Rush Limbaugh Compares Rick Perry To Fidel Castro For Romney Attacks (AUDIO)

Rush Limbaugh lashed out at Rick Perry on Wednesday, comparing the Republican presidential candidate to Fidel Castro for his attacks on Mitt Romney.

Limbaugh has been aghast at the attempts by many GOP hopefuls to tarnish Romney's tenure at Bain Capital, the company he helped found. On Wednesday, he played a clip of Perry strongly criticizing Romney.

After hearing Perry attack so-called vulture capitalism and hit Romney for presiding over layoffs at companies Bain helped buy out, Limbaugh was incensed.

"That is indefensible!" he fumed. "It's absurd ... this is the language of leftists! This is the way Fidel Castro thinks, or says he thinks."

Limbaugh continued, saying that he was "appalled" that people were attacking Romney about "the one thing he's actually pretty clearly conservative about."

As BuzzFeed noted on Wednesday, Limbaugh is not exactly a neutral observer when it comes to Bain. The company happens to own Clear Channel, the radio giant that pays Limbaugh's salary.

Perry has also not backed down from his criticisms. On Wednesday, he repeated the phrase "vulture capitalism" during appearances in South Carolina, and attacked "the idea that you come in and destroy people's lives, the idea that you come in just to make a quick profit tear these companies apart."

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Some of Rush Limbaugh's many feuds.

• Limbaugh vs. Michelle Obama

• Limbaugh vs. Michael J. Fox

• Limbaugh vs. Chevy Volt, Motor Trend

• Limbaugh vs. Cenk Uygur

• Limbaugh vs. Barney Frank

• Limbaugh vs. Joe Scarborough

• Limbaugh vs. Jay-Z

• Limbaugh vs. Keith Olbermann

• Limbaugh vs. Michael Steele

• Limbaugh vs. Barack and Michelle Obama

Comments

[toxhazzard]

07:12 AM on 01/15/2012

No bias in his reporting at all. I think he should run for orifice.

[gwilkes2]

01:56 AM on 01/15/2012

Greta Van Interviewed Rush awhile back......You can probably Youtube it.....And it even surprised me......Not because of it being a great interview or that greta of fox asked any great Q's, but Rush's shallow answers........

[gwilkes2]

01:52 AM on 01/15/2012

And Rush knows there is some truth to what perry and others are saying.....And this article states that the company owns Clear Channel that pays Rush.....So there is no surprise here to Rush's stance......

[gwilkes2]

01:38 AM on 01/15/2012

Rush, we used to love you......Until you brainwashed yourself......Instead of giving better prepec on things.......One sided would be an understatement.....My mother who is a dev repub and christian, doesnt enjoy listening to you anymore.....I ask her the otherday what rush has been saying and she said "Oh gary, i dont listen to him anymore and sick of him being a blowhard".....lol....I was surprised myself of her comment........Im still having trouble though bring her to the middle....lol....I have several other people putting stock in me though, and there voting the way im voting......Whatever that might be.....I guess they have faith in my politics knowledge...lol.

[leeruss2]

02:06 PM on 01/14/2012

Why, oh, why are we still listening to this low-life, blow -hard?? All he is good for is to cause controversity.....where there is none! Please, make Rush "go away"!

[toxhazzard]

07:14 AM on 01/15/2012

He attracts mostly the uneducated and those who just want to laugh at him.

[darkmark]

04:04 PM on 01/13/2012

from: http://www­.infowars.­com/bain-c­apital-own­s-clear-ch­annel-rush­-limbaugh-­sean-hanni­ty-glenn-b­eck-michae­l-savage-e­tc/

Clear Channel owns more radio stations (850) than anyone else in the United States. They also own Premiere Radio Networks, the COMPANY THAT SYNDICATES the radio shows of Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, and Glenn Beck, among others. Needless to say, Clear Channel basically owns conservati­ve talk radio in the United States. So who owns Clear Channel? Well, it turns out that Bain Capital is one of the primary owners of Clear Channel.

that's interesting isn't it.

[darkmark]

02:46 PM on 01/13/2012

rush is a believer in the capitalist myth. he has a pot of gold in front of him and if his paranoia tells him some one might be after his pot of gold off he goes defending any kind of extreme capitalist fantasy dogma. its nice to know what the other side really believes and rush puts it out there for all to see. no matter how ugly it gets rush will defend it.

[gerald1961]

01:14 PM on 01/13/2012

Rush is a 1% Nazi. Karma is waiting for you Rush, sleep well. Devil.

[ThePelton]

01:08 PM on 01/13/2012

I think it's funny! Rush Limburger the college dropout radio talk show host trying to write the GOP ticket and platform. Such a deal!

[SoquiliAsgaya]

11:26 AM on 01/14/2012

If he was a college drop out it has to be pertaining to his age as a coward and college deferment to escape VIETNAM WAR DRAFT. I gott'a pass on when I am called a second death as I have been. However, I pray that I shall not be on the front row of my here after with rush oxicontin limbaug, hannity, glenn beck and more importantly the bushshieter with ded eye sure shot deckhead cheney who still says to pull troups out of Iraq is a mistake. Haties, it was illegal to be there in 1990 and 2001.

[SoquiliAsgaya]

11:36 AM on 01/14/2012

Maybe be, concience objector, draft college deferment of the elite. I agree and it is not only funny, entertaining and educational but Hilarious and at the same time rush oxicontin limbaugh is always bad mouthing everyone and is putting his ded head dick cheney mouth as I do not judge but, when I hear a Whale language I fell they are lower than Whale dung in the furtherist bottoms of the bottomless oceans.

[newgirl]

02:54 AM on 01/15/2012

What is most heinous is how the Pubs scre wed the economy so badly that many young men and women thought it was a good way to escape poverty. Join the military. College and trade school were not available to them, due to their abject poverty, but 3 hots and a cot were. It's sickening.

[med1067]

01:03 PM on 01/13/2012

Rush grovels to his corporate masters and does their bidding in return for millions in salary. I actually now have a level of respect for the other republican candidates except for Mittens of course. Not enough to vote for them, but at least they are calling Romney out. And that is a very good thing for the country.
What do they call people who do anything for money? Rush Limbaugh.

[tlounc]

01:01 PM on 01/13/2012

Ironically funny...Limbaugh's defense of Romeny. He couldn't stand him in 2008. Just shows you how weak the Republican field is when Rushbo and his ilk are supporting someone they really don't like.

[mapmaker515]

11:37 AM on 01/13/2012

In a related story.....Limbaugh took back his comments about Perry when he remembered Perry was neither black nor a Democrat.

[plcsail]

10:53 AM on 01/13/2012

Limbaugh, the defender of the oppressed billionaire class.

[Clevelandinwi]

10:47 AM on 01/13/2012

limpbug's rationale is his irrationality.

[gerald1961]

01:15 PM on 01/13/2012

I hope he chokes to death on his next meal of human souls.

[FatherH]

10:27 AM on 01/13/2012

And, HUFFPOST is covering Rush because.........

[PWM]

10:50 AM on 01/13/2012

Modern Republicans say he is the leader of the conservative movement.

[gerald1961]

01:16 PM on 01/13/2012

He's the Devil.