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Aug. 11, 2015 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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August 11, 2015, Tuesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of The Rush 24-7 podcast.
Right on schedule, Donald Trump moves back to the issues, ladies and gentlemen.
Very humble forecast and prognostication suggested, made by me, your beloved host, exactly 24 hours ago, right here behind a golden EIB microphone.
I'll tell you something else happening out there.
The drive-by media is starting to change its take on Trump.
All of a sudden, he's intelligent.
All of a sudden he knows what he's doing.
All of a sudden, he's not this mind-blown oddball that nobody can figure out.
All of a sudden, Trump has a strategy.
The drive-by's are adapting here, ladies and gentlemen.
Great to have you with us.
Here we are, three straight hours.
Broadcast excellence straight ahead here.
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On the other side, Bernie Sanders.
Folks, I have to tell you something.
Bernie Sanders is drawing record crowds.
Portland, Seattle, and now Los Angeles.
What are you frowning at in there?
It is amazing, but wait, let's put this in perspective.
Let's go back seven years, shall we?
Maybe eight years.
This time, at this time, in the 2008 presidential campaign, everybody thought the Barack Hussein Oh was a political phenomenon in 2008.
And everybody, we we thought the crowds, we thought the excitement, the cult-like atmosphere was unique to him.
It turns out that Obama wasn't a phenomenon at all.
The phenomenon happens to be anybody who runs against Hillary in a Democrat primary.
I mean, that's the way I, your beloved host, chose to look at this.
Bernie Sanders, come on.
Now, nothing against Bernie.
He's a nice old codger.
And he's an honest but insignificant little socialist from Vermont.
A perfectly fine human being.
He's wrong about everything, but he's harmless.
Bernie Sanders drawing record crowds.
Barack Obama drew record crowds.
What's the common denominator?
Hillary Clinton.
I'm here to tell you that the big secret here, the thing that nobody wants to talk about, and maybe they figured this out on the Democrat side.
I don't know.
But it sure seems to me that in this primary cycle and in 2008, I mean, you got Obama who came out of nowhere.
Nobody who he was.
I mean, he had made a speech.
I mean, I'm not, I don't, I'm not trying to put Obama down here.
I'm trying to be honest in perspective.
He was getting these record crowds, and we all thought, oh my God.
Oh, we thought it Bill Clinton Jr. able to fool all these people with all these platitudinous speeches.
And so if it turns out, given what we've seen here with Bernie Sanders, that the common denominator is in the Democrat Party.
They're going to treat anybody this way who runs against Hillary.
Who is the first out of the box?
It might have been Martin O'Malley, but he waited.
Might have been Jim Webb, but he waited.
I'm not denying that Bernie Sanders' Uber extreme, off-the-charts left-wing radical liberalism is not a factor.
It is because that's what the Democrat Party has become.
I'm not trying to take anything away from him here.
Don't misunderstand.
This is not an attempt here to belittle Bernie Sanders.
I'm just engaging here in objective political analysis as America's real anchor man.
Why are you frowning in there?
Does this not make sense to you?
It what do you mean it's almost unbelievable?
Why do you think it's you know it's you think it's unbelievable because you've bought, as most people have, the idea that Hillary is inevitable.
You've bought the idea that it's Hillary's just because it's her turn.
Everybody did this in 2008.
Look what happened.
The difference here, I Think I don't think the Democrat Party wants Bernie Sanders anywhere near the Democrat nomination.
Because he means it.
He means it when he's gonna distance the party from big money and Wall Street and bang.
He means it.
And when he's gonna take aim at American corporate, he means it.
The Democrat Party's in bed with all those people right now.
That's where the money is, and they're not gonna let Bernie shake it up.
That's why all these rumblings about Biden out there.
I'll tell you this, just don't, don't doubt me on this.
The Democrat Party hierarchy, whoever it is, they're noticing this.
And they're all going, they're all doing the same thing.
Bernie Sanders?
Are you kidding me?
What?
Well, Mr. Snerdley, the official program advisor, observer, no advisor here, program observer.
Uh we know why we don't like Hillary, but why don't they like Hillary?
The answer to that question is more properly stated.
What is there to like?
What let's just turn her.
What is likable?
About Hillary.
No, no, no, no, no.
She mouths all the right stuff.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, mouths all around.
What is the is she a likable Bernie's a lovable, cuddly old guy running around?
Hillary's nurse ratchet.
Bernie Sanders is not Jack Nicholson at one flew over the cuckoo's nest.
He's not even a nurse's aide.
Hillary's nurse ranchet.
Can't make the comparison.
You know what I'd love to see?
The Democrat debate's coming up on the 16th of September.
It's out in uh where is it?
Where's the Democrat debate?
Oh, it's up to it was in LA or somewhere.
No, no, no.
That's the next Republican debates at the Reagan Library.
The Democrat debate, wait a minute, it's been put off.
I'm thinking the next Republican debate is September 16th, but the Democrat debate, they've moved it, and that's why Martin O'Malley is so ticked off.
Martin O'Malley is running.
Is this the Democrat Party?
What is this?
No debates.
That's another thing, by the way.
They are delaying these debates.
They are limiting a number of debates on the Democrat side.
October, October 13th of Nevada, right, right, right.
Okay.
And that's moved back from whatever the original schedule date was.
This also tells me that the Democrat Party is nervous about Hillary.
I think they do want her this time.
Who else is there?
I think they do what, but they don't want, and they don't want Bernie.
And so they're moving the debate back, and they're limiting the number of debates.
Can you just see CNN?
I would love, you know, CNN's always trying to emulate Fox.
Well, not quite the way to put it.
CNN, despite what they would say, is a little jealous.
I mean, everybody would love to have Fox's ratings.
They would love to have Fox's respect.
They would love to have their respect Fox has.
They would love to have the core audience Fox has.
And you know how copycat uh media is.
How emulative.
How about this?
How about I don't know, get Andrea Mitchell.
Or pick pick a female infobabe to be the debate moderator.
And Mrs. Clinton gets the first question.
Mrs. Clinton, let me mention seven names.
Paula Jones, Juanita Broderick, Kathleen Willie, Jennifer Flowers, Monica Lewinsky, Beth Dozeritz, Denise Rich.
Now tell us.
How can you look at anyone with a straight face and talk to them about family values when it takes a village to satisfy your husband?
That's my variation on the Trump question at the Fox debate.
To keep things equal, hit Hillary the same way.
And that is the question.
I was talking to a friend talking to a friend in lost, you know, every election cycle, somebody says, if so and so wins, I'm moving.
I'm leaving the country.
So I was talking to a friend of mine out in Los Angeles last night.
And I said, look, if if Hillary wins this, are you gonna move?
He said, not only am I gonna move, if Hillary is voted into the White House, I'm joining ISIS.
Uh yes.
Okay, so we got Trump.
We've got uh what a great way to honor the gentle giant.
Isn't it amazing what's happening in Ferguson?
To commemorate the gentle giant, they blow the town up again.
And then they're gonna bring in the stars of uh out of Compton, uh, getting out of whatever the new movie is, uh that's based on uh NWA.
You remember NWA, right, Mr. Snerdley, with Dr. Dre and the gang, uh Easy E and the boys.
I remember when that controversy erupted, we uh we couldn't play the uh lyrics.
We couldn't even say name of the group.
We couldn't even translate what NWA was.
And their whole album that got them in trouble is about killing the cops or doing damage to the cops or hurting the cops or what have you.
Anyway, the original NWA, those that are still alive have matured, but now they're making a movie about them out of Compton, or what's something about out straight out, yeah, straight out of Compton, and uh it's that's got ties with what's happening in Ferguson.
So history uh is repeating.
What else do we have out there?
We've got uh Pope Francis.
Pope Francis says that rejection of immigrants is an act of war.
Do you think they let it right here?
Pope Francis has called a reject rejection of migrants fleeing violence an act of war.
He was talking to a group of youths, and he said the situation uh where desperate migrants were bounced from country to country seeking shelter was an unresolved conflict, and this is war.
This is violence, it's called murder.
Did they let them in the Vatican?
Let me know.
Well, it's more than the Swiss Guard.
Let me tell you, it's more the Swiss Guards for show.
I mean, they've got ten times the Swiss Guard on patrol guarding every square inch of the boundaries of the Vatican.
Polling data, Trump continues.
There's one poll where Trump at 32% here.
The post-debate polling data, Trump not hurt and in fact aided and assisted.
The news continues to be the big jump in the polls by Carly Fiorina, Ted Cruz, and Ben Carson.
Details coming up.
Sad news from the game preserve where Cecil, sorry, is it Cecil?
I keep it says Cecil the Lion was killed by the dentist from Minnesota.
People are now starting to pay attention to what happens at this place every day.
It's not good.
They're gonna have to keep this news away from the children.
We already found out that one of Cecil's cubs was murdered by another male, attempting to get rid of Cecil's influence and the pride.
Jericho, Cecil's buddy, fled.
Just, I mean, you talk about disloyalty.
Jericho's out of there.
He got a no attempt to defend Cecil's wives or his kids.
He's just gone.
And the latest that's happened, it's horrible.
People don't know how literally vicious hippopotamuses are, or hippopotamia.
A mother with her two-day-old hippo.
You know what two days old a hippo can walk, obviously.
I mean, it's but two days old, she's introducing her hippo to the pod.
That's what they call the family of hippopotamai, the pod.
Complete with pictures.
There's mom hippo and toddler hippo as they approach the pod, and the next thing you know, the pod is just on the two-day old hippo, and they maul it to death, and they leave it for an alligator to come clean up the mess.
All of this caught on video and was still shots.
What will the children say?
And the animal behaviors don't know.
They they've studied, they don't know why this happens in hippopotamus pods.
They have no idea why a baby would be and the mother did nothing to protect it, backed off, wanted no part of it.
Mother made no effort to protect her two-day old baby.
And a two-day old hippopotamus is a cute little thing.
Throw that out there.
Big news from the Middle East about the Iran deal.
Turns out that we were negotiating with the Iranians before Kerry was Secretary of State.
We were negotiating with the Iranians before the election of the moderate Rwani.
We were negotiating an Iranian nuke deal with Mahmud Ahmedinizad.
When nobody knew it was Emma regime, was telling us that they couldn't do anything because Ahmadini Zad was such a radical extremist goofball.
Had to wait for a moderate to win, which was Rurwani.
And then after he did, that's when we got serious.
Turns out none of that's true.
We have been negotiating with the Iranians long before then and signaling our willingness that they can nuke up.
This latest news is from memory, which is a credible Middle East news source.
Details coming up.
Uber, you know, Uber, the uh dial up transportation.
There's now a startup.
Some entrepreneur has an idea to build an Uber for health care.
Cash doctors come to your house just like they used to.
You pay them when they show up, you'll pay them when they leave.
And it is obviously a market reaction to Obamacare.
And it's uh it's happening by young, innovative entrepreneurs who want no part of Obama.
Continuing news on the unemployment situation in Seattle, particularly in restaurants, because the minimum wage was increased, and what the Obama administration and the Democrat Party are doing to Chuck Yu Schumer.
They are treating Chuck Yu Schumer as though he is a Republican, because he is opposed to come out and oppose the Iran deal.
The attacks they are mounting on him are bigoted.
Some might even say racist or ethnic, highlighting the fact that every report, Chuck Schumer noted Jew.
It says in the New York Times.
Chuck Schumer noted Jewish senator from New York, Washington Post.
They're saying that Schumer voted against the deal because he's in bed with the big money Jewish lobby.
They usually reserve that for Republican Jewish people.
But Schumer is getting it from all sides, led by the White House.
And that barely scratches the surface.
We got audio sound bites, funny, serious to the point.
All of it coming up when we come back.
Your host continues as show prep for the media.
Audio soundbite number one back to NPR's morning edition, talking about Trump and uh criticism of his treatment by the moderators at the Thursday night debate.
Some conservatives, such as Rush Limbaugh, joined Trump's denunciation of what he said was political correctness, and Fox reportedly fielded many complaints from Trump's supporters.
John Sides is a political science professor at George Washington University.
He says the questions for Trump had a paradoxical result.
Any more of that, and people are going to fall asleep.
I just wanted to let you know that uh.
And then there is uh this last night, Anderson Cooper 360, Jeffrey Lord, uh former Reagan administration political director, now with uh newsbusters, the American Spectator was interviewed by Anderson Cooper.
He said, Hey Jeff, what is it say that Roger Stone, uh certainly no shrinking violet and a kind of legendary for provocative tactics at Republican circles, has parted ways with the Trump campaign, however it may have happened.
I noticed today that Rush Limbaugh on his show was saying, in essence, the same thing.
I think he used the term free advice or something of that nature to Donald Trump in particular To move on and get back to the one who brung you, which in Russia's case, I think he was talking about uh immigration and some of these other issues.
Roger Stone, we talked about him uh uh yesterday, claims that he got out of the Trump campaign because Trump had veered away from issues and getting into this personality stuff.
Uh Trump said, nah, he didn't quit.
I fired him.
He's a loser.
He wasn't doing anything I found worthwhile.
Doesn't matter how it happened.
Anyway, uh Trump is back now.
He's talking about immigration again, and he is talking about how it's time we got the oil from Iraq.
And any of these other Middle Eastern countries that we have saved and defended and protected.
And as I say, his polling numbers continue to just balloon, uh, shocking all of the experts in the establishment.
Details when we get back.
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Some stories on polling data.
First from Breitbart, the uh Republican frontrunner billionaire Donald Trump has jumped seven points, a remarkable hike in the polls after the Republican debate in Cleveland last week.
The morning consult poll, which I've never heard of.
Well, that doesn't matter.
I'm just telling you I've never heard of it.
I'm not saying it's not worth it.
I just never heard of them.
The morning consult poll of 746 self-identified Republicans and Republican leading independents, has Trump with a commanding lead over the entire rest of the field at 32%.
That means he leads the next three candidates, Jeb Bush, Ben Carson, Scott Walker, or Marco Rubio, who were tied, all of those combined.
Bush, who came in second in this poll, got 11%.
Ben Carson came in third with 9%.
Scott Walker and Ruby over tied with 6%.
Trump's 32% is also up seven points over last week's morning consult poll, which had him at 25%.
Now the poll was conducted August 7th, 8th, and 9th, Friday through Sunday, which means most of the polling was done not just after the debate, but also after Friday evening's comments about Megan Kelly.
What's more, Trump's favorability ratings in this new poll skyrocketed the share of Republican primary voters who say they view Trump favorably, increased since the last tracking poll to 62% from 57%.
But the number of registered voters who say they see Trump unfavorably remains high.
52% of all voters say that they see him in a negative light.
From the Hill.com, a plurality of college students think that Donald Trump won the first Republican presidential debate.
This, according to another poll that was released uh yesterday, 26% of college or college-bound students said that Trump won the debate.
This survey is from Cheg, C-H-E-G-G.
That's an online textbook rental and tutoring company.
16% said that Jeb Bush won.
14% thought that Marco Rubio won.
10% went for Rand Paul.
Uh and 10% of college students said that nobody won.
Among just Republicans alone, 26% of those survey think that Trump should be taken seriously as a candidate, versus just 8% of college Democrats.
Now, also worth noting here, 40% of college students want Vice President Biden to enter the race to challenge Hillary Clinton, which continues here to buttress my newly evolved theorem to explain the Bernie Sanders phenomenon.
And it is that he's not the phenomenon, and it is that Obama was not the phenomenon.
Although, look, look, look, don't.
I'm not saying that Obama did not have special powers and did not have a special attraction to some people in the 08 campaign.
Don't misunderstand me here.
I mean, I see the speech at Berlin with half million people supposedly there, and then the styrofoam Greek columns and I mean I'm denying all that happened.
I'm just telling you, this is a second campaign in a row where the first candidate other than Hillary is drawing record crowds and supposedly shocking and stunning everybody.
And this is just more evidence that there's something to that theorem.
When in this poll, 40% of college students want Biden to get in because they don't want Hillary.
Now, you it's not that they're satisfied with uh what Bernie Sanders is.
These are college kids.
Bernie Sanders is their great grandfather.
That's that's that's why that'd be my guess.
Um and in another polling data story, this from Reuters, the Reuters Ipsos poll, no sign that Trump's presidential debate performance is hurting his support among party voters.
The latest Reuters poll shows that uh Trump still has a huge lead, big lead over his rivals, and his staying power is defying predictions of political doom and leading some Republicans to explore ways to persuade him not to pursue a third-party bid, which latest on that is he's keeping the option open.
And he said, look at if they're gonna actively come after me, if they're not gonna help me, if they're going to come out and try to harm me, why should I pledge that I will not run third party while they try to take me out?
That's his theory.
And that line of reasoning will resonate well with his uh supporters.
You know, the latest that drive by's they're trying to figure out now.
Because this is all new to them.
Everything happening here, as I have previously noted, is outside the boundaries of every bit of conventional wisdom the political class and the elites understand.
Trump should have been gone three weeks ago, should have been humiliated out of the race, should have had to apologize, begg for forgiveness, walked away, and promised never to be heard from again.
That's how egregious what he did was talking about the kinds of immigrants coming in from Mexico, and then insulting McCain by saying, I don't really like people that get captured.
I admire people that don't.
Well, the establishment thought that's the end of Trump.
It wasn't the end of Trump.
It turns out he gained approval in polling data after those remarks.
And then I'll tell you what the standard thinking is after the debate on Thursday.
Within the confines of the political establishment with a capital T, capital E, within the confines of the ruling political class in Washington, they think that Trump performed dismally.
They think that that debate performance of Trump was embarrassing, that it was bad, that it was unfocused.
They think that Trump came off as totally unprepared, that he wasn't even taking it seriously, that he wasn't ready for anything that came his way.
And they think anybody else would have been judged that way, and the next poll would have shown him losing over half of his support.
When that didn't happen, the inside the beltway political class establishment began to panic, even more than they have been panicking up to now.
And then in that aftermath, as it continued, where where Trump did not say one word for three days about an issue.
When Trump for three days was doubling down on his criticisms and his insults, I guarantee you that inside the establishment they finally were rubbing their hands together in glee and say he's self-destructing.
And now we find out not only has he not self-destructed, his support is growing.
And I'm telling you, they don't understand why.
The reason they don't understand why is because they do not understand the mood of their own voters.
And they haven't understood that for years.
They do not understand the rage.
They do not understand the anger.
They do not understand the frustration.
Amazingly, I mean, I think it's if if anybody here appears to be out of touch politically and veering away from the political mainstream, it happens to be the political establishment, to not even know, or to not even factor, even if, let's say if they know it and they don't factor it into their behavior and into their approach.
I firmly believe that close to a majority of people who vote in this country have been aghast at what has happened since the first days of the stimulus.
I think minimum half the people of this country have been pulling their hair out, have been frustrated, have been angry, are scared, a combination of all these things as every new Obama policy is implemented.
And while all that's happened, there has not been a serious effort to counter it, adding to the anger and frustration.
There hasn't been a serious effort to even voice opposition to it.
It's assumed that the Republicans opposing it or voicing opposition are insincere, that they are simply hatronizing their voters, but they don't see the voters, don't see any real substantive action to stop any of this.
And the people I'm talking about, minimum half the population, think the country is being fundamentally transformed in ways that it was never intended as founded, in ways that are dooming their children and grandchildren's futures, that are forever changing the relationship citizen to government.
We are spending money we don't have.
The country is literally being torn apart, dismantled, and put together in ways people don't want for the last seven years, and there hasn't been a single serious effort to stop it.
And in the midst of all that, here comes Trump.
And they claim still not to understand this.
They claim in the establishment still to believe that what Trump's doing is going to lead to an implosion.
What's more likely to happen is it's going to lead to copycats.
And other people are going to start figuring out what it is that Trump's doing that is achieving this popularity above and beyond celebrity personality.
And they're going to eventually figure out that there is substance to this, even though they don't see it.
And it's all because they don't know their own, you know, I use the term audience.
But it's the same thing.
They don't know their base voters.
Let me add one thing to this.
In addition to all this, they have insulted their base voters time and time again during these last seven years.
And the most recent egregious example is McCain calling them crazies at a Trump rally in Arizona.
Anyway, I got to take a break here, folks.
Sit tight.
I'm going to find, we've got some sound bites here of the drive-bys all of a sudden now.
Apparently understanding what Trump is about, and they've changed their tune.
Some of them, you know, this guy's got a strategy.
You know, this guy's not stupid.
This guy's not the kook that we've won't already is.
In the drive-by.
So sit tight, all that and much more coming up after this.
Don't go.
By the way, I don't, I don't think this is coincidental.
Next story.
Hill.com.
McCain says the Senate will reject Obama's Iran deal.
So suddenly all of these, all of these Republican rhinos are out there getting in on this game of trashing Obama, which they have not been willing to do for seven years.
McCain criticized Obama for comparing Republicans and opponents of the deal to hardliners in Iran who were also against it.
McCain said, I think the president's demeaned and cheapened the office of the president.
Seven years late, Senator, but we'll take it.
I think the president has demeaned and cheapened the office of the presidency by that kind of comment on it.
It just seems it's immoral to attack those who disagree and characterize their opposition, which I believe is the correct political arena is all about.
He said that's not presidential.
See what's happening here.
When's the last time you heard serious criticism of Obama from any of these guys?
And Jeb Bush criticizing Hillary Clinton, claiming that she is largely responsible, along with the Democrats and Obama, for the growth of ISIS.
That's why I said moments ago, I think what you're going to see is copycats.
Trump copy in their own way.
Now let's go to the audio sound bites.
Mia Malika Henderson, CNN's New Day this morning, Chris Cuomo's talking to her.
So I found it so interesting that to every question, whether it was Iran, whether it was the tax code, Trump said, I'll fix it.
Is that good enough for voters?
You know, so far, so good, right?
I mean, I think in that question uh he was talking about negotiating uh with Iran and negotiating with other countries, and he said of those other countries that they would do what he told them to do.
And that is what he's running as the alpha male.
His personality is his argument as well.
And in some ways, uh, this has shades of Obama in some ways, right?
Obama's argument uh was in some ways that because of his personality, uh, that he could uh change the ways of Washington.
This was a different Trump.
It was a subtle Trump.
Well, look, I didn't mean to build you up here for that.
But the point is it's not Trump as an idiot.
Now what they're doing, they're trying to compare Trump to Obama, who they love, and they're trying to say that Trump is now effecting, affecting the same personality types of strategies that Obama did, that Obama believed just by the force of his personality and his ability to give a speech that he could bring every enemy to her knee.
What he's done is the exact opposite of bringing our enemies to their knees.
There is no comparison the way Trump is talking about our enemies and the way Obama talks about them.
Trump is not just referring to the force of his personality.
But that's what they want to believe, it's what they want to believe.
Anyway, you see, here's another one.
John King this morning on CNN, Chris Cuomo and Anna Cabrera are talking.
Do you think that today's comments made any inroads with women?
Well, look at the polling data as this goes forward.
And if you look at our current polls right now, Donald Trump, if you put Hillary Clinton versus the four or five leading Republican candidates, including Mr. Trump, uh, he loses by the most in a general election matchup today.
He says he would be Hillary Clinton's worst nightmare.
At the moment in polling, he's her greatest dream, in the sense that there's a 28-point gender gap.
But we're having this conversation in the middle of August.
That election is next November.
He is a very smart person.
Uh, he's running a very unorthodox campaign, but he knows how to speak to the people who are with him so far.
And so far, he's not losing them.
Now, just last week, Trump was a joke.
From the moment he announced up to last week, including after the debate, he's a joke.
He's a not professional.
He's undisciplined.
He's not prepared.
But that's not how he is being looked upon and described today.
Now, it could be any number of reasons for this.
It could be that Trump supporters are just swamping all these networks with emails and phone calls and and so forth, telling you sick and tired of the way you're treating Donald and who knows.
It could be all kinds of things uh at work here.
It doesn't matter.
The uh the tone of the coverage is shifting here, away from Trump's a clown, idiot doesn't know what he's doing, to the point that they want to now compare him to Obama.
And and in in their mind, that's a great compliment.
It's quite a change, isn't it?
Yeah, we got this coming up.
Uh Meghan Kelly addressed this all in her program last night, and she said that she's not going to apologize, and she doesn't expect an apologize.
I said yesterday, she there's no way she's gonna, she's not gonna portray herself as a victim, and she's not gonna allow herself to be portrayed as one.
And she's just gonna keep doing her job, gonna keep doing journalism, and that's that.
We'll have that bite coming up for you.
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