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Limbaugh: “If I didn't know better, I would say that Hugo Chavez is actually running this country”

Written by Media Matters Staff

Published 04/15/10 2:31 PM EDT

From the April 15 broadcast of Premiere Radio Networks' The Rush Limbaugh Show:

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Previously:

Limbaugh says Democratic leaders “admire and envy people like Hugo Chavez and Fidel Castro”

Rush compares Obama's “pathetic” State of the Union address to “a speech by Hugo Chavez or Fidel Castro”

Limbaugh: “I think Obama has the same speechwriter as Hugo Chavez”

Limbaugh likens Obama to “Third World socialist dictator” who “wants this country to be on trial”

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