I try to listen to every minute of him for three hours. If I may be serious for a moment with you, I have sometimes found Rush brilliant. But it occurs way to seldomly. He is most often just an insecure fool who can't keep himself out of the story.
I knew him back in '72 ............ I liked him when he was younger........ but now, he's basically just another arrogant jerk.
I think he is just trying to be funny. You have to look for the humor in most of what he says. Alot of it is said to mock liberals, too.