what is this strange feeling i'm experiencing?

Is it... respect? For Chris Matthews??

Last week Bush made some typically retarded speech in the Israeli Knesset calling Obama an "appeaser" and comparing his desire to talk with Iran to Neville Chamberlain turning over Austria and the Sudentenland to Hitler.

Most of the right wing airheads that immediately took up the meme of appeasement and started regurgitating it all over the airwaves have no fucking clue what that actually means. Fundamentally, they're wrong, because talking to your enemies is "diplomacy", not "appeasement". Giving a dictator half of Czechoslovakia so he won't invade Poland is appeasement. (And we all know how well that worked out.)

But not only are they wrong about the definition, they don't even know what specifically Chamberlain did that was so bad. Not that that stops them from running around and making the comparison, because Bush gave them the water to carry and they're going to do it, regardless.

In this recent clip from Hardball, Chris Matthews takes time out from asking Hill if her vagina won't keep her from being an effective President to nail one of them but good. Watch him ask Kevin James over and over again "What specifically did Neville Chamberlain do that was bad?" for several minutes. James hysterically splutters the same ineffective non-answers ad nauseum ("It all goes back to appeasement! It's the exact same thing! It legitimized and energized!") before admitting "I don't know what he did!!" It's a thing of beauty.