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Title: Rush Limbaugh Has His Grip On The GOP Microphone
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Los Angeles Times
URL Source: http://www.latimes.com/news/politic ... ush8-2009feb08,0,3472238.story
Published: Feb 9, 2009
Author: Faye Fiore and Mark Z. Barabak
Post Date: 2009-02-09 13:19:16 by Brian S
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Views: 2127
Comments: 47
As Republicans grapple with their fall from power, not all are comfortable with the talk radio king's suggestion that he, by default, has become the politically wounded party's unofficial leader. February 8, 2009 Reporting from San Francisco and Washington -- In 1994, Rush Limbaugh was a field marshal in the Republican revolution, rallying troops fervid in their passion, armed with a change agenda and determined to shake Washington upside down. Fifteen years later, Republicans are politically hobbled and Democrats are fervid in their passion, armed with a change agenda and determined, along with their new president, to shake Washington upside down. And again there is Limbaugh, master of the talk radio universe, unchanged and unbowed. If anything, his prominence and political import have increased. Obama is "obviously more frightened of me than he is Mitch McConnell. He's more frightened of me, than he is of, say, John Boehner, which doesn't say much about our party," Limbaugh said on the air, referring to the GOP leaders in the Senate and House, respectively. That may be cause for personal congratulation (not to mention a bigger audience). But as Republicans grapple with their fall from power and undertake some inevitable soul-searching, not all are comfortable with Limbaugh's suggestion that he has become the party's unofficial leader by default. "He motivates a core Republican, who is a very important part of the Republican coalition, and we need those guys to be interested and active," said Jan van Lohuizen, a GOP strategist in Washington. "But it's not enough. The Republican Party has shrunk and it needs to be expanding." While the GOP's star has fallen, Limbaugh's has soared. As party leaders struggle to find their voice, Limbaugh's baritone booms loud and clear three hours a day, five days a week on 600 radio stations across America. If a $400-million contract and the title of most influential talk radio personality -- as voted by industry pros -- aren't sufficient proof, consider President Obama's decision to pick a fight with him three days into his presidency. Hosting Republican lawmakers at the White House, Obama called out his nemesis by name. "You can't just listen to Rush Limbaugh and get things done," Obama said, pitching his economic stimulus plan and offering a priceless advertisement of Limbaugh's influence. The radio host happily responded on his next program. "I am Rush Limbaugh, the man President Obama has instructed you not to listen to!" he crowed, adding to a long list of self-appellations that includes America's Truth Detector; Doctor of Democracy; Most Dangerous Man in America; and All-Knowing, All-Sensing, All-Everything Maha Rushie. By his own account, he is the most prominent voice of conservative thinking -- "the last man standing" -- now that Republican lawmakers have decided to, in his judgment, bow before the president. Indeed, Limbaugh seems more energized than ever. "Things just keep flying out of my fertile mind," he said during a recent reckoning of how "Obama the Unifier" had sprinted to the liberal left. Limbaugh's listening audience is relatively narrow -- it is predominantly white, male and politically conservative -- but highly motivated. Many of the 20 million or so who tune in each week are willing, even eager, to pummel their opponents with letters, phone calls and e-mails to make their voices heard. They can make a difference. Among their achievements, talk radio listeners helped kill President George W. Bush's immigration reform effort. Recent polls suggest that, despite Obama's high approval ratings, public support has declined for his stimulus bill since Limbaugh and his broadcast peers began railing against it. Limbaugh has plenty of critics, not all of them liberal or Democrats. Some Republicans worry that the 58-year-old AM radio icon, highly effective at rallying disenchanted conservatives, may be turning off the less ideological voters whom Republicans need if they hope to again become a majority party. "The question is: Are we going to have an all-white-man litmus test under the Republican Party? Or is there room for diverse opinion on environmental issues, on the issue of right to life, the issue of taxes and spending?" said Rich Bond, a GOP strategist and former chairman of the Republican National Committee. "There must be room for dissent in the Republican Party. It must be sincere. It must have comity." To some, Limbaugh crossed a line when he recently rooted for Obama's downfall. Asked along with other prominent political types to write 400 words on his hopes for the president, Limbaugh said: "I don't need 400 words. I need four: I hope he fails." "That sort of thing is going to turn off moderate voters. It's going to repulse some people," said David Barker, a political scientist at the University of Pittsburgh and author of "Rushed to Judgment: Talk Radio, Persuasion, and American Political Behavior." "There are a whole lot of people right now who just want to go ahead and give [Obama] his shot, hold back the arrows for a minute. And by immediately pulling out the partisan card, which is what Rush is doing, I think that repels more people than it attracts." However, Limbaugh is accountable to no one but his faithful fans, his words arcing like spears flung from the Palm Beach, Fla., studio he calls his Southern Command. Enemies rooting for his comeuppance have been disappointed more than once. Limbaugh acknowledged an addiction to painkillers in 2003 and was arrested three years later. (Prosecutors agreed to drop a charge of prescription fraud if he underwent treatment.) He has been married and divorced three times. Still, nothing seems to shake his standing with core conservatives. (Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas hosted Limbaugh's third wedding in his own home and performed the ceremony.) Few Republicans dare cross him. "I don't need him crawling up my [backside] any more than the president does," said one GOP strategist and Limbaugh critic, who would speak candidly only if granted anonymity. Rep. Phil Gingrey (R-Ga.) recently learned the perils when he defended McConnell and Boehner in an interview with Politico, a Washington publication. It's easy for Limbaugh to criticize Democrats, Gingrey said, because he doesn't have to work with them every day. After he spoke, Gingrey's office was flooded with calls and e-mails from angry conservatives. He spent the next day apologizing all over cable television and on Limbaugh's show for making "those stupid comments." These days, the radio host is so front and center that even his absence gets noticed. (He was on vacation last week and unavailable to comment for this article.) The liberal Huffington Post took note of Limbaugh's absence -- "Just as Rush Limbaugh ascends as the top leader of the Republican Party, it appears he has disappeared" -- and suggested sarcastically that he may have been forceably removed. Not likely, though Limbaugh may eventually recede. Though there is a place for his contentious commentary, "eventually, he will pale in importance next to the collective efforts of Mitch McConnell and John Boehner," Bond said. "He'll pale in comparison to the goods work of the new Republican national chairman, Michael Steele. He'll pale in comparison to the Republicans when they find new talent and new voices ahead of 2012." Until then, the microphone is his.
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#1. To: Brian S (#0)
Limbaugh is exactly what's wrong with the Republican party not the solution to their woes. He denied the existence of the CFR (probably while being a member himself). Being more exact, Limbaugh and his ilk are what's wrong with America. They're all thieving, murdering sons of bitches. Both parties. They do not represent you or I, they represent their corporate masters. If tomorrow Washington, D.C. were nuked, the nation would be better off.
If a thousand men were not to pay their tax bills this year, that would not be a violent and bloody measure, as it would be to pay them, and enable the State to commit violence and shed innocent blood. Henry David Thoreau - 1849
It is just so concurrently maddening, frustrating and somewhat hilarious to see the hypocritical Limbaugh brand of GOPers feigning righteous indignation over Obama's stimilus bill when a mere three months ago Bush, McCain and the GOPers allowed a $trillion outright robbery of the American taxpayers by Zionist Wall Street Bankers. Of course, four years from now these same shit for brains will be clamoring about change from Obama. Oy.
TRAITORS TO AMERICA AND BRAINWASHED IDIOTS SUPPORT AND DEFEND ISRAEL. TO HELL WITH ZIONISTS AND THIER AMERICAN FRONTS: AIPAC/PNAC/ADL/NAACP/FEDERAL RESERVE/SPLC/JINSA/ACLU/CHRISTIAN ZIONISTS/AEI/FEDERAL MEDIA/HOLLYWOOD, et. al.
And when called on the carpet about Bush and his runaway spending, they shrug, and agree that was bad too. They're hopeless. For anyone, given all the information to us via the 'net, to still be trapped in the R v D mess, is the height of stupidity.
I remember the McCain shills calling the Democrats "socialists" for their support of the bailout. But when Bush and McCain pushed the very same bailout bill, all of the sudden it wasn't "socialist" any more. But then, it's just as funny to watch Obama get all indignant over bonuses. If he was really so outraged, he should have opposed the bailout instead of gone alone for the ride. Righteous indignation comes cheap, when there are no actions backing up the rhetoric.
In the world according to Limbaugh, runaway spending and unbalanced budgets are only a bad thing when the Democrats can be blamed. When the GOP is in charge, he probably agrees with Cheney the Dick, who said that "deficits don't matter."
The matter is settled. The Rs and Ds both know that you tax, borrow, and spend your way out of debt. If it exacerbates the problem, you're not taxing, borrowing, and spending enough.
He left out "Maha Junkie" and Deep Cover Predatory Pedophile Faggot.
""I think the subject which will be of most importance politically is Mass Psychology...It's importance has been enormously increased by the growth of modern methods of propaganda...Although this science will be diligently studied, it will be rigidly confined to the governing class. The populace will not be allowed to know how its convictions were generated." Bertrand Russel, Eugenicist and Logician
Tsk task tsk...fergit to take yer meds again, O_I? Sheeesh...MUD
Devolve Power Outta the Federal Leviathan and Back to the States, 1. Do you believe powerful Americans are behind a world conspiracy to destroy the sovereignty of the United States of America? 2. Do you believe that the New World Order is a secret phrase used by conspirators to identify themselves to one another in a crowd? 3. Do you believe that the Federal Reserve exists as an institution for the conspirators to destroy the United States? 4. Do you believe that the eye in the pyramid in the dollar bill is a secret code of the New World Order? 5. Do you believe that David Rockefeller, Henry Kissinger, and other famous "one worlders" provide daily instructions to agents of the FBI, BATF, and the CIA? 6. Do you believe the CFR and the Tri-Lateral Commission serve as the front group to train and indoctrinate future one worlders? 7. Do you believe the Tri-Lateral Commission was created because too many bright people were onto the CFR? 8. Do you believe that CFR black helicopters, flown by U.N. pilots have been in the sky when American citizens have been shot on U.S. soil? 9. Do you believe that the feminist movement was the brainchild of David Rockefeller for the express purpose of having men and women at war with each other on a daily basis, so as to distract then from the real work of the CFR? 10. Do you consider Newt Gingrich to be a personal threat to your freedom? If you answer even ONE of the above questions as "YES" then you are AWAKE! You can tell that this is agitprop by the way it is carefully stilted to disparage factual information. Yes the CFR exists and Yes it is very influential in public affairs. The Trilateral Commission was founded by David Rockefucker and its inaugural Chaiman was Zibignew Brzhenski. Both are real, and both operate from hidden motives. Black Helicopters have been confirmed as real and thus attempts to belittle talking about them, or reporting them, is denial or PsyOps or both. The Eye on the Pyramid is an ancient occultic symbol named "The Eye of Horus". It is an occultic symbol with a definite meaning. The Feminist movement was guided and run to no small degree by Psychiatrists at the CIA. Gloria Steinem admitted in her book that the start up money for "Ms. Magazine" came from the CIA. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Rush Limbaugh is a PsyOp which is intended to guide and control psychologically those who are in his audience. He carefully spins everything away from looking in the direction of the real controllers i.e., his Banker Owners. Like a lot of these types he is a faggot - literally not figuratively. He had to leave Kansas City because his predatory homosexuality was creating a stir. There is no reason to believe, 2 faux wives and no children later, that he is anything other than a faggot. It would be interesting to research the background of his last wife to see if she has connections to "The Company". I mention that not out of any particular animus to faggots but because a lot of the NWO puppets do practice forms of sexuality outside the norm e.g., for example Dick, the toe sucker, Morris.
""I think the subject which will be of most importance politically is Mass Psychology...It's importance has been enormously increased by the growth of modern methods of propaganda...Although this science will be diligently studied, it will be rigidly confined to the governing class. The populace will not be allowed to know how its convictions were generated." Bertrand Russel, Eugenicist and Logician
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA...idiotic rantings from the uninformed...LOL!!
Devolve Power Outta the Federal Leviathan and Back to the States, Poppycock...Limbaugh continues to carry the mantle for ReaganConservatism, it's the Milquetoast Moderates who are doing damage to the GOP...MUD
Devolve Power Outta the Federal Leviathan and Back to the States, I take it your bosses are concerned that people might wake up to how they are being manipulated by the Maha Junkie? Thus we can note the sudden "coincidental" arrival of a lone defender who rebuts nothing but simply engages in standard Disinfo tactics. Yawn. Glad to know that.
""I think the subject which will be of most importance politically is Mass Psychology...It's importance has been enormously increased by the growth of modern methods of propaganda...Although this science will be diligently studied, it will be rigidly confined to the governing class. The populace will not be allowed to know how its convictions were generated." Bertrand Russel, Eugenicist and Logician
Screw you, Reagan and your god, LIMBAUGH. You shouldn't leave freeperville with any expectations of furthering the shit leveled at America by Limbaugh or others such as you freeper-suckasses and Bush bootlickers. The people on this forum, aside from government plants, are wide awake and independently capable of telling shit-heads like yourself the exact same thing I'm saying. Go listen to Limp-Jaw ass-wipe.
If a thousand men were not to pay their tax bills this year, that would not be a violent and bloody measure, as it would be to pay them, and enable the State to commit violence and shed innocent blood. Henry David Thoreau - 1849
Obama followed the anger of the country over the bonuses. But, just to make sure who's the Main Priority, the bonuses given out last year were not subject to any review - as wished by Bush and Paulson, Reid and Pelosi, and as you say, approved by Obama -- the bankers got their illgotten gains thanks to a fine show of bipartisanship. Man, that Bush and Obama really worked well together. So, smart politics now to go after bonuses. Distracts the sheep, the second tranche of the BushBankersWelfareBoondoggleBailout is due to be announced by another Bush Admin Holdover, Mr QTip, the despicable and sleazy Mr. Geithner, a prime mover in ensuring total opaqueness of the TARP, as per Bush's wishes. Oh, poor lamb, he prolly didn't know what he was signing. What a lamb amongst lions and wolves, that Bushie. Now that's bipartisanship. But, it is amusing to see Republicans "standing" on principles. How cute and quaint.
"This is a farewell kiss, you bitch!" shouted Mr Zaidi. "This is from the widows, the orphans and those who were killed in Iraq."
Sheeesh...MUD It's obvious you take yours fucktard.
If a thousand men were not to pay their tax bills this year, that would not be a violent and bloody measure, as it would be to pay them, and enable the State to commit violence and shed innocent blood. Henry David Thoreau - 1849
No shit, and this holds true for anyone affixed to a party.
If a thousand men were not to pay their tax bills this year, that would not be a violent and bloody measure, as it would be to pay them, and enable the State to commit violence and shed innocent blood. Henry David Thoreau - 1849
Great Post Original_Intent ... fuck Mud.
If a thousand men were not to pay their tax bills this year, that would not be a violent and bloody measure, as it would be to pay them, and enable the State to commit violence and shed innocent blood. Henry David Thoreau - 1849
"He motivates a core The bonus thing is a tempest in a tea pot. It's feel
good political posturing. By attaching this stipulation to any TARP receiving
entity, other non-TARP shops will be able to attract the 40 HR a year, 100 +
RBI guys to their team, simply by doubling their salary. So, in time, the
government crippled TARPS will become shells of their former self, while the
non TARPs will grow into the new bad guys on the block. Such is the outcome,
and unintended consequences of govt. meddling into business. PS: Let me
also add that in NYC, the value of real estate will hit the crapper at warp
speed. The fine old buildings that housed the pricy units the big boys lived
in will soon be put on the auction block. Before the cheering begins, all the
finer restaurants, Broadway shows, the sport teams, and all the ancillary jobs
they throw off, will also be adversely affected. Remember the yacht tax
squabble? Remove the tax incentive and the rich will get their yacht's
overseas, while the guys who build them will be looking for work at Mickey Ds.
DUBAI awaits. And on a side note, you gotta love this, while the barrel of the price of oil remains steady, retail gasoline is rising.
"This is a farewell kiss, you bitch!" shouted Mr Zaidi. "This is from the widows, the orphans and those who were killed in Iraq."
A dirty bomb would suffice for me, there's a lot of nice artwork and artifacts in D.C. that should be preserved for the people. Otherwise, kill the cockroaches...
_________________________________________________________________________ LOL...oh yes, I must be a hired hack becuz I point out the absurdity of yer addled brain. Heh heh heh...you and yer paranoid delusions...LOL!!
Devolve Power Outta the Federal Leviathan and Back to the States, I'm sure some of them are...but it's obvious that a decent number are idiots like you who can't tell the good guys from the bad...MUD
Devolve Power Outta the Federal Leviathan and Back to the States, Well if it isn't Scudboy. Where's your gas mask, why aren't you off attacking Tehran?
The ultimate effect of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools. - Herbert Spencer
His strategy it to whack the wacky Taliban with a new song parody.
Heh heh heh...you and yer paranoid delusions... Finding young, supple posters scarce, shlomo? Jeez...
The ultimate effect of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools. - Herbert Spencer
O those Democrats, they tax me to death Unlike the GOP, whom the alien overlord makes my head hurt if I don't show them proper congeniality...? Wow, it must really suck to be Scudboy.
The ultimate effect of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools. - Herbert Spencer
Sme very decent haiku here.
Has Reagan Conservatism devolved into a constituency of pill-addled, worn-out media whores?
Without even trying, I must add. That's got to be worth at least a The ultimate effect of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools. - Herbert Spencer
The Californians? God forbid! Pete Wilson used to fly in my window at night and shoo out the Mexicans. True story.
The ultimate effect of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools. - Herbert Spencer
Do the bulk in 30-year treasuries and then buy a small house in the South Bronx for quick trips to ground zero.
For accuracy. Neither Limbaugh or Hannity supported the TARP bill.
Now you tell me. I had like $3,700,000 saved up in small bills, stashed under the back seat of my dad's '23 Maxwell touring when we were run off the road by gangsters.
The ultimate effect of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools. - Herbert Spencer
Limbaugh and Hannity gave Bush public BJs for years. For that alone, they're every bit the traitors that their "liberal" counterparts in the media are for backing our current traitor-in-chief.
Limbaugh and Hannity went Goebbels one better: They propagandized people who were otherwise useless. Goebbels was mostly preaching to the choir.
The ultimate effect of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools. - Herbert Spencer
Cannon fodder has uses.
isn't 'grip on the gop microphone' some kinda gay code? he's a regular mouth-organ.
if a people will not prosecute officials who subvert and violate the constitution, then the constitution has no authority over officials. Gengis Gandhi, Troubled Genius
moamar's got a squeeze box?
The ultimate effect of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools. - Herbert Spencer
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#2. To: noone222, BrianS, all (#1)
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When he came out with this I failed badly. I then sent back my copy of the Limbaugh Letter - unopened - with a few choice words on the envelope.
Rush Limbaugh's KOOK Test
Take this test to see if you're a KOOK.
If you answer even ONE of the above questions as "YES" then you are a KOOK!
#3. To: Jethro Tull, noone222, BrianS (#2)
#4. To: wbales, all (#3)
It is just so concurrently maddening, frustrating and somewhat hilarious to see the hypocritical Limbaugh brand of GOPers feigning righteous indignation over Obama's stimilus bill
#5. To: wbales (#3)
(Edited)
It is just so concurrently maddening, frustrating and somewhat hilarious to see the hypocritical Limbaugh brand of GOPers feigning righteous indignation over Obama's stimilus bill when a mere three months ago Bush, McCain and the GOPers allowed a $trillion outright robbery of the American taxpayers by Zionist Wall Street Bankers.
Every election, the GOP tries to scare voters into supporting them by calling the Democrats "socialists." That dog doesn't hunt any more - not when the GOP backs the same bailout packages.
#6. To: Jethro Tull (#4)
And when called on the carpet about Bush and his runaway spending, they shrug, and agree that was bad too. They're hopeless
#7. To: Rupert_Pupkin (#6)
#8. To: Brian S (#0)
(Edited)
The radio host happily responded on his next program. "I am Rush Limbaugh, the man President Obama has instructed you not to listen to!" he crowed, adding to a long list of self-appellations that includes America's Truth Detector; Doctor of Democracy; Most Dangerous Man in America; and All-Knowing, All-Sensing, All-Everything Maha Rushie.
#9. To: Original_Intent (#8)
"He left out "Maha Junkie" and Deep Cover Predatory Pedophile Faggot."
Localities, and Individuals as Prescribed in the U.S. Constitution!!
#10. To: Jethro Tull (#2)
Take this test to see if you're a KOOK.
#11. To: Original_Intent (#10)
"Rush Limbaugh is a PsyOp which is intended to guide and control psychologically those who are in his audience."
Localities, and Individuals as Prescribed in the U.S. Constitution!!
#12. To: noone222 (#1)
"Limbaugh and his ilk are what's wrong with America."
Localities, and Individuals as Prescribed in the U.S. Constitution!!
#13. To: Mudboy Slim (#11)
#14. To: Mudboy Slim (#12)
Poppycock...Limbaugh continues to carry the mantle for ReaganConservatism, it's the Milquetoast Moderates who are doing damage to the GOP...MUD
#15. To: Rupert_Pupkin (#5)
(Edited)
it's just as funny to watch Obama get all indignant over bonuses
#16. To: Mudboy Slim (#9)
Tsk task tsk...fergit to take yer meds again, O_I?
#17. To: wbales, Jethro Tull, all (#3)
Of course, four years from now these same shit for brains will be clamoring about change from Obama. Oy.
#18. To: Original_Intent (#10)
#19. To: Brian S (#0)
Republican bot...
#20. To: swarthyguy (#15)
(Edited)
So, smart politics now to go after bonuses. Distracts the sheep
#21. To: Jethro Tull (#20)
#22. To: noone222 (#1)
tomorrow Washington, D.C. were nuked, the nation would be better off.
"This man is Jesus,” shouted one man, spilling his Guinness as Barack Obama began his inaugural address. “When will he come to Kenya to save us?”
-Schweizerische Schuetzenzeitung (Swiss Shooting Federation) April, 1941
#23. To: Original_Intent (#13)
"...we can note the sudden "coincidental" arrival of a lone defender"
Localities, and Individuals as Prescribed in the U.S. Constitution!!
#24. To: noone222 (#14)
"The people on this forum, aside from government plants, are wide awake..."
Localities, and Individuals as Prescribed in the U.S. Constitution!!
#25. To: Mudboy Slim (#24)
#26. To: Dakmar (#25)
#27. To: Mudboy Slim (#23)
I must be a hired hack becuz I point out the absurdity of yer addled brain.
#28. To: Jethro Tull (#26)
His strategy it to whack the wacky Taliban with a new song parody.
#29. To: Dakmar (#28)
Unlike the GOP, whom the alien overlord makes my head hurt if I don't show them proper congeniality...?
#30. To: Mudboy Slim (#12)
.Limbaugh continues to carry the mantle for Reagan Conservatism
#31. To: Jethro Tull (#29)
million billion. Should I put it into bonds?
#32. To: bluegrass (#30)
Has Reagan Conservatism devolved into a constituency of pill-addled, worn-out media whores?
#33. To: Dakmar (#31)
#34. To: wbales (#3)
It is just so concurrently maddening, frustrating and somewhat hilarious to see the hypocritical Limbaugh brand of GOPers feigning righteous indignation over Obama's stimilus bill when a mere three months ago Bush, McCain and the GOPers allowed a $trillion outright robbery of the American taxpayers by Zionist Wall Street Bankers.
#35. To: Jethro Tull (#33)
Do the bulk in 30-year treasuries and then buy a small house in the South Bronx for quick trips to ground zero.
#36. To: Old Friend (#34)
#37. To: bluegrass, Old Friend (#36)
#38. To: Dakmar (#37)
They propagandized people who were otherwise useless.
#39. To: Dakmar (#37)
#40. To: gengis gandhi (#39)
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