Rush Limbaugh isn't known for saying too many nice things about former Florida Governor Jeb Bush and his bid for the White House. Generally, El Rushbo deems Bush to be far too moderate for his tastes but on Wednesday's show, he was all about defending Bush over the "controversy" surrounding his Planned Parenthood comments.

"I was excited to be able to come here and say something positive about Jeb Bush," Limbaugh said. "And I didn't even get to it before they raked it over the coals and Jeb had to walk it back."

Limbaugh said that Bush's original comments needed no apology.

While speaking at a meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention, Bush questioned Planned Parenthood's half billion dollars in government funding.

"I’m not sure we need half a billion dollars in funding for women’s health programs," Bush said. "If you took dollar for dollar, there are many extraordinarily fine organizations, community health organizations that exist, federally sponsored community health organizations to provide quality care for women on a wide variety of health issues. But abortion should not be funded by the government, any government in my mind."

Limbaugh said Bush's walk back was the result of a push by what he called "drive-by media" and the social media "sewer" known as Twitter. He also said the attack on Bush shows you cannot compromise with the left.

"Once the Drive-By Media got wind of what was happening on Twitter, they joined the party. And it was time to destroy Jeb, time to destroy Jeb for insensitivity, racism, sexism, bigotry, insensitivity to the plight of women. Even though Jeb said, I don’t know if we need to be spending all this money, and then he went on to praise all of the federal organizations that he just knows are there that are, that are providing just wonderful healthcare for all of these women who are so denied it in this mean-spirited country. Why, you would think that women cannot get healthcare in America, even after Obamacare, even after the Affordable Care Act! But yet here’s Jeb Bush, citing all of the federal programs and praising them, and it wasn’t enough, was it? Here’s crossing the aisle, folks. Here’s trying to compromise. Here’s working with the other side. Here is showing we can govern. Here is showing that we can cooperate. Here is showing that we’re not hate-mongers like some in our conservative media are, and what happened? It all blew up right back in his face, because of one phrase: ‘Although, I’m not sure we need a half a billion dollars for women’s health issues.’ That little aside was blown up on social media as precisely an example of the Republican Party attacking women’s health issues."

Hillary Clinton has attacked Bush on the issue; the media establishment also picked up on the story with CNN running stories all day on Wednesday about Bush's "women's health gaffe."

H/T Breitbart