Jon Stewart Blasts Gingrich, Santorum's Hypocrisy in Attacking Romney's Business Background, Wealth

Posted on January 10, 2012

Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum have been piling on Mitt Romney for the past couple of weeks, relentlessly painting him as a ruthless corporate raider who is so wealthy he is out of touch with regular Americans. It's gotten so bad that even Rush Limbaugh put the smackdown on Gingrich today, saying he's just being petty and wants revenge for all those ads Romney ran against Gingrich in Iowa. Even Ron Paul stepped up and defended Romney's comments about firing companies who don't do well (which has been twisted into "I love to fire individual people and watch them suffer").

Jon Stewart of The Daily Show points out the hypocrisy of the current crop of Republican candidates in going after Romney using the Democrats' talking points. Take a look:

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