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Feb. 7, 2012 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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February 7, 2012, Tuesday, Hour #2
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Hey, here's a shock from the Associated Press just now, breaking news.
Appeals court rules that California's voter approved ban on same-sex marriages is unconstitutional.
Voter approved.
People in California, can you say Prop 187 have voted again, and an appeals court has said, uh-uh, uh, you can't do that.
That's unconstitutional.
Why even bother to have elections in California?
Why even bother to go through this process?
This is uh letting the guys in the black robes decide everything.
Now, greetings, welcome back, Rush Limbaugh, the EIB network and the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
Telephone numbers 800-282-2882, the email address L Rushball at EIBNet.com.
We were talking in the last hour about area of common ground.
What do we have to agree with people like Obama and the whole Democrat Party?
We don't.
There aren't any areas of commonality, folks.
We have a Democrat Party led by a man whose avowed aim is to change America, transform it.
And his biggest impediment is the Constitution.
That's the single biggest obstacle he's got.
I wish I could tell you the biggest obstacle he's got's the Republican Party, but sadly that's not the case.
The biggest obstacle Obama has is the Constitution.
You think it's a coincidence?
Grab audio soundbite number 28.
Here's a proud member of this new progressivism.
A proud member of the Democrat Party and the American left who think the Constitution here is an obstacle.
It's an impediment.
And you know why?
Because it doesn't say what the government can do.
The Constitution is a document that empowers citizens.
It empowers the individual over the state.
And that is despised by people like Obama.
That's despised by most Democrats.
It is the state.
Many doofuses believe an altruistic state which is to have dominion over citizens.
Citizens are a block of nameless, faceless robotic parts to be collectively controlled and manipulated and shaped and formed by the altruistic state.
The Constitution has proscriptions against government.
The Bill of Rights tells government what it cannot do.
Obama and his buddies have a name for this.
They say the Constitution is a set, if you will, of negative liberties, negative liberties from the point of view of the government.
If you believe government should be all-powerful, Constitution's your enemy.
It's an impediment.
And that's why Obama, whenever he can, is just ignoring it, such as recess appointments when there are no recesses.
Such as telling the Catholic Church and other religious institutions.
I mean, from the same bunch that runs around and talks about separation of church and state.
The only time they care about that is when a religious conservative is about to win office.
Or a religious conservative has a set of values and issues.
Then we hear about separation church and state.
When Obama wants to tell the Catholic Church what it must sell, what it must make available to people, and the things that it must do go counter to every moral underpinning it has.
That's not separation church state.
No, that's the church not knowing what's good for it.
That's the church standing in the way of the state.
That's the church getting in the way of the state doing what it wants to do.
And that's really the root of all of this.
That obstacle that the Constitution is at the root of what Obama's attempting to do here with the Catholic Church and telling it it must sell contraception, contraceptives.
It must provide abortion education in its schools.
It must do these things as part of Obamacare.
Obamacare itself, taken as a whole, has as its premise that the Constitution is wrong.
That the Constitution's flawed.
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg of the U.S. Supreme Court was in Egypt, or at least on Egypt TV.
She was on Egypt TV.
Should never say this on American TV, by the way, not yet.
But on Alhayat TV.
This is what she said to the Egyptians as they put together a constitution and reorganize their country.
I would not look to the U.S. Constitution if I were drafting a constitution in the year 2012.
I might look at the Constitution of South Africa.
That was a deliberate attempt to have a fundamental instrument of government that embraced basic human rights, had an independent judiciary.
It really is, I think, a great piece of work that was done.
Don't model whatever you're doing after the U.S. Constitution.
Why not?
The greatest document in the history of mankind, preceded, of course, by the Magna Carta.
Why not?
Why not?
Because, ladies and gentlemen, the Constitution is an impediment to people like Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
The Constitution tells her what she cannot do, and everybody else in government.
The Constitution raises up the individual over the state, enshrines the whole notion of the pursuit of happiness, which you may think that's just a throwaway phrase.
You think, well, that's normal.
Everybody want to pursue happiness.
Everybody wants to be happy.
When your founding documents mention that that is one of the fundamental aspects of creation.
Therefore, that's one of the fundamental aspects of our human spirit.
The right to pursue happiness.
No government shall impede that or get in its way.
It is a major reason why this country has become a superpower in so few years compared to all the other nations that have been on the earth for thousands of years.
All the other civilizations, thousands of years.
Yes, it's freedom.
But it's the definition of that freedom vis-a-vis the state.
The right to life, liberty, pursuit of happiness.
It is fundamental.
There's Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
She's speaking for the regime.
She's speaking for Obama.
Don't model it after the U.S. Constitution.
No, no, no.
Not enough about human rights and no basic human rights in the U.S. Constitution.
No basic human rights.
That's another term that's been bastardized.
And now means something entirely different from what its true book or definition meaning is.
U.S. Constitution spells out human rights better than they've ever spelled out before.
Been spelled out.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg was the ACLU's top lawyer before she became a justice.
They despise the U.S. Constitution.
It's a problem.
Obama doesn't like it.
And you know what they're replacing it with?
By the way, we have conversations on this program, and we have since this program's founding.
This particular program's founding was August 1st of 1988.
And a lot of people think we live in a democracy.
We don't.
We live in a representative republic, where theoretically the people have a say in what the government does.
A democracy is pure majority rule, and that's what Obama is attempting to set up.
A pure democracy, no representation, no republic, a pure democracy, where the majority runs the show regardless.
They couch all this and the need for basic human rights and civil rights.
But of course, when you look at what they do, it's the denial of all of that and the elevation of the state over the individual, who, in their perfect world, would cease to exist.
The individual would be part of a conglomerate, faceless, practically nameless, just numerical, numbered robots, who are plugged into various places by the state as part of their collective Part of the command and control that they and only they have the intelligence and the understanding to be able to run.
Now, way back in February of 2009, at the height of the health care reform bill, Obama leaked the idea of rolling back the so-called conscience clause that the Bush administration had put in place.
That was a regulation allowing health care workers to refuse to provide services based on moral objections.
In other words, a health care worker could not be forced to perform an abortion.
A healthcare worker with the conscience clause could not be forced to pass out the morning after abortion bill.
The R U 486.
The provider refusal rule, provider refusal rule, was proposed by the Bush White House in August, enacted January 20th, the day Barack Obama took office.
But Obama backed down on that so as to get Obamacare through.
And now he's going after it again.
A couple of weeks ago, Kathleen Sabilis, Secretary of Health and Human Services announced that all health care providers that get money from the federal government must have to provide contraception and other birth control treatments, such as the morning after pill free.
It wasn't just that they had to provide it, they had to pay for it as well.
It didn't matter what their moral objections.
It didn't matter the conscience clause.
It didn't matter what they wanted to do or not based on a religious belief.
None of that mattered.
The state was supreme.
The state would triumph here.
It didn't get a whole lot of attention back in 2009 at the time.
But now because the Catholic Church is fighting it, it's back in the news.
One quarter, 25% of the hospitals in this country are Catholic hospitals.
So this is a major policy change, and the church says that it will not back down.
Now let's see.
Did I just see something from CNN?
I did, but I can't find it.
So I don't know where it is about this.
I think I I don't want to, I don't want to, I don't want to speculate.
Let's see where uh can't find it.
I'll do it during the break.
There's some some news about this that I'm told is is uh is just breaking.
Here is the Sibelius uh story, February 27, 2009, the rule White House set to reverse health care conscience clause, the rule that protects the rights of health care providers who refuse to participate in certain procedures.
The regime plans to reverse that regulation from late in the Bush administration, allowing health care workers to refuse to provide services based on moral objections, and officials said Friday.
Remember now, this is February 27th of 2009, uh about three years ago.
Now, this documents what I was just talking about.
And this has been Obama's plan since he took office.
He just had to wait till Obamacare got rammed through.
And then he thought he could do it on the QT.
But this this sebelius mandate is the beginning of the rollback here.
That's like a brief time out.
We got audio sound bites.
Everything is now blowing up where this is concerned.
Because it's like the old saying back in Nazi Germany when they came for X, I didn't do anything.
They came for Y, I didn't do it.
When they came for me, there was nobody left to stop them or to care.
But it's the same thing happening here.
All of these little things that happen, if they don't affect people, eh, I think they don't care about it.
But when finally an Obamacare edict hits something as big as the Catholic Church and it fights back, then of course everybody finds out what's going on and has an opinion about it.
And in this sense, it's a good thing.
Gotta take a brief time out.
Don't go away.
We'll be right back after this, my friends, here on the EIB network.
By the way, this decision, this appeals court decision, is a ninth circus court of appeals decision, which says That the California vote on same-sex marriage is unconstitutional.
What is unconstitutional about it?
It was a California ballot initiative.
It was approved.
It had the right number of signatures.
It passed muster.
You can't get these propositions on the ballot until they pass muster.
You can't get them on and put them up to a vote until they have the right number of certified authorized signatures.
All that was done.
The people of California voted to ban same-sex marriage in Ninth Circus in a two-to-one decision.
Found that Proposition 8, the 2008 ballot measure that limited marriage to one man and one woman violated the U.S. Constitution.
Just like they say abortion, legal and constitutional.
It isn't in there.
It was found and created in 1973 by judges.
It's not in the Constitution.
And now same-sex marriage is said to be constitutional.
The Ninth Circus says so.
This is the kind of assault on the Constitution and on our culture that's taking place, being sponsored by the American left.
Let's go to the audio soundbites.
Bill Donahue, this is from the Catholic League, last night on Channel 2 News, Channel 2 Eyeball News in New York City.
Never before, unprecedented American history, for the federal government to line up against the Roman Catholic Church.
This will be fought out with lawsuits, with court decisions, and dare I say, maybe even in the streets.
Maybe in the streets.
So now something is blown up in their faces.
They probably expected it to.
They relish this, I think.
I think the people at the regime love this.
I think they love it when Bill Donahue gets lived.
I think they love it when the Catholics get mad.
I think they love taunting their opponents.
I think they love every aspect of this.
Now, whether or not this finally awakens people above and beyond the Catholic Church, you know, even Muslim clerics have come out in opposition to this.
And if this regime is going to hear anything, it'll it'll be them.
Here is Bishop James McFadden.
This is uh January 24th in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, on an ABC News affiliate during an interview.
In the totalitarian government, they would love our system.
This is what Hitler and Musley and all of them tried to establish.
A monolith.
So all the children will be educated in one set of beliefs and one way of doing things.
Now the drive-by is very concerned, folks.
The uh libs in the media, terribly upset about this.
On Morning Joe today on uh MSNBC, Time magazine political analyst Mark Halpern had a discussion about this, and and and they're worried.
How's Obama gonna convince these idiot Catholics to understand what's good for them?
Contraception's good for them, abortion is good for them.
When are they gonna understand this?
Listen to this discussion.
When you do something this complicated, when you have a policy that implicates religion and people's deepest feelings, you cannot leave it to the bureaucrats to just announce it.
This is when a president has politically dangerous it is, must step forward and explain it himself.
I think they were surprised me combined.
I think they had a blind spot here that they didn't realize how this would upset Catholics.
And I don't think the way they have it laid out is the way it's being characterized by mostly those on the right.
It is being mischaracterized in some ways.
But again, it's there's a vacuum.
The president got elected to be the leader.
He needs to explain.
Why is he put his finger on the scale on the side that he has?
Why is that the right policy for the country?
He can't say it that way.
It's not the right policy for the country.
It's an affront.
It's the president of the United States telling Catholics he doesn't believe what they believe.
He doesn't respect their right to believe it, and that they are wrong, that the state will have dominion over the Catholic Church.
The state is going to have dominion over the rights and freedoms of the Democrat voter base.
This is all about politics.
It's all about keeping the Democrat voter base happy.
The feminazes in the far left who hate the Catholic Church.
Obama's doing exactly what his base wants.
AIDS activists have thrown condoms at Cardinal O'Connor in the church.
There's a, you know, the political leftist activists of whatever the issue.
Despise any authority, any source authority, they despise anything that seeks in their mind to make a moral judgment.
They can't stand it.
They didn't get caught.
What is this surprise?
Halprin, you're better than this.
To say the regime got caught, they were surprised.
They wanted to do this since 2009.
That's why started off the Kathleen Sabilia story from February 2009, where they spell out what they want to do inside of Obamacare.
This is something, a desire they've harbored for a long, long time.
And now they're in the process of executing it.
Now it is being said that the regime is hinting that they may be having second thoughts on their contraception mandate.
Here's uh David Axelrod, he's on the MSNBC this morning as well.
And the co-host Mika Bzhinski, has the White House failed in its messaging on this.
Secretary Sabilius included an exemption for churches and church employees.
The question is now about these extended affiliated uh institutions like hospitals and universities.
And there are tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of women who work in these hospitals and universities who are not Catholic, or they may be Catholic, but they use birth control.
And the question is whether they're going to have the same package that every other woman in the country has the same right and access to basic preventive care.
They don't care about the Constitution.
They're going to change this country whether the people want it or not.
And as always, they're going to focus on what about the people who don't like the Catholic Church.
If you the Catholic Church separates the church and state if it's an institution.
Well, Mr. Limbaugh, they take federal money.
You know how hard it is not to take federal money in education anymore.
This is this is all flat out absurd.
I don't even these excuses, they take federal money.
We all know what's going on here.
It's right in front of our faces.
We just have to admit it.
Having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have Rush Limbaugh here meeting and surpassing all audience expectations a daily basis.
Ferris, Fairfield, Connecticut, great to have you, sir.
Hello.
Undeniable truth of life number 24 Ditto's from the nutball state.
Well, thank you, sir, very much.
I'm uh I'm happy that you remembered it.
Well, I'd like to repeat it because it ties into the Catholic Church situation, which is one of the topics of the day.
That feminism was formed so as to provide unattractive women free access to the mainstream of society.
Well, not free, but uh easier access.
Yes, uh undeniable truth of life number twenty-four, authored by me, nineteen eighty-six.
This one's the one that established me as a great thinker.
Uh, so as to allow unattractive women easier access to the mainstream.
Yes, exactly right.
It's worn out every day, just whether or not you've got the courage to admit it.
Most people find it very uncomfortable truth of life, which is what makes it a truthful truth.
As are most of the truths today, uh, uncomfortable, but here's how it ties into the discussion of what has happened in the Catholic Church, and I very highly respectfully disagree with your analysis that it will cost them votes.
It will not cost them votes.
You used the phrase a few minutes ago, idiot Catholics.
And Rush, nothing could be closer to the truth.
And I'm coming from a standpoint of a lifelong uh baptized Catholic as a child, lived with it, loved it, learned it, and devoured it right up until recently when I became an Amishman.
So I understand what's going on in the Catholic Church.
And I was talking about Yeah, but you know, it's not just Catholics who're gonna be impacted.
Muslims are gonna be impacted by this.
Mormons are gonna be impacted.
Catholics are not the only ones who have such proscriptions on contraception and abortion.
Well, I speak for the Catholics only, Rush, because I've never been a Muslim nor a Jew.
Look, I know what you're saying.
You're saying, look, you're kind of like liberals, Hollywood liberals and um and and liberal Jews.
Uh they'll sell Israel out in order to maintain primacy of liberalism.
So you think there are a lot of dumb Catholics who will vote against their own interests simply because they're liberals first, right?
Certainly, but it goes deeper than that.
It goes to what you said recently about what you you recently revealed about the truth about teachers In the classrooms, and that the truth is that there are not any teachers anymore, with some notable exceptions.
There are indoctrinators, and there are people in front of the classroom whose job it is to dumb down the students and indoctrinate them.
And the Catholics who are affected by this ruling are in that group.
And they have infiltrated the Catholic Church.
And again, I speak from my own personal experience at activities during the 2008 election campaign at St. Bernard's Church in Vernon, Connecticut, where went Gene Pitney as a child.
And in that reception, as I talked about the evils of Obama to that assembled group, I heard the infiltrators.
Let's call them people who are covered by undeniable truth of life number 24, the feminist, the militant feminists who had haircuts that looked a certain way, who stated that they were four square behind Obama, regardless of the fact that they were not going to be able to do that.
No, I know.
There are people, I don't know if you are one of them, but there are people who believe that the priesthood has been uh what the uh infiltrated, compromised, not not not taken over, but but infiltrated by people who actually intend to do it harm.
Uh and there are people that believe the Catholic Church as a target has been uh uh taken over, or certainly infiltrated by people who are not Catholic, who are false Catholics with the express purpose of weakening the church or ripping it apart.
I know there are a lot of people that uh believe this.
Uh practicing Catholics.
Uh vote majority Republican among Catholics who attend Mass every week, which is required, McCain 155 to 43, for example.
Now, Catholics in name only will vote for Obama, but practicing Catholics, at least according to recent data, uh, don't.
Well, they do, but it's they're they're a minority, as I say, from McCain 55 to uh to 43.
I know it's it's a it's a it's a touchy uh area.
I know exactly what you're thinking.
It's not new.
There have been people who um uh have been called weak or sell out, not just Catholics, but uh every other institution that has a moral code or a strict political code, still has people who don't abide by it, don't want to abide by it, but want the title.
They want to be able to say, yes, I'm Catholic, but they don't follow it really.
This is going to be true of uh any institution that there is.
But you know, you you uh did who not anticipate this?
Did they did they not anticipate the flare-up here?
No, I think they oh, I think they clearly anticipate I think they like it.
My point is I think the regime loves irritating people like this.
I think they love upsetting the apple carton.
I think they love this show and others having this kind of thing happen on it.
I I think they relish it.
They love taunting, they love taking on the uh the traditions in the institutions.
And that's why I think it's funny when Mark Calperin says, Well, I weren't prepared for this.
I really got caught here.
They didn't get caught doing anything.
They're not surprised by this.
They've intended to do this since 2009.
The uh, but even so, even if they are surprised, it's not gonna stop them.
By definition, these these people are authoritarians.
They don't care about opposition.
If they did, they wouldn't be doing 90% of what they're doing.
They don't care about the opposition.
I actually think they turn around, they they they they enjoy it.
I'm I don't.
Uh it's not so much they're it's I'm not even talking about a political sense here.
Um, there is a uh an element of this that is being done to placate, satisfy, energize the base.
There's no question about it.
I'm talking about simply in terms of who they are.
Yeah, there's no question he's unifying the base.
He's in trouble.
If if they're back down, they're gonna do it after election Day after Obama's re-elected.
But they're not, but even this time around, they're not, because he's not going to be re-elected again, theoretically.
There will be no accountability, be no reason to back down.
I mean, do the nags back down, the ACLU ever back down, Planned Parenthood ever back down.
They don't back down.
And look at all the opposition they get.
They enjoy it.
They love seeing conservatives get upset about this.
They just chuckle about it.
They get behind closed doors and they laugh about it.
Planned Parenthood's already running ads in support of the mandate out there.
They uh they love it.
Now, the Heritage Foundation, with their blog Morning Bell, the titled uh Obamacare Awakens a Sleeping Giant.
It is a rare moment, this is how it begins.
It's a rare moment, indeed, when faith denominations of all stripes unite together in common cause.
It's rarer still when that cause is a political one with a sole piece of legislation as its principal target.
But when that law eviscerates the very foundations of religious liberty in America as protected under the First Amendment, it shouldn't be surprising that Catholics and Jews, charismatic evangelical Christians, and mainline Lutherans alike find common cause in defense of their liberties.
Such is the case with the firestorm of opposition to Obamacare and the regime's attack on religious liberty.
Here it is again, for those of you just now getting up to speed on this.
Under a new Obamacare mandate issued by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the White House is mandating that many religious employers, with the exception of churches, provide health care coverage for contraception, including abortion-inducing drugs, thereby trampling upon their constitutionally guaranteed free exercise of religion.
And it is this mandate that has caused a vehement response in churches and synagogues across the country.
We played this on by the Bill Donahue, the Catholic League.
Warned the nation's 70 million Catholics ready to go to war with the regime's dictates, saying it may even take place in the streets.
But Heritage points out here that the Catholic Church is not alone in its opposition to Obamacare's onslaught against religious freedom.
David Addington, Heritage Foundation VP domestic economic policy, details the growing ranks of the faithful who say that the regime has crossed a very dangerous line.
The National Association of Evangelicals commented that the HHS rules trample on our most cherished freedoms and set a dangerous precedent.
The Union of Orthodox Jewish congregations of America said in declining to expand the religious exemption within the health care reform law, the regime has disappointingly failed to respect the needs of religious organizations like you know who cares what they're saying here, but they're united in this.
That's why some people are hoping, thinking maybe a turning point has occurred here.
And then heritage does allude to the fact that the regime is beginning to feel the pressure.
Yesterday, Sibelius authored an op-ed USA Today defending the regime's actions, claiming a very, very narrow exemption to the mandate is evidence the White House is working to strike the right balance between respecting religious beliefs and increasing women's access to critical preventive health services.
Well, you see right there that the regime, Sibelius Obama, think that the church and the religious institutions are resulting in women being denied access to critical preventive health service, which is an out and out lie.
Being a Catholic is a choice.
You don't have to be one.
And if you are one, you can punt.
The Catholic Church doesn't have anywhere near the power Obama does.
you The Catholic Church doesn't have near the power Obama wants.
Catholic Church can't deny anybody anything.
It's something that the flock have to support and agree with.
This is why I've always marveled at the left's attempt To challenge religious orthodoxy.
The church must conform.
The church must modernize.
The church must realize it's the 21st century.
No.
Not at the church.
The church is what it is.
If people don't want to follow along, that's their business.
It's not the government's business to make any church or any religion modernize, quote unquote, or get with the program or what have you.
There is no permissible way the government can do this, according to our Constitution.
But the Constitution doesn't matter here.
Which is really what this is all about.
The Constitution doesn't.
The regime is simply saying the hell with the Constitution.
We're going to implement this regardless of what the Constitution says.
But if you don't like the Catholic Church view on abortion, if you don't like their view on contraception, don't be Catholic.
You don't like what the Methodist Church says.
If you don't like, if you don't like what you hear in synagogue, don't go.
It's as simple as that, but Obama wants you to believe that the church has all these prisoners.
Everybody shows up for Mass as a prisoner.
They're all wishing the church would modernize and change, but the church being obstinate won't.
What they don't tell you is people can get up and leave Mass.
They can walk out of there if they don't like it.
They don't have to sign up.
This is no place for the government to be.
They are taking what are moral and religious beliefs and turning them into totally nothing but political elements.
And when it becomes political, then the regime says they can force people to agree with or not agree with or what have you.
This is an abomination.
And the real target of Catholic Church is just the latest springboard.
The target here is the Constitution of the United States.
Pure and simple.
Who's next?
George in Dubuque, Iowa.
George, glad you waited.
Great to have you on the program, sir.
Hi.
Hey, Ditto's Rush.
I just wanted to get your thoughts on the super PAC reversal by Obama.
He uh had opposed it and railed against the Supreme Court ruling.
Now he embraces it.
Uh doesn't that take some that issue off the table?
Uh no, it'll never take it off the table.
They'll continue to complain about it and whine and mo they'll whine about everybody else's, not theirs.
See, but they've already got two built-in super PACs.
Nobody ever talks about.
They've got the media and they've got labor, big labor.
They've already got the equivalent of maybe more than two super PACs.
But no, they'll look at that.
Nothing's going to stop them being hypocritical.
Isn't Schumer next week going to have hearings on the whether it's legal or not?
I think the purpose of those hearings that Schumer is conducting is going to be to pressure republics, just frighten them, to threaten them, to let them know that he and other elements of the government are good information.
What it really is Chuck Yu's Schumer trying to intimidate donors into staying out, not getting involved, trying to make it look like they too could be investigated.
Remember, nobody wants to be investigated by the government because you can't compete with them.
You don't have the money.
Plus, the game is rigged.
You're always going to lose.
People think the simplest solution, don't get involved.
And that is the express purpose behind what's going on with uh with Schumer.
It's it's typical.
It's uh intimidation.
But the regime, you might say they're being hypocritical, but they'll never admit it.
I think the thing to note about this, the fact that Obama's not going to go super PACs, why?
I thought Obama was his big million dollar campaign, baby.
They thought he had all kinds of money to campaign.
Now, apparently that's not right.
I'll do do do do do do.
Okay, still lots to do here, folks.
Um, still got the majority of the primary stack of stuff to get to, which will happen in mere moments, a brief uh newsbreaker, whatever happens on your local affiliate here at the top of the hour.
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