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March 8, 2012 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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March 8, 2012, Thursday, Hour #2
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Well, isn't this interesting?
The Energy Secretary, Stephen Chu, the Energy Secretary, says he does not own a car.
He testified today before the House Subcommittee on Energy and Power on their budget request.
He was asked if he drove a Chevy Vault.
And he was asked if he drove a Vault because he praised the car during the hearing.
And he said, I don't own a car at the moment.
Energy Secretary doesn't own a car.
Hiya, folks.
I'm sure he's got a driver.
I know he rides in a car, but he doesn't drive one, doesn't own one.
He doesn't stop at the pump.
He didn't stop at the gas station.
He doesn't put gasoline in the car.
The energy secretary.
Hi, folks.
Welcome back.
Rush Limbaugh having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have.
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And it gets even better.
Kathleen Sebudius, the Secretary of Health and Human Services, appeared to be flummoxed by questioning from Senator Ron Johnson, a Republican from Wisconsin, at a hearing on Obamacare.
This was yesterday.
Senator Johnson challenged Kathleen Sebillius over a number of the Obama administration's claims about the new health care law, namely that they claim it'll reduce the deficit and allow individuals to keep their current health care plans.
And on several occasions, Sebillius professed to have no idea what he was talking about.
And I can believe that.
I can also believe she was just obfuscating and I don't know, like Hillary.
I don't remember.
I can't say.
Mind is jello.
I don't remember.
She could have been pulling one of those, but I can also believe Kathleen Sebelius wouldn't know diddly squat about this.
Senator Johnson cited a McKinsey group study that estimated 30 to 50 percent of employers would drop their employee coverage once the new law is fully implemented, the effect of which would be hundreds of billions of dollars, if not trillions, added to the federal deficit because they'd have no place to go other than the government to get their health insurance.
Which, by the way, is the design.
You will not be able to keep your doctor.
Don't doubt me on that.
I've got no reason to lie to you.
Quite the contrary.
You had nothing but the truth on this program.
I want you to be fully armed and prepared for what's coming.
You are not going to be allowed to keep your own doctor.
It's not that you won't be allowed, is that you won't have the chance.
You will not be able to keep your own plan.
Your company is going to offload your plan, whether you want to keep it or not.
Your company is going to offload it because it's not going to be affordable.
And that's by design.
Your last remaining option, it's not immediate, at least going to take some years for all this after it's implemented, but Obama himself has even said that the objective is to get to a single-payer system.
But he told his union buddies it would take five to ten years to do it.
The way they're going to do it is just make sure that you've got nowhere else to go.
But the government and their exchanges.
So Kathleen Sebelius asked, keep your own doctor?
I don't know.
Well, what about, is it really going to reduce the deficit?
I have no idea.
I have no idea if Obamacare reduces or adds to the deficit.
And what was unstated was she doesn't care.
Not her job.
No, but they don't care.
Nobody in the regime cares whether it adds to the debt.
They know it does.
They know that not one aspect of this is going to get cheaper.
The only way they're going to be able to control costs, at least make it look like they're trying to control costs, is to deny treatment to the elderly.
We're going to eventually get to the point where the federal government will determine whether or not you get treated.
And who knows what criteria?
Maybe Democrats get first dibs.
Maybe people that donated to Obama get first dibs.
Maybe people who voted for Obama get moved to the front of the line.
Maybe if you're old and they say, you know what, we can fix you up, but how good are you going to be to the rest of society anyway?
You're so old, it doesn't nah, we're not going to waste the money on you.
That's very likely to happen.
Now, this health story.
The website's called Sign of the Times.
And the story here is by Dr. Dwight Lundell, heart surgeon, speaks out on what really causes heart disease.
The upshot of it is, is that everything that we think we're doing to promote cardiovascular health is actually contributing to cardiovascular problems.
This story prints out six pages.
The doctor wrote it.
And it ties in so many times.
I have mentioned over the years about diet, health, food, how we're being manipulated by government goals, wrong medical ideas, food activists with a logo and a fax machine putting out bogus information to the media.
This runs with it.
As long as it contains government has to step in to save us, then they'll be happy to promote whatever the lying data is.
Now, what we have here is a heart surgeon who is saying that he and his profession have been wrong for decades.
This experiment with statins and low-fat diets has not worked.
He says it's time to move on to another way.
Give you some pull quotes before getting to the story.
Despite the fact that 25% of the population takes expensive statin medications, and despite the fact that we have reduced the fat content of our diets, more Americans will die this year of heart disease than ever before.
Another pull quote.
I saw it in over 5,000 surgical patients spanning 25 years who all shared one common denominator, inflammation in their arteries, not blockage, inflammation.
Another pull quote.
The cholesterol theory led to the no-fat, low-fat recommendations that in turn created the very foods now causing an epidemic of inflammation.
Mainstream medicine made a terrible mistake when it advised people to avoid saturated fat in favor of foods high in omega-6 fats.
We now have an epidemic of arterial inflammation leading to heart disease and other silent killers.
Another pool quote.
Forget the science that's been drummed into your head for decades.
The science that saturated fat alone causes heart disease is non-existent, just like the global warming science is non-existent.
The science that saturated fat raises blood cholesterol is also very weak, since we now know that cholesterol is not the cause of heart disease.
The concern about saturated fat is even more absurd today.
It's the inflammation, not the cholesterol.
Dr. Dwight Lundell, sign of the Times, we physicians, with all of our training and knowledge and authority, often acquire a rather large ego that tends to make it difficult to admit we are wrong.
So here it is.
I freely admit to being wrong.
As a heart surgeon with 25 years' experience, having performed over 5,000 open heart surgeries, today is my day to right the wrong with medical and scientific fact.
I trained for many years with other prominent physicians labeled opinion makers.
Bombarded with scientific literature, continually attending education seminars, we opinion makers insisted heart disease resulted from the simple fact of elevated blood cholesterol.
The only accepted therapy was prescribing medications to lower cholesterol and a diet that severely restricted fat intake.
The latter, of course, we insisted would lower cholesterol and heart disease.
Deviations from these recommendations were considered heresy and could quite possibly result in malpractice.
But it's not working.
These recommendations are no longer scientifically or morally feasible, nor defensible.
The discovery a few years ago that inflammation in the artery wall is the real cause of heart disease is slowly leading to a paradigm shift in how heart disease and other chronic ailments will be treated.
The long-established dietary recommendations have created epidemics of obesity and diabetes, the consequences of which dwarf any historical plague in terms of mortality, human suffering, and dire economic consequences.
Despite the fact that 25% of the population takes expensive statin medications, and despite the fact that we've reduced the fat content of our diets more, Americans will die this year of heart disease than ever before.
That's a stunning statistic, folks.
Sort of sounds like all the steps necessary to save the planet.
Have you noticed, according to the advocates of global warming and CO2 emissions, all these efforts, and they've been considerable, to reduce emissions, they still say the warming is taking place.
And they still say that we're almost to the point of no return.
I mean, my own admission, it isn't working.
Now, there is no man-made global warming.
That is a hoax.
And again, simple logic is all you need for this.
You don't even need science.
The science is there, but you don't even need the science.
It's as silly as Obama saying an oil.
And he said this yesterday.
Oil is an energy of the past.
It's not.
It's all we've got.
And we've got more of it than anybody dreamed.
But that's another subject.
Back to Dr. Lundell, the heart surgeon.
Statistics from the American Heart Association show that 75 million Americans currently suffer from heart disease.
20 million Americans have diabetes.
57 million are pre-diabetic.
These disorders are affecting younger and younger people in greater numbers every year.
Simply stated, without inflammation being present in the body, there is no way that cholesterol would accumulate in the wall of a blood vessel and cause heart disease and strokes.
Without inflammation, cholesterol would move freely through the body as nature intended.
It is inflammation that causes cholesterol to become trapped.
Inflammation is not complicated.
It's quite simply your body's natural defense to a foreign invader, such as a bacteria, a toxin, or a virus.
The cycle of inflammation is perfect in how it protects your body from these bacterial and viral invaders.
However, if we chronically expose the body to injury by toxins or foods the human body was never designed to process, a condition occurs called chronic inflammation.
Chronic inflammation is just as harmful as acute inflammation is beneficial.
What thoughtful person would willfully expose himself repeatedly to foods or other substances that are known to cause injury to the body?
Well, smokers do, but they made that choice willfully.
The rest of us have simply followed the recommended mainstream diet that's low in fat, high in polyunsaturated fats, high in carbohydrates, not knowing that we were causing repeated injury to our blood vessels.
And this repeated injury creates chronic inflammation leading to heart disease, stroke and diabetes and obesity, because it's the inflammation that retards the passing of cholesterol through the arteries.
The inflammation leads to the clogged arteries, not the cholesterol itself.
Let me repeat that, he says.
The injury and inflammation in our blood vessels is caused by the low-fat diet recommended for years by mainstream medicine.
Now, this goes against everything we've been hearing for the last 30 years.
Everything.
This doctor is saying that what we've been doing to help ourselves is killing us or facilitating circumstances in which we die prematurely.
Okay, so what are the biggest, according to him, culprits of chronic inflammation of the arteries?
Quite simply, they are the overload of simple, highly processed carbohydrates, sugar, flour, and all the products made from them.
And the excess consumption of omega-6 vegetable oils like soybean, corn, and sunflower that are found in many processed foods.
Take a moment to visualize rubbing a stiff brush repeatedly over soft skin until it becomes quite red and nearly bleeding.
And you keep this up several times a day, every day for five years.
If you could tolerate the pain, you'd have a bleeding, swollen, infected area that became worse with each repeated injury.
This is a good way to visualize the inflammatory process that could be going on in your body right now.
While we savor the tantalizing taste of a sweet roll, our bodies respond alarmingly as if a foreign invader arrived declaring war.
Foods loaded with sugars and simple carbohydrates or processed with omega-6 oils for long shelf life have been the mainstay of the American diet for six decades.
These foods have been slowly poisoning everybody.
Now, what does all this have to do with inflammation?
Well, blood sugar is controlled in a very narrow range.
Extra sugar molecules attached to a variety of proteins that in turn injure the blood vessel wall.
And this repeated injury to a blood vessel wall sets off the inflammation.
When you spike your blood sugar levels several times a day by what you eat, every day it is exactly like taking sandpaper to the inside of your delicate blood vessels.
And while you may not be able to see it, rest assured, he says it's there.
I saw it in over 5,000 surgical patients spanning 25 years who all shared one common denominator, inflammation in their arteries.
This thing goes on and on.
He said, one tablespoon of corn oil contains 7,280 milligrams of omega-6.
Remember, that's bad.
Soybean contains 6,940 milligrams.
Instead, use olive oil or butter.
How many of you are afraid to eat butter?
I'm not at all.
Eat olive oil or butter from grass-fed beef.
Animal fats contain less than 20% omega-6.
They're much less likely to cause inflammation than the supposedly healthy oils labeled polyunsaturate.
Got to take a break.
We'll be right back.
Don't go away.
Mama got a squeeze box.
And we're back.
Broadcast excellence defined by me.
That's what happens here.
As usual, I have my brain tied behind my back just to make it fair.
Again, this is Dr. Dwight Lundell and the website SignofThe Time.
And his solution here is eat more protein.
The science that saturated fat alone causes heart disease is non-existent.
The science that saturated fat raises blood cholesterol is also very weak.
Since we know that cholesterol is not the cause of heart disease, the concern about saturated fat is even more absurd today.
What you can do is choose foods your grandmother served and not those your mom turned to as grocery store aisles filled with manufactured foods.
Now, you can do with this what you want.
I'm interested in it because, as you know, conventional wisdom, I ignore it.
I toss it out the window.
It's groupthink.
Conventional wisdom is set by liberals.
It's set by the Democrat Party.
It's set by the media.
And it's all aimed at making victims of every one of us.
It's all aimed at making sheep out of all of us.
And it's all in the case of food.
I mean, look at this week alone.
It's all aimed at them putting themselves in charge of it.
You've got Michelle Obama trying to set diets.
Four schools.
You've got federal agents commandeering lunches brought from home, prepared by mothers, telling the little four-year-old, sorry, that's no good.
You can't eat that.
We had a story this week from a recently college graduated authorette claiming that the private sector is the only area.
It's the last remaining place where the government doesn't have any say-so in the distribution of the product to market.
And of course, she was making the case, we got to get the government involved.
Because she cited all the unfairness and all of the lack of quality in, say, the vegetable section at the grocery store at Walmart.
And by definition, that's racist.
Yes, it's racist, and it's discrimination against the poor.
The poor are getting all the leftovers.
The poor are always being denied access to the finest foods.
So there's a big push on, and there has been for my whole life and yours, to empower the federal government to take over as much of day-to-day life, including the decision-making, as they can get their arms around.
And how do they do it?
Everything's based on fear.
You're going to die if you keep doing this.
You're going to get sick if you keep doing that.
You're going to destroy the planet if you keep driving that car.
It's a never-ending assault.
And they focus on health because everybody wants to be healthy.
And they're positioning themselves as your guardians.
And I guarantee you, like everything else, you lose your freedom, you lose your freedom.
Ha, how are you?
Welcome back, Rush Lindbaugh and the Excellence in Broadcasting Network talent on loan from God from the Washington Examiner.
Are you having a hard time convincing yourself to buy a Chevy Volt?
Well, maybe a $10,000 instant tax credit will change your mind.
According to a fact sheet sent to reporters and reporterts yesterday, Obama will once again highlight a proposal to increase the tax credit for electric cars.
And more importantly, the president will propose making the tax credit available as soon as you buy the car.
Obama will propose a tax credit is available at the point of sale by making it transferable to the dealer or financier, allowing consumers to benefit when they purchase a vehicle rather than when they file their taxes.
Suggested retail price of a Chevy Volt is estimated $39,145, but even with a $10,000 tax credit, you can own a Chevy Impala full-size car for $25,700, $4,000 cheaper than the subsidized Volt.
And once again, they have to subsidize.
You know, Apple yesterday released the third-generation iPad.
They're already sold out of two varieties of it on their online store, and they're not paying people to buy it.
People are paying Apple.
That's normally how this works.
You have a product, you put it up for sale, people want it, they pay what you charge for it.
Apple's gotten really good at that.
Here comes this vehicle, and this is the second or third subsidy attempt that the regime has come along and offered people to buy this thing.
Now, it may be a fine car, and there may be people that want it, but there aren't very many of them.
And the evidence is clear.
The regime is having to offer on-the-spot tax credits.
Now, they've spent a lot of money advertising this car.
That apparently didn't work.
And don't forget, ladies and gentlemen, I, your host, on Monday of this week, was blamed for the fact that the Chevy Volt is not selling because I have been critical of it.
I'm just an entertainer on the radio.
I have been criticized.
If you only knew things about potential advertising for this car, if you only knew.
I have too much class to divulge it.
But anyway, that's the latest.
In addition to that, Obama, ladies and gentlemen, is lobbying Democrat senators on Capitol Hill to oppose the Keystone pipeline.
Obama really did say yesterday that oil is an energy of the past.
Oil is a thing of the past.
Oil is yesterday's news.
Oil, we can't, and it's just strikingly bogus.
Oil is all we've got, and there's nothing wrong with it.
Oil is great.
Oil has allowed so much mobility and freedom and prosperity.
It has expanded increased lifestyles.
It has expanded life expectancy.
The benefits from oil, it's organic, it's natural, it's every bit as part of the earth as anything else that's part of the earth is.
And yet it's portrayed as a poison, something that's destroying the planet and so forth, and all of that is lies.
Now, this is simply a guy, Obama, who's still living in his idealistic youth in college when you have people in the faculty lounge and in a classroom living in utopia in their minds, speculating about how perfect life could be.
And they drum up, create all of these villains and all of these enemies, all of these demons that are getting in the way.
And there is this romantic attachment to something called green energy, which doesn't exist.
There is no energy other than oil that'll get an airplane off the ground that can take anybody anywhere or cargo anywhere.
There isn't.
And none of the green energy that's being talked about now will do that.
There's no solar energy that'll fly an airplane.
There's no wind energy that'll launch an airplane.
Not anything that you'd want to get on and not anything you'd put a family member on and not anything you would want to put cargo in.
Sure, they're gliders, but you get my drift.
There's nothing.
Oil's it.
It's nothing that's antiquated or in the past.
It is the fuel of the engine of freedom.
It's exactly what it is.
And the free flow of oil at market prices is crucial to the economic expansion and growth of this economy and people's opportunity for prosperity along with it.
And this opposition to it is absurd.
It's demented.
Every green energy area that Obama's looked into has failed and is corrupt.
And the money that he has given it, federal tax dollars, much of it comes back to him in the form of campaign donations.
There are countless soly, countless other solar and wind energy companies that don't exist.
They're going belly up.
There's no business there.
We simply haven't mastered it yet.
Oil is what it is because the market works.
Yesterday plays sound like President Obama.
Typical left-wing sound.
I've been hearing it for all my life.
We're only 2% of the population.
We use 20% of the world's oil.
That makes us just rotten to the core.
How mean, evil.
We are thieves who are running around stealing all these resources from the rest of the world, putting to use for ourselves is not fair.
We have to be cut down to size.
This 2% oil reserves business.
Misleading statistic.
Jerry Willis on her blog, she's at Fox Business.
Gas prices shot up 18 cents on average nationwide the past two weeks, according to the latest Lundberg survey.
That puts the average cost of regular gas at $3.69 a gallon.
Of course, many around the country are paying over $4, some places close to $5.
Obama and members of his regime, the Democrats in Congress and his allies on the left, all make the same case that we can't drill our way out of the problem, which they've been saying for 30 years.
What if we had been drilling all those 30 years?
We'd be out of the problem.
They say that we use a quarter of the world's oil, but that we only have 2% of the world's reserves.
So do the math.
They say it's impossible, but here's how they get to that mythical 2%.
For simplicity, we will call it Obama's big oil lie because that's what it is.
They are only counting proven oil reserves.
The truth is that 2% oil reserve figure is whatever the government says it is.
Here's the official definition from the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service.
Proven reserves are, quote, certainty to be recoverable in the future years from known reservoirs under existing economic and operating conditions, close quote.
The key word there is existing conditions.
United States has around 20 billion barrels in proven reserves, but the amount of undiscovered, so-called technically recoverable oil is over seven times that, and that's the government's own figures.
Meaning, it's there.
It's technically recovered.
It's undiscovered, meaning we haven't got it in our hands, but we know it's there.
And we can get that oil using today's technology.
In fact, the U.S. has nearly 1.5 trillion barrels of oil, says Jerry Willis.
Not 20 billion, 1.5 trillion.
You know how much that is?
Let me put it in a way that everybody can understand this.
1.5 trillion barrels of oil is enough oil to fuel current needs in this country for around 250 years.
We are not running, and that's just oil in the United States.
We are not running out.
Supply may be finite, but we're nowhere near its end.
There is enough oil in this country to run this country at current levels of usage for around 250 years.
And the regime wants you to believe we've only got 20 billion barrels.
Well, that's our rate.
We're going to run out here in 10 years or so.
The former president of Shell Oil was on Fox Business News earlier today on how we could easily get back to producing 10 million barrels a day.
The best source for new oil is the world's largest consumer economy, this country.
We could get back to 10 million barrels if we had the permitting that would enable it to happen.
We've got the oil.
There's more oil in this country that we're not allowed to get than oil we're allowed to get.
Quote unquote, former president Shell Oil.
Much of that oil is off limits, thanks to the policies of this president.
The Outer Continental Shelf, off limits.
The Arctic National Wildlife Reserve and Anwar off limits.
Shale oil, where the U.S. has the largest deposits in the world, estimated by our own government to be over 2 trillion barrels off limits.
Even when the production is not in this country, the president will do anything he can to stop it, like blocking the Keystone Pipeline.
Also, what the president is refusing to acknowledge is the United States is in the middle of an oil boom thanks to new technology like deep water drilling in the Gulf of Mexico.
So the president needs to stop.
This is Jerry Willis writing Fox Business News.
We need to stop.
President needs to stop with the 2% lie because the solutions are right in front of us.
But this regime flatly refuses to explore them.
Now, there can be only one reason.
If you know that there is nothing that'll power an airplane, if you know that we don't have the energy to power automobiles the way they are powered now, if you know that we're, I mean, not even close, and yet you insist on it, what are you insisting on?
You are insisting on arresting the growth of this economy.
You are insisting on the end of the opportunity for prosperity in this country.
You are insisting on taking this country backwards technologically by tens of hundreds of years.
And this is no act.
This is not idealism run amok.
This is not willful utopianism.
There's a reason this is being done.
There's a reason why this country is being penalized.
It's a reason why this president wants to punish this country.
For some reason, he doesn't like it.
He doesn't like it the way it was founded.
He doesn't like it the way it's been operating since it was founded.
It's time we found out what it's been like to live in the rest of the world because of how mean this country's been to other people.
That's what's at stake here.
That's what's going on.
Back right after this, folks.
Don't go away.
My gosh, I just noticed we're almost two hours into this.
I got to get a phone call in here.
We'll start in Nassau County in New York.
And Rob, thank you so much for holding on.
I really appreciate your patience.
Hi.
Hey, Rush, how are you?
Very good, sir.
You know, we talked a few months ago about the crazy pension cost.
There was an article in the New York Times on February 28th that the state is going to be borrowing from its own pension fund in some kind of underhanded scheme.
And you put our conversation on your website.
I was very gratified about that.
But tomorrow, the jobs report is coming out.
And I'm very upset how the media is calling this a recovery, 240,000 jobs.
And I'd like you to comment, there was an article by this guy, Edward Lazar from Stanford University, saying that every month, it's not so much that we created net 240 jobs, it's that there's a churn of 4 million jobs.
And that if you go to the Joltz report on the Bureau of Labor Statistics, roughly 4.12 million people got a job last month, but 3.88 million people lost a job.
And of the jobs created, most of these jobs are like these low-wage, home health aid, bartending jobs.
No, no, no, no, no.
That only happens when there's a Republican in the White House.
Those kind of low-wage hamburger flipper jobs.
No, no.
These are quality, really good, like green energy jobs.
These are shovel-ready teachers shoveling garbage down students' throats.
These are really, really good jobs.
That's what the regime will tell you.
Yeah.
Well, I was wondering, you know, if you divide out those numbers by every county and then towns, like I live in Nassau County, there are 134 towns.
When you bring it down to a ground-level basis, you take a town like, you know, Baldwin, Long Island, it's like 9.7 people got a job, but 9.4 people lost a job.
And that's why the article title was called, Why did the recovery feel so crummy?
And I hope that people in America, especially these young kids with these huge, crushing student loans, seeing how these policies are contracting the economy, realize how this jobs number is created.
Well, that may be a little bit intricate.
What we have to count on is that while the regime's out there touting this really robust recovery, People aren't living it.
You say, what recovery?
Where is it?
Where are all these new jobs?
And I just remind you that Stanley Greenberg, big time Democrat pollster last week, big story, after polling a number of Americans, warned Obama, don't try to run for reelection on this robust economic recovery by telling everybody won't exist because they're not living it and it's not going to work.
People don't buy it.
Young people, that's a different thing.
The real question about young people is how many of them want to work versus how many of them think they ought to be taken care of?
That's an unknown question.
When I was the age people you're talking about, I couldn't wait to get out of the house, couldn't wait to make my own mark, couldn't wait to get on my own, staying home even during college.
I dreamed of having my own apartment, my own freedom, going here and there whenever I wanted, earning my own money.
And I think there's still a significant amount of that, but the expectations that young people have today are far different than the expectations that you and I had.
I, for example, growing up, we were all told, I had people tell me this, in fact, they, quote, this is a guy talking, they aren't going to let you make any money until you're 40.
What do you mean they?
Just the system.
You're going to have to be out in the workforce.
You're going to have to show a bunch of characteristics, stability, accomplishment, achievement.
Nobody's going to pay you any real money until you're 40.
Well, now that's not applicable.
Not with instant money on Wall Street, hedge funds, the examples of the Facebook guy Zuckerberg.
People's expectations, young people's expectations are much higher.
And at the same time, you have people's expectations.
They're down in the gutter because the economy is so bad.
So it's a mix.
It's a hodgepodge.
I think the bottom line is: the more Obama talks about a robust economic recovery, the more people are scratching their heads because they're living it and they don't see it.
It isn't happening.
No matter how you slice it, ladies and gentlemen, there are 2 million fewer jobs in this country since Obama took office.
2 million fewer jobs that you can get.
2 million fewer jobs to be filled.
And that number is from a place called PolitiFact, which is the fact checkers, the Atlanta urinal constipation.
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