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Sept. 25, 2012 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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September 25, 2012, Tuesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Folks, I'm gonna tell you the NFL has never been better.
It is you don't know how much I love saying that.
I know really, these games, if this kept up, you'd have ratings skyrocketing through the roof, the unpredictability of these games would cause people that are not even football fans to watch it just to listen to the sportscasters go bananas over the referees.
Anyway, how are you, folks?
Great to have you here, Rush Limbaugh loaded for bear here at the EIB network in the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
Our telephone number if you want to be in the program is 800-282-2882.
And the email address Lrushbo at EIB net.com.
Yeah, I watched it last.
Snerdly, did you watch the uh the game last night?
You stick with it to the end.
Well, there was no question that the reps got it wrong at the end of the game, and a lot of people misunderstand replay.
What happened in the the the the um uh the Packers intercepted that last minute Hail Mary pass, but the Seahawks were given credit for the touchdown, which was the game winner.
But they reviewed it, and people don't understand how the replay works.
The replay, the review, does not determine possession.
They just determined did the ball hit the ground, were everybody in bounds, was it the call on the field is what good was a touchdown?
That's not reversed, but just making sure that it was a score.
Because it's just the way the replay rule is written.
To determine possession or any of that.
This new rule on on every touchdown being reviewed, just to make sure the play was clean.
The call on the field stands.
And it's why here's the thing.
Here's the thing.
And I uh look, folks, you know me.
I mean, I'm no bigger football fan than L. Rushbow.
You know that.
I got up today and I and I see that the number one subject on Twitter is this game last night.
It's the number one everything going on.
There are more people, for example, talking about this game last night than vote on American Idol.
And I got to thinking about it.
What's it been mad about?
The referees are incompetent.
Well, as I said yesterday, doesn't Obama say give everybody a fair shot?
Uh doesn't Obama say we must be tolerant?
Doesn't Obama uh and the left in general don't they promote the advancement of the incompetent based on the fact that they're incompetent?
The screw standards and testing, we don't need to go find the best.
That's unfair, in fact.
In fact, if somebody's better than somebody else, we're gonna penalize them.
Outcome-based education, remember that?
Two plus two is five.
It is if you think so.
Uh rather than humiliate you and tell you you're wrong.
The left has been messing up with standards.
They don't like standards, particularly standards of excellence because not everybody attains it, and they want equality of outcome.
So here we but here's another thing.
How many of you, and I'm serious now, how many of you are genuinely livid over this?
I'm the Seahawks fans uh uh probably a little guilty, but some jubilant Packers fans livid over this.
And and people who love and revere the NFL game itself are livid over this because of what it's doing to the integrity of the game.
What if the Packers don't make the playoffs because of one loss and it's last night?
The integrity of the game, for all my jokes about loving this and so forth.
The fact of the matter is the integrity of the game is at stake here.
And true football fans understand that, and they're worried about it.
Why are they upset?
Because the referees are not people that know what they're doing.
It doesn't make any difference if the referees are cheating or if they're incompetent.
The fact is they're still getting it wrong, and somebody's ending up with the short end of the stick every Sunday in at least every game at least one or two times.
And driving in this morning, Something hit me.
You and I, and every conservative, and I don't want to make too big a deal out of this, but I think it's a good analogy.
You and I, every day of the week for the last 50 years have dealt with this.
You people out there who are livid over the incompetence of these reps, livid over that call last night.
Welcome to the real world.
Now you know how we feel watching the mainstream media every day.
The mainstream media purposely gets things wrong, purposely doesn't call Obama out on his mistakes, purposely tries to paint Romney or any conservative in a bad light, joins the effort to destroy the careers of conservatives oftentimes.
And there's nothing we can do about it.
And we're told, don't complain, because it isn't, it isn't manly, it isn't mature, it's reality, you gotta deal with it and move on.
Well, hello.
How to explain what to the kids?
This ending last night.
Well, how do you explain the media to your kid?
My point here is that what's happening in this NFL season and that game last night, I believe suffices as a microcosm for what certain people, fans, we conservatives or fans of conservatives, conservatism, we're cheated against every day.
We're lied about every day.
The media gets it wrong on purpose against us every day.
Now, I think it's a good analogy.
I just raise it to make a point.
I'm not suggesting anything changed because of it.
I'm just trying to.
For all of you people who are livid over this, what's happening in the integrity of the game?
Well, how about the integrity of the presidential election?
How about the integrity of the American way of life?
You know, it's under assault by one particular party in this country.
And that assault is aided and abetted by people who are supposed to be nonpartisan arbiters, referees.
But the so-called referees with constitutional protection have chosen sides, and it's not ours.
And for my life, my entire life, I've had a deal with an unlevel playing field, an unfair stacked deck.
And every time we bring it up and talk about it, we're poo-pooed.
Oh, come on, there's no media bias.
Or get over it.
So we now have our own media.
And they're out there trying to silence that now.
I thought Obama, by the way, was better on the view than he was at the U.N. I did.
I really do.
On the view, he finally admitted that the attack on the consulate in Libya was terrorism.
He didn't have a nerve to say that at the uh at the United Nations, this speech, which was, you know, it's a basically a uh a campaign speech.
But Obama said some interesting things in this speech.
The notion that we can control the flow of information is obsolete.
Well, what is this a few years ago it was okay to control the flow of information?
That sounded like a complaint, by the way, when he said it.
The notion that we can control the flow of information's obsolete.
Now, what he's doing is responding, obviously, to the Morsees and the uh the Muslim Brotherhood guy in Egypt and others in the Middle East, who, if we are to believe what we're told, are raising hell with Obama about this video, which came up again at the UN speech.
He spent considerable time.
I want to assure the members here at the UN, the government of the United States had nothing to do with it.
But we have to put up with it.
Used to be we could control the flow of information.
It's obsolete to control the flow of information.
The notion that we can do that's obviously we can't do it.
Although we're trying.
Have you seen what they're doing to Dinesh D'Souza's movie?
The regime is doing everything they can to tamp down viewership of Dinesh D'Souza's movie.
In fact, one they they put out a giant lie over the weekend that Fox News was going to run the thing, I think Sunday afternoon.
Well, if you hear that Fox News is going to run the movie, why go to the theater?
Well, Fox News wasn't going to run.
It was a total lie.
The regime's campaign put out a total lie that Dinesh just 2016 Obama's America that was going to run on Fox.
And there are a couple of other acts that they've engaged in, try to suppress people watching the movie.
They're worried about it.
I think they're worried about a lot of things in this campaign.
As we go through the program today as it unfolds before your very eyes and ears, I will explain it to you.
But I have to, I tell you, all the time spent in this speech of the UN on this straw man video.
No video has ever been more highly promoted by an elected fisher than this one.
Every time he talks about this video, he creates a curiosity about it.
But most people haven't seen it.
Everything.
Now he goes to the UN, he starts talking about rile, vile rank, whatever, however he described it.
And I guarantee if people who see that, what's he talking about?
And they make a mad dash to YouTube trying to find a thing.
In essence, Obama is promoting it.
It's a one-man promotional department.
What he calls a disgusting inflammatory video.
And all of that is to distract from the fact that the embassies were vulnerable and were attacked on his watch.
And it's a green light to more violence.
Now he did throw in there at times that uh no video and no words justify violence.
There's no such thing, it just doesn't happen.
There's no way a video or whatever can justify justify violence, which is not what this crowd, I mean the UN.
How many, how many people in there are armed?
I'm just kidding.
Although yes, or Arafat did show up.
This this is this is a group that doesn't want to hear about nonviolence.
This is a group that doesn't want to hear about tolerance.
At any rate, folks, we got so much uh to share with you today.
So do you realize let's just go through some headlines?
Oh, quick trivia question.
Snurdly.
How many people, you know, the iPhone V, all Apple products, the most part, manufactured by the Chiccoms.
How many employees at Foxcon are assigned to assembling the iPhone 5?
And by the way, they can't meet demand.
They sold five million in the first weekend, and they can't meet demand.
They are nobody knows how many they could have sold.
There's a supply problem.
The news, the new display has the touch panel built into it rather than having the touch sensor being an additional layer on the screen.
That's why they made it thinner.
So the touch panel, three manufacturers are making it, and one of them, Sharp, couldn't do any of them right and only started shipping to Apple finished displays, I think the middle of uh of the month.
So nobody knows how many could have sold.
But how many, how many employees do you think all this?
You probably had time to look it up.
How many employees at Foxcon manufacture the iPhone?
Yeah, you looked it up.
I know you look sitting in there, you're lying to me, you're lying through your I know you.
It's 150,000.
150,000 alone.
Now, this place manufactures every other gadget in Gizmo.
They manufacture every other Apple computer.
They manufacture the iPad.
People wonder, the reason I bring it up, people wonder why these things can't be made in America.
And no way.
It would cost him 150,000 speed, and they still can't keep up.
They still can't keep up with the demand.
Paddling could be back soon in Florida.
In schools.
The idea it's O'Cala.
The idea of corporal punishment and scrubs may seem like something out of another era, but screw all officials in Marion County may Bring it back.
They may bring back paddling.
All the other stuff isn't working.
Lots of complaints all across the fruited plain about Michelle Obama's new lunch menu.
Kids at schools all across the country are complaining about the food and about the quantity.
They're starving.
They're going hungry.
They're not getting enough to eat, and they don't like what it is they're being served.
Michelle getting some eat.
France is set to ban the words mother and father from all official documents.
That's exactly right.
The move has outraged Catholics.
It means only the word parents would be used in identical marriage ceremonies for all heterosexual and same-sex couples.
They're doing this to acknowledge they're going to gay marriage.
So you can't have mother and father.
You'd have got two mothers, you got two fathers.
Well, maybe you got to demand husband and wife because who's who in a same-sex marriage?
So bye-bye mother and father in France, and soon bye-bye husband and wife.
Just to accommodate gay marriage.
Okay, what else we have?
That's uh off that's just the lighthearted stack.
Got the audio sound bites, in-depth analysis of Obama on the view and at the UN and your phone calls, so you sit tight, folks.
We're coming back all rebbed up, ready to go right after this.
There we go.
Have my brain tied behind my back just to make it fair.
Of course, the half not being used didn't tell me to turn on the microphone there, but here we are.
800-282-2882 if you want to be on the program.
Mrs. Clinton.
You know, Obama is not meeting with anybody.
He went on the view and he described himself as I candy on the view.
You know what I think happened?
I think that somebody scribbled that as a note on the teleprompter and he thought he was supposed to say it.
Why would you describe yourself as I candy sitting there?
Wouldn't the women be the eye candy?
I mean, if you're really a guy who's trying to portray this notion that Republicans hate women, why is he going on the view anyway?
You know why he's going on the view?
Because the gender gap is tightening.
The war on women is bombing out.
And that's why it goes on there.
Wolf Blitzer last week said it made perfect sense that Obama would go on Letterman.
I mean, if you're out, if you're out trolling for votes, what makes more sense?
Going on a letterman or meeting with Benjamin Netanyahu.
It's a great move by Obama, said Wolf Blitz.
Now Wolf's done a 180.
Wolf and the drive-bys are a little worried that Obama's not meeting any world leaders.
He's going on the view.
Dana Milbank in the Washington Post called it almost scandalous.
You he's what?
Throwing a well, big whoop.
He's had Obama's throwing a party having a reception, he's gonna meet up.
It's not official meetings, that's just you know, a little grab handling or whatever goes on to these things, but there's no official meetings, which are standard operating procedure.
Hillary's doing all those.
Unbeknownst to people, Hillary is the one meeting with Morsey and the guy from Iran and the guy from wherever.
Hillary's taking all these meetings.
There are photos of it.
While Obama's on the view and the drive-bys are wringing their hands.
Even Jacob Tapper doesn't understand this.
And Wolf's done a 180.
Well, Blitzer says okay to go on Letterman rather than meet Nethania, but now Wolf's a little concerned.
Why they hanging around with the ha uh the uh uh women on on the view?
They're they're they're worried, and it's all about the voters that Obama's targeting.
That's it's all totally that so is the speech today.
You know, you you people on the left, you like to think of yourselves yourselves as the the smartest among us.
Uh, and you pride yourself Obama's the smartest.
Do you realize how dumb the average Obama voter is?
Do you realize how not dumb, uninformed?
Do you realize that Obama is is trying to put together a majority coalition made up of the least informed people in this country?
And in some cases, may be the dumbest.
He's not targeting the brains of our society.
He's not targeting the brains, or he may figure he has academia all wrapped up, but I mean his big electoral push is for the mental midgets in this country.
Proudly so.
And yet you people on the left, you sit out there feeling all high and mighty, how smart Obama is how smart you are when in fact your guy can't get elected without a majority of the dumb vote, the moron vote.
And that's what he's trying to coalesce.
Okay, we've got a uh call from Stuttgart Germany that I want to get to quick.
It's Robert, and we are happy to have you on the program.
Hello, sir.
Well, hey there, Rush.
Uh mega dittoes, uh, Apple and Cigar Loving Ditto's from the home of Mercedes.
Thank you very much.
I appreciate the call.
Well, thanks for for taking it.
Uh it's a real pleasure for me.
Um I called because we we had a fantastic customer service experience from two if by tea.
Um I ordered uh for myself and for some other folks stateside some of the blueberry iced tea when it came out.
Um they they told me it wasn't it wasn't clear on the website at the time, but we uh we had a delay, and they told me uh APO addresses over here in in Europe uh are not considered uh free shipping.
But uh after I think because of the time difference, going through a couple of days worth of of emails, they said, Well, hey, uh we've we've delayed you long enough.
Uh we're gonna go ahead and just pay for it this time.
No shipping, and by the way, uh here's a free case of tea.
Uh so we got our blueberry, which uh it's my favorite tea, and my wife uh God love her, she's not your biggest fan, but she said that your blueberry ice tea was it was the cat's meow.
Well we're close to getting her one over.
First step.
I hope so.
First step.
Here you are in the land of beer calling to tell us how much you like our tea.
That's fabulous.
That's absolutely uh terrific.
And I look at we we have some people in in the in the two if by tea customer service department who uh some of the best people in the world.
Elizabeth runs that department.
I don't know if that's who you spoke to or dealt with, but um I appreciate all these comments because that's something that we spend a lot of time on is customer service.
Well, that's our direct link to people and the uh and the customer, and I I I just love having it validated with uh with calls like yours.
But I'm also happy to know that we are giving away the tea.
I need to look into that.
Just uh just the one time they told me, but the uh the uh the delay, I guess, is what uh what prompted that and and what they did was they uh they did a good marketing uh ploy.
They they sent a second case, but it was a different thing.
Oh, it's it's great marketing.
Give the product away.
There's nothing no there's no there's no better marketing uh ploy.
You're absolutely we didn't even know we liked peach, and that's my second favorite match.
Well, look at that that's that's uh a a great story.
I'm really I'm really glad that you were able to get through all the way from Stuttgart and and uh happy to hear the story because it's something we spend a lot of time on uh at two.
As I say, it's a direct link to the customers and people in this audience, and so it's it's uh it's great to hear that you had such pleasant experience with it.
Well, as an active duty uh service member, I I thank you for your service to our country.
Well, we all have our roles.
We all have our roles, and and uh everybody here has profound love and respect for what you do and the choices you've made.
You volunteered, so everybody understands that has great appreciation for you too.
Well, thanks for the Marine Corps Law Enforcement Foundation support.
Um I'm not a Marine, but uh I I I appreciate anything that uh that folks do voluntarily uh on behalf of of the military.
When are you coming home?
Uh we should cycle back uh next summer.
Next summer.
Oh, yeah.
Well, uh it's great to have you in the audience.
Great to have you again, glad you got through and uh thanks very much.
All the best to you.
Thank you, sir.
I I'd offer I'd offer you uh iPad or iPhone, but you already got free tea.
So just kidding.
Hey, folks, that's Robert from Stuttgart, Germany.
Um Obama has received another endorsement.
It's from Madonna.
It was at one of her concerts last night.
We have the audio here.
Uh we've had to bleep it.
Uh it's got F bombs in it.
It's got it it the Lord's name taken in vain throughout this thing.
And and a lot of bleeps were required.
But I wanted you to hear this.
Last night at the Verizon Center, this is the uh well-known pop star, Madonna, in concert during the show, endorsing Obama.
Y'all better call me f***ing Obama, okay?
Better call me worse.
Woo!
All right?
We have a black prison in the White House.
That means there is home in this country.
And Obama is fighting for gay rights.
Woo!
So support me!
Woo!
Yeah!
And there you have it, uh got another uplifting Obama endorsement filled with profanity as Obama and his agents seek the dumb vote.
Well, I'll Ob and I have to read it to you.
I know it yeah, uh I have a transcript, so I know what did you hear her say we have a black Muslim in the White House.
You thought you heard that you're no one sure.
Well, let's listen to it again.
Let's l I've got the transcript here.
And we're gonna listen to it again.
Uh and it now that you know it's coming, it it here's y'all better push for F-bombing Obama, she says.
Okay, and then their cheers, which we edited.
The cheers went on and on and on.
For better or worse, all right, we have a black Muslim in the White House.
More cheers, which we edited.
Now that is some sh we bleep that.
That's some amazing sh and we bleep that.
It means there's hope in this country.
We got a F bombing black Muslim president and some sh.
And that gives us hope.
And Obama's fighting for gay rights, okay?
And more cheers, which we edited.
So support the man.
And then she did her own Jeremiah Wright, you know.
Gee damn it.
So now that you know what she says, here's the bite again.
Y'all better call him the f***ing Obama, okay?
Don't go for worse.
All right?
We have a black muscle in the White House.
Amazing It means there is home in this country.
And Obama is fighting for gay rights.
Woo!
Thank you.
Woohoo!
I like you!
Oh, whoa!
Right on, one of America's cultural icons, Madonna.
In concert of Washington, D.C. at the Verizon Center, with another outstanding uplifting endorsement of Barack Obama.
You want to see the whole thing in print with no redactions.
Uh well.
I can get that to you.
I'm I get we're we're gonna post the transcript at rushlimbaugh.com, but we're still gonna bleep out the world.
We're I'm I'm not gonna print that vile stuff on the website.
We're still gonna I know it's a first amendment issue, and and uh we've we've worked hard here to uh to uh control the flow of information just obsolete now.
It's just obsolete here's here's by the way, here's uh Obama saying that.
This is at the UN this morning, speaking to his fellow dict um uh leaders.
Their annual UN speech.
I know that not all countries in this body share this particular understanding of the protection of free speech.
We recognize that.
But in 2012, at a time when anyone with a cell phone can spread offensive views around the world with a click of a button.
The notion that we can control the flow of information is obsolete.
Who's even thinking about the fact that he's thinking about this is an indicator, folks.
Means we could at one time control the flow of information, or they at least at one time we had the notion that we could, but with cell phones now, which is damn it, we can't.
But then let's go back earlier.
You know me, there's nobody better at parsing sound bites than me.
I mean, everybody airs these sound bites now, granted, but nobody parses them better than I do, because I know these people.
I know that not all countries in this body share this particular understanding of the protection of free speech.
He had just talked about the First Amendment of the Constitution, as though these idiots at the UN didn't know about free speech.
They all know about it because they hate it.
Free speech is their number one enemy.
Most of these leaders are the UN.
Anyway, he says, I know that not all countries in this body share this particular understanding of the protection of free speech.
We recognize that.
Oh, you do.
You recognize we understand.
We totally understand.
Hey, you don't like free speech.
We get that.
We totally get it.
We do.
You know, in the old days, America believed that it was the last best hope on earth.
In the old days, we had presidents who thought America was the solution to the world's problems.
Now we've got somebody who believes that America contributes to the world's problems in a large way.
So we recognize that some of you don't like free speech.
Thank you.
What is that?
We reckon he's he's paying homage to these guys.
We know some of you don't like free speech, and that's cool.
It's okay, we get it, but the day where we can all control all of information, that's obsolete now because these damn cell phones, until we get those off the market.
Or until I can get control at internet kill switch.
But it's nice to know.
I call my uh corporate partners will be happy to learn here that Obama's finally given up trying to get me off the air.
Yeah, that's what this means.
It's obsolete now, right?
Anybody believe that?
Okay, we'll take a timeout, an obscene profit timeout, be right back.
I mentioned earlier that it is Hillary Clinton who is taking all these meetings with world leaders.
It's not Obama.
Obama's out on the view, and and uh with Letterman and so forth, and that's and that's who he's gumming for.
That that audience, he's really coalescing the the moron vote.
And he's banking on the fact that there's a of the universe of Americans who vote, that there's a winning majority of morons in there.
If you add to the he's got academia, and he's got the media, and he's got he's got uh the Hollywood crowd, and then he's going after the the the actual Americans outside those institutions, he's going for not the middle class, he's going for the morons.
So the Clinton Global Initiative is going on.
The Clinton Global Initiative goes on every year at the same time that the UN goes on.
And the Clinton Global Initiative is Bill Clinton's way of trying to repair the Lewinsky deal.
And it's a it's a basically all these world leaders that come into town for the annual UN meeting, Clinton hits them up for donations, money and so forth, and has a little has a little party and three days of speeches.
Romney was there today.
And so was Hillary.
Hillary dropped by the Clinton Global Initiative.
You know, if if Obama I think if he's world leaders to fork up 40 grand, he'd meet them.
That's what it costs to get your picture taken with him or attend an Obama fundraiser.
So if he says, hey, Morsey, you want to meet me?
40 grand.
Of course, I'm not so sure that it's Obama saying he doesn't want to meet with these guys.
And I'm serious about that.
Morsey, the Muslim Brotherhood guy, the president of Egypt, is making it clear.
He said, Well, we're kind of in the middle here between friend and ally.
And Morrisy's made it.
He wants that filmmaker in jail.
He wants something to happen to filmmaker, and he's given other commands.
And Obama has not followed through on them, not followed the orders.
And so there's no meeting.
But Hillary, I want you to listen to what she said.
Just gonna read it to you.
Annual meeting, Clinton Global Initiative, Hillary Clinton yesterday, this according to the New York Times.
And people were applauding and laughing while she said this.
Quote, you know, I'm out of American politics now.
What?
Secretary of State's out of American politics?
When did that happen?
I know it's the objective, but let's get real.
She says, you know, I'm out of American politics now, but it's a fact that around the world, the elites of every country are making money.
There are rich people everywhere, and yet they don't contribute to the growth of their own countries.
They don't invest in public schools.
They don't invest in public hospitals and other kinds of development internally.
Really?
Is that right?
Now, last time I was in New York, I have to go visit somebody in the hospital, and it was named after somebody who donated the money to build the wing of the hospital.
I think it was the Langone something or other.
And then there's the perilman, and all these rich people are donating entire wings of hospitals.
And yeah, they get their names on them.
But what is she talking about here?
The rich don't contribute to the growth of their own well, the who the hell does then?
They don't invest in public schools, public for those of you who think that Hillary would be far preferable to Obama, but they're both the Linskiites.
They're both radicals on the left.
She's just a big fan of Velinsky.
Her thesis or term paper, whatever when she was at Wellesley was written on the Linsky.
She's a big fan.
So who is it that pays the taxes that build the schools and the hospitals?
And all these other internal development.
What is internal the poor building these things?
Is that what the poor, the middle class, they're the ones building everything?
See, that's the meme.
Elizabeth Warren gets it started.
The rich.
You didn't build it.
You didn't make that happen.
Somebody built a road, build a bridge.
And guess who it is?
The downtrodden.
Yep.
People getting squished by the rich every day.
The downtrodden, they're the ones that built the roads and bridges.
They're the ones that made it all possible.
And there's Mrs. Clinton saying so at the Clinton Global Initiative to laughter and applause.
And Obama, for him, and he's the UN today, and this speech of his.
Parts of it were okay, and but it was a campaign speech, but a lot of it was vacuous.
For example, the road is hard.
But the way is clear.
Oh man.
How profound was that.
The road's hard.
The road is hard.
But the way it's clear.
And then he he he talked about people who had built bridges across the oceans.
Where is there a bridge across the ocean?
Why don't we see that bridge?
And where are the roads that lead to the bridge across the ocean?
I know what he meant, but for crying out loud, this is this is just it's it's cliché central.
Vacuous platitudes.
It was a speech, again, given as if he's never been in office.
Campaign speech.
The way is clear.
And the road is bumpy.
And we have more reparations from the Obama administration, the USDA, Department of Agriculture offering women and Hispanic farmers over 1.3 billion dollars in discrimination payouts.
This is the third time they've gone to the Pigford lawsuit.
Details are coming up.
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