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brettdale Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-01-05 12:50 AM
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Laura's Speech- I feel deeply Sick
Our Local News Station here In NewZealand, just showed Laura's Speech. I have never felt so sick in my life. It wasnt because of the pathetic jokes she told, it was the media who attended.

They dont deserve to be called media, they were a bunch of useless seals, who clapped and cheered, at everything Laura said. They then gave her a standing ovation, it was so over the top, it was like the media was trying to say "WE LOVE YOU MRS PRESIDENT"

IT WAS A FREAKIN LOVE FEST, EVERY ONE OF THOSE JOURNLISTS, ARE JUST A BUNCH OF FREAKIN PUPPETS.

I still cant understand the over reaction of the press thier, it was like they wanted to be seen cheering and clapping and laughing.

I know these things are suppose to be light, but this was crazy.

My question is, was it the White House Press Core who were in attendance?

Was any network Journo there?

Does anyone have the email addresses of the so called Journlists in attendance?


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mcctatas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-01-05 12:52 AM
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1. I have no idea who was there, but
I'm guessing Jeff Gannon wasn't. Maybe Talon news sent his replacement
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FreedomAngel82 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-01-05 11:28 AM
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33. Maher asked him
if he was going and he said he was hoping to get an invite but didn't. :eyes: He was an arrogont bitch about it. Like he was really a reporter or some shit. I wanted to scream my head off at him. :mad: That interview really ticked me off.
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hector459 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-01-05 05:51 PM
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46. The RW funddie Christians would have been pissed if it had been Hillary
I am sure they would have found it vulgar had that been Hillary.

I thought it was beneath the dignity of a First Lady, but then look who she married. A drunken coke snorter and she was a pot-head.

But wait...I have nothing against drunken coke snorters or pot-heads...only if they are President and First Lady.
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OmmmSweetOmmm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-01-05 12:55 AM
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2. I was actually shocked that Richard Gere was there and I think
I saw Jane Fonda.
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ngGale Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-01-05 12:59 AM
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3. Jane Fonda?!! n/t
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juslikagrzly Donating Member (646 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-01-05 01:06 AM
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4. Oh crap!
Edited on Sun May-01-05 01:06 AM by juslikagrzly
New Zealand was top of my list for countries to escape to.......


edit for typo
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Snotcicles Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-01-05 08:59 AM
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14. I was just think the same thing. I have been looking at what it would
take find employment.
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acmejack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-01-05 11:10 AM
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24. Learn to like sheep!
I have a friend who went so far as visiting Wellington investigating work. He returned pretty disillusioned and has since devised a new plan. Look before you leap! Besides, we need every one of us here to take our own country back!
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Maru Kitteh Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-01-05 04:46 PM
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44. Maybe we could
migrate together, get a group rate or something. NZ is the top of our shortlist too.
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MontageOfFreedom Donating Member (633 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-01-05 01:08 AM
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5. They were planted...
Probably another bunch of planted bs by Karl Rove, truthfully this kind of "pro patriot" propaganda is just a model arquette for fascism.
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sellitman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-01-05 11:03 AM
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22. I bet you are right
Maybe the audio even had a laugh track added.
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FreedomAngel82 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-01-05 11:30 AM
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34. Exactly
So true. Everything they do is a plant.
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Skittles Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-01-05 01:15 AM
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6. a sad, pathetic state of affairs indeed
Laura thinks it's funny her dipshit husband sucks at everything? The media, who KISS HIS ASS, finds this amusing too? I AM DISGUSTED.
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earth mom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-01-05 02:14 AM
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8. I AM TOTALLY DISGUSTED TOO!
especially in light of the fact that this little kiss ass party comes on the day when C-Span aired explosive evidence pointing to * & Co being responsible for 911! Why does C-Span have to do the Journalists work for them?! Jeez! Are ALL of em on the * payroll or what?! :grr: They could care less that while they sit there and suck up to each other-business as usual-people have died, are dying, will die for a LIE! Or that this country and most of it's people are clinging on for dear life because of all * & Co has wrought! :grr:

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TwentyFive Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-01-05 02:02 AM
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7. I would not have minded the light mood so much.....
...if it had been Jeff Gannon making lame jokes about the president.
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ragin_acadian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-01-05 02:31 AM
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9. thank you!
"They dont deserve to be called media, they were a bunch of useless seals, who clapped and cheered"

i applaud you for your imagery! from now on, every time i see the media clapping to a bush, the image of trained seals going "orr, orr, orr" while waiting for a frozen herring will pop into my head.
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rodeodance Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-01-05 02:58 AM
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10. glad I missed. she is such a Stepford ditzy
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blogbear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-01-05 05:33 AM
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11. ditto!
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UTUSN Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-01-05 08:45 AM
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12. Any Networks There?---Of COURSE! Blitzer, John ROBERTS
Edited on Sun May-01-05 08:47 AM by UTUSN
and many many more. It was a pseudo Oscar night, with arrivals pausing with "lesser" media types who were interviewing them, pausing to pose for pics, and----get this-----a rope line for "fans" of unwashed in jeans and T-shirts, cameras and autograph books in hand.

As for Pickles-----we were sucker-punched by this WH "Correspondents" group again. The CLINTONs had to put up with guests like Paula JONES, Monica, and IMUS slashing them to pieces. GUCKERT-----SHOULD----have been invited----but, no, that would have been too rude to the little emperor and CHEENEE. From the first time when CHEENEE put the fear of Hades into Darrell HAMMOND, the Shrubbites have NEVER had a sharp-edged performer. Last night, Cedric the "Entertainer" was a joke, but not in a good way. He said he was there to "give (Shrub) street credibility," and he said it was NOT TRUE that Blacks are not "down with (Shrub)," that they LOVE him.

Then they put "roast" material in the mouth of Pickles. I would have loved the lines if MAHER or FERREL were spouting them. But it was the familiar ROVE strategy of "innoculation"---put the most damaging stuff in the hands of somebody who will negate it, which she proceeded to do in her "disclaimer" section at the end.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x3566466

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x3576282
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wryter2000 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-01-05 08:53 AM
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13. I'm so sorry
I'm so sorry my country inflicted that on you.
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spooky3 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-01-05 09:06 AM
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15. The Today Show continued the Laura gushing
Nauseating.
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suegeo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-01-05 09:57 AM
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16. It's a carefully constructed reality, just for you
Edited on Sun May-01-05 10:00 AM by suegeo
Our great war president isn't so popular among the serfs. So they gotta roll out someone who is more difficult to attack. That someone: The stepford wife.

I wondered why Pickles was featured in this month's Ladies Home Journal, then appeared on Leno. Now she's the star of the show at the press corpse dinner. Which generates more fawning "coverage" by the bought and paid for whores.

I wonder no more. They are creating the illusion (which will hopefully become reality, that Everybody loves Laura. You love Laura. Follow Laura. Laura is your mommie. Your government will take care of you.

All of this is carefully managed. But I sense that it's getting harder for them to sell the pig, even after applying lipstick and a really good hair dye job.
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DemonFighterLives Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-01-05 10:59 AM
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19. Ain't it nice that they can still laugh
Especially since "The Bush Administration Engineered the 9/11 Attack" hit the airwaves yesterday.
Old Chainsaw* is ecstatic about the rising death toll in Iraq.
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Cleita Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-01-05 10:42 AM
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17. At a time that people are dying both at home and overseas as
well as many who are suffering needlessly as a direct result of the actions of the Bush administration, this is not the time to be making jokes.

At the very least, it's in appalling bad taste. At the most it's cruel and unwarranted on every level.
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Tigress DEM Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-01-05 12:56 PM
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36. What about the excessive Inaguaral Balls?? SSDD
I remember when I thought Nancy Reagan was excessive because you never saw her in the same dress twice and her threads were expensive.

The Reagans were misers compared to this bunch and in their time they tripled the deficit.
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Cleita Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-01-05 04:41 PM
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43. Yes, it's disgusting.n/t
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Jade Fox Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-01-05 10:45 AM
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18. Portraying Bush as a harmless boob.....
is a tactic, I guess. It doesn't work for long when things are going to hell.

And there is nothing more painful than Conservatives trying to be funny.
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Cleita Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-01-05 11:02 AM
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21. You have that right.
I can't think of a conservative comedian who is funny. Usually, their attempts are silly, juvenile and strained, but seldom funny.
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Jade Fox Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-01-05 11:07 AM
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23. You forgot plain old MEAN.....
there are, apparently, those who think the hatefulness of Limbaugh and
Coulter constitutes humor. You know, Feminazis ha ha ha!
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DS1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-01-05 11:01 AM
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20. Hey, give them a break, she's the only one in the room with a
confirmed kill :eyes:
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Generic Other Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-01-05 11:12 AM
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25. A sad thing to be so utterly vacuous as your husband's bosses
destroy the country.
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BrklynLiberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-01-05 11:19 AM
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27. The alternative is to be icily unconcerned, as his mother was..
There was that really "touching" quote by Babs about her not wanting to bother her beautiful brain with pictures of dead soldiers. Ugh..What a family!
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SpaceCatMeetsMars Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-01-05 11:16 AM
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26. To me it feels like they are gleefully stabbing
democracy to death while acting all smug and proud of themselves about it. They refuse to hold Bush accountable for anything. There's nothing they won't support him doing, no matter how bad it is.

This is why we American liberals have stopped reading the newspapers and watching the TV news in droves. All we have left to trust is the Internet, a few liberal magazines and overseas news.
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dxstone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-01-05 02:46 PM
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40. Great analogy, Spacecat! It's THAT hideously ugly... n/t

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Ilsa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-01-05 11:20 AM
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28. I wonder what the old Quaker Oats gal thought
of Pickles' comparing her to Don Corleone instead of Aunt Bea.
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liveoaktx Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-01-05 11:21 AM
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29. Vid Clip of the speech
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Catamount Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-01-05 01:54 PM
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38. Thanks for the link!
For a while there she sounded really truthful about her husband and the * family, pity it was so obviously scripted by the neocons, to shift the focus from the sad reality of this abysmal administration.
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babylonsister Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-01-05 11:24 AM
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30. The most interesting part of her speech/jokes was
the fact that, after * spoke for all of 2 minutes, she took over. I suppose the handlers were trying to prevent yet another foot-in-mouth event by the blivet, but I thought his absence spoke volumes.
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liveoaktx Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-01-05 11:27 AM
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31. I liked how red he got and watching his jaw work
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FreedomAngel82 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-01-05 11:34 AM
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35. Probably
Also, for some unknown reason to me, her raitings are higher so they probably though: "hey let's put up Laura! Her raitings are higher. Maybe more people will watch and go along with US!!" Ugh.
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FreedomAngel82 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-01-05 11:27 AM
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32. I didn't watch it
but I think all the "journalist" are just whore's for their administration. They probably wanted to show support for Mrs. Bush because of who she is and so they can play for the media the video and say "see how many people love Laura? Isn't she the best?" and all that nonsense. It's just a big show for the public. :eyes: Even though nobody cares about them anymore.
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Octafish Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-01-05 01:01 PM
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37. The members of Corporate McPravda are Presstitutes
Didn't see too many frowns when Pickles called Barfbara "Don Corleone."
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specimenfred1984 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-01-05 02:02 PM
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39. It Had Sick, Condescending Fascists All Over It
Those humans actually believe they are superior.

Very little in life is more sickening.

Good post.
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dxstone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-01-05 02:58 PM
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41. Laura's so proud of hubby when he manages to eat a pretzel...
Without chokin' to death...
Like many, I feel like I'm being beaten to death with the blunt object of their stupidity... it's the perfect crime, cuz you can't produce the weapon, though it's sitting right there in front of us all...
The media whores, news-assholes and other professional hairdos just love President Pinhead; he's just such a cute and funny fuck-up; it's like Jim Carrey's running the country, as Ace Ventura, on a nitrous bender...



D X Stone

more sinister impudence at
http://presidentevilonline.com
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Martin Eden Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-01-05 04:11 PM
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42. The jokes were well written
and I might have found them funny if not for the context of this presidency. These "roasts" are supposed to be "light' and "funny" but it is impossible for the script in any Washington function with this degree of coverage not to be the product of political calculation.

The First Lady's performance and the jokes themselves were not particularly objectionable. What was objectionable was the acceptance and normalcy accorded to a presidency guilty of the crimes of which we are all too aware.

It's as absurd as "Springtime For Hitler" -- except this isn't farcical fiction. To see anything associated with Bush receive this kind of good-natured acceptance and praise is enough for the contents of one's stomach to head for the nearest exit:
:puke: :puke: :puke:
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freeplessinseattle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-01-05 05:33 PM
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45. It'd be so much more newsworthy if she told us how she really feels
without a xanax haze protecting her fragile hold on sanity, of course.
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