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"The incident that resulted in his firing began innocently enough. Savage was taking viewer phone calls about airline horror stories, and a male caller began talking about smoking in the bathroom.

"Half an hour into the flight, I need to suggest that Don and Mike take your ..." the caller said, before he was cut off and his words became unintelligible."

While I didn't like his response, I have to wonder what the caller said to him, that set him off like it did. I assume they were on a 5 second delay, so Savage heard what the caller said, but we didn't. For all we know, the caller may have deserved a punch in the mouth! Perhaps he was trying to incite Savage, by telling him what he would like to personally do to his son, or mother, or father, in the most vile manner possible. Who knows! But what ever was said, it was enough to make Savage go ballistic, and loose his job, which may have been the callers original intentions in the first place. One thing I know for sure, the caller did not stay on the subject he was put on the air to comment on.

While we all like to think we would have handled it differently, none of us know what was said, or how we would have responded to it. So cut Savage some slack.