Limbaugh called Jay Carney an “over-the-top-shameless” White House press secretary. | JAY WESTCOTT/POLITICO Rush: Carney links taxes, shooting

Rush Limbaugh said Monday that an “over-the-top-shameless” White House press secretary Jay Carney was politicizing the Newtown, Conn., elementary school shooting to raise taxes on the rich.

Speaking to reporters from the White House on Monday, Carney said that President Barack Obama’s insistence to raise taxes on the wealthiest of 2 percent of Americans was an important revenue stream so as not to put burden on “senior citizens or on middle class Americans or on parents with disabled children.”


The conservative commentator’s take?

“This is just over-the-top-shameless,” he said on his radio program Monday, according to a show transcript. “Let me spell it out for you, what Jay Carney said: If we don’t raise taxes on the rich, a lot — if we don’t really raise rates on the rich — then we’re gonna have more and more Adam Lanzas, because we’re gonna be putting a tax burden on middle-class families with disabled children.”

Authorities believe Adam Lanza, 20, was the gunman in the shooting that left 26 people — twenty of them children — dead Friday in Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown. There have been reports that Lanza might have had psychological problems.

Limbaugh continued: “Now, to this day, at this point — December 17th — ‘disabled children’ means ‘Adam Lanza.’ It means ‘Newtown, Connecticut.’”