briefly. if i could really quickly, joe biden discuss have a way of does have a way of saying it in an angry manner, but barack obama said the same stuff. he said democracy is on the line. this is source poetic. it isn t like the relationship between geraldo and myself or everybody else. [laughter] nationally, it s a relationship of you re a threat, and you must be silenced. howard: all right. obama did it in a mocking way which he has a certain talent for. by the way, tiffany cross has been fired by msnbc abruptly, like, she s off the air immediately. and while there s some attempt to blame this on conservative criticism, reports say she was warned repeatedly about i was always stunned by some is of her racially-inflammatory attacks. for example, calling clarence thomas justice the pubic hair on a coke can, and the final straw seemed to be when she went on some interview and talked about a phallic symbol for florida and then said let s castrate