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Sept. 14, 2016 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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September 14, 2016, Wednesday, Hour #2
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Meeting and surpassing all audience expectations every day, Rush Limbaugh and the nation's most listen to radio talk show, the most talked about host of the most listened to show in the country.
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And just to reiterate, we did we did manage a very quick turnaround on the brand new addition to the Hillary Clinton t-shirt line at the EIB store at Rushlimbaugh.com.
These are the deplorable t-shirts.
These are they're blue, just like the never Hillary t-shirts are.
On the front they say, I am a Hillary deplorable, and on the back it says never Hillary.
And we uh turn these around literally in in a day and a half.
And one of the reasons that we don't do more of this, and I must admit, people say, well, you you could do a lot more of this than you do.
And one of two reasons.
I really don't like.
Um what's the word?
It's not exploit, but I I just I don't want to constantly be coming at you with with things that we have for sale.
We do it on a limited basis when I know there is going to be this crazy demand, and this is one of those examples.
Another reason we don't do it is because normally when we get an idea, it's a great idea.
It takes two weeks before we even get a prototype.
Uh, particularly if it's something other than a t-shirt.
But two weeks.
The passion's gone.
Everybody's on to something else.
So we were able to turn these around in one day, because we already had the template for the never Hillary t-shirts ready to go.
So it was just, it was easy to change screen process.
So they're up and they're available.
You'll find them in the Hillary Clinton collection at the EIB store at Rush Limbaugh.com, right there at the at the top of the page.
Okay, the latest WikiMeeks document dump features emails of General Colin Powell and Secretary Colin Powell, weighing in on aspects of Hillary Clinton.
The UK Daily Mail has a story, and it's headlined, Hillary Clinton hates President Obama for defeating her in 2008, according to Colin Powell's leaked emails, and was so sick, giving a speech, she could barely walk up steps.
So, according to General Powell, Hillary Clinton is sick, she is tired, she hates Obama because he beat her in 2008.
And I have no doubt about that.
I think it goes deeper than that.
You have to go back to 2008.
You have to relive what 2008 was supposed to be what's happening this year.
There wasn't supposed to be an Obama.
There wasn't supposed to be anybody come along that could seriously compete.
It was hers.
She had been guaranteed, she'd been promised, she'd been told 2008, it's yours.
That's when we're paying you back for everything you've done to help us with whatever she did keeping her husband alive and all those things by by not leaving him.
And then Obama surfaced and it was so clear, so obvious that a majority of Democrats wanted him and not her.
That had to be such a blow.
In her mind, she has single-handedly saved the Democrat Party by standing by her husband.
And it's it's more than that.
She thinks she's single-handedly saved the party because she's the smartest woman in the world and therefore in the party.
And to be thrown overboard like that for a young, what did Biden say?
Clean and articulate black guy.
Biden that's what he said, right?
So to be overthrown by a clean, that really ticked off Al Sharpton and he takes showers too.
A clean and articulate black guy.
And when it was it was hers, she felt betrayed.
She finally found out what some of the Democrat Party really think of her.
And then the then Obama came along and it was was ten times as dazzling and exciting and thrilling and attractive as she has ever been.
And this is an ego business, and I will guarantee you that that hurt and it ticked her off.
She probably experienced a gamut of emotions.
So I'm not surprised when I see Colin Powell writing how she hated Obama.
But I just I think it's it's it's it's for far more than just that she lost to him.
It goes deeper than that.
Now I know then you'll say, but Rush, I've heard this, I've heard it from you, I've heard from why did she accept Secretary of State?
And if Obama hates her and she hates Obama, then why did Obama go to the convention and say everything he said about her being more qualified than anybody ever has been?
Well, that's a different world those people live in.
And the one thing that has to survive and triumph at all times is the ideology, liberalism.
The Democrat Party must always win no matter what.
They're not like the Republicans that are willing to sell the party out on what's what they say is principle or what Democrats ain't no way they're losing no matter what.
And if there's bad blood between Hillary and Obama, they're gonna deal with that behind the doors that we'll never see it.
It'll be dealt with.
Or a huge price will be extracted.
Hillary, you want me to go out there and say what everybody knows is not true, how good you are, oh, let me tell you what it's gonna cost you, babe.
Some stuff like this that we're never privy to.
And since we're talking about the Clintons, who knows what they've got on people?
I mean, these are the people of 500 FBI files.
This is different air they breathe, folks.
This is rarefied air.
When you get to that level of a group that is really so tiny as the quote unquote establishment, and they are into self-preservation, that's why they're all aligning, Republicans and Democrats together to try to keep Trump out of there.
Worst thing that could happen.
That's why, if you're wondering why you hear Republicans really embracing the idea of a Hillary win, that's what it's all about.
It's about maintaining the club, about maintaining the establishment, this tiny but exclusive and very powerful group of people.
And they deal with each other in their own ways, uh in ways where they need to be reciprocal, pay people back, take people out.
There are ways of doing that behind the scenes that uh don't take place in public that we probably might not see.
But the bad blood, people are saying, okay, Colin Powell says she hates Obama, but it doesn't jibe with the way they look and talk about each other.
Oh, it could.
They could still harbor great dislike for each other and distrust.
Um don't forget the Trump factor.
If any of the other Republican candidates had been nominated instead of Trump, then Obama might not have been so cautious in protecting Hillary.
If somebody from the Republican establishment's gonna get elected, why Obama's gonna know that preserving the establishment will take place.
But with Trump, he can't he can't roll the dice.
He can't if he doesn't want Hillary to win, Trump changes everything.
Because the last thing they want is for Trump to win this.
Jeb be okay.
Casey could be okay.
I I would say Trump and Cruz were the two that no matter what would ever be allowed to happen, the Democrats will bury whatever hatchets they have for each other to stop either Trump or Cruz.
But any of the, well, Ruby, I don't know.
There might have been a third.
Bottom line is Trump winning a nomination changed everything.
It almost forces Obama and the Clintons to get along.
Whereas in other circumstances there might have been a little less comedy.
So it just makes these emails from Colin Powell all the more interesting because I don't doubt Them at all.
She's sick, she's tired, and she hates Obama.
She hates Obama's economy.
She hates half of Trump's supporters.
She hates transparency.
But she loves throwing Colin Powell under the bus.
A wealthy private equity investor told former Secretary of State Colin Powell that Hillary Clinton hates Obama in newly leaked emails between the two men leaked by DC leaks and obtained by the Intercept.
Jeffrey Leeds wrote to Powell in one email, which was posted on Twitter by somebody named Lee Fang, that all Clinton wants is to win the upcoming election.
She might not win in the end.
He then went on to say it's the one thing she wants.
She's got everything else.
She hates the president, that man, as the Clintons call him.
Apparently, the Clintons don't even refer to Obama by name.
They call him that man.
She hates the president.
This is on the emails now.
She hates the president, that man who kicked her butt in 2008.
She can't believe it.
She can't accept it.
In another March 2015 email exchange between the two men, they talk about Clinton's health.
With this guy, Jeffrey Leeds stating that Rhode Island Senator Sheldon Whitehouse informed him that she could barely climb the podium steps.
When the two gave a speech at the same event, Leeds also wrote to Powell about other problems he believed Clinton would be facing in the upcoming election.
No one likes her.
The criminal thing ain't over.
Jeffrey Leeds wrote to Powell.
No one likes her.
The criminal thing ain't over.
I don't think the president would weep if she found herself in real legal trouble.
She will pummel his legacy if she gets a chance, and he knows it.
See, folks, I'm here to tell you none of this surprises me.
Everything you're seeing in public, Obama and Hillary apparently lovey dovey, mutual respect, that's bogus.
That's the kind of thing they have to do.
This behind the scenes stuff, I guarantee you it's real.
And I think Obama would be concerned about any new president and his legacy.
But look at all Obama has to do is listen to what Hillary's saying on the campaign trail.
Anybody, nobody can miss this.
I'm surprised that if I were the Trump campaign, I'd be making a much bigger deal of this.
Hillary Clinton's whole campaign is rooted largely in how these last eight years need to be vastly improved upon.
Hillary Clinton is indicing the eight years of the Obama administration by virtue of the way she's campaigning.
Don't believe Obama doesn't know it.
So you're asking me, well, then Rush, why'd Obama go out and campaign for her in Philadelphia?
He wasn't campaigning for her, I hate to tell you.
Obama was getting back in the light.
Look at he's lame duck now.
He's not the focus.
Obama is not the focus.
Hillary and Trump are the focus.
They're the future.
Obama, lame duck, soon to be lame duck.
He went out there.
He mentioned himself 137 times in a campaign appearance, ostensibly for Hillary Clinton.
Now the public impression is they're trying to oh, he loves stepping in for her.
He absolutely loves helping her out.
She can't go, she can't get out of bed, she can't leave Chappaqua because of pneumonia.
He's happy to go help, but he's doing it for him.
He is doing that, all of these things for him to buttress his legacy.
He knows that she's out.
And if you listen to what she's saying, she's indict the last Obama years, eight years, particularly the economy.
So everything is not hunky-dory and sweetness and light.
However, these people on the left have the ability to unify when it comes to beating us.
That is their number one objective.
That's how they maintain their position, their leadership in the establishment.
That's how they maintain the establishment in control of the country.
They have no problem unifying to defeat us.
We do not have that talent.
We don't have that.
That's not part of the Republican or conservative existence, and it's on display right here.
We will not unify to defeat them.
They will.
They will for a campaign for a few months, they will set aside every beef and disagreement they've got and unify against us as the enemy.
We don't have that capacity for some unexplicable reason.
Inexplicable.
Even now, we have people on our side trying to make their bones trying to say, I'm I'm above it all.
I have no problem voting for Hillary Clinton.
You won't find a single Democrat elected or former who will go public and say is voting Trump.
Never.
They will not, they do not do that to themselves.
We do all the time.
But underneath all that, there isn't all this sweetness and light and love.
Not that it matters, because they will unify to beat us, because they consider us the number one threat to their way of life, to their power base and their secure hold over it.
We are engaged in intramural internecine fighting.
They aren't.
Not during campaigns, not during elections.
They unified around McGovern.
They unified around Mondo.
They unified around Jimmy Carter.
They do not sell each other out when it comes to defeating us.
Now, when it's just them, look what they did to Crazy Bernie.
When it's just them, they'll take each other out.
But they'll come together when it comes to beating us.
So that's why when you see these Powell emails and you see all this, he doesn't really like her.
She didn't like him.
She doesn't like Obama.
Yeah.
That don't doubt that it's true.
But they have the ability to set it aside when we are involved.
And we are involved as opponents in this election.
Be right back.
Welcome back, my friends.
Half my brain tied behind my back just to make it fair.
Every day and always.
Here's uh Marie Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
Glad you waited.
You're next.
Great to have you.
Hi.
Well, it's such an honor to speak with you, Rush.
I've listened to you forever.
Long before Maria Linda.
Long before Rhea Linda.
Oh.
Maria Linda in California that you were talking about.
Oh my gosh, you do.
You go back like to the mid-80s then.
Yes, I do.
I'm an older lady, and I'm afraid I feel that this country is all is uh is just about hopeless.
I don't think people realize what a lawless country has to become with uh the standards, I think, uh on the Democrat Party, especially, but a lot of the American people have been so lowered and so dumbed down, you don't even expect anything anymore, and they don't care if somebody lies, that's okay, as long as they're a member of the Democrat Party.
But with Loretta Banch, uh the attorney general, the highest law officer in the country, telling her soul to the Clintons, and uh Jim Comney, FBI director of all things, who laid out a plan that should have indicted Hillary, but he didn't.
And I just think um uh it's it's almost hopeless.
Well, wait a minute.
Wait, let me on this uh call me business.
I just want to make sure Comey can't indict anybody.
All they can do is present the results of investigation and recommend, and his recommendation doesn't have to be followed.
He knew she wasn't gonna indict uh Hillary Clinton.
He knew that Loretta Lich wasn't going to.
That's why he went public.
I think he did what he could to make known everything his investigation uncovered.
But there was one more thing.
I thought now I understand.
Um Hillary failed so miserably at Benghazi as Secretary of State.
She was so busy doing the Pay and play.
I think she just blew it off a lot of it.
Even though she knew it and uh she was aware of some of it.
And um it was her fault that everything happened.
Well, I think she was too busy with pay and play.
It takes a lot of time to set up those.
I don't uh with with all that I don't think that's it at all.
I uh I I I think what happened at Benghazi is far worse than that.
I don't think she was occupied doing it.
They knew what was going on.
They actively decided to ignore what was going on and try to capitalize on it politically rather than have it hurt them politically.
So they had to totally change the story, the narrative about it, and became this poor slob that made a video that caused everything.
But it's it's even worse than that uh as as far as Benghazi.
Anyway, appreciate the call.
Marie will be back and continue.
I'll expand on this when we get back.
Okay, look, just a couple of things here.
First, on back to Comey.
Comey lays out the case, then he recommends no indictment because he says no reasonable prosecutor would indict.
Well, that's where people wait, well, well, what why'd you lay it out then?
What he could have done is lay it out as he did, and then say we are recommending that charges be pursued, knowing full well they would not have been pursued.
That would have put Loretta Lynch on the spot.
Comey didn't want to put her on the spot.
That's not where he wanted to end up in all this.
If the decision to indict were his, I think he would have made it.
But at some point, self-preservation enters the scene, and his perception of reality being, look, there isn't anybody else here that's going to take out the Democrat nominee using the legal system.
I'll be damned if I'm gonna be the guy does it.
I don't want to be the one guy in a history books known for the side.
He didn't want to go there.
So I think he rolls the dice and he he tries to do two things at the same time.
List everything he thinks that she did that that that is bad, wrong, all the lies, all the violations, and then but we're not recommending because he knew there wasn't going to be an indictment.
So he stays in the good side of the DOJ and Lynch and Obama, by the way, while documenting the case.
He could have recommended an indictment.
And that would have the fireworks would have because there would not have been an indictment.
And that would have turned the focus on Lynch and the D.O.J. And kept the focus on Comey.
Why did you do this?
Why did you do it?
No press no FBI director ever does this publicly, and that would have been true.
So they would accuse him of partisan political behavior and supposedly non-partisan FBI director.
I mean, there was no other way this was gonna go.
And I think he did as much as he could facilitate those who wanted to make a case against her politically by documenting the case.
That never happens, folks.
If the FBI investigates and finds nothing prosecutable, we never hear it.
They give the results, the indication to the assistant prosecutor over the U.S. Attorney's Office, or the U.S. attorney him or herself, and it's done.
And we never hear about it.
The only time we hear of this is if the decision is made to indict, to charge.
Then we have the details of the investigation leaked out.
Prosecutors are really, really good at that by trying to factor jury decisions in advance and influencing juries and the public impression of the person to be accused or indicted.
But in this case, that wasn't going to happen.
So Comey did as much as he could.
A lot of people still have a problem with it.
Principle's principle.
No matter what happens to you, you do the right thing.
And that's a reputation, the kind of guy he supposedly was.
Now on Benghazi.
Uh I don't think that this is a mystery.
The Democrats, the Obama administration, I don't think was prepared at all for what happened.
And as such, they had no contingency.
And when it did happen, their instincts are one thing, self-preservation, political self-preservation.
And that's what they got in gear to secure their political self-preservation.
It wasn't that Hillary was too busy selling access and all of that.
In fact, it may even be worse than I think, because if you if you go to Cairo the same day where our embassy is, don't forget, we issued an apology before anything had happened.
And it turns out that we had intel that there was going to potentially be a terror attack in Benghazi or on the embassy in Cairo.
The decision had to have been made at some point that if that happened, we were not going to react to it because Obama's election was coming up in eight weeks, and there wasn't going to be anything that made it look like we were re-entering a new war.
Not after these people made their bones opposing Iraq.
They got elected lying about Iraq, they got elected and stayed in power, and their personal approval number stayed high by continuing to lie about Iraq.
The last thing they were going to permit to happen was a war breakout anywhere in the Middle East, but much less Libya, which at that point was a Hillary Clinton success story.
Her policy had gotten rid of Qaddafi, don't forget.
That was the story they were running with.
Now to have everything go to hell over there, that just wouldn't do.
They just weren't going to permit that.
And there was some other mission going on.
There's a reason Stevens, the ambassador, was sent over there during this time frame that had nothing to do with diplomacy in Libya.
I'm convinced it had to do with whatever our policy and strategic in Syria of all places is.
So when it blows up, they scuttle around, they had a list of potential explanations ready to go, and there it was.
Nakula al-Nakula.
This pathetic little filmmaker that nobody had ever heard of became the villain.
In fact, there's a story about this guy in the news today about how he's homeless and wandering aimless and doesn't know who he is anymore.
He was arrested.
He was imprisoned.
He's been destroyed.
I'm sorry.
By this administration after having used him as the fall guy for what all happened in Benghazi.
They didn't do anything about it because they put their own political futures ahead of security for people on the ground in Bhazi.
It's no more complicated than that.
And then when it all went to hell, they had they had to hustle, get in gear, and construct a story that blamed everybody but them.
They knew they would have media support and they were able to pull this off for enough time so there was no damage to them in the 2012 election.
The thing that you need to know about Benghazi is Hillary Obama, whoever, they didn't care enough to even allow defensive forces or retaliatory forces to be sent to Benghazi.
They didn't care enough.
Anything of the sort, any American embalmment.
That's why if you if you've seen the movie 13 hours, they make a big deal of the fact that there were many requests for help during the entire ordeal.
And at no time was it coming because it was made clear that the administration, United States, the State Department, did not want to do anything to make it look like a war had broken out.
They wanted to do everything they could to make it look like this was a random terror attack taking place on the anniversary of 9-11, that was nothing more than that.
And they Couldn't do that if they fired back.
If they sent additional forces, if they sent helicopters, if they did flyovers, if they dropped a few bombs, that would be retaliating.
That's escalating.
They weren't going to go there, no matter what, because they had made their bones stopping that kind of stupidity, as in Iraq.
Now, one of the point that she made, and it's fascinating the the depending on who you talk to.
If you talk to young people, uh obviously their attitudes on where our culture is and from where it has come and how far its descent is going to differ from somebody who is her age, and she's well, she's got to be seven.
She'd been listening to this program since I was in Sacramento in 1984, because that'd be pre-Realinda days.
I mean, even in 1984, I had not heard of Rhea Linda for six months.
Till I did a drive around out there and I saw the place and said, whoa.
But that's another story.
A classic of what she's talking about, a great example of what she's talking about.
She's talking about people lie, there's no consequence, there seems to be no respect for the rule of law.
Somebody her age, it's abundantly clear that we have deteriorated greatly.
Yesterday, there was another congressional hearing over Hillary's emails, and it was run by Jason Chaffetz.
And a bunch of Hillary support people, actual tech people, refused to testify.
One of them didn't even show up after having been subpoenaed.
He just blew them off.
That does not happen.
Nobody, nobody tells a House committee, a Senate committee, after they've been subpoenaed.
Nobody tells a judge, nobody tells a court you and live to tell about it without being cited in contempt for contempt or what have you.
These people were taking the fifth.
These people were not answering any questions.
They did tell some some falsehoods and some lies, and one guy just refused to even answer the subpoena.
It got so bad that Jason Chaffetz even served a subpoena during the hearing itself yesterday.
Now, since the media is aligned with the Democrats, that is a non-story.
In fact, the coverage of that story is almost applause for the people who thumbed their nose at the Chaffetz Committee.
It's a striking exit.
You don't have to go back very many years where you could say without a shadow of a doubt that just wouldn't happen.
And if it had, there would have been universal condemnation for whoever had refused the subpoena who did not show up.
Or for people who were taking the fifth or behaving the way these people were.
They were they were I don't know if you'd call it being disrespectful or whatever, but it's it's a market deterioration.
There is a steady decline in respect for a whole host of institutions and traditions that people used to rely on that kept everything together, rule of law, things that were the glue that kept the culture and the society roiling and going forward.
Not roiling, but together and going forward.
And everybody now, or not, but so many people now just spit on it or ignore it or what have you.
Because nothing that anybody does ends up shaming anybody anymore.
Celebrity is such that the more outrageous you are, the more attention you get, which means the more interest people will have in you.
There are exceptions to that, of course.
If you happen to be Republican, you can be shamed.
The media will take care of it.
But I mean, in general, um, there is a a great deterioration.
But to a young person who doesn't know of these great traditions and has no knowledge, and they haven't been taught, they certainly didn't live through any of it.
Nothing's that odd.
In fact, it's just it's par for the course.
Somebody tells you to do something you don't want to do, screw you.
I have my rights.
You can't make me show up if I don't want to.
Who do you think you are?
Anyway, uh brief time out.
We have a call coming up.
I'm going to use the call as the transition into the Ivanka Donald Trump proposal, their new entitlement on child care.
It's this is going to be a good test, I think, for a lot of Trump supporters.
We'll be back after this.
Don't go away.
Also coming up, CNN today has been obsessed with Donald Trump's appearance on the Dr. Oz show.
You know who Dr. Oz is Dr. Memet Oz.
He's from the Oprah Tree.
And uh apparently was doing a story on Trump's health.
The drive-bys are just beside themselves trying to change the narrative from Hillary's bad health and whatever is wrong with her, to Trump being a fat slob and lying about his health.
So Trump appears on the Dr. Oz show today after having visited his doctor, and he was going to present the results of his examination of his doctor to Dr. Oz.
Dr. Oz was then gonna question Trump about his health and his uh his uh his physical from the doctor.
And it was supposed to be CNN was hoping that there was going to be something happen or something there to indicate that Trump has something wrong, but that he's hiding it or is not reporting it or what have you.
And uh they were leaning on Dr. Oz to really ask tough questions, and Dr. Oz said that's not what this is gonna be.
I'm not gonna be going in there to try to embarrass Trump.
It's up to Trump what he wants to announce, and they had some audience members in there that they were hoping would not believe what Trump said, and CNN had a lot invested.
Wolf Blitzer could not let the subject go.
And we've got audio sound bites coming up, uh, demonstrating how it backfired on them to an extent.
So that we'll get to that in the next hour.
Here's Richard Lee Summit, Missouri outside Kant City.
Great to have you, sir.
I'm glad you waited.
Hi.
Hey, Rush.
Uh proud Navy dad ditos to you, sir.
Thank you.
Very much.
I appreciate it.
Same to you.
Hey, uh, a lot of purist conservatives have started to criticize Trump's uh proposed and sinister child care and paid leave for the parents.
And uh before they get too all bothered about that, I want them to consider that Trump proposals for child care and maternity leave uh that that promotes and strengthens the family that we're we're always talking about being so important, and that uh by making it easier on on the parents to have pay time off and child care costs and tax-free uh savings accounts that they could roll over for college, all that just builds the family.
And it's uh it's something we need to consider.
If we're talking about the family being so important, we can invest in in uh families that need help up to a certain extent where he's gonna put the cutoffs and everything.
But I think that would just really go far in helping rebuild our our society's fabric.
So to summarize, I'll ask you a question.
You are not at all concerned about the nature and the substance of Trump's entitlement, his new entitlement proposal to use government money to shore up the family.
Yeah, I mean, uh I'm a I'm a fiscal conservative and I'm voting for Trump and you know, but I think that we spend so much money on uh studies and and research and grants and things like that.
We can we can invest in the family, the fabric of society.
Uh see, here's this okay, Richard.
I appreciate the call.
Thank you very much.
Uh there's ideology and there's politics.
And sometimes they intersect.
Sometimes ideology and politics come together, and it's a beautiful thing.
Sometimes the ideology guides the politics.
Other times, the politics and the ideology may get close, but they don't intersect.
Which is what we have here.
We have Trump via his daughter's op-ed in the Wall Street Journal today, advocating a new child care and family policy, using the federal government, which is not conservative, ideologically.
But neither was George W. Bush's Medicare Part B. And a lot of conservatives got mad at that, too, at the same time.
But this episode has given ammo to all the conservatives who have been opposed to Trump from the beginning, who've been saying, You guys are falling for this guy's not one of us.
He's not a conservative, he's a big government guy, and you are gonna get fooled.
And now they're saying, see, we told you.
With this proposal.
But a lot of Trump supporters aren't going to care because the ideology and the politics don't meet up here.
They don't care.
No, no, of course I got more on this healthcare business.
Just wetting your whistle for it, folks.
Also, this Trump is now ahead in Colorado.
It was just a month ago that Hillary stopped running ads there.
Democrats thought it was in the bag.
They didn't want to waste any money.
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