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Aug. 15, 2011 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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August 15, 2011, Monday, Hour #2
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And greetings, welcome back.
It's Rush Limbaugh, the EIB Network, Anna Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
You might say the Limbaugh Institute for Ideological Purity.
Telephone number is 800-282-2882.
The email address, lrushbo at eibnet.com.
So the Tea Party is a bunch of racists.
Same people, same people who like Herman Kane, same people who like Marco Rubio, the same people who like Clarence Thomas, same people who like Alan West, same people who like Tom Scott and on and on and on.
We are racist, they say.
Tell me, how many liberals voted for Clarence Thomas to the Supreme Court?
That's right.
Zip Zero, Nada.
How many liberals voted for Rubio for Senate?
Not very many.
Now, why is Debbie Blabbermouth Schultz constantly attacking Alan West?
Because she's racist.
Obviously, it has to be because she's racist.
She just doesn't like black politicians or Republicans.
Speaking of which, grab audio somebody 24.
I happen to mention that Debbie Blabbermouth Schultz got heckled.
And when Romney got heckled, it was all over TV.
By the way, that was one of Romney's finest moments, too.
He was better responding to the hecklers than he was in the debate later that night.
What's so funny about that?
I don't mean that as an insult.
I mean, I think these guys unleashed are much better than when they're quasi-scripted like they are in these debates.
What did Romney say?
He said that Obama's killing jobs.
He's done more damage to this country in 25 years.
Whatever he said, it was right on the money.
And I've never heard him say it in a debate scenario or a campaign stump.
Anyway, late Friday in Des Moines, Iowa, at the Iowa State Fair, the Democrat National Committee Chair, Debbie Blabbermouth Schultz, spoke.
And during her speech, she was heckled by audience members.
We have a portion, and you will also hear the hecklers.
But we had to look hard to find this because this does not lend itself to network-wide coverage.
We need to make sure when it comes to Medicare, should we be adding another $6,400 in premiums to our senior citizens?
No.
We shouldn't.
We need to come together and work together.
You know what?
We have an example here of the division in this country.
We're sick and dangerous.
And the division in this country needs to end.
We need to go together.
We need to work together, and I know we can.
We're sick and tired of being tired.
Hear that?
We're sick and tired of being tired.
Stop caving into Wall Street.
Here's Debbie Blabbermouth Schultz.
We need to come together.
We need to work together.
I know we can.
Oh, look, there's our president.
He's out there in Cannon Falls, Minnesota.
Should we jip a little of this?
We never know what you may.
Our cameras and microphones are there.
Let's listen a little bit of this.
Basically, what we need to do is we need to cut about $4 trillion over the next 10 years.
Now, that sounds like a big number.
It is a big number.
But, you know, if we were able to, as I proposed, $2 trillion in spending.
Space alien attack.
That's the answer.
Folks who could best afford it, millionaires and billionaires, were willing to eliminate some of the loopholes that they take advantage of in the tax code and do a little bit more.
This is what people want to hear.
And if we were willing to take on some of the long-term costs that we have on healthcare.
Well, I'm inspired.
I am really inspired.
If we do those things, we could solve this problem.
Really?
Is that it?
I put a deal before the Speaker of the House, John Boehner, that would solve the problem.
He walked away because his belief was we can't ask anything of millionaires and billionaires and big corporations in order to close our deficit.
Okay, that's enough.
There's no applause.
There's no rah-rah.
This is not what people want to hear.
$4 trillion in cuts wouldn't be necessary if he hadn't run it up.
Number one.
Number two, people want jobs.
I really don't think at this stage people give a rear whatsoever about the rich having a tax increase.
And a lot of people understand: how's that going to help me?
You know, for years, the Democrats have been going to this class envy business and they've been trying to tell people, you know, there's a lot of people out there doing better than you.
Millionaires, billionaires, corporate jet owners, yacht owners.
You know, we're going to tax them.
We're going to raise taxes on them.
Yay!
Now, after that happens, how's your life any better off?
In fact, it may be worse off if you happen to work for one of them.
This is uninspiring.
This is off point.
And more than that, and I can tell in just that little brief jip that we just did, the difference in this Obama and 2008 campaign Obama is profoundly stark.
There is no rah-rah.
There is no lifting up.
There's no lowering of the seas or any of this messionic stuff.
And more than that, more than that, there is something else.
I'll tell you how bad it is.
Folks, this is hilarious.
I just noticed this.
MSNBC, take a look at that.
They got a split screen.
They got Obama on the left, and they got F. Chuck Todd.
Now, Obama's doing his big rah-rah speech, right?
And they're not, they're covering Chuck Todd, whatever he's saying about it, not Obama.
They're showing Obama, now they're back to Andrea Mitchell.
Okay, now they've got back to Obama.
It's so bad that in order to save Obama's face, they had to cut out of it and have F. Chuck Todd translate what Obama's trying to say, then tell that to Andrea Mitchell, NBC News, Washington, and they go back to Obama.
That's hilarious.
That's something that has to be seen to be believed.
I've never seen that before.
But what I was going to say is, there's simply no humor.
Have you noticed Obama does not have a sense of humor about anything?
Well, I don't.
But, well, everybody's got a sense of humor.
I mean, he has, you know, a sense of humor is a sense.
He has no sense of humor.
I'm not.
Well, I know he's a cold, cold guy, but he has no sense of humor, jocularity.
He's out there.
Somebody needs to tell him that it's not 1933 anymore.
The New Deal policies of 1933 are not going to win the future.
They didn't even win the past.
Even Paul Krugman knows that.
Paul Krugman admitted it on CNN yesterday by saying essentially it was an alien invasion, i.e., World War II.
Got us out of the New Deal.
Nope, nobody's fainting in Minnesota.
Now, normally in a thing like this, Obama says, oh, wait, wait, somebody, somebody front row just, oh, no, give him some room out there.
We got Medic, Medic.
Give some air, some air, some water.
Medic.
Hadn't happened.
Sparse applause.
Looks like a relatively small crowd in Cannon Falls, Minnesota, standing in front of the falls.
But it looks like if he took one step back, he'd be falling in the water.
I mean, it's just the optics.
Maybe the optics are supposed to be he's standing on the water.
Now, the Romney hecklers, just to talk about the Romney hecklers were professional protesters put there by George Soros money.
They were sent there by Organizing for America.
Blabbermouth Schultz said that Obama's in great shape.
And he's saying that if we could just freeze current spending, we would cut more than $7 billion.
Now, you know where that comes from?
See, folks, we had the news last, it was a couple of weeks ago now, because of the baseline, that if Boehner were to announce just a budget freeze, next year we're going to spend not one dime more than we did this year.
The CBO would score that as a $9.5 trillion cut over 10 years.
So Obama has picked that up and said, if we just freeze current spending, we would cut more than $7 billion.
How does that see?
That alone gives away the game.
A freeze equals a cut of $7 billion.
No, it doesn't.
In his lingo, a freeze means there's $7 billion that we wouldn't spend, but we're not cutting anything.
So Obama increases the deficit by $4 trillion in less than two and a half years.
Why can't we cut it by $4 trillion in two and a half years?
Because we don't want to.
He doesn't want any cuts.
And I doubt, folks, I'm watching MSNBC.
I'm watching Fox.
There must not be much diversity in the crowd because we're not seeing any of the audience.
We're seeing, I saw one audience shot from the rear, and you couldn't tell who was who.
Didn't look like a large crowd, but obviously it doesn't fit the network mold of diversity.
Otherwise, we'd be seeing more of the crowd.
And we're back.
Rush Lindborne, the cutting edge of societal evolution to Covington, Louisiana.
Frank, great to have you on the program.
Hello.
It's a pleasure to speak with you, Rush.
Thank you very much, sir.
I've been a registered Democrat for 28 years, and I've been wanting to join the Teeth Party, but I guess you're right.
It is a state of mind.
And there's so many things lately that have turned me.
when the ATF and the FBI and the Justice Department all got in collusion to sell firearms to the Mexican gangsters and God knows who else.
Then when our border agent was killed with those weapons and they refused to give the family victim status, that's corruption to me.
Eric Holder and the rest of them, they prosecute our states.
They prosecute anybody who's against the Obama regime.
And I'm totally disheartened.
When I guess it was three or four years ago when he was on TV and he was a senator and they were playing the Pledge of Allegiance.
The man was holding his crotch.
I don't know if you remember that picture, but I sure do.
Well, I don't really remember crotch shot pictures of Westlands.
They involve women.
It was with Hillary Clinton and the mayor of New Mexico, Richardson.
Yeah, the three of them were standing up on a podium.
There was an American flag behind them, naturally.
They were playing the national anthem.
And Richardson and Hillary Clinton had their hands over their hearts, and he was holding his crotch.
And I started to get a queasy feeling then.
Well, you know, this is not, this is, it's not your dad's Democrat Party.
This is a whole bunch of different people.
This is not the Democrat Party.
You're 28-year Democrat.
You say this is not at all the Democrat Party it was 28 years ago.
Well, I think it is because they condone them.
And I'm just sick after 28 years.
I want to be a Tea Party member.
And I don't know if saying I want to be independent, like you said, and I agree.
It's a state of mind.
It is.
It is.
And again, they're totally bamboozled by it.
They're trying to construct a Tea Party as though it is an actual organized party, almost a third party.
They know full well what the Tea Party is.
The Tea Party, and that's why it scares them.
The Tea Party actually is comprised, Frank, of people just like you.
Most of them have never been involved in politics at all other than voting.
They've not gone to a protest.
They've not gone to a meeting.
They've not gone to a town hall.
They've not done any of that.
They're just fed up with spending.
They're fed up with the expansion of government.
They're fed up with the disrespect being shown the traditions and institutions that have defined this country's greatness.
And they're standing up and they're saying no more.
Pure and simple.
And they are an independent force.
They are as opposed to Republicans who are wild spendthrifts as they are Democrats.
They are conservatives.
Pure and simple.
They are conservatives.
And there's a heap big number of them.
Little Indian lingo there.
There's a lot of them.
And there's no way to capture the numbers of the Tea Party.
There's no way to capture in a poll how big or how small a Tea Party is.
It's not possible.
That's why all this is a joke.
It's wishful thinking.
Tell me, what in the world has happened to cause the Tea Party, which they want us to believe is a bunch of independents.
What's happened to cause the Tea Party to abandon?
The Tea Party is more stoked than ever.
The Tea Party shows up and they vote in droves in November.
They create a landslide for the Republicans, and now they see a lot of the Republicans they voted for not following through.
That does not mean they're slinking away in depression.
They're gearing up for another election to get rid of whoever it is standing in the way of reducing the onerous size and reach of this government.
They are expanding in number, they are expanding in energy, and they are expanding in influence.
And that's precisely the Democrats know this, and the media knows it.
It's precisely why you know these bogus stories about how polling data shows independents are abandoning the Tea Party.
I mean, it's something that's impossible to poll.
Wishful thinking.
Here's Carolyn Villanova, Pennsylvania.
Great to have you on the Rush Limbaugh program.
Hi.
Hi, Rush.
How are you?
Very well.
Thanks very much.
We're in the middle of a huge thunderstorm here.
So if I lose you, it's because of the thunderstorm.
All right.
I just have to say one thing about, I think you were wrong today about something you said.
Oh, no.
Well, don't get upset.
It's not a really huge mistake.
Oh, good.
But you did say that you thought almost everybody has a sense of humor.
Yeah.
And I have to disagree with you on that because I think most really left-wing nutcases do not have senses of humor.
Well, yeah.
Yeah.
In public, you may have a point.
In public, you may have a point.
I really think they don't.
I mean, I've talked to many of them, and I have a hard time having a good time with them and just discussing because they can never laugh about anything.
Yeah, but you know, Ted Kennedy and Chris Dodd, when they were doing the waitress sandwich thing, I mean, they were having a blast.
They found a lot of humor in that.
When they're in private, but you're right.
I know what you mean.
Their hands, they're ringing their hands.
So they take them both so seriously.
They're just as serious as a heart attack.
Right.
So anyway, the other thing I wanted to say was I just cannot believe how hypocritical this administration is.
They're talking about all the debt and the deficit and they're going to take from the millionaires and the billionaires.
And here's this guy.
He's the first one as a candidate, a presidential candidate, to raise a billion dollars for a campaign.
Right.
You've got to be kidding me.
From millionaires and billionaires.
That's obscene.
And who are the idiots that keep giving him money?
Great.
Because they're the ones he's going to go after.
Great question.
Great question.
Well, they're not loyalists for reasons other than intellectual application.
They're loyalists either to the party or they're just guilty white people.
But believe me, there's still plenty of those around.
Or they simply are doing what they think they have to do to stay in good favor with their bosses, i.e., as in Hollywood.
There's any number of reasons.
What about all the ones out of Wall Street?
He just had a fundraiser up there a couple of weeks ago.
And I think to get in, it was like $36,000.
Yep.
They're all in on the joke.
I just don't understand it.
But I will say that 90% of the people that I know that voted for him are absolutely never voting for that guy a second time.
Well, I hope that that's true nationwide.
Just remember, some of these big donors don't ever forget they're trying to buy waivers for their companies from health care or other aspects of Obama-ism.
Story from Cybercast News Service from Friday, an analysis based on U.S. Census Bureau data by the Employment Policies Institute, the EPI, never heard of them, shows that the average unemployment rate for teenagers 16 to 19 in the District of Columbia was 50.1% as of June 2011.
This corresponds with data from the Bureau of Labor statistics showing that for D.C., the annual average unemployment rate for teenagers in 2010 was 49.8%.
Michael Saltzman, research fellow at EPI, provided the 50.1% figure to the cybercastnewservice.com as an update of an analysis that he compiled based on the Census Bureau's current population survey.
Now, that 50.1% figure is almost double the average teen unemployment rate in June of 2007 in D.C. when it was 26.2%.
Now stop and think about this for a second here.
Average teenage unemployment rate in Washington, 50 percent, basically.
What do people in that size, that greater number, that is not a healthy circumstance or situation?
I mean, some to keep an eye on, folks.
50% teenage unemployment, nation's capital.
Not predicting anything, just keep a sharp eye on it.
Colbert King in the Washington Post, it's no time for a presidential vacation.
That won't stop Obama, but still Colbert King is not happy.
Is there anybody in the White House with nerve enough to tell Barack Obama that Martha's Vineyard is the last place on earth the president of the United States should find himself next week?
Now, don't get me wrong.
I don't begrudge the chief executive a little time off from the Oval Office, but to be leaving town to spend 10 days luxuriating in an affluent New England summertown when millions of Americans can't find work, to fly off to the vineyard when the public is losing faith in Washington's ability to fix the nation's economic problems with people anxious about their futures.
What's he thinking?
It's not as if the Obama family is living in deprivation in Washington.
Without leaving the White House grounds, they have access to five full-time chefs, a tennis court, a bowling alley, a swimming pool, a jogging trail, a putting green, a movie theater that shows first-run films on demand.
That's hardly roughing it.
And if the president ever feels the need to get away, let's say to seek a little solitude and tranquility beyond the confines of hot and humid Washington, the American taxpayers have thoughtfully provided a secluded country residence for the first family's exclusive use called Camp David.
A hardship post it is not.
Camp David comes equipped with 24-hour guard service, including fighter jets to keep gawkers and riffraff out of sight.
For presidential enjoyment, Camp David's wooded mountaintop has a swimming pool, a sauna, tennis courts, a bowling alley, a trout stream, and movie facilities, again with first-run features on demand.
Plus, there are guest cottages, should the Obamas wish to have a few friends over.
And of course, highly trained chefs are also on hand to provide top-quality meals.
But that seems to be not enough when stacked against Cape Cod.
A Washington Post poll this week showed confidence in Obama to make the right decisions for the country's economic future is down 10 points to 33% since January.
His vacation decision-making ranks right down there, too.
This is not the way a president should be spending his time.
Not when, for the first time in U.S. history, the country's credit rating has been downgraded.
When so many families are barely scraping by, many not knowing where the next mortgage or rent payment's coming from.
Not when nearly three-quarters of Americans polled say that they have little or no confidence in Washington's ability to repair the economy, up from half in October of last year.
The White House confirmed the president would travel to the Vineyard, presumably in his taxpayer-provided jet, after a bus tour starts today and takes him through Minnesota, Iowa, and Illinois.
Obama shouldn't quit his visit to America at midweek.
I'll be so bold as to suggest that if his family really has a hankering for the vineyard, which will mark their third straight summer outing there, then by all means, let them go.
But he's got to stay behind.
This is no time for the president to dwell in splendid seclusion among the rich and famous.
Barack Obama's got business to attend to.
He should use this summer to spend some time with people who can't afford to take a vacation, and not just in Iowa, Illinois, Minnesota, which happened to be states that he won in 2008.
Mr. President, people are hurting all over America.
Listen to inner-city parents across the dinner table, blue-collar workers in unemployment lines, suburban middle-class families, one paycheck away from hitting up the in-laws for a loan and being told no because they don't have anything either.
Hear what's in their hearts.
Experience their anger and frustration, not through cards and letters, but firsthand, face-to-face.
Explain yourself to them.
Tell them about your plan to strengthen this weak economy.
There isn't one, Colby.
That's the problem.
To help get them on their feet.
He doesn't have a plan, Colby.
It's not what he's about.
Tell them about how you'll get the better of congressional conservatives who have had a high old time getting the better of you.
He doesn't know how.
Mr. King.
Show him, if you can, Mr. President, where you're taking the country.
And it's not you, sir, who's being taken.
Colby is not a question of where he's taking the country.
It's where he has taken the country, and everybody knows it.
We're not on the way.
We have arrived.
Destitution Central.
And this is what Obama thinks the country deserves.
We've got to pay for our past sins.
We've been falsely rich for way too many years at the expense of way too many other countries.
About time we learned what it's like to live in other parts of the world.
That's what the Obama agenda is all about.
No, Mr. President, Martha's Vineyard is the last place in the world you should visit next week.
You simply don't have time to take time off from America.
Boy, there's a lot of pressure out there, folks.
I have to tell you.
Now, this, I may be making too big a deal out of this.
But neither network, well, I don't know about CNN, but nobody's covering Obama anymore out there on his trail.
CNN's not either.
Not a good sign, folks.
Not a good sign.
It means that the president's not inspiring anybody out there.
And I have to tell you, what I saw on MSNBC during the last commercial break, maybe two commercial breaks ago, I decided not to just look at it, but I listened.
And they had a split screen, and on the left was Obama out there in Cannonball, Minnesota, or Cannon Run, whatever.
And he's speaking, shirt sleeves, and he's speaking and gesticulating.
And in the other screen is Chuck Todd.
So normally when Obama speaks, I mean, these people get out of the way, and whatever Obama says gets full coverage.
So I tuned in.
You know what F. Chuck was talking about?
Michelle Bachman.
He was ripping on Michelle Bachman for some uncouth maneuver of hers somewhere in Iowa, fundraising, signing autographs.
I don't know what it was all about, but while Obama was, it must have been so bad that NBC decided they could do more damage, or put it a different way, they could help Obama more by not covering what he was saying, just showing him out there speaking, while having F. Chuck Todd and Andrea Mitchell rip into Michelle Bachman.
Now, that's a first and a sure sign that whoever running the show behind the scenes at MSNBC did not think Obama was good TV at that point.
Let's see.
So Obama's out there in his bus tour.
Is he going to meet up with Tavis Smiley and Cornell West?
You know, they got a poverty tour.
We covered their poverty tour last week.
Their poverty tour went to C-SPAN and MSNBC and CNN.
And I haven't heard anything about the poverty tour since then.
But they visited all the liberal media outlets.
They're complaining about how hard the poor have it in Obamaville.
But they didn't get out into Obamaville.
Now that maybe Tavis Smiley, well, no, I take it.
Tavis doesn't want to meet up with Obama because Obama's never invited Tavis to the White House.
So forget that.
That won't happen.
The Cornell West, Brother Cornell and Brother Tavis, poverty tour will not meet up with the debt men driving.
Okay, here it is.
This is what was going on.
Now, this is not what I heard.
This is not F. Chuck Todd berating Michelle Bachman while Obama's speaking, but this is during Andrew and Mitchell reports on MSNBC.
This is while Obama is speaking at the first stop on the bus.
There's split screen.
Imagine Obama in a big portion of the left side of the screen and on the right, back and forth with F. Chuck Todd and Andrea Mitchell.
Chuck, it sounds to me as though he's campaigning as though he were Harry Truman.
This is right out of that playbook running against Congress.
That's exactly right.
These people waited in line to get tickets.
These are supporters.
They didn't get handed out to supporters.
It was open to the public, but you had to wait two, three hours standing in line, hope that you could get it.
They didn't hand out very many tickets.
And so they were excited to be here, excited to be at the event.
They were all excited supporters, you could tell, of him in 2008.
And they felt very nervous, like nervous supporters of him, is probably the best way to describe them.
Nervous supporters?
Nervous is how you feel when your team's in the Super Bowl and you got no confidence they're going to win.
That's what a nervous supporter is.
But see, they're not even, they're telling us what he's like Harry Truman.
Who's to know?
They're not letting us hear him.
And they're telling us who the supporters are.
Not very many of them had to wait two or three hours in a line.
All supporters, very nervous, like nervous supporters of him.
The best way to describe them.
Why would they be nervous?
Who's next?
Holly in Texas, Ernest.
Welcome to the program.
Yes, sir.
A long-time listener and first-time quarter, sir.
By the way, where are you from in Texas?
Harlegan?
Hollychen, Texas, Deep South, Texas, sir.
Right, okay.
Watching President Rick Perry, that's it, sir.
And also, I heard about yesterday, meet the press.
She was Several Palin, Severin Michelle Bakken was being trampled by what's his name, David Gregory.
Oh, yeah, David Gregory, right?
Yes, on that on that gay of the Dean Matter.
And she was, I think it was unfair what he was saying, you know, all those things.
I didn't see it.
I was, I have to tell you, I was out of it until about noon Sunday.
But who was David Gregory talking about?
George, he was asking her questions about her beliefs and all that, and about how she felt about the gay people being in her office and all that.
And he was hammering and hammering and hammering.
And, you know, it didn't.
Yeah, yeah.
I don't know of a classy way of saying this.
So maybe I just better not even try.
No, snurdly.
I'm just thinking if they ever, well, if next time Obama has a colonoscopy, I wonder who they'll find in there.
Which NBC personality will show up first?
Pat Boiling Springs, South Carolina.
Welcome to the EIB Network.
Hello.
Hi, Rush.
Thanks for taking my call.
You bet.
I wanted to comment what you were talking about earlier.
You hit the nail on the head when you said tea party was a state of mind.
I've been talking to myself because my husband and I watch the news and we get so upset.
Like, us and everybody we know feels the same way.
They don't go to parties.
They don't go to rallies.
But everybody feels the same way just because they're not involved in an organized thing.
You just know that this is not the way things get done in this country.
You know instinctively this is not how this country's operated in the past.
You know instinctively something's wrong here.
Well, you know, I've been doing a lot of reading in the last couple of years.
You know, I guess as you get older, you get more interested and more intense in what's going on.
Yeah.
Just how the founding fathers had found, started our country and what they went through.
And then I look what they're doing now, and it breaks your heart.
It breaks your heart that we were given this wonderful, wonderful country.
I know.
I know.
You know, it's a tough thing to come to grips with the fact, Pat, that there are people in this country who don't love it.
I just can't understand that.
And I can't understand people that...
Herder more gets worse.
You've got people in this country who actively dislike it.
Yeah, well, you know, my brother, after graduate school, this was in the early 70s, for some reason, he was able to, with his friend, travel through Eastern Europe and the communist countries.
And at that time, he was very liberal.
He spent six months over there and came back with a total, total perspective of what our country is.
How long have you been interested in this?
When did you first get interested in all this?
You know, when I was young, my husband and I, we'd turn the news on and say, this is boring.
You know, we're in our 20s and our 30s.
Probably in the last 15 years, we really started paying attention.
But in the last, when I'm telling you, the last four years or so, it's like we've got a great, great interest in the world.
Yeah, well, what you really mean is the last three and a half.
Yeah, yeah.
That's really what you mean.
And you're not alone.
You are not alone.
Okay, I've got a note here about what Gregory was harassing Bachman on homosexuality.
That's what the caller was trying to talk about.
And she handled it well.
She's handling everything well.
She's so poised.
She looks so good.
She's doing such a great job, Michelle Bachman.
Okay, folks, fastest three hours in media.
Two of them already done.
And on the way over to the Limbaugh Broadcast Museum, which you can see at rushlimbaugh.com.
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