deficit. the onion is very good at what it does. what the onion does is be funny. the onion is funny. it is satire. it is not real news which is important to point out on days like this. >> some have questioned whether this is the time for the government to start selling its holdings of gold at ft. knox as well as other assets. should the u.s. liquidate assets to pay off debt? >> cnn is not supposed to be funny. cnn is not supposed to be satire. but, yes, that is the same story that ran in "the onion" three weeks ago. cnn has not done anything wrong here. it's not like they've been duped by something that was supposed to be satire like i have in the past. it's just that actual mainstream conservatives have now caught up with the satire that has been making fun of them. the let's liquidate ft. knox's gold in order to deal with the debt thing is now being proposed apparently in all seriousness by influential conservatives in the