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May 19, 2015 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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May 19, 2015, Tuesday, Hour #2
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Now, worst part of all of this is the Clintons just bore the heck out of me anyway, as I have made clear from the beginning of the most recent, this most recent Hillary campaign.
Ah, man, this is just, I don't know what.
Anyway, greetings and welcome back.
Great to have you, Rush Limbaugh, behind the Golden EIB microphone.
Telephone numbers 800-282-2882.
Now, I don't want anybody to think that I am criticizing Stephen Hayes at the Weekly Stand, because I'm not.
He has a story today that's titled A Worst Day of Hillary Clinton's Campaign So Far, in which he explains this convoluted email situation that Mrs. Clinton is in.
Well, no, that's not even right.
This convoluted email situation of Mrs. Clinton's.
Because she created it, and she created it to deceive.
She created it to be able to hide.
She created it to be able to do stuff that nobody would ever see because she's doing stuff that's questionable.
There is no doubt about this.
So the New York Times has these two stories today that I guarantee you, if you read them, you're going to end up more confused afterwards than when you began.
The things that you think they would focus on is really big, they gloss over.
And in fact, there's actually a third Clinton story, The Five Wonderful Things About Hillary You May Not Know, that go along with these two email stories about how sneaky and deceptive she is.
So here's how Hayes attempts to put this together.
Not only was yesterday the worst day of her campaign, she's had a series of bad days since she announced her presidential bid on April 12th, but Monday was the worst of them.
Okay, look, I don't want to get off on a tangent here, but I don't think she's had a bad day.
How do we measure that?
Because the press is doing things.
She hadn't been hurt yet.
Can't cite polling data, any of this.
I know that Drudge is going crazy out there with the fact that Martin O'Malley is running around now like Putin with his shirt off and showing his ab package in the pecs and flexing his muscles out there, getting ready to run and so forth.
That's got a lot of people jazzed and thrilled.
And in fact, Bill Clinton himself 10 years ago predicted O'Malley would run and would do well.
Bill Clinton predicted 10 years ago that Martin O'Malley would be a formidable figure if he ever sought national orifice.
Anyway, in a bombshell report, the New York Times reported that Clinton, as Secretary of State, used her private email to share private intelligence reports from noted conspiracy theorist and political hitman Sidney Blumenthal at a time when Blumenthal was being paid by the Clinton Crime Family Foundation and liberal political organizations,
Media Matters, that helped lay the groundwork for Clinton's presidential campaign.
Okay, let's just take that paragraph.
Now, the first thing that you have to know for that paragraph to make any sense, you have to know who Sidney Blumenthal is.
And then after that, you have to care who Sidney Blumenthal is.
And if you don't already know who he is, I doubt you're going to be made to care.
But let me try.
Sidney Blumenthal may as well live in Moscow.
His son Max is one of the fire-breathing character destruction defame artists at Media Matters for America.
Hillary Clinton and Media Matters and George Soros are one and the same.
And everything Media Matters does is by David Brock, who is also one of Hillary Clinton's lackeys.
But he doesn't get factored into this yet, other than the fact that he set up Media Matters to destroy anybody that might harm Hillary.
Pure and simple.
And the conservative media in general.
Now, Blumenthal is of such low repute in Democrat Party circles because he is a conspiracy theorist, because he is just so loyal to Hillary that nobody would trust this guy to do anything.
It's so bad that Barack Obama refused to let Hillary hire him in the State Department when she was Secretary of State.
He has always been her enforcer concigliary.
Whenever somebody needs to swim with the fishes, Blumenthal got the assignment.
Somebody needed to be fitted for a cement swimsuit, Blumenthal got the call.
When Hillary needed to know the truth about something that anybody was doing, Blumenthal did the research.
Whenever Hillary wanted to get the word out about somebody but no fingerprints, Blumenthal did it.
Blumenthal is the alter ego.
Blumenthal is who Hillary would love to be in public, but the country's not yet ready to embrace somebody that wacko.
But that's who she would love to be.
Blumenthal, you know, you know how women love gay dress designers and because they're no threat and they have similar eyes on fashion.
Blumenthal is the same relationship to her.
She did totally trust his eye, totally trust his judgment, totally trust his political instincts.
And he is hitman number one.
So much, Obama was worried if Blumenthal's running around as a federal employee doing the things he's known for doing.
Obama didn't even want any possibility that what Blumenthal did could ever be traced back to Obama.
So he told Hillary, you cannot hire him.
She did anyway.
And that's one of the reasons for the secret email addresses.
She hired Blumenthal anyway.
She paid for Blumenthal out of the Clinton Crime Family Foundation.
And this is what one of the many things that the New York Times is uncovered here.
In addition to the fact that Hillary was using a second private email address in that server, despite having told everybody she only had one.
She's been caught red-faced in a lie.
Do you hear anybody making a big deal about it?
do not.
So she used her private email to share private intelligence reports from, so what would happen?
She would get intelligence as Secretary of State produced by the CIA, the DIA, whoever.
She would give it to Blumenthal, who was not a federal employee, and have him do with it whatever she needed done with it.
He was being paid by the Clinton Crime Family Foundation and Media Matters for America, not Hillary.
She wasn't even paying him personally.
Man, I'd love to be able to do that.
You think everybody has employees would love to have some ghost organization set up by you?
Media Matters is Hillary Clinton.
Media Matters is Hillary and Bill Clinton.
It always has been from day one.
The Clinton Crime Family Foundation is ditto.
So Obama says, you can't hire that guy.
I don't want him in this administration.
She does it anyway, pays for him out of these donations that she's getting and that Clinton is getting.
And whatever money is going to media matters, some of it's being used to pay old Sid.
He's got a nickname.
I can't remember what the nickname is, but it's like Sid the Knife.
It isn't that, but it's Sid Vicious.
That's what Sid Vicious is the nickname.
The emails that the New York Times has discovered included reports on Libya at a time when Blumenthal was seeking business in the country and included dubious information.
Times reported that Clinton nonetheless took Blumenthal's advice seriously, continued to pass around his emails even after other senior diplomats concluded that Blumenthal's assessments were unreliable.
Now that, I don't know what that means.
I mean, I can try.
Okay, the emails included reports on Libya.
They said Blumenthal was seeking business.
Okay, so Blumenthal, here we are.
We're in Libya.
And Hillary and Obama are engineering the ouster of Muammar Qaddafi, which leaves the country wide open.
And Blumenthal's running around gathering intel for Hillary and sees investment opportunities there.
Now, this is a huge no-no.
You are not supposed to be able to capitalize on government work this way.
But technically, he's not a government employee.
He's a Hillary Foundation employee.
So he's out there and he's seeking business and investors for things that he wants to invest in and ends up passing around sales type information to people, which it says here, Clinton took his advice seriously and passed his emails around even after other senior diplomats at the State Department concluded that Blumenthal was off the wall.
Yeah.
He was writing intelligence memos to Hillary about things he was learning on the ground.
And in that stuff, Hillary would share it with other diplomats and they would look at, this is crazy.
Who's telling you this?
And she's her most trusted guy, Blumenthal.
Oh, we got a flash.
Patriots will not appeal deflate gate decision.
You know, there have been all kinds of secret meetings going on the past 24 hours between Goodell and Robert Kraft, between the NFL and the Patriots.
And the sports media was starting to get breathing heavy, thinking that some sort of compromise had been reached, because in the drive-by media, their template, their narrative is that Goodell is a jerk, that Goodell does nothing but screw up every time he hands out discipline, that Goodell therefore knows he's a jerk, and Goodell knows he's screwed up here, and Goodell is looking for a way out,
and that's why he went to the Patriots under cover of darkness, and they're trying to get out of this thing without an appeal and without a lawsuit.
And the press is trying to tell us that means Goodell knows he's made a big mistake here, and he's offering a way out, and they don't know what it is.
Maybe eliminate the fine of a million dollars and maybe not take the two draft choices.
I've thought all along this suspension is going to be two games.
You remember me saying that?
So we'll see what happened.
With the Patriots now saying they're not going to appeal, they have to have been given something.
Wouldn't you not conclude?
Well, it could be the other way.
It could well be that in a private meeting, Goodell said, look, you want to go through with this?
Tom, it means you've got to produce your phone.
I don't know what's on it, but you got to produce it.
Are you sure you guys are going to go through with this?
Because I'm telling you, there's much more going on here than just deflategate.
Spygate, who knows?
I mean, it could be that way.
It could be that Goodell took his good buddy Kraft and said, Bob, look, man, this is going to get worse than it is now if we go, you've got to pull back, man.
You just got to let this happen and back off.
That's one way.
The other way, the preferred storyline for the drive-by media is that Goodell stepped in it, knows he stepped in it, wants a way out, has gone to his buddy Kraft to let him off the hook with most of the penalties removed.
That's the drive-by median.
That's what they're all predicting will happen here.
So it's one of two things.
And I have just given you the two possible scenarios.
Okay, so where are we here now?
So we got Blumenthal sharing intelligence reports.
He is intelligence gathering in Libya.
He is for Hillary.
She gets his reports, passes them around to other diplomats who think it's all wet and silly.
At the same time, Blumenthal is hunting investment opportunities, some such thing, while in Libya.
Then a second story about Clinton and Libya broke in the same day.
This one casting further doubt on the regime's narrative about Benghazi and specifically on claims Clinton made about the nature of those attacks and the motivation of the attackers.
So we've told you this one.
An intelligence report prepared by the DIA and sent to Clinton and other regime officials on September the 12th, 2012, just one day after the attacks, concluded that the attack was planned 10 or more days in advance, was meant to kill as many Americans as possible.
Report identifies al-Qaeda-linked terrorists believed to have been involved in the assault.
And it's even named some group that's loyal to the blind sheikh Omar Abdelrahman.
Despite this, the regime crafted a public narrative that the attack had evolved from a spontaneous protest over a YouTube video and included a wide range of individuals.
That has now been nuked.
That was never true.
And anybody with common sense knew that wasn't true from the first moment the lie came out of Clinton and Obama's mouths.
But they persisted.
They sent Susan Rice out.
We now know she lied five different times on five different Sunday shows.
We know that everybody involved there lied.
They knew exactly what this attack was about.
You add to that that they made no effort to defend against this attack when it was taking place.
This is outrageous.
And our instincts on the day of the event and the day after have all been proven correct.
And our instincts were correct because we know liberals.
We know Obama.
We know how they act.
We know what they're thinking.
We know how they cover up.
We know that everything is oriented toward passing and moving the agenda forward.
You remember Mrs. Clinton and Obama even recorded a TV ad that ran in Pakistan blaming the guy that made the YouTube video.
And they were both lying through their teeth.
And it took Judicial Watch two years to get this information.
They submitted a Freedom of Information Act request.
It was stonewalled.
That's what the regime does.
It's what Hillary does.
It's what Obama does.
It's with all the Democrats.
It's stonewalled.
So Judicial Watch went to court and they sued.
And they end up getting these documents released, and they're heavily redacted.
Even what we've learned here is just the tip of the iceberg because all the documents that do contain the info we just passed on are heavily redacted.
And it gets even worse than this.
And then Hayes goes on to talk about how Hillary hasn't taken questions from the media in nearly a month, the growing stench of scandal.
It's likely she'll continue to seek to avoid circumstances that might require her to provide answers.
I'm telling you, you peep, they did questions.
Yeah, she did some questions this afternoon, set up stage.
Look, the break is coming up here very quickly, but I'm just telling you, anybody that thinks that Hillary helps herself by going out and speaking and answering questions doesn't understand.
That's when her numbers go down when she speaks.
She cannot harm herself by shutting up.
That's when her numbers stay level or go up, is when she shuts up.
When she opens her mouth and starts talking, that's when the negative surface of people don't like her.
It's probably the ace in the hole we have because during the campaign, she's going to have to talk at some point.
Okay, to the phones.
No, no, no.
Just one more thing.
So, so Stephen Hayes closes with Hillary Clinton has more bad days ahead.
How is it manifesting as a bad day with who?
I know if you're in the drive-by media and this stuff happens, and in your universe, in this world, this looks bad, but I can't imagine that the real target of any of this stuff, if it's going to matter, it's got to somehow reach the low-information crowd.
I can't even imagine.
I don't even see them even knowing any of this in the old political world.
This stuff would just, it still would, if this were a Republican, this would destroy somebody.
The Republican would resign.
If you'd had a Republican Secretary of State who did this with a separate server, a private server, and all this, and selling access, they'd be in jail for crying out loud.
But people just don't look at Democrats as criminals.
They just, the Democrats care about the poor, the downtrodden, the hungry, and the thirsty, and they don't care.
I don't know.
But you're damn right about that.
Any Republican, even before we get to these two stories, New York Times, a Republican Secretary of State who sets up a private server for the express purpose of selling access to the union, especially on the come, on the basis I'm going to be president someday, I'm selling access now for when I become president.
And there are tens, hundreds of millions of dollars in the foundation collecting.
This money's been collected, all to buy influence.
Damn right, whoever that was, if it was a Republican, would already be on trial in jail with a jail cell right next to Bernie Madoff.
In the meantime, Jim in East Indiana in a truck, it's great to have you over the road on the EIB network.
Hello, sir.
All right, Rush, good to talk to you.
My question is: why do people pay the Clinton so much money to do speeches opposed to somebody like a CEO that's ran a business that knows what it's about?
Why do they get paid like $500,000 or a million dollars?
Like, what do they know that we don't know?
It's not what they don't know or know that we don't know.
And by the way, it's the CEOs that are paying this money.
You know, it's the CEOs that are paying Hillary and Billary that they're buying access, Jim.
They're not paying the money to the Clintons because they're good buddies and they like party and they're helping make them rich and do it.
They're buying access.
Hillary is a fait accompli, the next president of the United States.
These people are buying invitations to state dinners.
They are buying favorable policy with her.
She is selling access to the White House, which her husband and her perfected in his eight years.
Okay, folks, let me just spell it out here.
I had to kind of compress and condense my point to the truck driver moments ago because we're going into a break.
But his question was, why are these CEOs, why are these companies paying the Clintons the equivalent of CEO salaries when you combine all the speech income?
Are they that good?
Are their speeches that good?
And that question I can totally understand.
You know, I'll show you my own naivete just to show you how I understand what these people are asking.
When I was young and I heard about $10,000 a plate fundraisers, I thought it was for really super duper food.
$10,000 a plate.
Wow, I wanted to go to one because I thought it was all for the food.
I had no idea what a fundraiser was.
I mean, I'm talking about when I'm a kid, I'm reading about $10,000.
They called it $10,000 a plate.
That's what the food costs.
No, it's what attending costs.
The food is the worst in the world.
It's rubber chicken garbage that nobody does eat.
I was never more disappointed.
The second time was when I found out Lovefield was an airport.
When I was 16, having to go to Dallas to radio licensed school.
So here's this guy out there, and he hears that Hillary's getting $350,000 for a speech.
And it's quite natural to say, well, is she that good a speaker?
Is she really entertaining people?
Does she just hold their attention?
Does she say things that nobody else knows?
What makes it worth that?
And I can understand that question.
When you have a certain amount of, it's not really naivete.
You believe, there's somebody being hired 300 grand to 315 grand to do a speech.
You think talent must be the reason for that.
I mean, that's why Hollywood actors get the big bucks is talent.
Let me spell this out for you real clearly.
Have you ever heard of net neutrality, folks?
Let me tell you what that is.
Net neutrality, don't fall for the idea that it's just about making sure that Verizon and Comcast don't throttle your Netflix bandwidth.
Net neutrality is nothing more than the federal government running and controlling the internet.
And it's under the guise of reigning in who?
Out-of-control corporations, who we are automatically to hate and despise.
I wish it were as axiomatic to be suspicious of the Democrat Party as it is to be suspicious of corporations.
Because I'm telling you, it's far more valuable being suspicious of the Democrats than it is corporations.
The bottom line is, Hillary Clinton wants to be the gatekeeper of the internet.
Obama wants to be the gatekeeper of the internet.
Net neutrality is not just equal speeds for everybody and free access for the poor and all that.
Net neutrality, when you get right down to it, ultimately is going to be the federal government determining and making sure that all political messages are treated equally and fairly on the internet.
So, for example, if there are websites that are conservative in nature and they get 10 times the audience of a liberal website or a series of them, the net neutrality people from the government will come in and penalize the conservative sites.
Even though it is the market that is determining how many people visit, they'll come in and say this is unfair.
In politics, we must have an equal and level playing field.
It is not fair for one side to have an advantage.
And so we are going to do whatever they're going to do to penalize the conservative sites that have bigger clicks, more audiences, more hits than left-wing sites do.
They will not seek to elevate the popularity of the left-wing sites.
That's not what they do.
They will put whatever the tech terms are for it, they will limit the access.
Limit people's access to websites that have too many people and unfair.
And it will go even, that's how they'll try to be equal with the content.
What do you think they go after Fox News for?
Why do you think Obama and the Democrats are obsessed with Fox News and talk radio?
They own everything else.
They own 90% of all media.
It's theirs.
It's in their pocket.
90% of the media in this country loves and adores, supports, and breaks the law if they have to for Barack Obama.
10% doesn't.
And yet, Obama and Hillary, they're all fixated, talk radio and Fox News.
That's because they want to eliminate it.
They want to eliminate all challenges.
They want to eliminate all opposition.
So these people running these tech companies know full well that that's what these people intend.
So they are buying access right now.
They know that Hillary Clinton will be running the internet if she's elected president.
Therefore, the CEO of the XYZ high-tech company is giving Mrs. Clinton a lot of money now in hopes that she will leave him alone and his company alone when she becomes president.
Or maybe even worse than that, that she will give his company preferential treatment over his competitors.
He may try to give more money to Mrs. Clinton than his competitors are so that when it comes down to Hillary making judgments on the internet, that his company will have most favored nation status.
That's why they're giving Clinton the money now.
And it's what this is already going on with Obama.
You know, the healthcare industry, the insurance industry, they went all in early on Obamacare, as did a number of other corporations.
Remember the example I gave you.
Here you have Walmart.
And if any corporation is hated and despised by the left, it's Walmart because they're not union.
And they're perceived to be conservative.
They're hated.
And yet, Walmart got in bed with the Obama administration on healthcare.
You know why?
Because they are so big, they can absorb whatever punitive costs are associated with it, but their competitors can't.
So by virtue of going into business with the government and becoming most favored nation status with the government, it is a way to put your competition out of business without actually beating them in the market.
That's why all these corporations are sidling up to Obama.
It used to be, and it's not that long ago, that the people who ran corporations believed in issues and things like you and I do.
And they could be relied on, depending on what their known politics was, they could be relied on to do everything they could to separate themselves from the government.
It used to be that major corporations, big men not that long ago, the government was the enemy.
The government came along and regulated.
It wasn't really until Obama that a massive change took place with now corporations getting in bed with the administration instead of fighting them.
Look at the case of Obama, everybody was afraid of him.
Everybody still is afraid of him.
He has shown that he will use the power of the federal government to punish and target anybody that he doesn't like or gets in his way.
Look at the IRS and the Tea Party people.
Look at Obama and Solyndra and all this wasted money on solar and wind, all under the false pretense of saving the planet.
It wasn't.
He was just paying back donors who ended up going bankrupt anyway.
Jeffrey Immelt, the CEO of GE, ends up on Obama's private sector job initiative committee and ended up getting $700 billion in seed money for some green energy program.
GE doesn't need a $700 billion grant from the government.
But it's just easier.
These CEOs know that when you have an activist president who is anti-corporate and is going to be targeting the private sector, it's best to make friends with the guy rather than fight him.
And that's all that's happening now with these people giving money to Hillary and Bill or whoever to make big speeches.
They're just trying to buy, if not friendship, they're trying to prevent them from becoming enemies.
They just know who the Clintons are.
And rather than fight them, they are trying to buy close proximity so that the Clintons will leave them alone and go after their competitors.
And it's really no more complicated than that.
It is not because the Clintons are great speechmakers.
It's not because they're such charismatic people.
It's not because everybody wants to hang with Bill and Hillary.
Because I guarantee you, nobody wants to hang with Hillary.
It's not that they can't wait for the dinner and cocktails afterwards.
It's not that they get to hear all the war stories of what happened with Charlie Tree in a Lincoln bedroom in the 1990s.
None of that.
They're simply giving the Clintons money in hopes of two things, one of two things, either to be left alone when she becomes president or to be helped and assisted when she becomes president.
And this, by the way, you call it crony capitalism, crony socialism, but that's what she is selling.
And her husband's out selling it too.
And not only to domestic tech companies, remember, foreign governments, foreign business entities, all kinds of people from all over the world have paid into the Clinton slush fund.
Everybody wants a piece of their presidency and policymaking if she gets there.
That's all you need to understand about this.
It really isn't any more complicated than that.
Back to the phones we go.
This is Charles in Middletown, Connecticut.
Great to have you, sir.
I'm glad you waited.
Hello.
Hi, Russ.
Longtime fan.
Hey, here's a question I have.
I'm just going to get your take on this.
Let's take an assumption that if we don't successful in moving the country towards a more conservative posture in the next election, how do you see things unfolding?
Here's what I, if that doesn't happen, and if the forces of liberalism and big government and corruption and big deficits and lousy economics, if they keep winning, what's going to happen is the country will be driven into a depression at some point.
And there are going to be, there's going to be, I think there'll be social unrest over welfare benefits.
At some point, we're going to reach a point in time where this isn't enough to go around.
We're importing more welfare recipients every day under the guise of immigration.
We are eliminating job opportunities and career opportunities in our own economy.
So what's going to happen?
It worsens and worsens.
And it's not the first time something like that would have happened in this country, of course.
What generally happens, Charles, is that a generation is born somewhere down the line in the future that simply grows up and refuses to live that way.
They just reject it all and they begin the process of turning the country around to what it was.
The Victorian era was a generation of Puritans, basically, who were fed up with sexual perversions and all of these other corruptions of our culture, and they simply refused to live that way, and they went to the opposite extreme and started building back from there.
So now that I don't believe that scenario will complete in my lifetime, though.
I mean, that's a slow process.
You know, a generation is once every 25 years for the most part.
So I think the objective here, I think people are actually pushing for that collapse I described because they think that collapsing, just getting as many people on the welfare rolls as possible and then have that collapse, that is utter chaos.
That is utter.
That's the way to totally erase the founding of the United States of America, which is the objective of a lot of leftists.
There's no love for Washington and James Madison and John Adams and many people on the left.
They've been opposed to this country since the days of its founding.
And the strategery that I have just described is called Cloward Pivon.
And it's named after two professors at Columbia University who have actually articulated this exact plan as a strategy to simply overload the American safety net to the point that it just can't provide anymore.
Utter chaos, riots, unrest.
And that is supposed to serve as the final nail in the coffin of the United States of America by demonstrating that capitalism is a failure, that capitalism does not work.
Reaganomics in this case does not work.
That's their objective.
And then after they've created that mess, then they rebuild the country in their image.
The point is, the problem with that is that they will have destroyed the country implementing their image.
So I don't think all is lost.
I don't know if what guarantees do we have that a conservative candidate is going to win?
We don't have a guarantee.
And then furthermore, if a conservative candidate wins, we just have to wait and see just what that conservative candidate does, what kind of support the conservative candidate then president has in Congress.
So many unknowns here.
But we're not to that point yet.
A lot of people think we're dangerously close to it.
You might be, but we're not there yet.
Remember, there's a fact that you can never forget in discussing all this.
Things in the country are not nearly as bad as a daily dose of media consumption would have you believe.
It's easy to fall prey to the notion that if all you do is watch the news every day, you wouldn't think there's anything going right, and you would think there isn't anybody happy.
And there isn't anybody having success other than people on Wall Street and in the tech industry.
That's all you would know.
You'd think anything else is going to hell in a handbasket with even a shortage of handbaskets.
But it's not as bad as they're portraying.
And that's what I mean by you've got to really resist this media soap opera day in and day out because the objective of it is to totally dispirit you and depress you.
But there are still countless millions of people succeeding, countless millions of people enjoying good careers, countless millions of people.
For everybody tunes out, it's just one less competitor that people who want to work hard have.
People are still proving it hard work pays off day in and day out all over this country.
You just don't hear about it.
Got to take a break.
We'll be back after this.
Don't go away.
Okay, still coming up on the program today.
A women of New York City say that they prefer the men of the madmen era in a story in the New York Times.
I think it's the New York Times, some New York paper.
And then as a companion story that's also hilarious, woman moves from the village to the Upper East Side and cannot believe Wednesday Martin wrote the story.
It is the New York Times.
Can't believe what she found when she got to the Upper East Side.
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