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March 21, 2013 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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March 21, 2013, Thursday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
I'm not sure that I heard what I heard.
And so I got Cookie right now preparing a soundbite roster of Obama speaking to some university students over in Israel.
He just wrapped up about 20 minutes ago.
And I had it on here while I was doing other things.
The remaining final touches on the show prep for today is busy broadcast.
And I'm listening to it out of one ear, and I hear him say a couple of things.
I hear the college student audience erupt and go nuts, so I pay a little bit more attention.
And my initial, I mean, I have to call it a knee jerk until I haven't had a chance to study this, sounded to me like this guy, like Obama, was ripping Israel to shreds and blaming them for everything going wrong.
And I may have misheard it, but I know that Obama has taken his offensive charm, sorry, charm offensive to Israel, where depending on what you read, it seems to be bombing, at least as far as some of the Palestinians are concerned.
And they're the ones that are doing the bombing to show their general unhappiness.
And then there's a story from another Israeli news organization saying, what's he doing here?
We don't know why he's here, meaning Obama.
Well, he spoke to a bunch of college students today.
I don't know what university it was, but it sounded like the reaction he was getting is if you were speaking to a university today advocating gay marriage.
The place was erupting.
Except what he was doing was telling Israel how everything's up to them.
Despite them being our best friend and everything, everything's up to them.
And that the only way the world can ever continue to rotate on its axis is if the Palestinians have a state.
And that the only way we're ever going to have peace, and we should all have peace, by the way, and that got a standing O.
And that's how I knew it was a bunch of students in the audience.
That the concept of peace, negotiated peace, conflict resolution 101, talking to each other, doctors, nurses, clean water, and all that, got a standing O.
But as I listened to this, the obvious question, most Jewish voters in this country support Obama.
That remains a big mystery to me.
But I could have been hearing it wrong.
So Cookie's putting together some soundbites, and you may not even care about it, but I want to find out what I heard.
I want to find out if my instincts here are right, if I wasn't listening closely enough.
Anyway, folks, it's great to have you here.
Rush Limbaugh, the EIB Network, as we head on down the busy broadcast week already here at Thursday.
The telephone number is 800-282-2882, the email address lrushbaugh at EIBnet.com.
Folks, we conservatives cannot get away with one-tenth what the left can get away with.
Now, yesterday on this program, as part of our outreach to low-information voters, I decided to share with you details of the latest Beyoncé tune and album and tour.
I made up nothing.
I didn't create a phrase.
I didn't create the title of a song.
I just read what was in this UK story.
So in essence, what I did, I held up a mirror to the left, and they saw themselves, and now they're attacking me for doing this.
It was a little throwaway portion of the program yesterday, and yet it's all over the place.
What I think of Beyonce's latest album, CD, tour, single, what have you.
It's hilarious.
Dawn's daughter called her, Mom, why does Rush hate women?
Her daughter knows I don't hate women, but the news is out that, of course, I'm back into my Miss Job Messiah.
Right, right, whatever it is.
You know, folks, it's a good thing I don't take into this thing personally because I'd be insane.
I just, I think it's funny.
And I think it's, it's, for me, it is so easy to tweak these people.
Let's go to the audio sound bikes.
Let's start in New York with their all-news radio station there.
10-10 wins.
You give them 22 minutes and they will give you the world.
It was their slug line.
And this is how the whole thing shook down on the radio in New York.
Now, you have to understand, all the libs in New York driving to their jobs have this radio station on in the morning.
So they're all hearing this.
Sometimes I live my life with something.
I'm just kidding.
Sentiment comes from an entertainer who's put a ring on it was a rallying cry for female empowerment.
But once she put a ring on it, Beyonce became Mrs. Carter.
In deference to her alpha male husband, Jay-Z.
Rush Limbaugh weighing in on the controversy.
Beyonce's new single marks a change in direction for the independent woman the U.S. president handpicks to play at his parties.
Rush not the only one piling on Bebe.
Singer Keisha Cole tweeted her displeasure with the song, saying, First women need to stick together now.
Blanks better bow, followed for SMH, which is Twitter E's for shaking you.
My head.
If you didn't know anything about that, would you have learned anything in that story?
Not much.
No, you didn't hear a song.
No.
From Snerdley just said you didn't hear her song title.
It's not hers, it's mine.
That's my point.
They're all accusing me of writing the song.
They're accusing me of titling the song.
The only thing they haven't accused me of is singing the song.
The song is bowed down BI itches.
And it's about how women go ahead and get, like I did, go get married, bow down, get a rich guy.
Everybody's cool now forget being independent.
That's the thing.
The UK story was all about this yesterday.
I just read the story.
And I just read the title of the tune.
But it's as though I created it.
That's what I mean.
By held a mirror.
You hold a mirror up to the left.
They see themselves in it and blame me for what they see.
Continuing now with 10-10 wins in the morning in New York.
You give them 22 minutes and they'll give you the world.
This was news on this radio station.
New Yorkers driving to work.
This was a big.
This is why, folks, I'm telling you, you got to stick with me.
You may be scratching your heads here, but this outreach to the low-information crowd is working.
Beyonce, deep in controversy over her newest single.
It's called Bow Down.
Sometimes I live my life with something.
I'm just kidding.
Some say the song's an expression of anti-feminism.
Among her critics, Rush Limbaugh.
Beyonce's now saying, go ahead and put up with it.
And you know why?
I'll tell you why.
Because she got married.
She married the rich guy.
She's even calling herself Mrs. Carter on the tour.
Carter is the last name of Beyoncé's husband, Jay-Z.
Singer Keisha Cole blasting Beyonce tweeting, First Women Need to Stick Together.
No comment yet from Beyoncé, but in the past, she has gone on record as a feminist.
Now, I know what you're saying, folks.
Why are we spending time with this?
Cause, folks, we're succeeding here.
I'm illustrating a point.
You are, you listen to this program.
I'm telling you, you're on the cutting edge.
This is a big deal to the low-information crowd.
The outreach is working.
At least this report got it right.
She wrote the song, or it's her song, Bow Down.
You mean adding BI itches to the bow down?
I don't know.
Well, because it's, you know, a family-oriented radio station.
They leave out.
They just say it's bowed down.
We're still not through in Houston on TV this morning.
Stars like RV singer Keisha Cole are calling Beyoncé a hypocrite since she normally promotes girl power.
Twitter is still going crazy with fans who refuse to bow down.
And Rush Limbaugh, even weighing in here, claiming it's bad for the president since Beyonce rubs elbows with the Obamas.
People here in Houston say the rest of the world just doesn't get it because the song pays homage to Houston's chop and screw music style.
Twitter.
A lot of people saying she's overexposed.
Let her just be.
Chop and screw.
All right.
That was Houston television.
But I didn't say it was bad for Obama.
I didn't.
I didn't even, I don't know.
That's not the point.
I've given up being accurately portrayed in the media.
That's not the point.
What I'm curious about here is what they're doing in Houston.
Chop and screw?
What is that?
Houston, the chop and screw music style that Beyonce is obviously very close to, very much a part of.
So anyway, folks, I just, and we're not through.
I am now part of the Jay Leno being fired from the Tonight Show story on CNN.
They're going to move the Tonight Show to New York City.
They're going to give the Tonight Show to Jimmy Fallon.
They're worried about younger demos, even though Leno is still the king of the roost in the numbers.
They're going to take the program away from him next year when his contract perspires.
They give it to Jimmy Fallon because they're obsessed with you.
They're going to move the show to New York, which is where it started in New York 40 years ago.
And one of the complaints about Leno is that he tells jokes for the other half of the country, i.e., conservatives.
And they don't like that.
He actually tells Obama jokes, not supposed to do that.
He actually tells Hillary jokes, not supposed to do that.
He tells jokes for the other half of the country.
And that's where I somehow find my way into this story.
Here it is on CNN this morning.
And they actually went out and they got Hiram College political science professor Jason Johnson to talk about this.
One of my favorite topics this morning.
It turns out Jay Leno is a conservative darling, at least for blogger Matt Drudge.
Drudge tweeting his anger over reports Leno may be replaced by Jimmy Fallon, writing in part that Leno dared to offer jokes for the other 50% of the country and not just liberals.
Actually, Leno is doing what Rush Limbaugh and others have done all week.
They are mocking that recent Republican autopsy and a plan to broaden the party.
So, my friends, no matter how hard I try, I can't keep myself out of the news on things I've got nothing to do with.
Although the Beyoncé thing, I did purposely enter that fray.
But I just read a UK newspaper story.
That's all I did.
I didn't invent one thing.
But it's fascinating.
It's an object lesson.
Well, Snerdley is saying, so the bottom line is: do these women now want to bow down or not?
Because that's what Beyonce is urging them to do.
We don't know, Snerdley, from any of the newest treatments.
By the way, this is a major gossip story in the New York Daily News today as well, too.
It's as though I wrote the song, it's as though I called the UK newspaper and gave the quotes.
It's as though I'm on tour singing it.
Hold up a mirror to these people.
They see themselves and they blame me.
Okay, got to take a quick time out.
Sit tight.
We'll be back.
Don't go away.
We haven't even barely scratched the surface yet, folks.
And welcome back, Rush Limbaugh, not bowing down to anybody.
Never have and never will.
Great to have you with us, my friends, as we kick off another excursion into broadcast Texas.
Let me tell you the next thing that's going to happen.
Somebody is going to get a hold of Beyonce.
What do you think about what Rush Limbaugh is saying about you?
And of course, they're not going to tell her that all I'm doing is quoting from her own lyrics.
And so she'll have the predictable response.
Well, you know, he's a racist misogynist.
Nobody should listen to what he says.
Just that'll be the next thing to come here.
To which my reply is, look, Mrs. Carter, I have the same kind of car your husband does.
And just like him, I ride in the back of it.
So be careful.
Now, the National Weather Service Chief, this is we move on here, ladies and gentlemen.
And when we get the Obama sound bites, I'll get to them.
I really, the reason that I'm curious about this, because it really sounded more over the top than ever that Obama was telling the Israelis what for.
And what perplexed me about it was the rousing over the top standing ovations he was getting.
It would be like Colonel Sanders speaking to an audience of chickens, telling them what's ahead, and getting a standing O from them.
There was a disconnect for me, and that's why I've got to either get the transcript or read or listen to the sound bites, because I know it was not an audience of Palestinians.
I don't know that they have a university.
So I know it was an audience of Israeli students, but of course, when it's Israeli students, the students always rebel.
I don't care who they are.
They always rebel against their parents.
They always rebel against whatever the establishment status quo is.
And they always join the side of the renegades, which, Limbaugh theorem, that's how Obama portrays himself.
He's a renegade.
He's not part of the establishment when, in fact, he's the grand poo-bah of it, but he gets away with positioning himself as an outsider with no vested interest.
You know, the best way to explain this to people who, I was telling some people asking me about Ben Carson last night, and I said, let me tell you what his secret is.
People are not able to detect an agenda when Ben Carson speaks.
That's the magic.
And it's the same thing with Obama.
Obama does not appear to have an agenda.
At least people don't attach an agenda to him.
And what that means is people are not, therefore, automatically predisposed to being wary.
People who have agendas, and those agendas are known, will automatically have people suspicious of them.
Because what is an agenda?
It means many things to many people.
When you get to the low-information crowd, an agenda is a design, a plan you have for them and about them over which they may not have any control.
They're very suspicious of agendas.
And that's why anybody who has one is automatically a suspect.
It's just human nature.
It's the way things exist in the country and in our culture today.
It hadn't always been this way, but it is now.
Well, Dr. Carson is able to make a speech, to appear at the national prayer breakfast, to be a guest on a TV show, to tell you what he thinks, and even tells you the way he thinks things should be.
But nobody thinks that he's got an agenda to it.
So there's no grand design.
There's no perception that he wants to force people to do something.
And that's what many people think of as an agenda.
And that, I think, is one of Obama's secret techniques.
He gets away with not having an agenda.
And to the extent that he does have an agenda, it's fighting these mysterious, powerful forces who are destroying everything.
And what's ironic about this is that there hasn't been a president in 100 years who's had this kind of naked desire to subjugate people and to control them.
And yet, the low-information crowd that supports Obama, that's the last thing they think about him.
You stop and think about this.
It'll make sense to you.
It's why Benjamin Carter, Benjamin Carson, is universally popular right now.
It's because he doesn't appear to have an agenda.
And in order for him to maintain that position, he's making it clear to anybody that he's not a Republican, he's not a conservative.
He's, if anything, he's an independent.
But he wants it known that he's critical of people from both parties or all five parties.
However many parties there are, he's critical of all of them.
As opposed to me, I am obviously associated with an agenda.
And I don't hide behind it.
I'm not afraid of having an agenda.
I do have an agenda.
It's a positive agenda.
It's multifaceted.
It includes the success of this radio program.
And also, I have an agenda for things I'd like to see happen in the country.
And that, with certain people, just scares them.
It makes them suspicious.
Even though everybody has agendas, the people who can comport themselves in ways that hide the fact they have an agenda makes them less threatening.
And I think if you look at Dr. Carson, would anybody, would anybody accuse him of being threatening?
Nobody.
Now, the Democrats are scared to death of this guy for the very reasons I have just explained.
They are scared to death precisely because he has the ability to reach people deeply without appearing to have an agenda.
So there's no threat.
But I threaten people.
I threaten the feminazis.
I threaten the left that disagrees with me.
And so they're naturally predisposed to wait and oppose me.
Just to illustrate my point, but I was just making, the New York Times, I mean, Dr. Ben Carson, so good, folks.
He is so good right now.
The New York Times has an article, has a story on him today that is in no way a hit piece.
It's not blatant, not subtle.
There's no hit piece aspect at all.
The headline of the Times story on Ben Carson is Neurosurgeon speeches have conservatives dreaming of 2016.
Not, the headline is not, Neurosurgeon has designs on White House for 2016 and is attempting to persuade conservatives.
It's not that at all.
The headline, not even about him, his speeches have conservatives dreaming.
The headlines about what conservatives are doing, not what he's doing.
It is remarkably hate-free for a guy who took it right to Obama on Obamacare at the national prayer breakfast.
It's amazing.
Now, the thing that needs to be said here is the New York Times doesn't yet see him as a real threat.
They don't believe that he is really going to run for office.
They think it's just a conservative dream.
So they're at the stage now where, okay, let's build the guy up a little bit because if the day comes that we have to chop him down, such as the chop and grind, what do they do in Houston, then it'll be a bigger fall.
And that's what they're doing.
Make no mistake.
They're building him up big time now.
So if they have to chop him down, the fall will be huge.
But right now, right now, no hate, no criticism at all.
If you stop and think about it, in many ways, and I mean this, in many ways, Dr. Benjamin Carson is everything Obama pretended to be from 2004 to 2008.
Post-racial, post-partisan, a healer, really a healer.
He's a neurosurgeon.
He saves the brains of the children.
It's a real healer.
He has demonstrable experience and success in the private sector.
But right now, Ben Carson is probably in a lot of ways everything Obama pretended to be and everything that people thought Obama was.
He's the polar opposite of Obama in most ways.
Here's a little excerpt from the New York Times piece on Ben Carson.
He is in some ways a dream candidate for Republicans, but he also fits nicely into the realm of fantasy, where the very early jockeying over 2016 now plays out.
No modern contender without a political resume has ever gotten close to a majority party nomination, meaning no modern contender without a political agenda.
The word is key.
They use resume, but they mean agenda, designs, objective, blueprint, whatever.
They don't see any of that with him yet.
He's just a guy who saves the brains of the children who's talking about politics.
And a bunch of lightweight conservatives are having fantasies about it.
That's where they are right now.
Let's grab a quick phone called Sterling in Fredericksburg, Virginia.
Hi, Sterling.
Welcome to the EIB Network.
You're up first today.
Great to have you with us.
Great to be with you.
Thank you, sir.
I wanted a comment about the Beyoncé song.
Beyonce song, Bow Down, B.I. Itches.
Yes.
Yeah.
I mean, I just wanted to make a comment saying that's not like the first song she made like that.
It's not?
No, I think when she was with Destiny's child, she had a song talking about pay my bills and pay my rent and all that stuff.
But she wasn't talking about the other two singers in the group.
She was talking about guys.
Yeah, I mean, how are they going to pay the bills that she kicked them to the car?
Well, that's exactly a good point.
How are they going to pay the bills if she kicked them to the curb?
And that's what she was advocating.
What the early Beyoncé was your Destiny's child.
It was all about, you don't need a man.
You don't need a guy.
Yeah, first she's independent.
Then she needs somebody to pay her bills.
Then she wants somebody to put a ring on it.
Now she's going to buy down.
Exactly.
That's exactly right.
Now she got to put a ring on it.
Now she's going to bow down.
It's exactly what the thong is.
Sterling, you're right in there, man.
I mean, you got it.
You just nailed it.
Yeah, I tried to.
I'm glad you called, Sangs.
It's Sterling in Fredericksburg, Virginia.
And he gets it.
Okay, we have the Obama sound bites.
And well, hey, it's low, it's outreach.
It's outreach, folks, and it's working and it has to happen.
We're making inroads.
I can't talk about it too much.
It's one of these things we're just going to do and not talk about.
You just got to hang with me.
Stick with me on this like you have throughout these 25 years.
I know what I'm doing.
Hang in there, be tough.
Go ahead and scratch your heads.
Try to figure out what the hell is going on, but just hang with me.
And from Sterling in Fredericksburg, Virginia, we now go to Jerusalem.
And Barack Obama, and he was at the Jerusalem Convention Center.
So I even misunderstood that.
This is why I needed to see this and hear this.
Maybe the students of the audience was students.
Now, okay, nine, I remember he was, he wanted to go to Arielle.
That's right.
He wanted to go to Ariel University and was denied.
So they bust in some students at the Jerusalem Convention Center.
So here's the first of the three sound bites.
And in this one, Obama is basically telling the young people of Israel: here, listen, let's listen this together and see if we conclude the same things.
The days when Israel could seek peace simply with a handful of autocratic leaders, those days are over.
Why?
Peace will have to be made among peoples, not just governments.
Oh.
Yeah, see, they heard this applause.
Yeah, okay, this is it.
No one, no single step can change overnight what lies in the hearts and minds of millions.
No single step is going to erase years of history and propaganda.
But progress with the Palestinians is a powerful way to begin while sidelining extremists who thrive on conflict and thrive on division.
It would make a difference.
Okay, obviously, he is acting like no real attempts at peace have ever been made.
And the ones that have been made were never legitimate because they were being made or attempted with a handful of autocratic leaders in Jerusalem.
Now, he is not going to call any Palestinian leader an autocrat, so he's not talking about Palestinians with that line.
Don't doubt me on it.
When he talks about a handful of autocratic leaders, he's talking about Israel.
Peace will have to be made among peoples, not just governments.
There isn't.
Look, that's not the way peace happens either.
It just doesn't.
Can somebody tell me, if anybody in this audience, I would love to know, if I'm wrong about this, I have no interest in being wrong.
So if I am, please correct me.
I don't want to be wrong.
There's nothing in it for me or for you for me to be wrong.
Can somebody tell me any time in world history where there has been a great conflict?
I'm not talking about a couple neighbors and the location of a fire hydrant, where there has been a great conflict between nations or large population groups.
Can somebody tell me where peace resulted from the disagreeing factions sitting down and talking at a table?
Be they autocratic leaders or peoples.
Can somebody, in the great conflicts, you can't.
World War II was not solved this way.
World War I was not solved this way.
Vietnam was not solved this way.
The Cold War, the Cold War.
No, no, no.
The Soviets didn't agree to give up anything.
The Soviets didn't come to a table and say, you know what, you guys in America are right.
We've been wrong all these years.
Communism sucks.
You know what?
We're going to become capitalist.
We want a Wolvert here and CVC, CVS.
We want everything you've got.
Didn't happen.
There were no shots fired, but it was the threat of being able to repel their shots, i.e. missile defense, that made the so-called.
Plus, the Soviets were a crumbling third world economy with a first world military, but peace didn't come between the U.S. and Soviet Union as a result of sitting down at a table and talking with one side admitting they were wrong.
Let's see, when Mao Tzedong took over China, when Fidel Castro took over Cuba, Hugo Chavez, can somebody tell me at any time in world history,
because I'll admit I don't know that everything has happened in the world, if somebody can tell me where a serious, significant conflict was settled by way of one side agreeing that they were wrong, the other guys were right, and living happily ever after.
Or if maybe not one side agreeing that they were wrong and the other guys were right, both sides, you know what, we're both wrong, and we're both going to change some of the extreme, outrageous things we do, and we're going to just be peaceful with each other.
Can somebody tell me if that's ever happened?
800-282-2882.
Here's the next bite.
We have two more to go through.
Put yourself in their shoes.
Look at the world through their eyes.
It is not fair.
Wait a minute.
Wait, recue that.
Let me set this up.
This is Obama talking to Israeli students and asking them to try to see the world the way the Palestinians do.
Put yourself in their shoes.
Look at the world through their eyes.
It is not fair that a Palestinian child cannot grow up in a state of their own.
Fair?
Living their entire lives with the presence of a foreign army that controls the movements, not just of those young people, but their parents, their grandparents, every single day.
It's not just when settler violence against Palestinians goes unpunished.
It's not right to prevent Palestinians from farming their lands or restricting a student's ability to move around the West Bank or displace Palestinian families from their homes.
Neither occupation nor expulsion is the answer.
So it sounds...
I don't, I don't.
It sounds to me here like Obama is basically telling this audience of students that their government in Israel is the problem.
That their behavior in Israel is the problem.
And that you'd better just give the Palestinians what they want because it's not fair that a child can't grow up in a state of their own.
What in the world does that even mean?
Does a child have any consciousness of a state?
Anyway, it is clear from these two soundbites that Obama is telling these people.
Note the applause he's getting.
This is an audience of Israelis who think their government is to blame.
Sounds like it to me by virtue of their applause here.
But I mean, this was an incredible, this is one of the things I heard that I wasn't sure that I heard right because I was doing other things at the time.
It's not fair that a Palestinian child can't grow up in a state of their own.
It's not fair that a kid has to grow up poor either.
It's not fair that a kid grows up without a mommy.
It's not fair that a kid grows up without a daddy.
It's not fair that a kid grows up and doesn't make the Little League team.
Well, they all make the team now, right?
It's not fair that some kid grows up and is never on a winning team.
It's not fair.
This is not fair.
It's not fair.
It's not fair.
So what does that mean?
It means the evil guys running the show have to change.
Here's the next bite.
I got to do this quickly, folks.
Four years ago, I stood in Cairo in front of an audience of young people.
Politically, religiously, they must seem a world away.
But the things they want, they're not so different from what the young people here want.
Let me say this as a politician.
I can promise you this.
Political leaders will never take risks if the people do not push them to take some risks.
Got to go to a break.
I got this now.
I figured it out.
Be back.
Ladies and gentlemen, I have been corrected about something, and this falls under the rubric of I do not want to be wrong.
I mistakenly said that when Obama referred to autocratic leaders, that he was talking about Israeli leaders, I have been informed that he was not.
That indeed, and in fact, he was referring to Arab dictators.
However, in the process of talking about these autocratic leaders and referring to Arab dictators, he ignored the fact that the only Arab peace with Israel.
You remember what it is, Snerdley?
And it wasn't really peace.
This proves my point.
The only Arab peace, that's right, HR.
HR got it.
Sadat.
Anwar al-Sadat.
The only Arab peace with Israel.
Well, see, yeah, there was peace.
There was peace after the Six-Day War, but that's war.
I'm not asking for that kind of peace because people aren't interested in that kind of peace over there.
Now, look, don't get confused.
Don't think that there is such a thing as a negotiated peace until one side surrenders or is defeated.
That's my whole point here.
So if you cite the Six-Day War, that was after the other side got shellacked.
But note ever since then, the Israelis have been commanded to give back everything they won.
And they were minding their own business that day.
They were attacked.
In retaliation.
So Obama was black, well, in that portion, he was blasting Arab dictators.
But he was ignoring the fact that the only Arab peace with Israel was made by Sadat.
But that peace that Sadat made was negotiated with King Hussein of Jordan, not with the Israelis.
And in both cases, the Palestinian people opposed it.
Sadat was assassinated.
So all of these, even when you could make the claim that there's been a negotiated peace, the people for whom it was negotiated, the Palestinians opposed it in both instances where one could make the case that it's happened.
So Obama's right.
He can't deal with a handful of autocratic leaders anymore.
He has to deal with a radical Muslim caliphate that has arisen as a result of the Arab Spring.
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