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June 6, 2012 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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June 6, 2012, Wednesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 247 podcast.
You know what they're asking themselves in a White House today?
Well, they're probably asking themselves a lot of things.
And they're probably lying to themselves about a lot of things.
But I think the question that they're asking themselves today.
Something along the lines of what if all of the polling we have is wrong.
Greetings, my friends, great to have you back.
Here we are, Rush Limbaugh to EIB Network.
Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
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Like many powerful, influential members of the media.
I, your host, had access to the early and intermediate exit polls.
I did.
There was an election yesterday in Wisconsin.
By the way, you really have to love some of the headlines and some of the leads in the stories about the Walker victory.
How about this from the Washington Post?
Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker survives recall.
Survives?
I saw that all night last night.
Survives.
That implies barely.
That implies by a gnat's eyelash.
Survives.
This was a thumping.
There's a bigger margin than it was two years ago.
Scott Walker survives recall election, long lines and close vote.
Race tests both parties.
November strategies.
Not one thing in that headline or lead in the Washington Post is accurate.
Not one thing.
New York Times.
Governor wins Wisconsin in recall drive, set back for Democrats.
Really, you think that might be true?
New York Post put it best, Wisconsin voters reject unions in recall vote.
The big news of the day is that big labor bosses can no longer bully the taxpayers of America.
And I I think, you know, everybody's talking today about what they think the lessons are, and and and we could engage in that as well.
And we'll get there at some point.
Uh bottom line is I'm not surprised.
And if you listen to this program regularly, you shouldn't be surprised.
I'm not saying there wasn't there weren't periods of apprehension and so forth, but I I'm not surprised at this.
And I think if Obama had been on the ballot, he would lose by an even larger margin, which takes me back to the whole this whole thing of polls.
Last night on television, the cable networks were reduced to saying that it was a big win for Obama yesterday.
Do you know how it was a big win for Obama?
The very exit polls that were wrong about the Walker recall race.
Those exit polls say that voters in Wisconsin had their presidential election have been yesterday, would have voted for Obama in a nine-point margin.
So the exit polls, which were known at the time to be useless, they were worthless, they were wrong.
The same exit polls were were highlighted and were pointed to by liberal Democrats on cable news channels.
Say, well, it's a really, you know, the happiest guy in town tonight's Obama.
They actually were saying that on some networks.
Big winner tonight, Obama.
For Obama to be a big winner last night, what is what has to happen?
He has to not care about Barrett, he didn't.
He has to not care about Wisconsin.
He didn't.
He has to not care about unions, he didn't.
In order for Obama to be a big winner last night, I mean, these people, folks, they are nowhere near grounded in reality.
They haven't been for a long time.
But all of these polls, talked about it yesterday that show Obama's personal likability sky high.
I don't believe that.
His approval numbers are way below 50%.
That's probably true, but I do not believe that in the White House today they're confident and breathing easy at all.
Because they have to be asking themselves, what if all the polling data we have is wrong?
It's not just the Wilder effect either.
It's not, it's not just that people responding to pollsters don't want to tell the truth when asked about an election when one of the candidates is black.
It's not just that.
I think there's some people purposely toying with pollsters now.
I think there are some sophisticated voters who are purposely telling pollsters things that are not true to screw them up.
I think these exit polls, it's an operation chaos thing.
I I think I think enough sophisticated voters are sick and tired of it.
You turn on television last night.
You know the polls close at nine Easter.
So what do you do?
You turn on Fox, you turn on any cable network, and what do you see?
Race too close to call.
Now, I'm gonna let something out of the bag here.
I probably shouldn't do this.
But I had the exit polling data.
I had it starting at 4 o'clock in the afternoon.
The exit poll data that I had showed Walker would win by five.
And then it tightened.
The last wave of exit poll data I got showed it 50-50.
I also had internal data from one of the news networks.
At 4 o'clock in the afternoon, they were predicting when that night they would make the call.
And they said it's gonna be close to 10 o'clock when we call the race.
Four o'clock in the afternoon.
It's gonna be 10 o'clock.
So I turned, I watch at 9 o'clock, and I've got the internal stuff.
So I'm looking at what's on the screen and said, this is all BS.
It isn't close.
It's not 50-50.
The exit polls are wrong, and they're gonna call us at 10 o'clock.
It's exactly what happened.
The um uh part of this is you know, creating tension and uh unpredictability for the viewer and getting the viewer to hang on.
But the bottom line is at the exit polls they are when they opened at 9 o'clock and every cable channel did it, it's not just a focus on one.
Every one of moment at 9 o'clock race too close to call.
It wasn't, folks.
It was never too close to call in reality.
The exit polls made it look like it was too close to call.
The exit polls at one stage did have it 50-50.
And that's when the left-wing media was all excited about it.
Here, let's go audio soundbite number one.
This is Wolf Blitzer on Piers Morgan tonight uh during special coverage.
This is at 9 o'clock on CNN Wolf Blitzer, joyous.
We begin with breaking news out of Wisconsin right now, uh, where polls have just closed in a recall vote that could preview November's election.
Look at this.
Our exit polls show it's a 50-50 race as of this minute.
Uh, why was Wolf Blitzer excited?
Why was 50-50 exciting to Wolf Blitzer?
And anybody on the left.
It was because all the pre-election polls had Walker winning by anywhere from three to ten.
The average victory, if you wanted to do this in the polls, probably had Walker up by five or six points.
So they've got their exit polls, and they've had them, they've had them at four or five o'clock in the afternoon.
They go on air at nine o'clock.
Can't say they can't allude to anything by law prior to nine o'clock.
When nine o'clock hits the polls close, it's Katie Bar that okay.
Look at look at Wolf is excited to think it's 50-50.
Man, this is close.
It could be gonna have an upset here in Barrett's gonna win, and then let's go to 10 o'clock.
And I told you, I had the internals where the networks were expecting to call this at 10 o'clock.
Hey, look, I'm a powerful influential member of the media.
I have access to this stuff.
Here's Wolf Blitzer at 10 o'clock, one hour after being joyous at 9 o'clock.
We have the breaking news.
Uh CNN can now project a winner in the Wisconsin uh gubernatorial contest.
The incumbent Republican Scott Walker will retain his job as the governor of Wisconsin.
The Democratic challenger Tom Barrett will not be the next governor of Wisconsin.
Once again, he loses to Scott Walker.
Can we play those again back to back?
Not I don't want to have me in between.
Ed, you go bam bam, one to two, nine o'clock, then ten o'clock.
We begin with breaking news out of Wisconsin right now where polls have just closed in a recall vote that could preview November's election.
Look at this.
Our exit polls show it's a 50-50 race as of this minute.
We have the breaking news.
CNN can now project a winner in the Wisconsin uh gubernatorial contest.
The incumbent Republican Scott Walker will retain his job as the governor of Wisconsin to Democratic challenger Tom Barrett will not be the next governor of Wisconsin.
Once again he loses to Scott Walker.
And notice how Blitzer stopped talking at that point about how the Wisconsin vote would be a preview of November.
Once Walker went away once they called it for Walker, then this race didn't mean anything.
Didn't mean a thing.
At 9 o'clock when they believed their own exit polls, it was nirvana.
up.
And I guarantee you, throughout the Democrat Party, coast to coast, they are looking at all the polling data they've got and they're wondering is any of it right.
All the polling data they have that shows Obama with whatever number of electoral votes now based on polling, all the polling data they have that shows Obama's personal like ability, which is pretty high in these polls, they're looking at it and they're wondering if they can trust any of it.
And the odds are, if they're smart, they're going to tell themselves they can't.
How many elections is this now, Snerdley, where the exit polling has been nowhere near the reality?
The first real glaring instance of it was 2004, when they had John Kerry inaugurated at five o'clock in the afternoon.
Bob Schrum went to John Kerry as a can I be the first to call you Mr. President.
And then the real votes started being counted.
Same thing happened last year.
Then the real votes start being counted.
The exit polls are shown to be nowhere near reality.
And Democrat voters start thinking that there's fraud in the real vote.
Now, I think what's going on in exit polls, I actually think that Republican voters probably don't participate as much.
The Democrats did.
They wanted an investigation in 2004.
They didn't know what.
But they were they were discombobulated.
It's the same thing here.
Now putting partisan politics aside, which is impossible to do, but just for the moment, we want to do it.
Shouldn't all of us be celebrating this victory?
Because in reality, strip away all the partisanship, strip away all of the reasons that there's acrimony.
Doesn't this victory last night by Scott Walker?
Doesn't it mean that states all over the country now have another choice when it comes to dealing with fiscal emergencies?
They don't have to raise taxes.
States do not have to lay off people.
They don't have to go bankrupt.
The federal taxpayer does not have to bail out these states.
There's now another choice.
The states can trim a little fat from their public sector union contracts, which is always their biggest expense.
Isn't that good news?
There is a sh there's a way here that's been lighted.
This is this ought to be in the real world where we're in fiscal trouble, serious fiscal trouble.
Here is a state which has shown a way out of it.
I know I'm whistling Dixie here because I said yesterday, the left doesn't care about that.
They don't care about fiscal responsibility or sanity.
They don't care about balanced budgets.
They don't care about any of that.
It's why there's no compromise with them.
Gotta take a brief timeout.
We will continue with all of this, and we're in to check your phone calls in.
We've got some funny sound bites and lots of other stuff on the program today, too.
So sit tight and be confident.
We got Bill Clinton going rogue again, even bigger and even better.
And the criminal enterprise known as the Democrat Party.
Well, criminal enterprise.
In quotes.
Think of it as as a as a as a mob family.
If you think of the Democrat Party as a mob family with the head honcho in Chicago, Michael Walsh, who is a writer, National Review Online, has a great analogy of the Democrat Party as a crime family.
as a typical mob family, to illustrate why Obama's in trouble.
Thank you.
He has forgotten things because he never learned them.
He's too young about how mob family head honchos act.
And his main point is now got detailed this in much greater detail.
We come back at some point, but his main grievance, Obama's prime problem is that he has forgotten something central to survivability.
And that is respect for your elders and those who came before you paved the way for you.
After this.
Don't go away, folks.
Your guiding life through times of trouble, confusion, tumult, chaos.
But yes, even the good times.
Folks, stick with me.
Don't want to do a bunch of see I told you so's, but not a surprise.
It's a pleasant occurrence, but also keep in mind it's one.
There are many more like this, which have to happen.
Now, trend is uh obviously what it is.
This is 2010 continued.
This is Wisconsin recall elections continued.
The left has fired everything they've got.
I think it's laughable now.
The forehead, Paul Bagala, all concerned about all the super PAC money that went into Wisconsin.
It's so unfair when the Republicans fight back.
It's just not fair when the Republicans use Democrat tactics and do it better.
Michael Walsh, National Review Online.
Bill Clinton does not want Barack Obama to win, says Dick Morris.
And for once I agree with him.
Because Obama has made two fatal electoral mistakes during his tenure in office, both of which tell me that he's neither smart nor grateful, and certainly not wise in the ways of the criminal organization masquerading as the Democrat Party.
As I've noted here and elsewhere, the best way to understand the modern Democrats is as the unholy love children of the 1930s big city political gangster machines and the 1960s Olinskiite communists.
They're now out and proud.
That's who the Democrats of today are, the children of the 1930s big city political gangster machines in the 1960s Alinsky Communists.
But Obama, their chosen candidate, only had first-hand experience with the Alinsky crew.
He's too young to remember Tammany Hall in the heyday of a daily machine in Chicago.
He's got the brass knuckles part down.
He's got that from Alinsky's head.
But he's now twice violated the first rule of gangsterism, which is respect your elders.
That's something that Clinton understands deep down in his bones.
He grew up in Hot Springs, a town dominated by a gangster, O'Neadon.
He was boyhood friends with the son of Madden's lawyer, often sat in Madden's headquarters, the Southern Club on Central Avenue.
He watched the gangland greats come and go.
To top it off, Clinton's mother was one of Madden's nurses.
Hot Springs was an open check your guns at the door city, nominally run by its corrupt mayor, but like Arkansas itself, completely controlled by Madden and his New York associates, including Frank Costello.
Insiders know there's no love lost between the Clintons and Obama, and that was only a matter of time before Bill would introduce Barry to the joys of payback, and that moment is now on us.
You see, Obama made a colossal error in giving Bill Daly the back of his hand during the Chicago Scion's brief tensure, Skyon's brief tenure, the White House chief of staff.
Easy to see the clumsy hand of Obama's Svengali Valerie Jarrett in the Daily Firing, pretty clear that no one in Obama's monkers thought through the consequences of insulting the dailies, especially with Ron Emmanuel now sitting in mayor's office in Chicago.
If Walker wins big tonight in Wisconsin, this was written yesterday, expect a chill wind to start blowing east from Chi Town toward Washington.
There is, after all, honor among thieves.
Now the point here is that Obama has no respect for his elders.
He has no devotion to people who've come before him and paved the way, basically a loner, thinks he's top drawer, head and shoulders above them all.
It's not how that Democrat Party, quote unquote, crime family works, and payback time is on us.
Back in a moment.
I want to carry, I want to carry forward this theme because it relates to Wisconsin and has some things in common about what happened there.
So the theory is that Obama is in trouble in the Democrat party, and he is.
Now, I don't know that it means he's not—just in trouble.
There's— Such a huge difference in the perception of Obama in the party 2008 to today.
And there is nobody in that party who thought three years ago they'd be anywhere near where they are today.
Remember, these are people who live in an alternate universe, an alternative reality.
They lie to themselves.
They tell themselves the vast majority of the country is with them.
And even when it turns out that the vast majority of the country is not, that just irritates and angers them.
And wants to make them punish people who don't see it their way rather than try to persuade them to join them.
It's it is an unholy alliance, and Clinton breaking away the way he has and publicly and frequently is indicative of the problems that exist in the Democrat Party.
They always talk about the lack of unity on the Republican side, but you never hear about it on the Democrat side.
Even now, they're trying to paper it all over by saying, oh, Clinton, you know, he's just Bill, and he's just actually trying to help Obama is what he's doing, yeah.
He's really secretly trying to help.
He's trying to sharpen Obama up.
He's he's uh really, he's on Obama's leading the way.
For example, they're saying we're gonna have to extend the Bush tax cuts.
And the Democrats know that Obama is really opposed to that because he doesn't want to help the rich anymore, but there's no way that they can't extend the Bush taxes, no matter who wins in November.
We've got to do this for the economy.
Clinton is showing Obama the way.
That's how they are rationalizing this.
But that is not what's going on.
Now, you remember this book that's out called The Amateur by by uh Ed Klein.
Remember the chapter in that book about Oprah?
About how Oprah has been dissed.
Oprah's been thrown overboard.
The regime wants nothing more to do with her, but who is she?
Oprah threw away her TV career for Obama.
If you want to know why Oprah's not on television anymore, it's because she supported Obama.
If you want to know why Oprah is flailing away on a cable network and nobody watches, it's because of Obama.
Well, yeah, it is.
Oprah decided that she would let her racial association take precedence over her television and broadcasting knowledge.
When she decided, she had Obama on, made him a millionaire, put him on TV to sell his first book.
It made him an overnight millionaire.
It it helped establish him as a rising figure in the Democrat Party.
It helped get his biography out there.
Okay, that's all well and good.
There ought to be some gratitude from Obama for that.
Then Oprah basically Throws away her career by endorsing Obama.
That's when her likability number, the Q number, a favorable number that started plummeting along with her ratings.
Because it was at that point that Oprah's audience began to ask themselves, maybe suspect, you know, maybe race matters to her more than all this other stuff that she talks about.
Prior to that, race was not a big deal with Oprah.
She was about self-improvement, you know, all that yin-yang that her program was about.
But people started now questioning all of that and how sincere it was.
So she's out on the campaign trail, and she sacrificed.
This is not a sympathy play for Oprah.
I'm just telling you what happened.
Because in the process of doing all of this for Obama, where's Oprah?
Nothing.
They don't even let her in the White House because Michelle hates her, according to this book.
And Oprah is quoted in this book as saying that Michelle doesn't like fat people waddling around the White House, and Michelle felt threatened by Oprah because Obama liked Oprah.
The bottom line is Obama and Michelle ought to have eternal gratitude for Oprah Winfrey, and they don't.
And Oprah gave up a lot for him.
And with the same token, Obama ought to have a little gratitude for people that came before he doesn't.
He's a lone wolf, he's a lone player.
But it doesn't end there.
Obama doesn't give a damn about anybody's.
He didn't care about Tom Barrett, did he?
He wasn't willing to do one thing.
He barely lifted a little finger.
That's exactly what I mean.
He tweeted less than 140 characters the day before the election.
Barely lifted a little finger.
He didn't even have the public sector unions backs in Wisconsin.
Who is it that has gone totally out of their way to do everything for Obama?
And why?
Because they love him personally?
It's because of the quid pro quo.
It's because Obama's supposed to take care of them.
Card check.
And whatever else they want.
Protect the public school jobs, no matter what the quality of the schools is.
Where was Obama?
The unions are spending out the wazoo in Wisconsin.
Even yesterday in Madison, did you hear this?
The vote turnout was like 120%.
Now, at first, people thought that there's fraud and cheating going on.
It probably was.
But what was also going on was first time registered voters.
You could re I think in in Madison yesterday, Wisconsin, I'm not sure about this, but I think you could register the same day that you voted.
And the unions were getting those people out.
It was the unions.
It was the unions who were thought to have everything on the line.
Their pensions, their health care, their reputations.
The unions going down the tubes yesterday.
That's the lesson.
Every Republican governor ought to now have a spine of steel.
And Walker, even Time magazine made this point.
Walker did it by what?
Not compromising.
He didn't compromise one time with anybody on the left.
He stood fast.
Everything he believed.
Yeah, I got 38% of the union households.
He didn't compromise.
The Republican establishment technique, the Republican establishment handbook, reach across the aisle, compromise, get the independence.
Scott Walker said to that, and he wins by seven points.
Now they're claiming Walker outspent the unions.
It's just the other way around.
They had hundreds of thousands of union people in that state.
They were doing fundraising and intimidation.
You saw the trashing of the Capitol after the unions got through.
They were doing everything they could to intimidate Republican voters into staying home.
They wanted them afraid to show up and vote.
Walker did not compromise at one thing.
Every Republican governor in this country now ought to have a spine of steel.
The Republican establishment should have learned something major.
It isn't compromise with people who don't want to compromise in the first place that secures the votes of independence.
Not today.
I don't think ever.
But it's not how it happens.
So the unions were all in.
Texas hold them all in.
Obama didn't lift a finger to help them.
Six fundraisers Friday within walking distance of the Wisconsin border on all of them.
He didn't show up.
He didn't set foot.
Why?
Well, some political scientists may say it makes sense.
He knew they were going to lose, and he didn't want to be tied to the loss.
He didn't want the loss tied to him.
Sorry, Barack, it is.
Despite what they say at MSNBC, despite what they say at CNN, ABC, CBS, New York Times, Barack Obama, and the Democrat Party lost this election.
No other way to look at it.
I guarantee you, if the result had been the other way, if Barrett had won, would they not be saying Obama was the reason?
Would they not be saying we've got to listen to the people of Wisconsin?
We've got to follow what the people of Wisconsin.
If Barrett had won, we would be hearing how indicative that race was of what's going to happen in November was a precursor, they would tell us.
And they would tell us this is a microcosm of this whole country.
But now that Walker won and the Democrat lost, now it means nothing.
But in their bottom line, hearts and souls, the Democrat Party in Wisconsin and elsewhere knows that Barack Obama abandoned them.
Mr. Lovable, Mr. Popularity.
The guy who is maybe having trouble in his policies, maybe having trouble in his approval numbers, but his personal like ability sky high.
And this guy doesn't go use that.
He doesn't go to that state to help out his number one donors.
The S EIU and the teachers unions.
Why should anybody think that Obama will fight for them when he doesn't even fight for his number one supporters?
He didn't have Tom Barrett's back.
He didn't have the public sector unions back.
Bill Clinton does not have Obama's back.
Ed Rendell does not have Obama's back.
Debbie Blabbermouth Schultz is on her own.
She's a free agent.
We're talking about a Democrat Party in a massive state of disarray.
Obama told a Democrat National Committee that he's not going to be giving any money to Democrat candidates.
Don't forget that story.
That's been out there twice now.
Remember, Snerdley?
Lights going on.
Obama says you're on your own.
I don't have enough money to give you guys.
He's not going to raise a billion dollars.
So Obama has publicly told the DNC and Debbie Blabbermouth Schultz, not getting any money from me.
They're on their own.
No safety net.
He's the guy that wants to set up death panels.
The economy is in a death spiral.
The husband of Obama's own Secretary of State, a former two-term Democrat president who is running around saying, four catum, four balanced budgets.
I'm the guy that gave you four balanced budgets.
Mr. President, what do you mean?
Well, I mean for crying out loud.
I gave you four balanced budgets, and this rank amateur up there who has no inclination of how to show anybody any respect.
This guy blowing this nation apart.
Let me tell you what.
I had a meeting with some powerful conservatives, and I told them privately, you've got six months.
I can't help you.
You got six months, save this country.
You've got six months to save Hillary's future and Chelsea's.
That story's out there.
I'm the guy.
I'm the guy for balanced budgets.
Yeah, the Republicans helped you in that.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
But but I took care of that in 1995.
Hell Republicans, I did it.
I'm the guy who gets credit for it, and everybody knows it.
Okay.
So the economy's in a death spiral.
Bill Clinton has declared our economy is in recession.
He doesn't have Obama's back.
Republican governors like Walker, Perry, Portman, Daniels Gendal, McDonald.
They're winning big battles against entrenched unions and other liberal special interest groups.
Their states are balancing budgets, folks.
States run by Republican governors are bringing back jobs.
They're building trust based on results and a healthy dose of conservatism.
And it's all crashing down on the wizards of smart.
The elitists and the academics in their ivory towers.
Yogi Berra summed this up.
Yogi Berra is the guy that put all of what's happening in perspective.
Of all people, if you want to know exactly what's going on with a Democrat Party, Yogi Berra had it.
He said, in theory, there is no difference between theory and practice.
But in practice, there is.
Wisconsin was not the only place that public sector unions got hit yesterday.
It also happened in California.
First from the San Diego Union Tribune, a ballot initiative that would replace guaranteed pensions with 401k style plans for most new city hires, received overwhelming support Tuesday from San Diego voters who were clearly fed up with a decade-long civic discussion about the city's pension problems.
Proposition B, viewed by supporters, including the mayor and the city council members, pivotal in moving the city of San Diego past its fiscal woes, That stem in part from the decision by previous city leaders to increase benefits for union workers twice without identifying a way to pay for them.
So pension reform.
Big big big win in San Diego.
The New York Times writes about it this way.
As Wisconsin residents voted on Tuesday to not recall Governor Walker.
Two California cities dealt blows of their own to organized labor.
Of course, Wisconsin doesn't mean anything for now, yeah.
Wisconsin, that's just an isolated election.
They're really nothing to see here.
Nothing to learn.
If Tom Barrett had won, if the unions had won, you know what the news would be filled with today.
Wisconsin, the way of the future.
Wisconsin, microcosm of what's happening in America.
The dishonest people in the mainstream media cannot be relied on any longer for a fundamental simple constitutional requirement.
And that is simply reporting news.
San Diego and San Jose voters overwhelmingly approved ballot initiatives designed to help balance municipal budgets by cutting retirement benefits for city workers.
Now, just so I'm not misunderstood here, I'm not rubbing my hands in glee at whatever pain might result from this.
What's happening is that the people who pay these pensions...
And health benefits in perpetuity until death have realized they don't have anywhere near the same deal.
What happened in Wisconsin was very simple.
Taxpayers were finally educated.
They heard for the first time about the money laundering scheme that union dues end up being in campaign contributions to the Democrat Party.
They also realized that it was their taxes who are which are paying pensions and health care benefits when people retire at age 50 for the rest of their lives.
They're paying salaries and benefits to people that work for Municipal governments far more than they are earning themselves.
And the governments are going broke.
And they said we can't sustain it anymore.
And that's what's happening.
Fiscal responsibility.
Long way to go.
Don't misunderstand.
Long way to go.
But the realization that there is an end to this is at hand.
Back after this.
Don't go away.
These union cuts everybody's talking about, folks, are not draconian at all.
Wisconsin, California, they're just asking union members to pay a little of their own benefits, like 5%.
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