Rush Limbaugh doesn't deserve your pity - but you should give it anyway

[Selwynn]

Because we're not, in theory, as bad as Rush is in his mercilessness and pitilessness and ridicule. In theory, we're better than that. But most importantly becuase compassion that stops first to size up and evaluate the relative worth of the object of compassion really isn't compassion at all. Compassion has more to do with your heart than it does the object of compassion. And mercy is mercy specifically because it is bestowed irregardless of the worth of the receiver.