Limbaugh: Maybe the Mayan apocalypse made Adam Lanza do it

Rush "bounces off" the silliest Newtown theory yet: Blame it on the looming end of the world

By David Daley

Contributing Writer

Published December 20, 2012 3:52PM (EST)

              (AP/Julie Smith)
(AP/Julie Smith)

Rush Limbaugh advanced another wacky Adam Lanza theory Thursday: the end of the world made him do it.

As Rush details on his web site, Lanza -- whose mother, Nancy, was reportedly a doomsday "prepper" -- either couldn't deal with the possibility of the Mayan apocalypse on Friday or wanted to "save people" from it.

As he pushed this theory, Limbaugh had it both ways. "I'm not espousing it, I just want to bounce off of it." Here's how he bounced:

The theory that Adam Lanza somehow had been convinced the world was gonna end Friday and he was discombobulated by it. His mother was a prepper and a survivalist and showed him guns and he went in there and did what he did to either deal with the pressure of it or maybe save people from the end, who knows what.  It happened in China, is the point.


By David Daley

David Daley is the author of the new book "Antidemocratic: Inside the Far Right's 50-Year Plot to Control American Elections" and the national bestseller "Ratf**ked: Why Your Vote Doesn't Count." He is the former editor-in-chief of Salon.

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