Has FR become a parallel universe?
Class and dignity are passe?
Having sensible conversations about the things you believe is somehow only bearable if interspersed with vulgarity?
He told the crank caller to drop dead 3 times. Choke on sausage, get trichinosis, and get AIDS. Is AIDS a politically protected disease? It's better to choke to death (asphyxiation) or to die from parasites?
He did not inleash a torrent of profanity at the caller even though he believed himself to be off the air. The caller certainly was not harmed by the insult; he went bragging on his blog about getting Mike fired.
While some early reports identified the caller as a gay man, that does not seem to be the case. Calling the "gay" caller a "sodomite" would have been enough to get him fired in this PC climate.
Ironically, as I searched the web for the name of the caller and his admission of making a prank call (and not being gay), I found numerous blogs that cheered Mike's firing. One of the posters even called Michael Savage a "retard". So much for consistancy on compasion, feelings, and health issues from the left.
By the way, your tax dollars pay Nina Totenberg at NPR. She wished that Jesse Helms or his grandkids would get AIDS. She's still on the air.
"If there is retributive justice, he’ll get AIDS from a transfusion, or one of his grandchildren will get it". - July 8, 1995 Inside Washington