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June 13, 2011 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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June 13, 2011, Monday, Hour #3
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Yeah, find it here somewhere.
I'll get to it before the show ends.
There's no question.
I've got it somewhere right here in the stack.
Yeah, it's the one about where QE2 went.
Bailing out the foreign banks.
I've got.
I'll get the detail.
The S E I U. This is from website, the Service Employees International Union website California.
Little post here on California's conservatives.
If we can't get them out, we'll breed them out.
We'll just breed conservatism out of California.
There's a scene in the movie Braveheart where King Edward, who went by the name of Long Shanks.
That movie.
You see the movie, yes, early.
Right.
Long Shanks laments that there are too many Scots.
His solution is to just declare reinstatement of the old practice primactis, which is to allow his nobles to have the right to take newlyweds Scottish wives to their beds on their wedding night.
Upon declaring it, Longshanks states, if we can't get him out, we'll breed him out.
Now there's wide speculation.
The practice is in fact fictional.
It seems the leaders of the California SEIU feeling there are too many conservatives holding public office in California, have adopted their own union version of the practice.
If we can't get them out, we'll breed them out.
California SEIU leaders are planning on getting rid of California's conservative lawmakers by taking over the California Republican Party by recruiting their own Republican candidates.
That's a smart political play if they can do it.
I mean, this is this is this is if your objective is to wipe out your enemy, just nominate your own people, put the label behind them, and hopefully get elected and maybe basically change definition of Republican in the state to be no different than what Democrat is.
Or liberal.
Well, that's the thing.
California's lost.
I don't know what more they want to accomplish out there.
California's lost.
For all intents and purposes, California's lost.
In terms of gone to liberalism with no end in sight.
California's gone.
Anyway, folks, it's great to be with you.
Happy to have you along.
Welcome back to the EIB network, Rush Limbaugh here at 800-282-2882.
I mentioned earlier the media can't decide whether I matter again.
Going back and forth as to whether or not they really need to worry about me and what I believe, say, do.
Remember, this is how I explained it on Friday, right here on this program.
They go back and forth.
One day I'm so serious and I'm so relevant that I'm the leader of the Republican Party.
The next day, I'm just abloviating entertainer.
In it for the money.
And literally, I can be both multiple times a day.
Right.
Depends on the news story.
Jonathan Martin at Politico was uh in a piece about Palin speculating about what she's going to be.
Does she really want to be a Republican elected official, a politician, running for office, or does she want to be a political celebrity, like Rush Limbaugh?
So it's a new characterization of me, political celebrity.
So that's that's that's how Jonathan Martin said.
That's what Palin's got to figure out.
She really wants to be an elected Republican official, or just a political celebrity like Limbaugh.
So let's go.
Last Thursday, we have a montage here.
This uh took place on PMS NBC.
And we're repeating this because it it facilitates our ultimate objective here.
Well, we played this last week.
This is a montage of members of the media replaying Nitt Romney's fate after I proclaimed his seeking a nomination basically over because of his stated position on man-made global warming, i.e., that the earth is getting warmer and that men are causing it.
This is how that went.
Romney stands by his view that the world is getting warmer and that man is an important contributor.
Then how will he fare when so many Republicans believe that global warming is in the words of Rosh Limbaugh, a complete hoax.
You've got 99.9% of the scientists in the world in one camp, but you have Rush Limbaugh on the other camp.
The Republican primaries probably limbaugh wins against all science and facts.
Rush Limbaugh saying bye-bye nomination.
Thanks to Rush Limbaugh, all of these Republican candidates are terrified of reaching out to mainstream voters.
Rush Limbaugh to declare him bye-bye, Vell.
Nomination over.
Man-made global warming is a hoax.
This is all Rush Limbaugh.
Did you know that 99.9% of all scientists believe it that man-made global warming is real?
That was uh Sink Youger at MSNBC making that point.
Uh, and that's me, all Republican candidates are terrified of reaching out to mainstream voters.
You realize you people are mainstream are the ones that believe hoaxes.
You in the mainstream, you're the ones that believe the hoax.
I mean, well, of course, they don't think it's the ho.
You believe man-made global warming.
And I, of course, I'm not a man of the mainstream at all.
So Friday night NPR All Things Considered, a weakened politics segment.
The guest David Brooks of the New York Times, who said this during a discussion of all things considered.
The one thing to be said about Huntsman is a lot of people are now saying, oh, he's too moderate to be the candidate.
It's important to remember that Rush Limbaugh is not the Republican primary voter.
Rush Limbaugh campaigned against John McCain for two years.
McCain still won the Republican primary in South Carolina and Florida.
Rush Limbaugh and the radio talk jucks are now campaigning against Mitt Romney for saying global warming may be real.
Campaign against John Huntsman, they do not deliver votes.
Okay, so nothing to worry about here.
Don't deliver votes.
And don't deliver votes.
I don't uh nothing to worry about here.
Um and by the way, I did not campaign against McCain for two years.
This is the thing about the primary people get mad at me.
I stayed out of it.
I did not endorse anybody in the in the primary and I But anyway, that's water under the bridge.
So the So the Well d David Brooks doesn't, I don't know, he doesn't deliver anything, but that's not his point.
He's not, I don't think he's saying he does.
He's responding here.
I'm gonna be fair, certainly he's responding to questions about uh all these Republicans who seem to be afraid, cross me.
And Brooks is saying, why are they afraid of Limbaugh?
I mean, look at Limbaugh endorsed a guy who loses.
Limbaugh didn't endorse a guy who wins.
Limbaugh doesn't deliver votes.
Brooks is trying to tell these guys, don't worry about Limbaugh.
He doesn't do anything.
That's that's uh that's Brooks' point.
Not that Brooks himself delivers votes, because Brooks doesn't deliver votes.
I don't think Brooks.
I don't know that Brooks intends to do.
I don't know what Brooks wants to do.
But I'm just he just responding.
The context is, again, all these Republicans, they seem to listen to Limbaugh, and that bugs these people.
So Brooks is trying to say, don't listen to Limbaugh, doesn't do anything.
There's a lot of mythology associated with Limbaugh.
People don't listen to Limbaugh.
So it continued.
And Melissa Block, who's the uh co-host out here, all things considered, said Brooks.
Well, the Republican debate Monday night, which is tonight.
I'm curious to hear what you're going to be listening for from the Republican candidates.
I wonder if they understand their base.
Their base is the white working class.
These people have seen their wages stagnate, their jobs decline, their social order fall apart.
Do any of them have an actual agenda that plays to the white working class as opposed to cutting corporate tax rates?
Huckabee last time actually did have an agenda, did have a feel for this population.
So far, uh Palenti, who should have a feel, that's his background, gave this speech, which was really sort of a Wall Street Journal editorial page speech, not so much a white working class speech.
Now that's amazing.
Palenti gave a speech.
What's what's so wrong with the Wall Street Journal editorial page?
Palency gave a speech advocating policies that will result in job creation for crying out loud.
Corporate tax reduction across the board, capital gains tax reduction.
Palency hit a great even Jack Welch, former NBC Prexy.
Palency had a great idea in his speech.
What's wrong with that?
So Brooks has to come out now and impugn Powenthi.
But now I guess Brooks is an expert on you, the Republican base, the white working class.
You've seen your wages stagnate, your jobs decline, your social order fall apart.
What Brooks doesn't understand is that all of you to whom this has happened understand why.
It's called Barack Obama.
What Brooks doesn't understand is that you know that the reversal of this path that we're on requires the defeat of Barack Obama in 2012.
That's what the Republican base understands.
And the Republican base is going to respond to anybody who wants to take it to Obama.
The Republican base, mark my words, is going to rally behind whichever candidate makes them think that that candidate is standing up and fighting for them.
The Republican base is not a color.
That's another fallacy on Mr. Brooks' part.
Republican base, the white working class.
The Republican base consists of the people who make this country work.
And they know what's standing in their way.
And it is liberalism and all who advocate it.
By the way, Mr. Brooks, don't forget Barack Hussein Obama in February of 2009, told John Boehner and other Republicans not to listen to Rush Limbaugh.
It was Obama's strategy during the midterms to run against me.
How did that turn out?
The Democrats' policies, strategy, campaign was to run against Rush Limbaugh, Mr. Brooks.
I don't really care about any of that.
But not knowing who the Republican base is, and Mr. Brooks, don't doubt me, they understand that it's not Tempellente that's their problem.
It's Barack Obama.
They understand it's Mr. Creese in his pants.
That's what they understand, Mr. Brooks.
They understand that you were the guy, totally flipping out over somebody for superficial reasons.
They have been really affected, hurt, damaged, harmed by the real world policies of Barack Obama and the Democrat Party, and that's what they want to change.
And any candidate in this debate tonight or any future debate who makes clear that he is unafraid to go after the reasons we are in this condition, led by Barack Obama is going to who wins this nomination.
It isn't going to be who's Mr. Moderate.
It isn't going to be who's the most serious.
It isn't going to be any of these quintessential pseudo-intellectual characterizations.
Because the people who make this country work don't have time for that right now.
It's crunch time.
It's serious.
They're losing everything they've worked for.
It is really horrifying.
It's really scary to people who do not want to live on welfare.
Up next on this show is Mike Murphy.
Now Mike Murphy is a Republican consultant, an electoral consultant.
If you recall Murphy during the Delaware senatorial primary and aftermath, he was a little upset because people said they knew how to get Christine O'Donnell elected, and he was of the opinion it couldn't have happened.
There was no way it could happen.
He said, okay, okay, you guys show me how.
You show me.
I'll sit here in Georgetown, I'll sip my cocktails, that's what you guys say I do.
I'm party elite sitting around in a cocktail party.
I'll do that.
You show me how it's done.
Murphy is like most consultants, he believes the election is won with that 20% of the electorate that calls itself moderate, independent, undecided, or what have you.
Which is all fine and dandy, but I I prefer candidates who try to get everybody, not just 20%.
But that's just me.
And of course I'm not a consultant, it's not in my business.
He knows it better than I do.
I don't pretend that I can do it better than he does, but I want you nevertheless listen to what he says yesterday on Meet the Press about the upcoming presidential erase from the standpoint or perspective of an electoral consultant, David Gregory said to Murphy, you framed this in your Time Magazine column in a very interesting way, which is the economy, of course, is the vulnerability.
The ace up his sleeve, as you wrote, is demographics.
He's talking about Obama.
The playing field is changing.
When Ronald Reagan was elected, you know, our favorite election we all like to talk about.
I got a little shrine in my house of candles and everything.
1980, 88% of the people who cast the vote in the presidential election were white, and they voted more Republican than Democrat.
In the last election, last presidential election, that was down to 74%.
And so what's happening is the voter groups that Republicans do a bad job of getting are growing quickly, particularly Latino voters.
We also have a trouble with young voters.
The demographics are pushing in a more democratic right now situation versus a bad economy.
If Republicans don't get into these new demographics, eventually we're going to run out of oxygen.
Oh, yeah.
Now what does that mean?
What do you think that here's a Republican consultant urging Republicans to go after new demographics?
Particularly Latino.
Well, uh, this is this is uh immigration.
This is amnesty.
This this is that that's what that's about.
You can't oppose, you can't oppose immigration reform.
That's we gotta go.
But here again, notice that the focus is on the hyphenated voter.
Do you have a policy to get that voter hyphenated and then this voter hyphenated?
I saw polling data last week, Obama no longer cool among young voters, yeah.
He no longer, he no longer Joe Campbell out there with these people, no longer Joe Cool.
He's uh he's lost it.
So you see, inside the beltway thinking is that Obama, not a shoe-in, but I mean a demographics moving in his way.
I mean, it's not over yet, but Obama's clearly the favorite in their way of thinking.
Got to take a timeout, we'll do it, we'll be back.
We will continue much more of your phone calls coming up after this.
Okay, so my my question to Mike Murphy and David Brooks, what how do you explain his landslide last November?
How do we explain this top to bottom shellacking that went beyond the federal all the way down to state level?
I mean, it was complete.
A total repudiation of liberalism in the Democrat Party, and the Republicans didn't run any.
By definition, they didn't.
There was no Republican candidate in the ballot.
There was no Republican issue per se.
There was just one opportunity to reject the status quo, and that was reject the Democrat Party.
It's what happened.
Now, how do you explain that?
How do you explain all of those different demographics voting Republican?
All across the country.
How is that I'm serious?
I'm not a political consultant.
How does this happen?
We didn't go out and make a play for Hispanic Americans and not allow them aware of, did we?
We weren't making a play for anybody.
Our leadership was cowering in fear in the corner, keeping their fingers crossed hoping that it would be a big win.
But they were saying, let's not say anything.
Okay, but if we're supposed to go get minorities, there then becomes a question.
What do we say to them?
What do we say to get the minorities?
Do we say, look, we can give just as well as the liberals?
We can put you on welfare programs just as easily as the liberals can.
Do we tell these various demographic groups trending toward Obama that, hey, hey, hey, what about us?
We can be liberals.
We'll pander to you.
We'll destroy your family as well as they do.
We'll we'll we'll drive up uh unemployment numbers among your democrats.
We can do everything the liberals will do.
We will destroy your family for you.
what would they tell us to say?
I prefer to speak to Americans as Americans.
I I Mr. Murphy, uh all due respect, I think I had the answer last week to this next campaign.
We got 9% unemployment.
Do you want 10?
You want more of the same?
They got four more years.
You want four more years of this?
Name for me anything that's happened the last four years that you want more of.
Do you want more unemployment?
Do you want more value in homes lost?
Do you want gasoline prices going up?
You want food prices going up?
What is there that's happened the last four years that you want more of?
Now, are we supposed to then realize that maybe some demographics do want more of this?
What tell me, where's the demographic that wants higher gas prices?
And where's the demographic that wants higher food prices?
See, our message is for everybody, and it is that big government is bad for everybody.
Big government harms everybody.
Big government socialism is bad for all peoples.
Unemployment, homelessness, high gas and food prices.
They don't know race or ethnicity.
They just know price.
That's the campaign.
You don't have to get demographic about it at all.
Okay, now that we've seen all of Sarah Palin's emails, could we finally get a list of all of Obama's tea times?
Maybe some of his grades somewhere.
Sir, do you realize what has been done here?
The singular effort to destroy a human being by the United States media.
Not all that uncommon, but I have rarely seen it this intense for this long.
Somebody who's not even elected, not even serving in office.
Twenty-four thousand emails.
They find nothing.
It backfired.
They're ticked off again.
They were so sure they were gonna find that smoking gun.
They didn't know what it would be.
They didn't know what it was, but all they could find out is that she's very serious, that she's nice woman, that she took being vice president very seriously.
And they also confirmed that she is the daughter of Trig.
You know, they tried to spread a rumor that she was the mother.
They spread a rumor that she was not the mother, that one of the daughters was.
They found out that she's imaginative, but actually told the truth about that.
What do you do?
I'll tell you what.
Palin did better in her public colonoscopy than Katie Couright did in hers.
Raleigh, North Carolina, this is Chris.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Great to have you with us.
Hello.
All right, Rush.
Thanks for having me.
You bet, sir.
Look, um, as a member of that uh conservative base, I'd really like to get back to Romney.
Right, okay.
I don't know who's advising him.
Do what he's doing.
But not going to the caucus to greet the base.
Oh, we the people is not the right plan.
He's skipping, he's skicking the hawkeye cockeye, and he's skipping, I think New Hampshire isn't.
What do you expect to get the the minority vote when your candidate won't address we the people?
What is the difference between Ronnie and Obama avoiding we the people?
Well, Obama did not avoid the Hawkeye Cocaye.
He in fact he's avoiding we the people now.
So I'm looking at a potential candidate who is avoiding the case.
Well, but wait, Romney's Romney's not going to be the only politician to skip the Hawkeye Cocaye.
I mean, it's he's not the only guy to ever have done that.
I mean, look at why skip Something you're gonna lose.
If if you're the front runner and you go someplace you're gonna lose and you do lose, you know what's gonna be said about that.
I know what's going to be said is that this is the second time around and you're still scared to go.
You think one would learn how to do that?
No, he's no, he's simply populations.
No, he's he's got a strategy where he wins it without having to do the Hawkeye Coke.
And New Hampshire.
To me, he just m looks more and more like Obama by doing that.
I mean, he's that's part of the Greece debate.
It's a risk.
I mean, there might be more people like you than he understands.
He must not get it.
He's doing a wiener.
Wiener's avoiding the constitution.
How's that working for him?
Uh I I don't know.
I I can understand.
You know, uh Iowa, who wants to be who wants to have it written about you that you're finished after the first cawkeye when you're not?
Well it would it uh when it would it really who who wants to spend a million plus dollars and somebody's gonna lose anyway, or you think you're going to lose.
You get no results.
It's uh I don't know.
I I don't think that that's that well to me personally it's not.
If it I'm not saying it shouldn't offend you.
If it does offend you, let it that's uh that's fine.
I just understand the strategy of all this and the nomination's not won in Iowa.
But if you're Romney with this proclaimed front runner status, you could lose the whole thing if you go into uh Iowa get skunked.
You know, the politics of perception, perception is reality and so forth.
Caucuses are easy to game.
Obama did it.
Obama stacked the caucus.
Uh big time back in uh in the in 2000 eight.
Anyway, Chris, I appreciate the call.
This is Mary and Louisville.
Great to have you on the EIB network hi.
Rush, husband.
Thank you very much.
Thank you.
Oh, well, we're a huge fans.
We have lots of little rush boys for you.
We had five sons.
We're huge fans.
We missed the days when we had rush time in your show on at night.
I guess that was about twenty years ago, nine years.
Yeah, the television show, yeah, fifteen years ago, yeah.
Was it fifteen?
Well, it's it's been a long time.
It was our favorite thing to watch at night, and um we have two out of the nets now who are who are rush babies and voting conservatives.
But I wanted to comment on this real man thing, and I'm frustrated because I have five boys, and it's if our culture follow boys nightly, as they see a girl a princess, imagine how we would have real men leaders who have nobleness, who have courage to do the right thing, and are willing to fight, like Sarah Palin's willing to fight.
And our schools don't allow our boys to read nightly literature, to read historical literature that can encourage this.
Instead, they have to read things like The Secret Life of Bees.
And so they're not being taught in their elementary and high school levels, literature that enforces noble knightly behavior.
Um so you want you you think it is productive for uh men to be taught to treat women as princesses.
No, I'm saying our culture treats all little girls like they're a princess.
And therefore they are noble and good from the get-go.
Oh but our culture treats our boys as criminals from the get-go.
Oh, I see.
Instead of treating them as knights in training, who are gonna fight the hard battle and and make the good choices.
I see.
I see.
Well, there's clearly some evidence for what you say.
I don't I don't know that it's um uh universal, but yeah, little girls are angels and harmless and so forth, and little boys the devils.
Um but the literature But that's see, that's a construct of liberalism.
It's that the that's a construct of feminism, particularly.
Well, feminism is really disappointing.
Well, yeah.
It's uh it's it's wreaked Havoc on uh on on any number of things.
Mary appreciate the call.
Clarkston, uh, Michigan next.
Julie, welcome to the EIB network.
Hello.
Hello, Rush.
Speak loud because I'm losing my hearing.
Um what I called about was your when you get on the subject of feminism and chickenfication.
I just think today you went way overboard.
But I want to say you are my mentor and my professor.
But let me ask you one question.
Okay.
Because you go off on are women more moral.
Well, percentages, if, for example, in prison.
Are there how many women are there compared to men?
And my second question is in divorces.
How many are caused by men's infidelity as opposed to women?
But we're not going to have any statistics on that because most divorces say uh they just can't get along, or you know.
Right.
So even in your own personal life, you look around.
Do you see more divorces caused by women or men?
Well, I don't, I have really never tabulated it, but but that's the the the what is it that what I said today that you think went over the top that's led you to ask me about divorces.
Because we weren't talking about divorces.
Um they saying women are more moral than men, blah, blah, blah.
No, I'm this is what the women on the ABC show were intimating that they are more moral and that they are more uh uh peaceful and understanding and this kind of thing.
I was bouncing off what some guests on a Sunday show said.
Uh I don't know.
I love your rest, but it it when you talk about those things, I feel like you're talking about all women, and there's no always and there's no never.
All feminists.
I was talking about all feminists.
Okay.
Feminism is liberalism, it's an ideology.
It's and and it's uh it's all encompassing.
All right.
Liberalism is not something I can live with.
But I just want to say one more thing.
Yes.
Anthony Wiener is not what he is because of feminism or any of that.
Anthony Weiser Wiener is just a screwed-up creep.
You cannot do that.
Okay, now we get to the nub of it.
Now we find out what upset you.
Good.
Here's the point.
We're always told throughout my life, we've always had to find the socioeconomic reason to explain why the bad guy did it.
And it was never the bad guy's responsibility.
We always had to find some existential thing to blame.
It was economics, or it was Reagan.
I mean, and a lot of, you know, Reagan was responsible for homelessness to a lot of people's minds, because he didn't care.
Um, so I'm simply throwing it back at him.
Did you ever think that Wiener might have turned out the way he did because of who raised him, because of who he was hanging around, who influenced him, and who he was trying to escape.
Gotcha.
I understand what it's like.
Okay, Wiener is a creep.
There's no question.
Uh and this is as I said, not defending what he did.
But look, all the while they're telling us morality doesn't matter.
Julie, now follow me on the throughout this whole my twenty-two, twenty-three years behind this microphone.
The left has told us social issues, get rid of them.
Morality, none of anybody's business.
Don't be judgmental.
It's not your job.
You have no right to tell anybody what's right or wrong.
You who are you to say something moral or immoral?
Not to me, but to just conservatives in general and society at large.
And as such, the family values crowd and the moral majority and people who have sought to live in moral ways are often called hypocrites when they fall, when they slip.
The Democrats say we don't have to be moral because we've never said to anybody that we are.
We don't believe in morality.
We don't believe in the social issues.
We've never trumpeted them or any of that.
But look what happens.
Wiener comes along and all of a sudden, guess who cares about morality?
They do.
Guess who it is pushing for Wiener to quit?
They are.
Because Wiener is not right.
Wiener is immoral.
Wiener is this the very people who spent all of my life telling me that that doesn't matter.
That is nobody's business, are now the ones doing the 180 and suggesting Wiener has to go because of moral failings.
It's the ultimate in hypocrisy.
They tell us to ignore moral issues, to get away from God, to get away from faith.
And now they tell us that morality does matter.
And on a Sunday show yesterday, they told us that women are more moral than men.
Ergo.
My response.
Wiener was their guy.
Huge big government lib.
They loved Wiener.
They dismissed the social and moral issues.
They don't like it.
And now he gets ensnared by him.
They tried to save him for a while.
Now even they admit that he's got to go.
And on the Sunday show, it's Wiener that became an example of all men and their immorality.
As articulated by the guests on the show, not mine.
I'm repeating what they said in reacting to it.
And what I'm saying to Wiener is don't let them lick you.
You hang in there and don't quit.
Hope in San Antonio.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Hi.
Hi, thanks so much for taking my call, Ryan.
Um I was calling about the um conversation regarding uh men being kiddie ripped and having been born in New York and then living in uh Boston for 15 years.
I was in the Northeast my entire life until four years ago.
Uh managed to escape to Texas.
And I can attest to the fact that especially in the Northeast, where you know, feminism is the is the buzzword, um men aren't men anymore, and I don't know what the women are.
Um, you know, when so-called feminists think the world of someone like Hillary Clinton who would stay with a man who cheated on her just if she could get power and and provide such a bad daughter.
Oh, it's horrible.
But also, you know, coming down here, men open the door for you.
They're afraid to do that in the Northeast.
They're afraid they'll get yelled at or they're they'll get a look.
And the women down here are not barefoot and pregnant, I'll tell you, not unless they want to be.
They are strong, they can shoot the flies off a wing, and they are smart.
And it's nice being around men who are men.
I mean, I tweeted the leaders of the GOP after the bucket fiasco and the um in the lane duck session and said, you know, there seems to be a dearth of testosterone in DC right now, and maybe I'll want to call Sarah Penn and T. He can borrow some of them.
You know, without without generalizing, I've I have made the point.
I have made the point that real men in Washington are not the real men of the Marlboro days.
They just they're just not.
And it is, you know, feminism does have consequences, and it has had, and I have to go.
Be right back, though.
What?
No, a couple days.
I'll tell everybody a couple days.
Wednesday.
Still stringing along.
Wednesday's a big day.
Uh green job success eludes Obama, says Politico.
Uh no, every job success eludes Obama.
It's not just green jobs.
There aren't any jobs, period.
See you tomorrow, folks.
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