worked.
It's worked.
Our guy is.
Firstly, we go, Rush, we gotta keep it on policy.
Obama's a lightly guy, likely guy, and very much loved us.
No, no, no, no.
They attack Gingrich's past.
They attack Palin.
They attack her kids.
That's why it's so great in me when I hear Republicans echo what these people say about Palin.
I can't tell you how angry that makes me.
People on my team echo this nonsense that they say about Sarah Palin.
She's got more courage and more bravery in her little finger than our presidential field has.
And yet they talk about her as an idiot.
Same thing with poor Michelle Bachman.
The gonads on our team happen to be wearing skirts.
Anyway, Obama's immune from all this.
Don't ask about his past.
Don't ask about his grades.
Don't ask about his medical history.
Don't ask about his drug use.
Don't ask about anything.
All that's irrelevant.
Gingrich, the others, Palin, I don't care name.
Dig, dig, dig, dig.
The sad thing is the geniuses on our side fall right in line with all that.
Look at what they do to Clarence Thomas.
Look what they're doing even now to Clarence Thomas.
well, look, it never ends.
You know, whoever the left perceives to be at the uh top rank on our side.
I mean, it's it's full speed ahead in the politics of personal destruction.
Fine and dandy.
We know they do that.
It just infuriates me when people on our side sign on to it.
When it suits them.
Anyway, folks, sit tight.
Again, barely scratched the surface so far.
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