I don't know if you're a Rush fan or not, I'm not nor am I a listener. So I don't really have a stake in this one way or another.
Looking at it from an outside POV, here's why I think this whole thing stinks.
1. The very idea that someone in Rush's position would be buying pills from a maid is laughable. Like I posted earlier, people with money can get all the scripts they want.
2.People like Rush know that whatever happens in front of the hired help might as well happen in front of a reporter.
3. The klintoon clan has despised Rush for many years. You can bet they have been watching him like a hawk for any little crumb they can discredit him with. If he really had an addiction like is being claimed, it would've surfaced before now and in a bigger publication than the enquirer, with a lot more evidence.
If Rush really had a pill addiction, the klintoon gang would've had their DEA buds set up a sting and bust him. More damaging and convincing than an enquirer story.
The "seriousness of the charges" are bothersome to you, aren't they.
Yes. Ironically, it is his own paranoia (though rightful guilt it was) that got him in trouble. When he cried with the maid about how he would be finished if this got out, she realized that if he really did get in big trouble, WHO WOULD LOOK THE GUILTIEST? She would! That is why she and her husband went to a lawyer, who immediately told them they had to go to the authorities. She did the right thing, something that the Rush we know and trust on the air would agree with.
Sadly, the drugs were speaking louder to him than his own instinctive, G-d given morality. G-d speaks with the still, soft voice, and opiates speak with a bullhorn.