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Beck continues to suggest violence is part of WH strategy: "They may be purchasing baseball bats right now"

February 16, 2010 10:38 am ET

From the February 16 edition of Premiere Radio Networks' The Glenn Beck Program:

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Previously:

Beck: "I'd better start wearing a vest" because WH promises more aggressive response to GOP attacks

Beck brandishes baseball bat again when talking about SEIU's Stern

Limbaugh continues mob references in discussion of Employee Free Choice Act: "Tony Soprano standing in your business with a baseball bat or a lead pipe"

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    • Author by DAWUSS (February 16, 2010 10:38 am ET)
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      No, they're donating it to the MLB. Isn't their spring training starting next week or something?
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    • Author by bintx (February 16, 2010 10:41 am ET)
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      Keep feeding the paranoia and hysteria you have created among your faithful, Beck. One of 'em is bound to take care of the little problem in the White House that bothers you so much. I saw the video that got you canned from CNN/HLN . . . in fact, that's when I wrote a letter to CNN complaining about it. You're a racist pig, Beck.
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    • Author by soze169880 (February 16, 2010 10:41 am ET)
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      Wow, I Do Not Believe I Have Ever Heard That One Before. Also.
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    • Author by The_Cat (February 16, 2010 10:44 am ET)
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      Yes, baseball bats. And maybe toilet paper. Oh no! Glenn! Look out! They're going to t.p. your house! Hurry! Run home! Chase those darn kids off your well kept lawn!
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    • Author by blk-in-alabam (February 16, 2010 10:51 am ET)
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      It is like being a child and having to get your own switch to get a whipping with.You don't want to get one too big and you better not get one too small.You have to turn into a child scientist to be able to weaken the big switch at strategic points to break at the right time.Glen Beck has picked his switch.Glen Beck is not a child scientist.He gonna get the s______ beat out of him.
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    • Author by MidnightWriter (February 16, 2010 10:54 am ET)
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      Didn't Beck, and many others, already mock Obama for his throwing arm when he threw out a first pitch?

      Time to find a new metaphor. These baseball references are getting ever so stale.
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    • Author by jediknight65 (February 16, 2010 10:54 am ET)
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      since when has the president or his administration ever called for violence.

      now glenn "ed wood" beck on the other hand has called for violence plenty of times. hmmmmmmm interesting
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      • Author by cst (February 16, 2010 12:37 pm ET)
           
        Actually, now that I think of it, Beck kind of resembles Ed Wood's buddy Criswell the "psychic"...
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    • Author by raine315 (February 16, 2010 10:58 am ET)
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      Today's Wingnut Theme: Violence
      Shoot captured taliban dude in the head
      busting knee caps
      and now baseball bats

      So I take all this to actually mean....
      Obama has been moving up in the polls. When the President seems to be doing well Beck resorts to violent imagery and rhetoric
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    • Author by Samurai Cowboy (February 16, 2010 11:06 am ET)
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      Why use a baseball abt when you can use a sword. Then you can parade around with your enemys severed head for all to see.
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    • Author by skycatcher (February 16, 2010 11:07 am ET)
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      This socialist, fascist, dictator of a President of ours sure is dense. I mean, here he is the Commander-in-Chief of the world's most powerful and advanced military and he's out purchasing baseball bats.
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      • Author by jediknight65 (February 16, 2010 11:19 am ET)
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        report back to master controll so you can tell them you have done your daily trolling
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        • Author by skycatcher (February 16, 2010 11:27 am ET)
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          I was being sarcastic, jedi. My point is how stupid does one have to be to believe the lies that Beck tells about the evil, insidious nature of the President and his attempts to destroy our nation, but yet simultaneously believe that he's that simple minded.
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      • Author by jediknight65 (February 16, 2010 11:30 am ET)
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        the fact that you have bought into beck's assertation and what you said proves you are not intelligent enough. pray tom tancredo's civics literacy test doesn't come to pass because you will surely fail it.
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        • Author by skycatcher (February 16, 2010 11:36 am ET)
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          I'm not intelligent enough? Ha. I haven't bought into anything, especially an "assertation".

          The fans that Beck has however are stirred up by such imagery of the Administration going out and buying bats. It plays upon the audience's fears of a violent uprising and their loss of country and control as a result of brute force.

          Again, my point is that one would have to be very simple-minded to be stirred up by that imagery when the President is, by Constitutional mandate, in control of the United States military.
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          • Author by jeter2 (February 16, 2010 11:52 am ET)
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            Hey Skycatcher,

            Just a helpful hint...you are still kinda new here [I think?] so until folks get to know you & your posts better, if you're being sarcastic...just include that in your post. After awhile you won't have too. Folks will know.

            I knew you were being sarcastic because we've chatted, but Jedi obviously didn't.

            I'm sure he'll apologize when he reads your post, again ;-)
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            • Author by skycatcher (February 16, 2010 12:00 pm ET)
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              Understood jeter; thanks for the advice.

              I was taken aback by being labeled an unintelligent troll, but I hope my response produces no hard feelings jedi.
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              • Author by jediknight65 (February 16, 2010 1:29 pm ET)
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                not at all, i didn't realize you were being sarcastic. ill try to be more conscious of it from here on
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            • Author by LKL (February 16, 2010 3:57 pm ET)
                 
              I don't know Jeter - it was pretty obvious! Sometimes people just read things too quickly, I think.
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          • Author by jediknight65 (February 16, 2010 1:28 pm ET)
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            my deepest apologies
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    • Author by jeter2 (February 16, 2010 11:13 am ET)
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      Beck would say he's only kidding around & fire back that of course he doesn't believe the WH is purchasing bats. And anyone who gets upset/offended just don't have a sense of humor.

      But this kind of rhetoric can fire up the angry folks out there...the ones that hang on Beck's vision that Obama is evil & must be stopped.

      I'm not someone who would call for the removal of a Beck or Limbaugh from the airwaves. But it's long past the time that these guys need to tone this kind of crap down.

      Got a beef guys? Then handle it like mature grownups, state your case/complaint & knock off the violent imagery & words.
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      • Author by rms (February 16, 2010 3:11 pm ET)
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        I am sure the Secret Service appreciates the extra work (threats against the President were already up 400% at one point during his administration).
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      • Author by LKL (February 16, 2010 4:01 pm ET)
           
        Got a beef guys? Then handle it like mature grownups, state your case/complaint & knock off the violent imagery & words.


        Hear, hear!
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    • Author by GBU-15 (February 16, 2010 11:14 am ET)
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      No Becky. What the Obama Administration has learned. Is that what a bully fears most,is confrontation. Even with your flunkies to prop up your weak ego. You are not tough enough to under the harsh light of pointed criticism.
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    • Author by epkklk851 (February 16, 2010 11:15 am ET)
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      Rahm once sent someone a dead fish, a la "The Godfather". There is also the traditional Jewish curse, "You're dead to me." It doesn't mean anything beyond the figurative. Of course, mind games can be very threatening to those not educated or intelligent enough to understand them. The Emanuel family is quite agressive and argumentative by nature and upbringing. I saw a Charlie Rose interview with all three brothers two years ago. Apparently, not even their children are immune from "What the F*** were you thinking?" in family, dinner table discussions. It may not be how I would raise my children, but you would learn to hold your own in a conversation really quickly. Some people might find the dinner conversations at my house a bit hard to take, too, but we enjoy them. One of my daughters described them this way, "I would ask a simple question, and it would turn into a discussion of 400 years of history." This is also the daughter who got an A in her high school and college American Government without opening her book because of family discussions and "The West Wing".
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    • Author by raddave43 (February 16, 2010 11:29 am ET)
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      Why would the administration buy baseball bats? Surely they would just get their thugs from the MLBPA supply them with some.
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      • Author by cugagcmu805031 (February 16, 2010 3:00 pm ET)
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        Nah, Beckie Boy will say that the WH will send in the ACORN and SEIU thugs to use the baseball bats. What Beckie Boy is really intimating is that because Obama is an AA male, he'll automatically use violence, if necessary. Of course, this is a lie, but it's a lie that's commonly used to describe AA males. My dad never resorted to violence to solve any problem, but since Beckie Boy knows few, if any AAs, he's totally ignorant on this subject, as usual.
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    • Author by nerzog (February 16, 2010 11:31 am ET)
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      [http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Wr6RQ1OrNEQ/SbXWQevb0RI/AAAAAAAAAVo/RzqRkBFcuLE/s400/baseball+furies.jpg]
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      • Author by New Frontier (February 16, 2010 11:35 am ET)
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        Great minds, nerzog, great minds... :)
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        • Author by nerzog (February 16, 2010 12:05 pm ET)
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          When Obama first got elected, I thought it would be great if he came out on the stage and said "Can you dig iiiiiiiiiiiiit?"

          But, in hindsight, maybe it's best that he didn't.
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          • Author by jmariemo (February 16, 2010 1:29 pm ET)
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            I would have loved it. Towards the end of his second term-provided he has one-I would love for him to start acting like a 70s black man caricature.
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          • Author by Marker (February 16, 2010 4:18 pm ET)
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            Repugs, Come out to playee ay, Repugs come out to playee ay. My favorite part of the movie.
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      • Author by John Paradox (February 16, 2010 2:23 pm ET)
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        Wingnuts, come out and pla-ay!
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    • Author by New Frontier (February 16, 2010 11:34 am ET)
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      They are assembling on the White House lawn at this very moment, Glenn.

      [http://thisdistractedglobe.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/the-warriors-1979-poster-ii.jpg]
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      • Author by soze169880 (February 16, 2010 12:00 pm ET)
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        I'm sure in Beck's vision there are a lot more black guys. Anyone remember him citing that dance troupe as proof of the impending Whitey Holocaust?
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      • Author by mjh (February 16, 2010 12:20 pm ET)
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        Knowing Becky, I would think he'd picture it more like this:

        [http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_pk5O_KGpoEE/SUKCllfV-UI/AAAAAAAAAUQ/vKUx4PwwgH0/s400/william+goldstein+-+the+bingo+long+traveling+all-stars+&+motor+kings+(1976).jpg]

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    • Author by manofmystique (February 16, 2010 12:28 pm ET)
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      Beck continue to talk stupid and get away with it. Those who listen to his garbage and stupidity can only be described as mentally challenged Tea K K.
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      • Author by soze169880 (February 16, 2010 12:34 pm ET)
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        Note to Sarah Palin: the above use of "mentally challenged" is just bein' satirical and also such as too.
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    • Author by shaggles (February 16, 2010 12:37 pm ET)
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      Is there a word for this penchant Beck has for claiming that he's in grave danger but will bravely continue to speak the 'truth' even though no such danger actually exists? Oh yeah. Lying.
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      • Author by skycatcher (February 16, 2010 12:44 pm ET)
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        I was going to go with "paranoia."
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        • Author by shaggles (February 16, 2010 12:54 pm ET)
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          HA! Maybe. But I think Beck is too much of a coward to go on if he thought he was really in danger. I think he's just trying to make himself sound like a big man.
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    • Author by IRONY 101 (February 16, 2010 12:57 pm ET)
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      So, in other words, everyone needs to arm themselves...and buy more gold.
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      • Author by soze169880 (February 16, 2010 4:46 pm ET)
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        Francisco Scaramanga must be the best prepared man in the world right about now.
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    • Author by OldCon (February 16, 2010 1:44 pm ET)
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      LIGHTEN UP people! I happened to be in the car and heard this whole thing, they were joking around. The whole segment was joking around.

      No, none of his listeners actually thought the administration was out buying bats.(we all know rahm already has his bat) No, it's not stirring anything up!
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      • Author by raddave43 (February 16, 2010 2:13 pm ET)
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        Bats aren't really good for stirring, a spoon works much better.
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        • Author by mjh (February 16, 2010 4:54 pm ET)
             
          "Bats aren't really good for stirring, a spoon works much better."


          . . . unless we're talking about the "bats" in OldNeoKKKon's "belfry" . . .

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      • Author by New Frontier (February 16, 2010 3:52 pm ET)
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        No, none of his listeners actually thought the administration was out buying bats.
        Swing and a miss. No one here claimed Beck's listeners actually think the administration is buying bats. Old Con whiffs. Again.
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        • Author by bintx (February 16, 2010 4:00 pm ET)
             
          I'm afraid that there are people out there who might believe it. I know some. They believe every danged lie Beck tells whether in jest or not [personally, I think all of his crap is done in jest . . . he's just in it for the ratings and attention.]
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          • Author by New Frontier (February 16, 2010 4:12 pm ET)
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            But Old Con assures us he knows what all of Beck's listeners are thinking!
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      • Author by bintx (February 16, 2010 3:59 pm ET)
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        You thought it was funny, but you are aware that there are a lot of people out there who BELIEVE Beck's schtick, right? I guarantee, its not funny to them.

        You are naive.
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    • Author by shaggles (February 16, 2010 1:54 pm ET)
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      Can this dung beetle get more fans than Glenn Beck?

      Become a fan on Facebook.
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    • Author by TheAncients (February 16, 2010 2:14 pm ET)
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      What's wrong with stupid conservatives always thinking this country is going to sink when another party is in control even though THEY were the last people to screw everything up? Why all the hypocrisy? How come no real American patriots are protesting against these bafoons? Next time a teabagging party protest/convention comes up WE the REAL Americans should be there with our middle fingers up in the air with our pants down and facing towards them.
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    • Author by jdhobbes (February 16, 2010 6:02 pm ET)
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      The Becks, Limbaughs, Hannitys, and Fox News' of America are examples of the weaknesses of the Freedom of Speech absolute. Everyone has the right to Free Speech, but that doesn't prevent anyone from propagating bald-faced lies. Which is why Beck can say whatever the hell he wants and there are no consequences, unless they are financial consequences.

      And you cannot depend on financial consequences to keep people honest because the media and its consumers love a good story, true or not. As long as Fox can make a buck on Beck, there's no reason to stop him or hold him to a higher standard.

      Because Fox News is part news and part commentary, they should not be allowed to call themselves a News show (esepcially in light of their legal position of "We are not obligated to tell the truth").

      The FCC needs to flex its legal muscles and force Fox to remove the word "News" from their marketing and replace it with something that represents its actual Commentary function. Then they need to fine Fox (or any other supposed News media outlet) for every instance of misinformation that they broadcast as News or even Commentary. Doesn't the crime of Slander mean anything anymore?

      In this way, dishonest media would finally listen to what they understand best: money. This would solve the Beck/Limbaugh/Hannity problem once and for all, or at least, it would limit their playing field to a narrow sidewalk.
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    • Author by tman418 (February 16, 2010 7:57 pm ET)
         
      Does anyone know if Guiness has a category for "World's Most Paranoid non-Schizophrenic Person"?
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    • Author by Boxer1979 (February 16, 2010 8:10 pm ET)
         
      Beck continues to suggest violence is part of WH strategy: "They may be purchasing baseball bats right now"

      [http://skepacabra.files.wordpress.com/2009/08/facepalm.jpg]
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