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Oct. 12, 2015 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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October 12, 2015, Monday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
And a very happy Indigenous Peoples Day to everybody out there, Indigenous Peoples' Day.
In other words, greetings to all of you who were trampled when the settlers arrived here to the new world and took it away from you.
And now you've got sour grapes showing up with Calypso Louie at the Million Man March Redux over the weekend.
Great to have you here, El Rushbo, behind a Golden EIB microphone, 800-282-2882.
If you want to be on the program of the email address, El Rushbo at EIBNet.com.
Columbus Day, it is.
And of course, that's so politically incorrect.
You can't nothing to celebrate there, folks.
Columbus Day, that began the end of everything that was sacred.
It's when the white Europeans showed up and they brought horses and they brought syphilis and they brought racism and they brought bigotry and they brought homophobia and they brought their own version of capitalism.
They brought environmental destruction, animal insignificance and destruction as well.
I mean, just virtually everything wrong with the greatest nation on earth traced back to Columbus Day.
And instead, several cities today are actually celebrating Indigenous Peoples Day instead of Columbus Day.
And of course, when you look at it, I mean, why should Native Americans or why would they want the heritage of Europeans celebrated?
Bad memories and all that.
I mean, what have they ever done for the world?
Unlike the Indians who gave us tobacco, great PSAs on TV about keeping the climate unpolluted and all that.
So anyway, we've got some audio soundbites, and it was the Million Man March Part 2.
Calypso Louie gathered the troops in Washington, the mall, to redo the Million Man March.
And it was, I'm glad it happened.
We've got some audio soundbites from it.
It was a bunch of people that hate this country on parade, and they were saying so blatantly and in front of everybody.
We also have, of course, the political news is based on the fact that Democrat debate is tomorrow night in Las Vegas.
And there's all kinds of concern and worry about this.
CNN says they're going to put a podium up for Joe Biden.
They're trying to entice Biden into showing up because without Trump on the stage, actually without the Republicans on the stage, this debate's going to be a yawner.
Nobody's going to watch it.
Not in terms of the numbers that watch the Republican debate.
The people who are going to tune into this thing tomorrow night are going to be tuning in to see a car wreck.
They want to see Hillary implode.
They want to see whatever Bernie Sanders has, who he is, what he's going to do, what it's going to look like.
And by the way, you know what?
CNN has made an announcement.
Anderson Cooper, host of Anderson Cooper 19, has made an announcement.
And that is they are not going to pit Democrat candidates against each other.
That is not part of the debate format.
Now, that is a distinct difference from the first Fox debate when that's exactly what did happen.
And there are a number of theories as to why it happened.
I mean, the theories run the gamut.
Fox wanting to show everybody they're not in a tank for the Republicans.
Fox wanted to demonstrate that they can be hard on Republicans.
Fox wanting to take out all opponents of Jeb Bush.
I mean, there were any number of theories running around to explain that theory.
So it's Anderson Cooper who's just out front here saying, sorry, we're not going to do that.
We're not going to pit these people against each other.
Of course, never did expect that to happen.
That's the difference.
You know, CNN, the drive-by media, they don't have any guilt feelings.
They don't think they have to prove themselves to anybody.
And they certainly don't think they have to be critical of people on their own side for credibility, which sadly is what many Republicans still believe.
That the only way you can be credible as a Republican or as a conservative media person is to be critical of your own team.
That proves that you're not biased.
That proves you are not afraid to criticize your own people.
Except it never happens on the left.
CNN would never ever do anything.
Now, the candidates might, but CNN's not going to do anything to make any of these people look bad.
They rally the troops, they circle the wagon, they do everything they can to protect.
It's like this movie with Mary Mapes about Dan Rather and this National Guard business.
You have Robert Redford as Rather.
You have Kate Blanche Hent as Mary Mapes.
And it's an effort here.
This is what the left always does.
Dan Rather totally and Mapes totally faked the story.
They totally made up and forged documents.
And they were caught red-handed.
And what did they do at the time?
The other two leading anchors, ABC and NBC, were Peter Jennings and Tom Broca, and they put together an awards banquet for Dan Rather.
This was in weeks of all this happening because they realized that what was going on with CBS and Rather, while it was good for them competitively at CBS and ABC, Rather was still one of the deans of Drive-By Journalism, and they couldn't let him take a hit because they all take a hit.
So they had to circle the wagons and they prop Rather up and give him award.
I don't know what the award was for.
I don't remember.
That's not the point.
The point is they had this big banquet where they gave Rather some award, great journalist, greatest of all time, or some such thing as that.
And it was meant to blunt what had actually happened.
That's what this movie is.
This movie is an attempt to revise history for demographic groups, younger people who may not know the story, but this is classic to what the left does.
It's like HBO is in the process of making a movie about the Clarence Thomas Anita Hill hearings for people who have no knowledge of that, young people.
They never ever let this stuff go.
And they never leave it up to public opinion to be decided when they have so much control over so many elements of the media.
It turns out, I don't understand this, folks.
I am mentioned a number of times in Mary Mapes' biography, which is what this book is based on.
Her biography, or the movie is based on her biography.
And I'm mentioned in it six times.
And I mean, I'm ripped to shreds.
She says, she's driving along, listening to me talking about her dad, her dad criticizing her as almost a commie babe liberal and so forth.
Now she's got mad about that.
I mean, I six times mentioned in her biography.
So I got the audio sound bites of that coming up.
This is interesting, too.
Let me give you two headlines here side by side.
Over on Yahoo News, this is from, I think, Saturday, so it's a weekend story.
Clinton's support slides ahead of first Democrat debate.
Just days before she will take the stage in the first Democrat debate, Hillary Clinton's lead over Bernie Sanders has narrowed.
Her support among Democrat voters fell 10 points within less than a week.
She is literally plummeting in poll after poll after poll.
This story has shown it's a Reuters story, but if it's in Yahoo News, that's where the low-information crowd picks it up.
Just as an aside, NBC News has to just be really disappointed after all they did for Hillary during the week.
Did you hear what the comedian Amy Schumer, who hosted Saturday Night Live, openly said how disappointed and frustrated she was that during the show, whenever Hillary's name came up or whenever Hillary was impersonated or whatever, just included in the show that there was hardly any applause for, and she was upset by that.
She was embarrassed.
She was upset that there wasn't more support for Hillary in a Saturday Night Live audience.
And I'm saying NBC overall's got to be somewhat disturbed too.
I mean, they've pulled out all the stops trying to save Hillary, trying to help Hillary, trying to make Hillary look human, trying to make her look like she's something other than a robot.
Had that Saturday Night Live appearance.
Anyway, here's Reuters.
Clinton support slides ahead of First Democrat debate.
Over here at the New York Times, the headline is, from Donald Trump, hints of a campaign exit strategy.
Trump's numbers continue to rise.
Trump's numbers once again are rising.
One of the untold stories of recent Republican polling is that Carly Fiorina has now dipped to below double digits.
The only two in double digits remain Trump and Ben Carson, who, by the way, is enmeshed in his own silly controversy.
You know what Ben Carson had the temerity to say?
He said, if the Jews had had guns, that the Holocaust might have turned out differently.
And people are reacting to that like it's the most insane, ludicrous thing anybody's ever said.
You know, I'm wondering, have people forgotten what happened in Warsaw when the Jews were summarily overtaken?
Ben Carson's exactly right, but it's not, it's more profound.
These people are treating his comment as absolutely sophomoric.
And he's so out of touch, so unprepared, so unqualified.
What kind of an idiot would say anything like this?
And yet all he did was utter blatant common sense.
It stands to reason.
That had the Jews been armed, the Nazis would have had a little bit more trouble.
They would have had some resistance.
It's common sense.
The reason I think the left is in the media is going nuts is because they're taking that comment and they're transposing it into the current climate, the American debate on guns.
And they're thinking, what would Jews today want guns for?
Jews don't need this.
It's silly.
Carson's a nutcase.
And they're invoking, you never invoke Hitler.
You don't bring Hitler up.
You just don't do it.
That's political neophyte stuff.
But on the facts, Carson's exactly right.
Anyway, my point here is Donald Trump is either holding steady or back to gaining ground.
He is undergoing a bit of a transformation on the stump now, too.
That is one of a little bit more substance.
Discussion of issues.
Some of the theatrics have been dialed back.
They're still there.
And his support is becoming more solid and broad-based.
And yet the New York Times has this story, hints of a campaign exit strategy.
Despite the fact that Trump said he's not going anywhere.
Trump has said, I'm not going anywhere.
I'm not getting out.
Why are you even asking me this?
I'm not the guy down 10 points.
I'm not the guy that ought to be indicted.
You're asking a wrong person.
I'm not getting out.
And yet there they are.
In unmistakable ways over the last two weeks, whether he has intended to or not, Donald J. Trump has started to articulate a way out of the presidential race, a verbal parachute that makes clear he has contemplated the factors that would cause him to end his bid.
Now, never mind that for a week, Trump has insisted the drive-bys are mistaken and that he has no exit strategy whatsoever.
Never mind that as John High Lemon Bloomberg said on MSNBC three days ago, if Jeb Bush had Trump's numbers, everybody would declare the race over.
Nobody would be talking about an exit strategy if these were Jeb Bush's numbers.
Nobody is talking about an exit strategy except the drive-bys, who have it in their, I guess, in their guts that Trump has never been serious.
He isn't serious.
All of this is for a reason that we don't know yet, but he's never intended to win this.
He never intended to stay in it all the way.
He's never intended to get the nomination.
And so they believe, they've talked themselves into believing that Trump is in the middle of some kind of stunt here.
They haven't quite figured out what it is, but at some point he's going to get out.
So that becomes the narrative, if you will, or the template around which the coverage of Trump is written and broadcast.
So now, even though Trump has not said a word about getting out, they think they've heard him say so.
Meanwhile, over here, you have Hillary Rodham Clinton, who is just shedding support.
It is just abandoning her in droves.
And not a single story about the possibility that Mrs. Clinton might get out of the race.
And the drive-bys believe they're fooling everybody.
That's the funny thing about this.
You know, there's finally, there has been so much education about the drive-bys.
So many people much more informed about them than ever.
It's not a majority yet.
But if you take a look at polling data on respected professions and respected people in those professions, people in journalism are just not near the bottom.
They're in the tank in terms of respect.
Another indication of polling data that people don't believe what they hear and so forth.
Still, they will have a power, so I'm not under any illusions here.
But it's amazing to watch them operate as though it's 40 years ago and they're still pulling the wool over everybody's eyes.
Anyway, it's a brief time out here, my friends.
It's a brief setting of the table here.
Also, I have decided, based on recent history, that we need to do a modified caller clinic today.
And the reason is the momentum and the tempo of the program noticeably slows or even comes to a screeching halt when I go to the phones.
And that won't do.
The momentum has to maintain.
And I think the reason for this is, well, I know what the reasons are, because I have a full-fledged bond with all of you in this audience, especially those of you who called.
So just a modified caller clinic, maybe getting into that today, depending on if circumstances warrant.
In the meantime, there's that that I mentioned and other stuff that I haven't gotten to.
And of course, the great surprise of all days is your calls and whatever it is you have to say.
So sit tight.
All of it's starting up again.
We'll be getting back.
No, no, no.
I know that Trump said that he wouldn't be in the race if he was losing, if the bottom dropped out of his poll numbers, but that was not an exit strategy.
He did not say, yeah, I'm waiting to get out of the race.
When my numbers finally plummet, yeah, that's what I'm going to do.
That's not what he was saying.
You know, it's, I play golf a lot.
I have no intention of quitting the game, even though I threaten to every time I play.
I was out playing golf one day with a couple of guys, nice guys.
You'd know them both.
They can't hit the ball 150 yards off T. And I said to the fourth in the group, I said, you know, if I couldn't hit it 150 yards off the T, I'd quit the game.
What's the point of coming out here?
150 yards off the T for crying out loud.
That's barely past the ladies' T. But I wouldn't quit the game.
Trump is not, you know, they've been hounding him.
When are you going to get out of the?
If my numbers tanked, why stay in?
He was trying to insult the others.
His point in making that claim was, what are they still doing in here?
These guys, what 1%, 3%, 6%, what to hell?
They don't have a prayer.
You need to be talking to them about getting it.
If I was one of those guys, I'd get out.
And that became, they invented, it became a whole story unto itself.
Trump, colon, I will exit race if I am losing in polls.
And they've kept it up.
Like here at the New York Times in this story in three television interviews.
Mr. Trump, who's made his standing in the polls a central facet of his campaign.
No, he has not.
Who's made his standing?
He was trying to point out that if he was lagging as far behind as some of the others, he wouldn't waste his time.
He said people like Lindsey Graham and Pataki, some of the others.
Mr. Trump spoke about what would prompt him to quit a race in which he's currently leading in the polls.
Trump said, I'm not a masochist.
If I were doing poorly, if I saw myself going down, stop calling me because you no longer have any interest in Trump because he has no chance.
I'd go back to my business.
That has become Trump has exit strategy.
So they're creating a non-existent, phony narrative.
Anyway, it's how they do it.
Back after this.
Kicking off a brand new week of broadcast excellence, hosted by me, Rush Limbaugh.
This is the most listened-to-radio talk show in America and the most talked about host of the most listened to show in all of America.
You know, the funniest headline I have seen so far about the Democrat debate?
You want to know what it is?
I mean, it's from the New York Times.
It was on Friday, actually.
And the headline is, in debate, Hillary Clinton will display skills honed over a lifetime.
Folks, we're dealing here with a genuine dryball.
I mean, Mrs. Clinton does not have any connectivity with Democrat voters.
She's got no bond.
She's not, I don't know how else to describe this other than the ways that I have.
I mean, she does a book signing and nobody shows up.
The people that do don't have any real desire to, I mean, they're there because it may be historic.
She's a former First Lady.
She's Hillary Clinton, get a book or whatever, but it's not large numbers of people that show up.
She just does not have any kind of connection.
And there's a reason why.
She doesn't, I don't think she particularly likes people, particularly those that she would consider to be her lessers.
I think Hillary Clinton is a classic class individual, class conscious.
And people that are beneath her in station, very little interest in them, she can't even talk a good game of compassion.
She can't, in my mind, she doesn't even talk a good game of caring about people.
It's all robotic.
I mean, like, who was it?
I guess it was Rolling Stone magazine asked a question last week.
How many times do you have to launch yourself?
I mean, this woman's been in the public scene since 1992.
And arguably before that, but certainly 1992, the presidential campaign, everybody in the world got to know Hillary Clinton.
1992 to today is 20 plus years.
And she's still a mystery.
She still has to introduce herself to people.
She's more a curiosity than she is an actual figure with whom people have some kind of connection.
And by that, vested interest.
I mean, Hillary doesn't have any kind of even perceived personal connection, relationship with any of these people supposedly so supportive of her wanting her in the White House.
And the idea that skills that have been honed for a lifetime on display on Tuesday night.
And the truth is, her handlers and everybody else are scared stiff because they don't know what they're going to get.
Are they going to get the screeching Hillary?
They're going to get the ain't heard Hillary where she tries to fake a black dialect.
Now, none of this is to say, I don't want anybody to misunderstand because the other side of this coin is she is the likely Democrat nominee despite all of this.
And simply because there is a D next to her name on the ballot, she stands a chance of winning.
But that's the reason why it isn't all this other stuff that people are not personally invested in her.
They are invested in her candidacy because it's the Democrats.
It's the Democrat Party.
Hillary is a way to keep the Republicans out of power.
But there isn't a lot of love.
There isn't a lot of support personally for Hillary.
And in fact, I think whatever she's 10 points down in the polls.
Bernie Sanders climbing up, but he's not going to be the nominee.
I mean, even Bernie, even Lanny Davis was overheard on the train on the way to New York from Washington.
It might have been this morning.
Lanny Davis and some of his buddies were on the train.
I think it was Amtrak.
And there was a conservative media person they didn't recognize sitting across the aisle, heard their conversation.
They were talking about all these various Democrats, and they were talking about Bernie Sanders in no way he's going to get the nomination, parroting me.
Lanny Davis in the tank for Hillary because he's in the tank for the Clintons, calling Biden a buffoon.
I mean, everything that we think about all these Democrats, these other Democrats were admitting among themselves.
It happened to be overheard by some conservative media blogger or some such thing who's begun to report it.
So despite all these glaring weaknesses, the odds that she's not going to be the nominee are really slim.
One of the great ironies, there isn't an Obama.
And by the way, Obama hasn't helped either.
Obama in this 60 Minutes interview.
And in the 60 Minutes interview with Steve Croft talking about the email scandal, he said Hillary made a mistake.
That totally undercuts Hillary's effort to blame it on somebody else.
When Obama comes out and says, Hillary made a mistake, well, she's going to have a tough time offloading this blame to somebody else.
If Obama, who is still revered and respected personally, there is a bond of connection some people have now that's dwindling, but it's certainly far greater bond of support than Hillary has and has ever had.
A quick phone call here is we.
And by the way, I mentioned earlier I might have to do caller clinic today, and there's any number of ways we could do a caller clinic.
And I could do a caller clinic without taking calls and just give a series of examples and instructions.
Or I could take calls, and if something happens in the call that would make me stop everything and point out something as part of a caller clinic and do it that way.
But that embarrasses the caller.
No, not good.
What are you saying?
Good.
And it might help to remember the purpose of calls.
I think a lot of people forget this.
It's very, very, very important.
The purpose of a caller is to make the host look good.
Now, that's not a talk radio rule.
That is a rush radio show rule.
But it's not what you think.
A caller does not make me look good by praising me or complimenting me.
That's not what is meant.
Caller makes me or the host look good by inspiring, by triggering additional thought, causing an increase in adrenaline, which increases energy and so forth.
There's any number of ways a caller can make the host look good.
But it does not mean praise and compliments because anybody could do that.
And that's not what it means.
So let me just say two things that are at the top of my mind.
I'm going to take a break.
We'll come back and start with calls and the audio sound bites here on Mary Mapes and me and her book and Dan Rather and forgeries and fraud and all that.
One of the things I think that callers do not know, and I'm picking this up because of what callers say, increasingly, a number of callers are saying, as I was telling your screener.
Folks, you need to know, I do not talk to the screener about your call.
He does not tell me what you said.
I have no idea what you've told the screener, and I don't want to know what you've told the screener.
What you have told the screener is relevant only in the sense that that qualifies you to get on the air.
But I think a lot of people think that they're on hold for so long that before I get to a call, I'm going to have a little conference here, and Snarlie's going to say, this caller wants to say this and said this and said that.
That does not happen.
The only thing I know is there is a call screener computer here, and it lists every caller, their first name, and where they say they're calling from.
And it has a one-line summary of what they want to talk about.
That's it.
I don't know what they're going to say about it.
I don't know anything other than the general outline idea and the name.
I know the gender, but I don't know the age or anything.
All I know is where they...
So, as callers, do not start by saying, as I was telling your screener, because I don't know what you said, and it doesn't matter.
The screener hasn't told me anything you've told him, and therefore I don't know anything you've said.
Number two, and very crucial, if the first words out of your mouth are not what I think you're going to talk about, red flags go up immediately, and my finger is hit right next to the dump button.
It's not that I suspect fraud.
It's that I don't want to waste time here.
If you say that you want to call about Hillary and her debate performance, and you start off talking about Trump and something else, then wait a minute, something doesn't compute.
I get suspicious, a little concerned, and what happens?
The whole momentum that we build up slows down, and I don't want to have to spend valuable time steering the caller back to what the caller wanted to talk about in the first place.
So, If you are approved and screened to get on the program talking about X, make sure that when we come to you, you talk about X. Otherwise, well, you know, I never hang up on anybody, as you well know.
Nobody is treated rudely on this program.
But it can slow things down, and the worst thing that can happen is for the momentum to be brought to a screeching halt.
And if you hear me say, hi, so-and-so, you're up, welcome.
That means you're on the air.
That is not another standby, you're up in 10 seconds.
That means it's happened.
You're here.
What should have happened is that Mr. Snirdley should have given you a heads up that you're next and to stand by.
And then after that, the next voice you hear is mine, and that means go.
So just a few little things here, all designed to streamline the content of the program.
Be back with much more.
After this, don't go away.
And back we are.
El Rushbo, as always, have my brain tied behind my back.
Just to make it fair, this is Ryan in Fort Phil, Oklahoma.
Great to have you on the program, Ryan.
Hi.
Hey, good afternoon, Mr. Lumbaugh.
When you mentioned this morning the dropping poll numbers of Hillary, what crossed my mind was Ropodop.
What I mean is, as we know, the polls create the news and opinion.
They don't reflect it.
Right.
What I want your opinion is, is regardless of her performance, I think the post-debate narrative will be twofold.
One of them is she's going to be the new comeback kid.
She's going to be Bill all over again.
And the second narrative could be it's going to discourage Biden from getting in.
So I just wanted your opinion on that post-debate.
You know what?
I've got to tell you something, Ryan.
A, you get an A as a caller in terms of following the edicts of the just concluded caller clinic.
You got in there, you got it, and you got out.
And you did not importantly slow down the momentum of the program.
I think it's a great question.
Well, thank you.
I think it's given how much news today is manufactured, given that polling can produce whatever the polling unit wants.
They've admitted so.
By the way, did you see, Ryan?
I don't know.
Have you seen that Gallup has announced they are getting out of the presidential polling business?
I did, yes.
You know why they said they're getting out?
I don't remember the reason it's out there.
Because they can't guarantee that what they're producing is accurate.
There are too many people that lie to them, they say.
There are too many people that are now using cell phones.
They can't find a decent, trustworthy sample.
Gallup is one of the people that sort of blew it in the 2012 race.
So they're getting out of the whole presidential polling business, and they're going to stay focused on cultural things, social things, I think maybe other political races.
But look, the question is extremely valid given we know the drive-bys are in the tank for Hillary.
We know that NBC is in the tank for Hillary, and there really isn't anybody else.
I mean, Martin O'Malley is not going to do anything, I don't think.
Bernie Sanders is not going to be permitted to get the nomination.
Biden remains a wild card.
But Biden is a three-time loser running on his own for president.
They don't have anybody that's won in this cycle.
Hillary's a loser in presidential elections.
Biden, a three-time loser.
Bernie Sanders, no way, Jose, not going to get the nomination no matter what.
And Martin O'Malley lagging too far behind John Kerry too late as we sit here today.
So then you take CNN's announcement that they are not going to pit these candidates against each other like Fox did in the first Republican debate.
So the candidates are going to be allowed to sink or swim.
So yeah, you come out with polling that shows Hillary plummeting.
And by the way, I think that polling is pretty legit.
Bernie Sanders does have a lot of legitimate excitement out there.
And Hillary isn't exciting.
Hillary does not create excitement.
She doesn't engender it.
The Democrat Party is not loaded with average, ordinary, everyday voters champing at the bid, get out there and vote, election coming up.
It's sort of a ho-hummer.
Obama has everybody down on the dumps and depressed.
Obama's let everybody down.
Obama's not who he said he was going to be.
He hasn't done what he said he was going to do.
The things he did do have made a big mess out of everything.
So there isn't, none of what Obama said he was going to do has happened.
But more importantly, the things Obama has done have failed miserably.
I mean, it's really, in one sense, not a good time to be a Democrat because you're living with the hard, cold reality that your policies don't work.
And there are enough hardcore, random, ordinary, everyday Democrats who really believe all of this big government stuff.
The Democrat Party is made up of a whole bunch of stratas.
And you've got the leadership strata, which is where all the conspiracies take place.
And by that, I mean their own version of the elites and the inside-the-belt way establishments and so forth.
You do have some true believers who are not in this to see Republicans taking on the 10.
They really do believe all this liberalism stuff.
They really believe that there's a utopia out there.
And for them, Obama getting everything he wants with hardly any opposition and none of it working.
My point is, there's not a whole lot of excitement on the Democrat side.
And what excitement I think there is or energy they have is fueled more by hatred for us than love for Hillary or Bernie Sanders or any of that.
So it's a long way of answering your question, but yeah, you have a poll come out the week before the debate, Hillary down 10 points.
Debate, post-debate poll, show Hillary really cleaning up.
A lot of people love her.
Come back, Hillary, and so forth.
Blunt the poll.
Yeah, you could do that even if the poll is legit.
That's a great question, Ryan.
We'll be back and continue after this.
Share what Debbie Blabbermouth Schultz said on CNN yesterday.
She said that Republicans are saying, yeah, let's just kick women out of this country.
And the scary thing is, you have some low-information voters.
They're going to believe it.
They will, snurgly.
War on women.
Don't doubt me on this.
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