How can any human being be glad at his suffering and at the same time find compassion for someone on the street with the same problem?

It isn't only his hypocricy that makes him contemptible rather than just pitiable. It's his constant, self-congratulatory, ego-driven bombast, the fact that his years of spewing hate across the airwaves and, God help us, polluting the tone of national dialogue by contagion have made him a very rich man. If some guy were screaming his exact same line of BS anonymously from a corner bar, and then turned out to have been coercing his househeld help into obtaining illegal drugs for him, I'd still be disgusted but it wouldn't matter much, it would be easy to ignore, and I'd support whatever treatment program seemed to work. Rush, though, imho, has really had a detrimental effect on the nation, and is dishonest to the core about everything.