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Jan. 22, 2013 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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January 22, 2013, Tuesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Hiya, folks, how are you?
Great, great, great to have you here.
Rush Limbaugh back in action here at the Excellence in Broadcasting Network, the Limbaugh Institute, for advanced conservative studies.
Telephone number, you ought to be on the program 800-282-2882, the email address, lrushbo at EIBNet.com.
So, folks, I just want to prepare you.
I know to some people this is, I don't know, it's immature.
It may be unseemly.
It may seem insecure.
It's not any of that.
I have been making predictions.
And actually, I should call those predictions warnings.
That's actually what they have been about the media, about Obama, about the intentions of both their intentions toward the Republicans, what Obama's grand vision is.
I have been warning and doing so under the guise of predictions for, well, for a lot of things, for four years.
But I'm in intense stuff, and I'm going to address her today for at least the last three to four weeks, even going into last year.
And I'm going to spend some time explaining.
And it's not because of insecurity.
It's not because of immaturity.
It's not because of, I want to be childish or go none of that.
It's because I want you to know that when I predict something, I'm warning.
And I want you to know that you can trust it.
I want you to know that you can have faith in it, that I'm not saying things just to say them, not trying to be outrageous for the sake of it.
And I am genuinely concerned about these things and warning you about it for whatever good that ends up being.
Some will say, you're just doing this because you're mad that everybody in the media is stealing your stuff.
No, I'm not.
That's what I mean.
I'm not being childish about it.
I'm not being immature.
I know that with as many media people as there are and as many pundits offering opinions, it's really difficult to claim originality.
But this stuff was.
But I'm not going to go through this because I'm upset people are stealing.
I don't look at it that way.
That's not the point.
It really is.
I do want to establish to you that I know what I'm talking about.
When I issue these warnings and red flags, that you ought to listen to it.
It's nothing more than my desire that you trust me and believe what I'm telling you so that you can be on the cutting edge, be informed, be aware of what's coming for whatever good it'll do you.
But that's really the reason.
I did not watch any of the inauguration yesterday.
I didn't need to.
I knew what it was going to be.
Tell you what happened.
I left here Friday.
For the past, I haven't been able to play golf since July.
I've had increasingly bad, really debilitating, range-limiting pain in my left shoulder.
It's been excruciating.
And I thought, well, and I'm getting older.
What the hell?
It'll go away.
And it never did go away.
And I didn't call a doctor because when I call a doctor, everything's cancer and you get 15 days of tests and all that.
And I knew it wasn't that.
So at any rate, it got to the point where I just happened to run into a, I had dinner with a golf buddy who knows an orthopedic specialist.
Oh, heavy guy, come to your house and look at it.
And I said, well, you can't do better than that.
Don't have to go to a doctor.
Don't have to, I can't get an MRI, so there's no test.
The doctor came out in 30 seconds on Thursday night.
He told me what it was.
He said, you got frozen shoulder.
So I was, I thought I had ripped a biceps tendon or rotator cuff.
You know, I was just doing this amateur diagnosis.
You got frozen shoulder.
I said, what's that?
He said, you just, the whole shoulder is just inflamed.
If you could see it, it'd be bright red.
So he said, what are you doing tomorrow?
I said, I'm flying out of town for the weekend.
Anyway, we're arranged.
I got a cortisone shot.
I had a cortisone shot on Friday, and it the first 24 or 36 hours, it didn't work very well.
I said, oh, geez, maybe this isn't what it was.
Then all of a sudden it kicked in.
And like I'm brand new today.
I mean, today is really the first day that I have really some.
I mean, if you're watching on DittoCam, I couldn't do this.
I couldn't hold my arm straight out.
I couldn't reach behind my back.
I couldn't put on a suit jacket or any of this.
Now I'm back.
So I was out and we went to Las Vegas for the weekend, and I'm sitting outside a deck smoking a cigar yesterday, so we're getting ready to leave.
And then the inaugural stuff is on, and I'm not watching it.
I knew what it was going to be.
And over the weekend, by the way, I had read all kinds of, I was doing show prep, preparing for today to come back.
And I was telling Snerdley this morning, it is amazing the number of, and maybe you've seen this.
Well, I don't know how many blogs you read.
You wait for me to tell you what's in them, but you wouldn't believe the number of conservative commentators who all of a sudden say, hey, you know what?
We're going to have to start backing off Obama.
He's not really a bad guy.
He's not really socialist Marxist.
He's just a Chicago thug.
And you just have to look at him that way.
He doesn't really have bad designs on the country.
We're not going to get anywhere.
Then Condoleezza Rice is out saying GOP is doing this or that and making a mistake here on immigration.
It became clear, folks, that you and I, who are conservatives, we're becoming more and more marginalized and isolated on a little island here, and it's very small.
And it's adrift out in the middle of nowhere.
And we've got people jumping ship left and right, our own island.
We got people jumping off our own ship.
I mean, the number of us who exist as we are, who are fearless in trying to explain exactly what's going on each and every day, are dwindling in number in the media.
Now, I don't know about you.
I don't get that sense with you based on the feedback I get from you.
So anyway, I knew also that when I got here today that Cookie would have watched the inaugural festivities and she would prepare for me the audio soundbite roster and had all the stuff.
I mean, Catherine is sending me texts yesterday while I'm out on the deck.
She's saying, boy, you are, you ought to be very glad you're not watching CNN.
You wouldn't be able to handle it.
I said, probably not.
I mean, if they were fawning over Obama, like there's no pretense these people are journalists anymore.
Tom Foreman, a CNN.
You ever heard of him, Snerdley?
Tom Foreman?
I have.
He's a CNN reporter.
We've learned he has written a letter to Obama every day of the last four years.
Love letters, dear Santa Claus letters.
Al Roker practically messed in his pants again yesterday when he got the first car side interview with Obama in the inaugural parade.
It is unlike anything I have ever seen.
There is no not even any pretense anymore in the media of being dispassionate or objective.
And I'm telling you, when I warned you last week and the week before, you're going to hear it coming up in the soundbites.
I predicted, I warned you that the agenda, the number one item on the Obama Democrat Party media agenda is the destruction of the Republican Party, is the elimination of any opposition.
And in fact, the political director at CBS, a guy named Dickerson, has written a long piece in which he says the objective now is to pulverize the Republicans.
Not what he thinks Obama will do, but what he thinks ought to happen.
The political director at a news organization.
I remember when the fiscal cliff deal was solved.
Remember, the Republicans all said, well, we did this.
We put the tax business behind us.
Now, we got that off the table.
And now we can really get serious and hammer Obama on spending as we get to the debt limit.
And then late last week, or over the weekend, here comes Chuck Hughes Schumer.
Oh, we're not raising taxes yet.
On the rich, I mean, we're going to still eliminate some deductions.
We're going to raise some rates even more.
We haven't even really gotten started.
And I said to myself, boy, it's a good thing we got the tax issue off the table.
It's a good thing we put the tax issue behind us.
It really is stunning.
I know there are people who say, well, be patient, Rush.
Obama, they're overreaching.
They're setting themselves up when this kind of stuff happens.
You know, karma comes along and smacks everybody down.
Folks have been waiting for karma to fix what's wrong for 25 years.
The cultural rot continues to rotten and deepen.
Everything that we think is wrong culturally, politically continues to deteriorate.
And there doesn't seem to be a low point at which people say, you know what, this is enough.
We just keep trending downward.
Just seem to be headed in that direction.
And so I want to demonstrate and give you examples of all this as the program unfolds.
As just one, let's go to soundbite number one.
We have a montage here of yesterday and last night of a bunch of media people.
And I swear, I've never seen them or heard them so happy.
I think this is the happiest they have been in recorded history.
Certainly in the modern era.
Certainly they are happier than the first time around in 2008.
Because this year, 2012, last year, was the culmination of all of their hard work.
These people, since 2007, really, but the 2008 campaign, they've been like groupies.
They have been excited to be in the mere presence of Obama.
Another journalist talked and wrote a piece about how during the inaugural festivities yesterday, I guess it was, tweeted, Facebooked, whatever these guys are doing.
My God, oh my God, I ended up right next to Obama for like five minutes.
Oh my God.
A journalist writing this.
Oh my God.
Oh my God.
I could reach out.
I could almost touch him.
And I don't feel that way about anybody.
There's not a human being I can get close to that I would go gaga over other than me.
If I can get close to me the way you do, yeah, I go gaga.
But really, is there a sterdley?
Is there some is there is there any, is there an athlete?
Is there a movie sir?
Is there anybody that you could get within five feet of and maybe talk to that you would stop everything and send out tweets and letters going gaga over?
Oh my God, oh my God.
Well, there isn't me either.
Well, well, maybe Justin Bieber, I have to be honest.
Maybe Justin Bieber, maybe Kim Kardashian.
But I mean, aside from that, folks, there isn't anybody.
You know, at the George W. Bush inaugurals, these guys look like they're covering funerals.
And they're all depressed and so forth.
Listen to this montage.
I tell you who we got.
We got Al Roker.
We got Tamron Hall, Jim Acosta.
Jim Acosta.
He's the guy that wrote, oh my God, oh, my God, I could reach out and touch Obama.
I'm like five feet away.
Oh, my God.
Kate Baldwin, CNN, Wolf Blitzer, Brian Williams, Diane Sawyer, Koki Roberts, Bob Schieffer, Scott Pelley, John Meekum, the Rice University presidential historian Doug Brinkley, Piers Morgan, all here talking about the excitement of Obama's second inauguration.
Mr. President!
This is so exciting.
It's just exciting.
An inspiration to be here.
I feel like I should pitch myself right now.
Pretty exciting for all of us out here.
I tell you what, George, this is pretty exciting.
A thrilling, thrilling morning.
Very exciting.
If the president can see us, Mr. President, Mr. President, I saw the first lady there.
There's the first lady over there.
Well, you know, we're spectators.
We're tourists here in Washington.
America threw itself a party today.
This great pageant of the day in American democracy.
It's a day to say congratulations, United States of America.
It is a wonderful moment.
It was a perfect day.
The crowds were large.
They were joyous.
An amazing day in Washington.
The magical moment in a second term that begins today.
It's amazing how beloved Barack Obama is by the African-American community.
It's an amazing moment to have a black president being re-elected and reinaugurated on Martin Luther King Day.
Piers Moore.
Well, you heard it.
I mean, you heard it.
And that they will never get over the fact that he's African American.
That's the single most important thing about him.
The second thing is he's a liberal.
But the fact he's black, that's so we are dealing here with a cult figure.
Now, I know some of you probably, some of you cynic leftists in the audience.
Oh, come on, Rush.
You know that if it was Reagan being inaugurated and you got one in five feet, you'd have come on the radio the next day and be going, gag, gag, I don't know.
I mean, I'm going to be honest, but I'm not a journalist.
I'm not pretending to be dispassionate about all this.
I'm not pretending to be an objective chronicler of events.
It is demeaning to these people, but they don't see it that way at all.
What would Edward R. Murrow say?
Edward R. Murrow would be leading this parade.
Walter Cronkite would be leading this.
What do you mean?
What would Edward R. Murrow say?
No difference.
Anyway, folks, I just, I'm serious now.
This isn't, this isn't sour grapes.
It isn't envy or jealousy or any of that.
This is real concern that I feel for the country.
Real concern.
But I'm being told, don't even say, oh, no, don't say the country's in parallel.
It's just going to send people running to Obama, even for business.
Not so much the country.
I guess values and standards.
I don't know.
It's tough to put my finger on.
But I just, I don't get this way over anybody.
Anyway, I got to take a break.
But there's much more coming up.
I mean, next, we have a bunch of people talking about how the objective here is Obama got to transform the country.
Just like Reagan was transformative, Obama's got to.
Now, this is something I have been predicting and warning and analyzing for months now.
And it's conventional wisdom now.
So you'll see all of it coming up.
Sit tight.
You're going to get your phone calls in the mix of this as well, folks.
Broadcast excellence rolls on back before you know it.
And we are back, Rush Limbaugh.
Half my brain tied behind my back.
Just to make it fair.
I don't think the news media has been this happy since they forced Nixon to resign.
And that's a tough contest.
I mean, when were they happy?
I mean, that was orgasmic nirvana for them back then.
But I think this is even a bigger deal because there's so much involved in this.
I mean, all the pretense is gone.
It's not just that Obama won.
And it's not so much what Obama's plans are.
It's not so much what Obama's agenda is other than, and I mean this, and I've never been more serious.
I think the number one objective for these people they think has been met, and that is the elimination of any viable opposition to Obama.
I think they really are ecstatic and happy over what they think now is the final nail in the coffin of conservatism.
I think that is what has been a prime motivating factor for many people in the media.
The biggest objective, the biggest objective, the biggest obstacle to them has been domestic political opposition and eliminating it, getting rid of it, discrediting it, making it infinitesimally small.
I think that's what they're really celebrating.
And Obama's the vessel for it.
And Obama fits the fits the bill.
I mean, he's first African-American president, Big Lib.
They think he loves them.
It's just all made to order.
I mean, it is as though they have conquered the country and that they alone run it.
And they're drunk with power and delirious with that achievement.
And they think it's final.
They think it's over.
They think it's the end of the NRA.
It's the end of the pro-lifers.
It's the end of any viable, serious opposition to them on anything.
They think it's happened.
And to the extent that there are still pockets of opposition, they feel confident they can take that out, too.
And they're very confident.
They see more and more conservatives caving, basically conceding and walking away from any opposition.
I mean, it's amazing.
They are deliriously happy.
And it is the universe in which we find ourselves.
Primarily, it's an inside the beltway phenomenon, but that's how they perceive the whole country to be going.
Okay, I could play you any of a number of soundbites of me in recent weeks to illustrate this, but let's go back to January 4th, right here on this program.
A couple of weeks ago, predicted, but also last year about the objective that Obama has.
I'll tell you what's on tap here.
The Democrat Party and Barack Obama, particularly Obama, Obama has a lot of admiration for Reagan in a political sense, not policy-wise.
Obama's admiration for Reagan is in the sense that Reagan was a truly transformational president.
Reagan genuinely changed the trajectory of this country.
He changed the overall foundation of this nation and its economy with Reaganomics supply-side trickle now, whatever you're going to call it.
Now, Obama hates that.
He hates Reaganomics.
He wants to be as transformational a president as Reagan was.
And what he seeks to do is erase every trace of Reagan from America, and particularly economically.
So whereas the Reagan transformation of the country, the trajectory that Reagan moved our country to was one of conservatism, one where the trajectory was toward smaller government, lower taxes, private sector boom determining whether or not the economy was growing.
Government de-emphasized.
But Reagan didn't get a lot done in terms of shrinking government, wanted to, obstacles everywhere.
It's a very tough thing to do, but we were moving in that direction.
And more importantly, the voters were of that mind.
Reagan won two landslides on the premise that government was the problem, that government had to be de-emphasized in people's lives, that people's lives were improved greatly by virtue of their own self-investment and self-worth.
And Obama wants no part of that.
He wants to eliminate that.
He's written about Reagan and his minions, quote unquote, in his books.
He's been openly disdainful of Reagan's policies.
He's been very admiring, though, of Reagan and what he was able to do.
And so Obama now wants to codify an exact opposite transformation and a trajectory toward government being the central thing in everybody's life.
That everybody's life now will be Julia, that cartoon.
That every interaction a citizen has will be, or every meaningful step in an individual's life will occur after an interaction with government.
That the citizen will basically turn his life over to the government, turn his prosperity to the extent that he'll have any, his security, his economic well-being, all will be turned over to the government.
This is what Obama seeks.
And I first mentioned this in the last three months of last year, when to me it became obvious that this is what Obama's objective was.
And of course, this is an objective shared by many in the media.
And I mentioned that the political director at CBS, John Dickerson, had written a piece.
Here it is.
Go for the throat.
Why, if he wants to transform American politics, Obama must declare war on the Republican Party.
This is another prediction slash warning that I have been offering every day on this program for the past three weeks, but into last year as well, that the number one objective of Obama, the Democrat Party, is the elimination of any domestic political opposition.
Take them out.
Wipe the slate clean with them.
No level playing field.
That's not the objective.
No opposition on the playing field is the objective.
Pulverize the Republicans.
And lo and behold, every warning that I mentioned is now being echoed.
All of these people about whom I was issuing the warning are being very upfront and honest.
And yep, I mean, they're not saying Limbaugh was right, but they're saying this is what we want to do.
The CBS political director has written a long piece for consumption by Obama in which he says that Obama's only option is to pulverize the GOP.
He must declare war on the Republican Party.
The president who came into office speaking in lofty terms about bipartisanship and cooperation can only cement his legacy if he destroys the GOP.
If he wants to transform American politics, he must go for the throat.
This, the political director at CBS News, destroy the GOP.
That's what Obama has to do.
Now, Obama doesn't have to be told by the political director at CBS.
Obama's oriented toward doing that anyway.
My point here is not that Obama's getting advice from these guys and taking it.
He doesn't need their advice.
The point here is this is your media.
This is who they are.
This is what they want to happen.
This is what they are advocating, and this is what they will support.
This is what they will attempt to make happen via their reporting.
If the objective, if Obama's legacy depends on the GOP being destroyed, they'll take care of it.
They'll do everything they can.
They'll take out Rubio.
They'll take out whoever they have to.
If there does happen to surface a conservative leader, and there isn't one right now, an elected Washington, D.C. conservative leader, if one surfaces, the media is telling Obama, don't worry about it, bud, we'll take him out, just like we did Romney.
And we can do it.
We don't need you.
We'll be glad to have your help.
You want to run your perpetual campaign on the latest Republican is a murderer and rapist and hates dogs and has money hidden in banks and the Swiss banks that came in.
We'll help you, bud.
Whatever you want said, we will say it.
Dickerson writes, Obama probably has at most 18 months before people start dropping the lame duck label in close proximity, meaning, come on, man, you got 18 months to get this done.
18 months, and we'll help you.
But after that, everybody's going to be looking to 2016.
After that, everybody's going to be looking to the next presidential race and the congressional midterms.
You've got a year and a half, bud.
We're ready to go, Mr. President.
We're going to pulverize the GOP.
And any conservative leader, conservative media person, we'll take them out for you.
From the same piece, Mr. John Dickerson, CBS political director, Obama's only remaining option is to pulverize.
You imagine if we do this analogy all the time, but I think it's worthwhile.
Imagine if any conservative media type were writing this kind of stuff advising Republicans about how to deal with Obama.
Imagine what would happen to them.
In the first place, it wouldn't happen.
You wouldn't have a conservative media.
We don't even have a conservative media suggesting Obama should be beat now.
We don't even have a conservative media suggesting Obama should be defeated in issue after issue after issue.
But if we did, and if there were any conservative in the media that were daring, I mean, we're in the midst of everybody saying we need a more civil discourse.
We need bipartisanship.
We need to get along with one another.
The American people don't like this constant struggle and fight and so on.
And yet, and I'm sure Mr. Dickerson and everybody else in the media has been articulating that pebble about civility and bipartisanship and cooperation and working together and how we must do that.
The American people are fed up with the constant bickering.
And here comes a guy, political director CBS, has no doubt gotten in his share of thoughts on civility, now advocating pulverizing the Republican Party, destroying the Republican Party, going for the throat.
By exploiting the weaknesses of today's Republican Party, Obama has an opportunity to hasten the demise of the old order, that means Reaganism, by increasing the political cost of having the GOP coalition defined by Second Amendment absolutists, climate science deniers, supporters of self-deportation, and the pure no-tax wing.
So what does that mean?
What Mr. Dickerson is suggesting here is he's saying to Obama, look, what you and I working together need to do is get rid of conservatism.
And to do that, we must define every Republican as being nothing but pro-gun, wants as many guns as he can get and wants to shoot guns all the time, wants to shoot guns every day, doesn't care about Sandy Hook.
This is a guy that will protect anybody's right to have a gun and shoot it.
So we want to portray them that way.
And then we're going to go out and we're going to portray them as the equivalent of Holocaust deniers if they say that there isn't any man-made global warming.
And it's already a hoax.
It's already been established.
There is no man-made global warming.
Doesn't matter.
In order to destroy the Republican Party with the low-information voter crowd, we're going to have to portray them.
And Mr. President, we'll be glad to help you out here.
We're going to do it.
We're going to portray every conservative as a madcap, lunatic, insane gun activist who likes mass shootings.
And then we're going to portray them as some of these archaic old antiques who don't think that there's any warming going on.
And then we're going to portray them as a bunch that want nothing but deport every Mexican in the country.
And we're going to portray them as people that want to cut taxes for the rich.
In other words, Mr. President, you need to continue if you want to destroy the GOP and pulverize them.
If you want to transform the country, we here at CBS will help you by defining your opposition the way he has just described here.
Everybody's going to be a southern hayseed deliverance kind of insane hick.
The objective of this is to make as many Republicans as possible renounce conservatism.
It's designed to make every Republican who doesn't like conservatives anyway, run away from them as fast as possible because he's not going to wait to be thought of the way conservatives are going to be portrayed by Obama's friends at CBS, ABC, CBS, CNN, you name it.
He says the NRA is overreached, Mr. President.
We can use that.
The president is also getting help from Republicans who are calling out the most extreme members of the coalition like Chris Christie, Mr. Christie, who's doing everything he can to help destroy the Republican Party, just like you want to do, and we'll help.
We'll build these guys up, Mr. President.
We'll find every Republican who's actually a Democrat, and we'll make them out to be the biggest stars in the world.
This is what the CBS political director is advocating and promising.
And then Mr. Dickerson writes, If the Republican Party finds itself destabilized right now, it's in part because the president has already implemented a version of this strategy.
Right?
Pulverize, destroy, go for the throat.
Now, folks, let me tell you in politics, I'm not complaining this is happening.
I don't want anybody misunderstood.
This is like complaining about the competition in capitalism.
You can't.
If you like capitalism, you've got to love the competition.
And you've got to understand it's going to be go for broke.
Well, political competition is the same way.
My point to you here is that we now have, without any question, Obama's real objective is not just Obamacare, it's to eliminate any political opposition, to just wipe them off the map.
And the media is now telling him, not only will they help, but they're offering advice on how to do it openly.
So those of you who are continually waiting around for the media to be fair and get the story right, you're going to forever, as I've also warned you, be disappointed.
And then over at slate.com, they talk about this piece by Dickerson and add to it.
Yep.
Obama must destroy the GOP.
I'll give you details.
There's all kinds of examples of this throughout the media that I just found over the weekend doing a show prep, plus more sound bites to prove it.
Sit tight, coming back.
I'll grab a phone call when we get back just to do that too, so don't go away.
Let's grab a quick phone call on this.
Menlo Park, California.
Hi, Rich.
Great to have you on EIB Network, sir.
Hello.
Hi, Rush.
Thanks for having me on.
You bet.
You know, I'm getting a little tired of listening to the Republicans these days.
You know, they present this story that they are fighting for us and they're behind us and they want lower taxes and less spending.
And yet all of their behaviors don't match up with what they're telling me.
And you know what?
I'm getting so, so tired of it.
Every chance they get, they fold.
And I think the fight that these guys are putting on, like Boehner and McCain and all the other colon pals of the Republican Party, you know, they are the Republican Party and they fold every chance they get.
And as an American who's watching this who used to believe in the Republican Party, I just get so angry that they do this to us.
They say they want taxes are off the table, and then all of a sudden we find out, no, no, they're not on the table.
You know what, Rush?
It's all theater to keep us engaged.
I don't think they believe a word of it.
I think they just go along with what the Democrats are saying in order to maintain their little piece of power.
And that's my feeling on it.
It's unbelievable to me.
Well, I know this is been the case for many years.
The Republicans, they're the ones who gave us Obama, essentially, with all the spending that Bush did and McCain and the gang of six that took away the long-term tax breaks and gave us the 10-year Bush rates, which drove us to the physical cliff we're at now, or however you want to put it.
The point here, what you're saying about the Republicans is not new.
That's been the case for basically since the 90s.
That's not what I'm really talking about here.
There's maybe you missed my point.
I'm sorry.
I guess I didn't explain it properly.
But then we get the point of this is not to complain about the Republicans.
They're who they are.
Anyway, let me take a brief time out.
I'll try to explain this again when we get back.
Okay, much more still ahead here, folks.
Barely scratched the surface in the audio soundbite roster.
And there are, of course, other exciting issue things happening in news stories.
We are low information stack as well.
Phil Michelson has backtracked on his comments about maybe leaving California and quitting playing golf because of the new tech situation.
We'll bring you up to speed on the latest involving that.
Sit tight.
We'll be back with much more straight ahead right after this.
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