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Limbaugh: “Tony Soprano has taken over the U.S. government”

Written by Media Matters Staff

Published 06/25/09 12:56 PM EDT

From the June 25 edition of Premiere Radio Networks' The Rush Limbaugh Show:

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Previously:

A smear they can't refuse: Media compare Obama administration to mobsters

Limbaugh says Obama's meeting with health industry groups is “like Don Corleone, calling all these people together” and “telling them ... what they have to do to remain in his good graces”

Limbaugh on auto bailout: “Don Obama has made Don Corleone look like Daffy Duck”
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”

Cavuto on GM bankruptcy: “The government has now become Tony Soprano and you don't make a move without checking with Tony”

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