Limbaugh: Like Chavez, Obama Believes Businesses Are “Illegitimate Until The State Owns It” Written by Media Matters Staff Published 10/10/12 3:33 PM EDT From the October 10 edition of Premiere Radio Networks' The Rush Limbaugh Show: Video file Previously: Limbaugh: “Democrats Have Always Had A Thing For Third World Strongman-Style Government Like Stalin, Castro, Hugo Chavez” Rush: Crackdown On Oil Speculators “Makes Me Wonder” If Obama Will “Go Hugo Chavez On Big Oil” And Nationalize Oil Companies Limbaugh: Hugo Chavez “is a thug, but unlike Mr. Obama, he's a patriotic thug”