Nothing macabre about it. It's called ratings. Taking advantage of the moment. If an airliner just crashed due to terrorism, would he wait until 4 days later to take calls on it?
Rush could have been taking calls about this from time to time all along, AND on FRIDAY!!!!!!
Many people have a lot of FAITH in Rush. Anything that hurts that FAITH, hurts his ratings AND THAT IS NOT A GOOD THING.
BTW, the airline crash is an example of a story that is not ongoing but a one time event. Terri's story has been ongoing for a number of years and does not fit that category. It would have been good for Rush's ratings to have discussed Terri's story from time to time, exactly the way he discussed the Elian Gonzalez story.