{"id":214244,"date":"2016-08-17T18:37:59","date_gmt":"2016-08-17T22:37:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/172.24.32.11\/daily\/2016\/08\/17\/is_it_time_to_panic_rush_\/"},"modified":"2016-08-17T18:37:59","modified_gmt":"2016-08-17T22:37:59","slug":"is_it_time_to_panic_rush_","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2016\/08\/17\/is_it_time_to_panic_rush_\/","title":{"rendered":"Is It Time to Panic, Rush?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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RUSH: Here\u2019s Brian in Tampa. I\u2019m glad you called, Brian. I appreciate your patience in holding on as well.<\/p>\n

CALLER: You bet, Rush. Hey, an EIB — or I should say EIB loyalist ever since September 1988. So giga dittos.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Man, oh, man, you lifer. You\u2019re a lifer.<\/p>\n

CALLER: You betcha. From Florida\u2019s West Coast. I never want parole, Rush. I am a lifer. From Florida\u2019s West Coast, where we\u2019re still anxiously awaiting hearing from the Justice Brothers on Black Lives Matter. But in the meantime, we at least have your fantastic impression of Hillary Rodham, and you do a terrific Savannah Guthrie as well. I don\u2019t know anybody else doing Savannah Guthrie, so roll on, Rush. Hey, you\u2019ve been telling us for decades now, “Don\u2019t panic. I\u2019ll tell you when to panic.” Well, what I want to know is what form should that panic take, and also what your criteria are for invoking this pandemonium?<\/p>\n

RUSH: All right, now, Brian, you are a clever and funny guy, and some might even describe you as flippant. Not I, but some people listening might. I\u2019m gonna take your question seriously because I do get this now and then. Now, you don\u2019t mind me taking it seriously, do you?<\/line><\/p>\n

CALLER: That\u2019s the only way I would want you to take it, but if you want to get witty, please do.<\/p>\n

RUSH: (laughing) Well, okay. But what I hear you saying is — you know what I thought he said? I can\u2019t tell you what I thought he said. When he said, “If you want to get witty, please do,” I thought he said something began with an L instead of witty. I\u2019m thinking, holy smokes, but nevertheless, what you\u2019re asking me is, Rush, you have always told us when it\u2019s time to panic. Is it time to panic? That\u2019s essentially what you\u2019re asking, right?<\/p>\n

CALLER: No. I want to know how I — look, I\u2019m not a prepper, but I want to be prepared for this. I want to know what form the panic should take. Guide us, please.<\/p>\n

RUSH: In other words, you want to know what to do once you have panicked, what that actually will mean in terms of your behavior?<\/p>\n

CALLER: You betcha.<\/p>\nRUSH: All right. Well, that adds a new perspective to this. But the time to panic, the reason that I\u2019m intrigued by this is I\u2019m aware I\u2019ve said this over the years and oftentimes I said it in a jocular fashion, but I also meant it, and people knew that I meant it. And many people think it\u2019s time to panic, that we\u2019re there, that we are at the tipping point. And I get the question sometimes off the air — we haven\u2019t had a caller with this question in a while — but knowing that I have created this expectation, I have been pondering how I would answer this.<\/line><\/p>\n

And my answer is, it would appear that it\u2019s time to panic, but I don\u2019t think that it is. If panic means conceding that we\u2019ve lost, then I\u2019m not there. Many people — and I don\u2019t mean this presidential race, I mean the country. I have always assumed that when people heard me say “I\u2019ll tell you when it\u2019s time to panic,” that many of them might have thought I\u2019ll tell you when I think we\u2019ve lost the country, meaning there\u2019s no point in fighting on. So, Rush, you tell us when we\u2019ve reached that point, because then we\u2019ve gotta obviously change the way we live and look at things.<\/p>\n

And I don\u2019t think it\u2019s that time. At least I\u2019m not ready to concede that we\u2019ve lost the country. I don\u2019t know because of my makeup that I will ever actually get to a point where I want to stand down and just let \u2019em have it. I don\u2019t know that I\u2019m ever gonna get to the point where I say to myself, “You know what, folks? We don\u2019t have any hope now. The only hope we\u2019ve got is if this whole thing falls apart and implodes on everybody and everybody\u2019s miserable, everybody loses everything, and we start anew.”<\/p>\n

We\u2019re not near that yet. Some people think we are. But I don\u2019t. Because I actually believe — I really do. I\u2019m Reaganesque in this. I think that immorality on a large-scale will ultimately implode on itself. Now, Reagan offered that belief about communism, and specifically the Soviet Union. He was adamant that something as immoral and heinous as Soviet communism could survive. At some point it would destroy itself because it would eat itself alive, it would destroy the food chain, i.e., the people necessary to sustain it. It just couldn\u2019t last and survive.<\/p>\n

Now, when you say that, there are people that look around at our culture, at the world, and in many cases people see immorality thriving. They see immorality as a ticket to great wealth. They see immorality as a fast route to fame. It seems that the more immoral, the more outrageous, the more outside accepted norms a thing is or a person is, the more notoriety it gets, and the more notoriety it gets, the more fame attaches and then the bigger curiosity it becomes and the greater its audience. And rather than facing universal condemnation, this behavior, this immorality, whatever it is — could be the way a government operates or an individual — is fueled.<\/line><\/p>\n

And I don\u2019t deny that either. At some point — and I believe this my whole life and I specifically believed it during the whole life of this program — that at some point all of this that is going wrong is gonna backfire or implode. Now, I don\u2019t mean in and of itself. It\u2019s gonna take little nods, pushes, shoves here, this is what we\u2019re doing, and you, on occasion. But in terms of reaching the point where, “Okay, folks, time to panic,” meaning we\u2019ll have lost it, the country\u2019s finished as you and I know it. It\u2019s time to stop waste energy trying to fix it. We\u2019re not there.<\/line><\/p>\n

Now, the behavioral patterns that should accompany a panic — panic, if you think, “Hey, we better all get serious or we\u2019re gonna lose this,” we are at that point. Whether panic is what\u2019s called for is another thing, but the behavioral aspects of that, well, that\u2019s easy. But I\u2019m out of time at the moment.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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