"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.

Sounds like the caller said something obnoxious that the audience didn't get to hear, thanks to the delay that all call-in shows use to defend against malicious callers.

Savage would have heard the full statement in his earpiece, then he (or a show's engineer) would have hit the "mute" button in time to cut off the call's time-delayed audio from being aired in its entirety.

From what *did* get aired before it got cut off, it was clear that the caller was switching subjects in the middle of the sentence in order to try to sneak in a statement before anyone could catch it. He was clearly trying to pull a fast one of some sort.

To be fair to Savage, MSNBC should really have found out what the caller had said -- Savage's retort may have just been in kind. I often hear his radio show since it plays when I'm often driving home from work, and I've never heard him actually wish death on someone who hadn't already been *WAY* over the line themselves in attacking Savage or America.

To be fair to Savage, MSNBC should really have found out what the caller had said -- Savage's retort may have just been in kind.

Sorry. That's no excuse. He's not at home dealing with a prank caller, he's on the air. I have said it so many times, and people don't listen:

When will people like you learn? You can't beat the Gay-stapo with hate. They feed off of it, and use statements like yours to convince folks to get off the fence and support them. Wake the heck up.