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Feb. 12, 2013 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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February 12, 2013, Tuesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of The Rush 24-7 podcast.
No, no, no, I'm just depressed.
I really am.
And I probably shouldn't admit this.
I have a I mean, I as the last surviving pulp, I ought not to even admit that, but I gotta be honest with you.
No, I no, no, I just dude.
Does anybody want to watch this tonight?
Does anybody really want to watch?
You know what this is going to be tonight?
This is going to be the misstatement of the union.
It's not the State of the Union, it's the misstatement of the Union.
And you know what we're gonna see?
It's it's it is it's an absurd sight, folks, to sit here.
Well, I'm not gonna be here, I'm gonna be there, as sit there and watch our government stand and applaud itself as it's ruining our economy.
They will sit there and they're gonna applaud themselves all night long, and for what?
Ruining the country, bringing the private sector to its knees, exploding the deficit.
Obamacare.
Bye-bye freedom here, bye-bye freedom there.
And we're gonna have all kinds of guests sitting up there next to Michelle Obama.
I'm depressed because the Apple CEO is gonna be there.
I know, I know you don't have to tell me, and I know why the Apple CEO, but I'll guarantee you, well, I can't guarantee you, but my wild guess is that the Apple CEO has been invited to sit next to Muchell or to sit close to her because Apple has announced that they're gonna start building a product in America this year.
And so Obama can point to that and tout about how he is bringing jobs back to America while jobs are being destroyed.
But it really is, it's it's it's it's you know, I know what's gonna be said before it's said, and it's gonna be galling.
It's it's not so much what we're gonna hear because we know that, it's the sight.
It's the optics of these guys standing and applauding themselves, our government applauding itself while it's in the midst of wreaking havoc.
Now, Drudge just posted a story.
You know, more and more people are starting to speak out very softly, and not all that frequently, but it's starting to happen.
This is an ABC news story, Fort Hood Hero says Obama betrayed her and other victims.
Soldiers denied Purple Heart other benefits after military classify shooting as a workplace or as workplace violence.
Three years after the White House arranged a hero's welcome at the State of the Union address for the Fort Hood police sergeant and her partner, who stopped the deadly shooting there, Kimberly Munley, says that President Obama broke the promise he made to her that the victims would be well taken care of.
Betrayed is a good word, former Sergeant Munley told ABC News in a tearful interview to be broadcast tonight on World News tonight with Diane Sawyer and also on Nightline.
Not to the least little bit have the victims at Fort Hood been taken care of.
In fact, they've been neglected.
There was no immediate comment from the White House about her allegations.
Yesterday, ladies and gentlemen, right here on this program, we had a soundbite for you.
It was Nancy Pelosi saying we don't have a spending problem.
She said we have a budget deficit problem.
I intended to make a point about this yesterday.
We were I think as we do almost every day on this program.
I I had a call or I brought the subject up myself about my optimism about at some point all of this is gonna bottom out and we're gonna rebound.
And I've been honest with you about that optimism.
I I don't know what or when, and uh, it's not, you know, I'm trying to be honest, I'm not wishful thinking, it's not just hope.
Uh it's a genuine positive confidence that I have in the overall population of this country.
And I I I'm I assure you here that I am not engaged in in wishful thinking.
I'm not blindly optimistic here.
It's a genuine, sincere feeling.
And one of the reasons, and I meant to mention yesterday, one of the reasons is this just can't go on.
This kind of dishonesty and falsity will implode on itself.
I remember what Ronaldus Magnus said once about the Soviet Union and communism in general.
He said it will it will it will fall on its own.
Now we're gonna nudge it, we're gonna give it a shove, but it will collapse on its own because of its moral depravity.
It can't survive.
And communism hasn't thrived.
Have you noticed, you know, Obama's gotten pretty much everything he's wanted in four years?
Where's the happiness?
Where are all the Julia's of the world, that TV commercial?
Where are the happy Obama voters?
Where are the happy people of this country?
You there isn't any massive amount of happiness.
Everybody's on edge.
So you get Pelosi.
I mean, this is uh Democrats make statements like this constantly, but this one it's close to taking the cake.
We not know we don't have a spending problem.
We have a budget deficit problem.
Uh unemployment benefits, she said.
The single best thing you can do for economic growth and job creation for every dollar.
She said this.
For every dollar of unemployment benefits, we get a dollar seventy-three in economic output.
And then she also, I forget the exact statistic, but she also said for every dollar in unemployment benefits, we create jobs.
She is the best job creation that we can do in this country is unemployment benefits.
She really said this stuff.
So yesterday, Stenny Hoyer on No, I'm sorry, it was this morning on CNBC.
He was on Squawk Box and had a fill-in hostette, name was Michelle Caruso Cabrera, and she asked Hoyer.
Now you got to listen to this.
She asked Stenny Hoyer.
This is the number two Democrat in the House.
She asked Stenny Hoyer, does the country have a spending problem?
Does the country have a spending problem?
Yeah.
The country has a paying for problem.
We haven't paid for what we bought.
We haven't paid for our tax cuts.
We haven't paid for the city.
Oh, well, we promise.
So how are those different than a spending problem?
Well, uh, we spent a lot of money when George Bush was president of the United States.
We have we have a paying for problem.
We don't have a spending problem.
We don't have a spending problem.
Yesterday we have a budget deficit problem.
Today, Stenny Hoyer, number two Democrat.
No, no, no.
We don't have a spending problem.
We have a paying for problem.
Now, folks, this is this is intellectually depraved.
This is intellectually incompetent, in addition to being irrelevant and dishonest.
It's it is, well, it's of course it's insulting, but it's it's these people are the foundation, but everything they're doing is built on balsal wood.
And at some point it's gonna collapse.
This this kind of stuff has no legitimacy.
This is a totally illegitimate comment.
So is everything Pelosi saying about this, and most of what Obama says is illegitimate, in addition to dishonest, and in addition to uh insulting.
House Minority Whip Stanny Hoyer joined the host of CNBC, grilled by the anchorette Michelle Caruso Cabretta.
We have a paying for problem.
Now the info, babe, was incredulous.
She said, I've heard Democrat after Democrat today tell me how much the president reached out to me during that last speech and how he's gonna do it again tonight.
I sat in meetings with the president sitting with Republican leadership in the Senate in the House trying to get a compromise Hoyer countered.
We didn't get there, but but the president spent a lot of time trying, and so Any fair analysis would indicate that he was prepared to go to places, particularly on entitlements that would upset his base.
So she said, do we have a spending problem?
No, we got a paying for problem.
We haven't paid for what we bought.
She said, are we promising too much?
He said, well, yeah.
And if we don't pay, we shouldn't buy.
Well, how is that?
How's that different from a spending problem?
Well, it's not a spending problem because our spending is legitimate.
Our problem is we haven't paid for it.
Well, why haven't we paid for it?
Well, we don't have the money.
Well, then, we've got a spending problem.
If I I can't believe I'm even trying to explain that.
I can't believe that I'm even trying to make sense of this for people.
I can't believe that I am 15, 10 minutes into the open of this show, and this is what I'm having to explain to people.
We don't have a spending problem.
We have a paying for problem.
We don't have a spending problem.
We've got a budget deficit problem.
Now, I'm just telling you, this is also moral depravity, folks.
This is this is, in addition to everything, lying, misrepresenting.
It's insulting.
It is intellectually depraved.
It's moral, it's corrupt, is what it is.
This is banana republic kind of stuff.
This is, I'm going to answer whatever I have to, it's going to take the blame away from me, and what are you going to do about it?
Talked also yesterday about uh Chris Dorner, the renegade former cop in LA.
They think he might have gone to Mexico.
They've also learned he knows how to fly an airplane.
So they have to re-may be droning the guy if they can find him.
But you have to hear this.
This is on CNN this morning on newsroom with the anchorette Carol Costello.
And she's talking to a satellite radio host about how some people are seeing Chris Dorner as a hero.
As a vigilante hero, as a guy who is getting away with what needs to be gotten away with, a guy who's calling attention to the racial discrimination and discrepancies in this country and the racial inequities.
He's got a cheering section on Twitter and Facebook.
This guy's a modern-day hero.
He's being called a modern-day Django.
He's being urged on.
He is being supported wildly by hundreds of thousands, may number in the millions of people.
So Carol Costello says, okay, Dorner fan sites with titles like We're All Chris Dorner and the Christopher Dorner Appreciation Society are popping up on Facebook.
And on Twitter, the hashtag go DornerGo.
Now let's review it.
Chris Dorner, a disgruntled LAPD officer, fired from his job, accused of killing three people.
He taunted the father of one of his victims, saying he should have done a better job protecting his daughter.
Why do some see this guy as a vigilante hero?
Where's this coming from?
It's coming from an exclusive ignorance for those of us who are born privileged to be born white in America.
I mean, if you don't understand with some perspective, the history of this country and racial violence oftentimes perpetrated by those in law enforcement or the owner, if you will.
If you don't understand that history in this country, if you don't understand specifically the history of the LA police department and black folks, uh, then you won't understand this.
Black folks in America have been targeted by law enforcement, and I don't want to generalize here at all, but specifically by, of course, law enforcement for generations in this country.
So you see, this is simply decades old grievance finally being addressed.
And the LAPD, the modern equivalent of the slave owner.
That's what he said here.
The history of this country, the racial violence, oftentimes perpetrated by those in law enforcement or the owner, if you will, meaning the slave owner.
If you don't understand that history in this country, if you don't understand the history of the LAPV and black folks, then you won't understand this.
So we're supposed to now understand the guy is smart.
Yesterday, what did we hear?
Steve Roberts, former Newsweek Reporter.
Now he's a professor of journalism somewhere.
We have to understand this man.
He's very bright.
This guy is supremely smart and he's black.
And because of those two things, we can't make hasty judgments.
We have to endeavor to understand just like we had to understand the art that was present in all the books and movies about assassinating George W. Bush.
And you know as well as I do, if this guy were white and had a list of conservatives that were his mentors and people who were inspiring him, there wouldn't be any sympathy at all.
There wouldn't be hashtags, websites, Twitter, Facebook supporting this guy at all.
There'd be mad calls to end all talk radio to get rid of Fox News.
And now we're to sit here and say this guy says something like that the unibomber, fallen angel, fallen liberal.
This Dorner's finally doing what should have been done a long time ago.
Before this is all over, somebody is going to make the demand that the LAPD apologize to Dorner and take him back with back pay.
Mark my words.
Roland Martin was also on the CNN show.
Carol Costello said, Roland, why at this particular time?
This man's still out there.
He's still so dangerous.
Why bring all this history up?
Why, why?
I mean, sure there was racial segregation.
Sure there was racial discrimination.
Sure there was slavery a couple hundred years ago.
But what what why in the world is this guy justified in what he's doing because of that?
In talking about Dorner, we can't act as if what he had to say should not be discussed.
Why can't we talk about both?
Why can't we condemn him?
Why can't we say he is heinous for what he did, but then say, wait a minute, what is he talking about as it relates to police officers?
When you talk about the ramparts division, when you talk about the history of the LAPD, depending upon where you live, you see them as being terrorists.
And so this guy's a vigilante here.
So the LAPD are now the terrorists, and they always have been, and this guy is totally justified.
It is this kind of depraved immorality that is going to cause all of this progressivism to collapse on itself.
This this stuff can't.
You can't build solid functioning civil societies on this kind of belief system.
You just can't do it.
It will not support itself.
This is corrupt.
And it's grievance-based, and that means it's filled with rage and anger.
And there's nothing civil about it.
There's nothing, there's no decency here.
There's no common sense being utilized whatsoever.
This guy simply presents an opportunity for a bunch of grievance-filled leftists to take the occasion of his murder spree to use to their political advantage.
Which just goes to show that the left will take every event out there and politicize it in uh in ways they think benefit them.
There's more, too.
We get to that right after this.
Steny Hoyer.
We don't have a spending problem.
We have a paying for it problem.
A town drunk.
I didn't have too much to drink last night.
The bartender served me too much.
The first half hour of this program is devoted, devoted to utter absurdity.
This is the stuff we used to say as jokes.
Do you realize one of the techniques of this program from the early days were to illustrate absurdity by being absurd?
It's gone to point now that they've taken over the gig.
They don't have to illustrate absurdity.
They are.
They're doing just fine.
And now Chris Dorner.
Oh, yeah, we're supposed to understand.
Okay, let me ask Roland Martin and any of you others.
What kind of efforts are you making to understand all of the killers in Chicago?
You know, there's a lot of black kids, young black kids being gunned down in Chicago, record numbers.
Now, I didn't know that LA was such a racist place.
It's been run by Democrats for so many years.
I I really didn't know.
Hollywood and all, I had no idea LA was such a hotbed of race.
I knew, you know, Watts and this kind of stuff, but I didn't know the whole place was.
I mean, this guy Dorner is a Piker compared to some of the murderers in Chicago.
Are we to understand them?
Are we to dig deep to find the source of their grievance?
And is Dorner ultimately, Christopher Dorner, is he are we headed?
Is he to be exempted from the law here because of his much needed grievance addressing?
I mean, this guy's taking care of 200 years of slavery, wiping it out, getting even for all of that.
Does that mean he will be not held accountable to the law?
Absurdity.
Absurdity.
Let me ask you a quick question.
Back in 2007, 2008, during the presidential campaign, would you have ever believed that if we elected a black president, that the principal focus of the news would be race?
Wasn't the election of a black president supposed to end that?
Isn't that what many people who voted for Obama thought?
Didn't a lot of people vote for Obama because, okay, finally, if we elected black president, then we've erased the original sin of slavery.
Or as close to that as is possible.
We have demonstrated now, or we will demonstrate if we elect a black president that we're not a racist country anymore.
I know a lot of people voted for Obama on that basis.
And I guarantee you back in 2007, 2008, I don't think if you'd have told people, and I did, by the way, and people told me they thought I was full of it.
I said, racial problems in this country are going to get worse.
What do you mean?
How can you possibly I mean, I really I was people reacted to me really angrily.
What do you mean?
How can you possibly because any shred of criticism of the new black president is going to be said to be racist?
The race industry is gonna thrive, I said.
People like the uh Reverend Dak and Al Sharpton are gonna have field days.
It's it's not gonna erase anything.
It is going to give birth to brand new racial discrimination.
It's gonna amplify it.
Because that's what the race industry is all about.
And lo and behold, here we are in 2013.
And the principal focus of the news is race.
Now more than ever, the only issue we face in this country is race and our racist history.
We haven't erased anything.
And it's not even inner city unemployment.
No, what we have is a former LA cop who happens to be black on a shooting spree, and people are coming out and not just encouraging him, but defending him on the basis that we as a country deserve it.
Because of our wretched racist slave past.
And it's about time we owned up to it.
And it's about time we faced it.
After decades of affirmative action, after decades of quotas, after decades of who knows what policy here and policy there to address these injustices of the past, it's like it never happened.
It's like we have not done one thing to make amends for the original sin of slavery in this country.
It's the singular focus of the news.
It is the singular most animating aspect of news coverage today.
It's the single most animating aspect of journalists.
The reason they are in the tank for Obama is race, pure and simple, because they have grown up educated and taught that this country is immoral, unjust, improper, ill-founded.
And here we are.
And I just take yourself back to 2007, 2008, in the midst of the campaign, we're on the verge of electing, making history.
Electing the first black president, first black first lady.
And would you have believed if somebody told you, I guarantee you this the singular focus of the news every day is going to be racial matters.
If somebody predicted, yeah, in four years a black former cops would be running around shooting people, and we're going to be told he's a hero.
Would you believe it?
No, you would have thought just the exact opposite.
Now more than ever.
The only issue we face is race and our racist history.
I still can't, it's Stenny Hoyer.
We have a paying for it problem.
We don't have a spending problem.
Stenny Hoyer is one of the dolts that we're going to have to watch tonight, stand up and applaud.
By the way, speaking of, I didn't Obama say yesterday, or didn't Jay Carney, didn't the regime put out news that we fixed the debt?
The debt's been fixed.
The debt's done.
We've we've addressed the debt problem, especially if the sequester happens.
Dingy Harry said we've had 2.6 trillion dollars in spending cuts, budget cuts, and then the sequester is another 1.2 to 1.4.
I'll give us a total of 4 trillion.
Debt done.
And Obama's gonna say that tonight.
He's gonna say job creation's on the move.
He's gonna say debt reduction's taking place.
We got our spending in line, it's now in control, and everything's ready to roll.
And there's gonna be a standing ovation for that.
And a misstatement of the union.
And I have to watch it.
Now I can't farm this one out.
This this I have to watch.
So I'm gonna bring the dogs in.
We're gonna put GOP collars on their on the dogs and put them in front of TV and we'll watch it as a family.
And we'll try to try to make it as enjoyable an evening as possible.
One more c two more sound bites on uh on Christopher Dorner.
This is last night on a news hour, uh PBS, the co-anchor Ray Suarez interviewing the mayor of Los Angeles, Antonio Villarragosa, and during a discussion about the LAPD opening the case,
reopening the case of the former cop Chris Dorner, Ray Suarez says to Via Ragosa, in recent days your police chief Charlie Beck has announced he wants to reopen, reexamine the files of the case that led to the firing of Christopher Dorner.
Why did your chief feel that was necessary?
What might be in oh, so now this is interesting, isn't it?
So now the guy's on a killing spree, and the LAPD, okay, okay, we'll we'll rule reexamine.
Maybe he shouldn't have been fired.
Anyway, here's what the mayor said about that.
In order to address any concerns that some in the public may have with respect to what happened uh in the case of Mr. Dorner, uh, he's uh reopened this investigation.
But I'll say this there is absolutely nothing, Ray, nothing that could have happened to him to justify killing three people in cold blood.
Three innocent people.
This is a man uh who's hellbent on uh mayhem and destruction, uh, who's willing to kill.
Uh, and nothing that could have happened to him uh justifies uh those kinds of atrocious acts.
Not so fast, mayor, you're in the minority in your party.
You're in the minority in your party, he is entirely Justified.
That's the whole point of all this.
Focus on this guy.
The whole point of all these tweets and Facebook posts.
The whole point of all this is that he is justified.
That we've got to examine why.
We must learn why.
Mayor doesn't quite understand what's going on.
I wonder, I wonder if Obama will quote from Dorner's manifesto tonight.
Well, now see Sterdley's in there going, now come on.
Dorner wrote a lot about the need for an assault weapons ban.
He did.
In that manifesto, it's 11,000 words.
There's a whole bunch in there about the need for an assault weapons ban.
This guy, I'd say Obama could probably quote the guy without knowing he's quoting him.
The guy sounds like any other anti-Second Amendment individual when he talks about the need to ban a seat.
Sounds no different than Diane Feinstein.
So Obama, whether he knows it or not, whether he's aware of it or not, will be echoing thoughts that are in Dorner's manifesto.
Don't look at me.
I'm just telling you, I've looked at his manifesto.
He has he has a lot.
He's written a lot, writes a lot about the need for an assault weapons ban.
Why not cite him?
He's a man of the hour.
There's nothing uh Dorner didn't write on the sequester that I didn't see anything on the sequester of uh of Dorner's.
But he's a man of the hour.
Why not?
Why not quote the guy?
Anyway, after you just heard the mayor there of LA and uh Antonio Vagosa just said, Well, yeah, we're gonna we're gonna open the files.
The public knows what a reprobate the guy is, but I'm just gonna tell you something, right?
Nothing justifies what this guy's doing.
There's no way.
And Suarez really not satisfied with that answer.
This is not in any way to uh justify or explain what Christopher Dorner has done.
But when the city is in a crisis like this, when there is a case of this kind, is there a history that has to be reckoned with between the LAPD and the people of the city of Los Angeles, between the officers of color and the people of color and the LAPD?
We are now the most diverse that we've ever been.
About almost 75% of our police officers come from communities of color, Latino, African, American, and Asian, about 20% are women.
But as I said, there is nothing, absolutely nothing that justifies killing people in cold blood in the way that he has.
All of this is just absurd.
This whole discussion's absurd.
That statement by Suarez is patently absurd and it's meaningless.
Well, you get the obligatory.
This is not in any way to justify or explain what Dorner did.
But when the city's in a crisis like this, what crisis is the city in?
Is it the crisis of this guy running loose shooting people?
What's the crazy or the cry that he was fired?
What crisis?
Is there a history that has to be reckoned with between the LAPD and the people of the city of Los Angeles?
Between the officers of color and the people of color in the LAP.
What it's absurd.
What in the world does any of this mean?
I don't think even the low information voters understand what's going on here.
The End Gallup polos out with some.
I find it curious, maybe even a little fascinating.
Americans disapprove of Obama policy on nearly every issue.
According to a Gallup poll, 42% of Americans approve of Obama's gun policies, 54% disapprove.
On taxes, 41% approve of Obama's policies to the extent they know what they are.
57% disapprove.
On the economy, 39% approve of Obama's policy, 60% disapprove.
On the quote, situation in the Middle East between the Israelis and the Palestinians.
Thirty-six percent approve of Obama's policy.
Fifty-five percent disapprove.
And on the budget deficit that's been fixed.
Thirty-one percent approve and sixty five percent disapprove.
The only area in which Obama gains the support of a majority is on national defense issues.
But that was before the North Koreans launched a nuclear test on Monday.
So you got the North Koreans nuking up, the Iranians nuking up under Obama's watch, and we're getting rid of ours.
But I mean, this is uh the Gallup.
Let me give you the numbers again.
I'll just give you the disapproved numbers.
People, Americans disapprove on practically every issue with Obama.
Gun policy, 54 disapprove.
Obama's tax policy, 57 disapprove.
Obama's economic policy, 60 percent disapprove.
Situation in the Middle East, Israelis and Palestinians, 55% disapprove.
Federal budget deficit, sixty-five percent disapprove.
Yet the guy got elected and is running around acting like he was re-elected with a supermajority and a accompanying mandate.
But he did get re-elected.
Yeah, I think there's an explanation for it.
What?
What did you say?
What did you just simplistic to say that the voters are idiots.
I mean, certainly low information voters are uh somewhat ignorant, but this polling data is uh includes those in the low information voter subgroup.
I'll tell you what I think it is.
I think it's Obama's ad campaign destroying Romney.
Two things.
I think we're gonna have to face the reality that all of those lies, vicious.
He's a he's a felon.
He doesn't care when some guy's wife died, it's okay with murder, he's that this hates dogs, he's a rich guy with money outside the country, doesn't care about you.
There's no question that stuff was effective.
There's no question people believe in, didn't want to take a chance with it.
And you couple that with the realization that four million Republicans who did vote in 08 didn't vote in 2012.
I'm gonna chalk those people up to being conservatives fed up with the Republican Party moving to the center.
I think that's your explanation.
You can say they're idiots.
But Obama didn't run on any issues.
He didn't run any all Obama did was run on what a dangerous reprobate Mitt Romney was.
That's that's the sum total the Obama campaign.
Let me grab a quick phone call here.
Dayton, Ohio, Mike, you're up first today.
Great to have you on Miss Statement of the Union Day.
Hello.
Hi, Rush.
Hey, it's great to talk to you.
I just wanted to touch base and let you know that I I agree with you normally, but I disagree with your comment on the fact that the media is in uh Obama's tank because of his color.
Uh if that were the case, they would have been in uh Herman Kane's tank, and they certainly weren't.
So I think it's more about his liberal policies than it is the color of his skin.
Well, uh look, I you're right.
I mean, I I the there's certain things here I thought would be understood.
The racial aspect of Obama as far as the left views race.
Herman Cain's not down for the struggle.
Herman Cain is not viewed as an authentic black guy.
Because well, not just that he's successful, uh, but but that he's he's not he's not a he's not a liberal.
He he's not he doesn't believe in the civil rights coalition as the center of the universe, the government's the center of the universe.
Uh so he's not authentically black like Clarence Thomas isn't like like Thomas Sowell, Shelby Steele, Benjamin uh uh uh uh the metal block, but the the great doctor from Johns Hopkins, uh, not authentically black.
Carson, Benjamin Carson.
Uh I I guarantee you the fact that Obama is the first black president who by the he's not even authentically in terms of down for the struggle, but they've made him that.
But don't discount it.
I'm telling you, I have learned this the hard way, that it is a more dominant characteristic, particularly with media people, and a more a large, it's the largest component of their support for Obama.
Don't.
You can disagree with me, but don't.
unwise.
You know, there's one thing the Republicans can take away from this Gallup poll.
Americans disagree with Obama on nearly everything by large margins.
You Republicans can stand up and voice your disagreement with Obama all day, and a majority of Americans will agree with you.
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