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May 21, 2012 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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May 21, 2012, Monday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of The Rush 24 7 podcast.
And we are in Los Angeles today, folks, and it's a thrill and a delight to be with you.
Broadcast Excellence, hosted by me, the Doctor of Democracy, America's truth detector, real anchor man, and all of that.
We're here.
But remember, folks, as long as I'm here, it doesn't matter where here is.
We happen to be in Los Angeles today, not going to be here tomorrow.
The um boys and girls clubs of America have uh a biannual.
For those of you in Rio Linda, that's every other year.
A uh a biannual charity fundraising event uh uh involving a golf tournament, and that is tomorrow at an undisclosed location.
I'll tell you about it when it's over, so that the nags don't show up at the golf course.
You know, all seven of them showed up outside our bustling affiliate, WMAL in Washington.
What day did they show it?
Was it Friday?
Friday.
Seven.
And they said the crowd was 50,000.
I kid you not, folks.
There were seven nags that showed up outside our DC affiliate to uh protest the fact that I'm alive and then on the radio and then talking about women.
And what there was a week, the audio somebody that's coming up.
There was a uh a reporter there from Fox News.
He said, Well, you got seven people here.
Uh Rush has a Rush Babes for America Facebook page.
It's got about three times the number of people on your Facebook page.
What do you make of that?
And the NAG said, well, you know, Rush tries to make everything about him.
I was minding my own business.
They made the day about me.
But only seven of them showed up.
And if uh if I announce her we're gonna be tomorrow, who knows, we might get ten.
Uh, and I I just I don't want to cause them all that trouble.
So I'll tell you Wednesday where it all was.
Telephone number, if you want to be on the program today, 800 282-2882, and the uh email address L Rushball at EIBNet.com.
Does organic food turn people into jerks?
I I have a story here, Today Health.
It's actually ran on the uh MSNBC website that pretty much makes the case that organic food turns people into jerks.
Now, normally you might say, what in the everything going on with Corey Booker and the NAG protest and the presidential campaign?
What are you leading off with this for?
Wait till you hear Elizabeth Warren.
This this, you know, it's too.
I think if the Democrats in Massachusetts could, they'd pull a Torcelli and they'd get her off the ballot.
It may be too late.
Uh but she now plagiarized a cookbook.
She's not even an honest engine.
She plagiarized a cookbook, the powwow cookbook.
You know what kind of recipes are in her Cherokee cookbook?
Crab dishes.
Can you just see crabs marching across Oklahoma?
And you see her Native American Cherokee ancestors lassoing crab to put in their recipes.
I mean, it's just it's amazing.
Also, there's talk about um about Bite Me being thrown off the ticket, and we've talked about this before.
And the news is that it's going to be Hillary.
They're going to put Hillary on the ticket, that uh Clinton wants Hillary back on the ticket.
Um Hillary's tired of not wearing makeup.
She wants to wear makeup again.
Being on a ticket would mean makeup, hair styling, all that kind of thing.
And the the um the theory is that you get rid of Biden, you put you put Hillary on the ticket, and you immediately take care of whatever erosion there has been from Obama on the uh on the women's side.
And but and don't doubt me, there has been some erosion on the female side uh in polling data for for Obama that Hillary would uh would take care of that.
Now, I frankly would not be bothered if they do this.
I know a lot of people on my side of the house very still very much afraid of the Clintons.
Uh in fact, Romney, Romney is uh mentioning Clinton a lot now.
And he's doing so in contrast to Obama.
He's uh comparing Clinton, uh, who was by comparison responsible in his spending and his budgeting.
Uh and and uh so forth.
It's it's it's really it it's it's it's pretty clever what Romney is doing.
And Hillary on the ticket would explain Bill's sudden willingness to campaign for Obama.
Because outside, I mean Clinton is not saying all kinds of things that are that are not helpful to Obama, but he is campaigning for him, which makes sense if there is a behind-the-scenes undercurrent, an attempt to get Hillary on the vice presidential ticket.
So a lot of people on my side of the aisle still fear the Clintons, just like this fear the Democrats in general.
And I would like to offer a soothing note on this point.
Hillary's numbers are at 65% right now.
And this is one of the things the Democrats are looking, Hillary might be a good addition to the ticket.
One of the reasons why the Republicans are a little frightened of her.
But the reason she's at 65% is because she's not talking.
If you, and I'm not trying to be funny, even though I'm one of the nation's most naturally funny people, not trying to be funny here.
The fact of the matter is that if you go back and look, Mrs. Clinton's poll numbers go up or down in proportion to how much she says.
The more she talks, the lower her numbers go.
The less she speaks, the higher her numbers go.
Well, if she's put on the ticket, she's going to have to speak a lot.
There's also the Michelle My Bell Obama factor if you put Hillary on the ticket.
So it's it's uh uh it's not a done deal, but the undercurrent, the um maybe you should say the undertow, because it involves Biden, uh, is increasing in intensity, and the uh the desire to get rid of Biden is becoming uh much more much more obvious.
So that's just some of the stuff that we have to discuss today.
There's also, folks, my heart was ripped out doing show prep.
I mean, it's been a busy weekend here in uh in Los Angeles.
And I really didn't get started.
Normally over the weekend I stay up to speed on stuff that's happening.
But I didn't really start getting up to speed on stuff until last night intensely.
So I'm looking at things that happened over the weekend and and uh since Friday.
And I I practically had my heart ripped up as I uh saw this story.
It's it's about all the uh college graduates that don't have jobs that are on food stamps that are on uh the WIC program, women, infants, and children.
And there's a story about a specific college graduate, a guy who has a PhD, who is on WIC, food stamps, a couple of other programs, can't find work.
He's a PhD.
The guy got his doctorate.
Oh, in what?
Oh, well, this might be a factor.
His doctorate, now remember this is 2012.
The Vietnam War essentially ended in the 70s, correct?
So we're at least 40 years ago.
This guy wrote his doctoral thesis on the premise that Vietnam vets returned home and were treated very badly.
People were mean to him.
Uh showed them no respect.
I don't know how many doctoral thesis have already been written.
This guy writes something, a doctoral thesis that everybody agrees with.
It doesn't take a doctor to write this.
He devoted his doctoral thesis to a 40 years ago.
Is it any wonder the guy doesn't have work, but he's got a PhD.
It's a fascinating look in into the American education system.
And this guy obviously wrote this based on things he'd been taught and told uh throughout his own educational experience.
But it's it was a it was just a story of a numerous highly educated people who are on dependents one way or the other.
And here's uh from from investors.com.
Headline says it all.
New Normal majority of unemployed attended college.
57% of those who were unemployed attended college for the first time in history.
The number of jobless workers between 20, well, age 25 and up, who have attended some college now exceeds the ranks of those who settled for a hascral diploma or less.
Out of my what's a good question.
What would my dad say about this majority of unemployment?
I kind of wish he was alive so I could say, hey, dad, you know what your college degree is worth here.
57% of the unemployed people in America are college attendees or graduates.
My father, the reason Snertley brings this up.
And I've mentioned this a couple times.
If you've heard it, please indulge me because we have new people tuning in constantly on the program.
But my father thought he was a failure in life as a parent for not being able to convince me to go to college.
His formative experienced Great Depression.
If you didn't have a college degree, you had no chance.
And he tried and tried and tried.
And I just, I school was prison.
I knew what I wanted to do when I was eight.
And anything that stood in my way was an obstacle.
And the largest thing standing in my way was school, so I hated it.
And he went on and on and on about the importance of a college degree.
And of course, it is a societal norm.
This is one of these things just accepted.
Got to go to college after high school.
You must.
That's the thing you do.
Now you look at people going to college coming out with anywhere from 30 to 200,000 in debt.
57% of people, and a lot of people, this is commencement time.
I don't know about you, but you can't read the news without encountering excerpts or transcripts of commencement speakers.
And I every year read people who have made commencement speeches making a singular point to the graduates, and that is find out what you love and do it.
Because that's passion.
What you love, obviously, is what you have passion for.
A lot of people don't know what they love or don't know what they want to do.
College is a place to park yourself while you figure that out.
Some people in college know what they want to do, but many people don't.
Figure they'll find out when they're there.
But it's just the next stage in life that everybody just expected to do.
And so many of these next stages in life just expected to do.
Seem to be, all these institutions and traditions seem to be crumbling.
Seem to be not what they always have been or always were.
In 2011, 57% of those 25 and older had attended some college, versus 43% of the unemployed in 1992 who had gone to college.
Those without a hascruel diploma fell from 21% to 12%.
Meaning the number of people who didn't even have a high school diploma were getting work.
Now it doesn't say much about what kind of work they're getting, but still they are.
So it's it's this is this is all these things have people questioning everything they thought they knew.
Everything they thought they believed.
In so many uh areas of life, people, geez, maybe it isn't true.
And when that happens, when all these institutions and traditions that people have invested in generation after generation after generation seem to all of a sudden not equal what they did in the past, then real confusion steps in.
But the solution for this, at least in the job market, is passion, finding out what you love and do it.
And if you're able to succeed at that, you're not really working.
I mean, you're spending time doing it and so forth, but you love it so much it's not drudgery.
It's it's not something you get up the first thing that you think about, oh, but I can't wait till this is over today.
That's not how people who love what they do look at the day.
And I I find that happening and being said more and more in commencement speeches, even from leftists.
Well, they're about the only ones that do commencement speeches.
We right wingers are Never invited to do these things.
So anyway, back to organic food turning.
See, I'm passionate about this story.
I love this story.
I also have another story I love.
G-OP, it's some CNN.
GOP problem.
Their voters are white aging and dying off.
Can you imagine if there were a headline?
Democrat problem.
Their voters are black, aging and dependent.
And you imagine the hell that would break loose if that story were ever printed.
But since it's the Republican Party, and since it's it's white voters, their voters are white, they're aging and they're dying off.
It's a study from the Pew Hispanic Center from last week.
And it's about how more minorities are now being born in the U.S. than whites.
By the way, that's that the media is having orgasms over that.
They, I mean, if you've if you've noticed the media, this story is running over and over again, day after day in a number of different places.
Voters are white, aging and dying off.
Minorities now being born more minorities.
Well, then how can they be minorities?
Now, point is they won't be very much longer.
And then the interesting thing is going to be what happens when all these minorities become the majority.
Becoming uh, you know, being a minority is a mindset.
The way the left is structured things, being a member of a minority is a mindset with certain entitlements.
What happens when you become the majority?
Well, it's already happened to women.
Women are the majority in terms of numbers against men, but still they are, as far as mindset is concerned, a uh a minority.
Anyway, does organic food turn people into jerks?
What do you think, folks?
When I think of organic food, I think of vegetarians.
I think of militant vegetarians.
Now, a liberal vegetarian is not content to just eat his vegetables.
You have to too.
A conservative vegetarian will eat his vegetables and leave you alone.
A liberal vegetarian will eat his and then demand that you only eat vegetables too.
And this is one of the big differences between liberals and conservatives across the board, whatever it is, whatever the left-right issue is.
If a liberal doesn't want a gun, then the liberal wants to make sure that nobody else gets a gun.
All across the board, whatever they want, and they're the biggest bunch of uh, I keep hearing about liberals are so tolerant and open-minded.
They're not.
Liberals are the people of no.
There's no tolerance whatsoever among people on the left.
Anyway, that's what I think of when I think about does organic food turn people into jerks.
Organic food always looked at as a uh a fad.
Now, one thing that sets me apart from other people is that I think issues like this are liberal versus conservative.
I think organic food nuts are liberals.
Now I'm sure there's some of you conservatives who are organic food nuts, but why are you?
It's because the liberals have made this thing into some cause calib, and it's sounded attractive to you, and you bought into sturdily as what?
I know he's I can tell he's an organic food nut because I can tell by his reaction when I said organic food people are jerks.
I heard his reaction, I gotta take a break here.
I just noticed, calm down, Mr. You're not a jerk about except about what you eat.
That's the whole All right.
We'll be back a quick time out after this.
Don't go away, folks.
And we're back, Rush Limboy in Los Angeles on the Excellence at Broadcasting Network here, the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
And you people, I understand on the Ditto Cam got a little bit of a treat.
And it's always the first day that we do a remote.
It doesn't matter how many days we've done it.
There's always technical glitches, and apparently Mr. Snerdley's IFB found its way to the Ditto Cam feed.
Is that true?
Because I must have about 10,000 emails alerting me that something is wrong.
Not one of them are asking to hear more.
Just pointing out that something is wrong.
Everybody wants to be helpful.
Anyway, here it is.
Renate Raymond has encountered her fair share of organic food snobs, but a recent trip to a Seattle market left her feeling like she'd stumbled onto the set of Portlandia.
Yeah, he stopped at a market to get a fruit platter for movie night.
Now who takes fruit to a movie?
This is my point.
You stop and get a fruit plate for movie night, even if it's at home.
Who eats fruit at a movie?
I stopped at the market to get fruit platter for movie night with friends.
I couldn't find one, so I asked the produce guy.
He was like, if you want fruit platters, go to Safeway.
We're organic.
He was a jerk.
There's more after this.
Okay, so a woman wants to go to the movie.
She stops in for a fruit plate to get ready for movie night.
That's that's the first oddball thing.
Nobody eats fruit at a movie.
I mean, it's just not done.
So she goes to the market, Seattle, and the guy says, um, the produce guy at the store and say, if you want fruit platters, go to Safeway.
We're organic.
So the woman says, I finally bought a small cake and some strawberries.
And then at the check stand, the guy was like, you didn't bring your own bag.
What do you mean you didn't bring your own bag?
And then they charge you if you didn't bring your own bag.
They were so snotty and arrogant.
And as it turns out, new research has determined that a judgmental attitude may just go hand in hand with exposure to organic foods.
There's a new study about this.
It was published this week, last week actually, the Journal of Social, Psychological, and Personality Science.
It's one of my favorite magazines.
And they found that organic food may just make people act a bit like jerks.
There's a line of research showing that when people can pat themselves on the back for their own moral behavior, they can become self-righteous, says the study author Kendall Esken, who is the assistant professor of the Department of Psychological Sciences at Loyola, University of New Orleans, says, I've noticed a lot of organic foods are marketed with moral terminology like honest tea.
I wondered if you expose people to organic food if it would make them pat themselves on the back for their moral and environmental choices.
I wondered if they would be more altruistic or so he founds out that there is this arrogance and superiority to the organic food crowd.
But it's not, it's not just them.
This is liberalism.
Mr. Limbaugh, do you have to make everything left versus Yes I do because it is.
And folks, I know some, even some of you longtime listeners.
Everything left versus, I believe, culturally, yes, politically without question.
But I think that there are types.
You can typecast people, sometimes stereotype them, but you can definitely typecast people.
Let's take a look at it.
If if a conservative doesn't believe in God, he doesn't go to church.
Period.
He doesn't tell you that you have to stop believing in God.
Conservative doesn't chide you for going to church.
Conservative doesn't call a member of Congress and make church illegal.
But a liberal does that.
A liberal, in fact, wants any mention of God and religion silenced.
If a liberal doesn't believe in God, doesn't believe in religion, then there can't be anything anywhere that reminds that poor sap of religion.
They're just that way.
If a conservative doesn't like a radio show, it changes the channel.
Liberals, if they don't like a radio show, demand that the show be shut down.
And if the show isn't voluntarily shut down, then they try other avenues to get the show shut down.
Whatever it is, liberals approve of, you have to too.
They'll harass you, they will harangue you, they will beat up on you, and a lot of people cave after so much just to get them off their backs.
Politically, too.
This is what happens to the Republicans.
In Washington, I'm convinced people say, well, how come they campaign as conservatives get to Washington?
And because the liberals are constantly beating them down.
Because what liberals believe in has to be everywhere, and everybody has subscribed to it, and those who don't become targets.
If a liberal doesn't like something, nobody else can either.
If you're having fun and a liberal is miserable, which is most of the time, whatever it is that brings you pleasure has got to be stopped.
Now, I believe some of these people don't even know they're liberal, but don't even think in terms of ideology.
But I have no doubt.
And that's why I've always said if more and more people could look at things ideologically, then the level of comprehension and understanding would explode.
And since liberals are a true minority, that's what's ironic about this.
They are, by numbers, by self-admission, where they are true minorities, and yet look at how they attempt to dominate virtually everything.
They are the professionally offended, and if something offends them, it must stop.
If they don't like smoking, and you're smoking in your house two miles away, and they find out about it, they want to report you.
I've heard, we've done stories here where housing development...
Or an apartment complex.
Somebody living 200 feet away, I think this was in Maryland somewhere, somebody'll be 200 feet away in a closed apartment, windows closed, found out somebody was smoking in an apartment 200 feet away and claimed to be able to smell it, claimed that they were getting sick, claimed that they were becoming nauseous, went to the city council and tried to get all smoking banned.
That's just who they are.
And it doesn't matter what the issue is.
And they become militant about it.
Now, a conservative who only eats vegetables will just only eat vegetables, and you'll never know it unless you happen to be out to dinner with someone.
I have a close friend.
I have a close friend who hates vegetables, won't touch them.
And whenever this close friend comes to dinner, it is, it is, it's so precise that I have to go over this with either the chef or the caterer countless times.
Not a single shred of lettuce can even be seen.
But the person, this guy does not insist that nobody else eat vegetables.
If he's a liberal and he'd be condemning all of us, maybe jokingly, but he'd still be condemning all of us and telling us how we're doing something wrong and how we're misbehaving, and so it's just it's a it's a huge difference.
And so this turns out to be a serious story.
Does organic food turn people into jerks?
This researcher divided 60 people into three groups.
One group was shown pictures of clearly labeled organic food like apples and spinach.
Another group was shown comfort foods like brownies and cookies.
A third group, the controls, were shown non-organic, non-comfort foods like rice, mustard, and oatmeal.
And after looking at the pictures, each person was then asked to read a series of vignettes describing moral transgressions.
One vignette was about second cousins having sex.
Another was about a lawyer on the prowl in an ER trying to get people to sue for their injuries, and then the groups made moral judgments on a scale from one to seven.
In another phase of the study, the three groups are asked to volunteer for a fictitious study, each person writing down the amount of time from zero to thirty minutes, they'd be willing to volunteer.
And the results did not bode well for the organic folks.
We found that the organic people Judged much harder compared to the control and the comfort food groups.
When it came to helping out a needy stranger, the organic people also proved to be more selfish, volunteering only 13 minutes as compared to, well, this look at the charitable donations of Al Gore and Joe Biden.
Here they are, big liberals, and they're telling everybody, particularly the 1% in the rich, you're not paying your fair share, you're not doing enough for your fellow, but look at what they do personally.
They're out there browbeating everybody, wanting to raise everybody's taxes, want to dump all over, you're not paying your fair share, you're not doing enough, you're the reason the poor are poor.
When it comes time for the pedal to hit the metal, these people are nowhere to be found and nowhere to be counted.
And so they take their their uh their good vibes, not from what they do, but from what they've been able to force you to do or make happen to you.
I mean, for Christ Hitler was a vegetarian, did you know that?
Adolf Hitler was a vegetarian.
And if there'd have been something called organic food back then, and by the way, well, I don't want to.
But does well the point is Hitler let people around him eat meat.
He even had it served at his table for guests.
But I was gonna say this vegetarian this organic food stuff.
Uh it's it's a trick.
It is a marketing trick.
It is a ruse.
It makes people free range chicken.
What's the difference in a chicken that's raised inside a pen and one that's running around in the backyard?
Nothing.
Nothing.
Pump steroids into the chickens everywhere.
Free range.
There's no such thing as free range anyway.
You wouldn't, you couldn't, you couldn't feed enough people if everything was free range.
You you just okay, let's go in the backyard, kill a couple chickens and take them to Safeway and sell them for a profit, Mabel.
It's all it's a scam.
Anyway, from CNN, when presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney appears before Latino small business owners in Washington tomorrow.
He'll address a group whose explosive birth rates foreshadow a seismic political shift in Republican strongholds in the deep South and the Southwest.
The Republicans' problem is that their voters are white, their voters are aging, and their voters are dying off, said David Boseitis, senior research associate at the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies who studies minority political engagement.
There will come a time when the Republicans suffer catastrophic losses with the realization of the population changes.
Now, this is a Pew Hispanic Center study.
from last week.
It's about how more minorities are now being born in America than whites, and the media is thrilled about it.
But I have to mention this.
The black population in this country has recently declined from 13% to 12%.
We never hear about that for some reason.
We're never told that their desires should consequently be ignored.
But here we have a story.
Republican voters, white, aging and dying off.
And part of the story is that they should be paid less attention to.
They're not the power they once were.
So we don't need to pay nearly as much attention.
But the black population is down to 12% from 13%, and there's no correlating similar statement.
But it is clear that this and other similar stories like this are meant to serve as a warning to Republicans and conservatives.
And the warning is you are on the wrong side of history.
And you are on the wrong side of demographic.
You better do what the coming majority wants right now, or you're going to suffer the consequences.
There is an implied threat in this story.
You're getting older.
You're white, and you're dying off.
And pretty soon, you're going to find out what it's been like to not be you.
That's the implication of the story.
You've been the majority for all these decades, all these generations, but your time is coming when you're going to be the minorities.
They're going to be a people with majority power over you.
So you better, you better learn right.
You better change your ways.
You better get with the program so that everybody likes you.
Otherwise, it's going to be really, really hard on you.
You will suffer the consequences.
That's look, I've prints out the three pages.
I'm going to read the whole thing to you, but that's the implication.
Why do the story otherwise?
The CNN article even spells it out force.
Quote, the coming political revolution could result in a massive changing of the guard on nearly every level of government and in potential cultural clashes and the type of political alliances that are now considered rare.
So once again, it's a it's a it's an attempt here to take on the majority as some evil.
The ruling class in this country now, the Obamaites, they've they've they believe the country was founded unjustly, that it was founded by the 1% for the 1%, that it's never worked.
Obama said that, quote unquote, this country has never worked.
And now it's time to transform it.
And part of that's payback.
Part of it is payback.
Because the majority, this evil white majority, has arranged things so that they get all the spoils, and then whatever they don't want is what's gets handed gets handed down.
But those days are about over, and the big change is coming.
So, how to head it off?
Well, the Republicans, you aging white, dying off Republicans, better get behind amnesty.
This is the first thing you can do.
If you want to be loved, if you want to be treated well when you become a minority, just get behind amnesty for illegal immigrants.
You don't want to be wiped out as a political party, you Republicans, you better get behind all this is implied threat here to the Republicans.
Your voters are dying off, and if you want to remain in the majority, you better change who you are.
Gotta take quick time out, folks.
We'll be back and continue after this.
Don't go away.
All right, here we go, the food stuff.
Now I'm starting to get a reaction, and it's a throwaway story.
I'm getting.
I just tell you, I was reading last night.
I kid you not.
And by the way, folks, by definition, isn't all the food in Africa free range?
You know, so you like free-range chicken, right?
Okay, everything in Africa's free range.
How's that working out for them?
Uh there's a lot of starvation and malnutrition and have free range this.
So I mentioned this to Don.
Well, then Lions are well right.
There's my point.
If it's not the lions, it's the coyote's here, or what have you.
Anyway, I'm reading an Apple blog and ample to show you how perverse this is.
And that it's liber it is.
I tell you, I'm gonna.
I know some of you think this is a little bit.
Maybe off deep end, it's all left versus right.
There is no middle here.
You can type people this way.
I'm reading an Apple blog, and it starts out, everybody knows meat kills us.
Now, this is probably some 25-year-old young tech guy.
Who knows what he's been taught.
Everybody knows meat kills us.
Now, who told him that?
Who's lying to him about that?
It's not a bunch of conservatives.
Conservatives don't care whether you die, because we're all gonna die.
If you're gonna take steps to hasten it, go right ahead.
We don't think we can save everybody, and we don't think we can prevent death.
And we don't think meat kills anybody.
So we don't teach that.
But who is proselytized?
That meat kills us.
No, it was Not the guy was not being funny.
It was a it was a little blog entry on that was something to do with with um uh I I forget exactly what what the what the point of this was, but it was a health-related thing, had nothing to do with Apple computers or anything high-tech.
Uh as is often the case with this particular blog.
Everybody knows that meat kills us.
And by the same, these people all, every one of them believe in man-made global warming.
It it's it's it's as normal as water coming out of the tap to them.
And I'm telling you, this being taught activistly by Libs gotta take another timeout.
Back right after this.
Don't go away.
So Cory Booker got it right about the Bain ad that Obama ran, and then they told him he got it wrong, so he did a Maya culpa.
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