The quote from Matthews:

The whole mindset of the last several years... since 2000... has been to shut up critics. If you don't like a war policy you get branded with a name. You're unpatriotic. You're a cut-and-runner. You're an appeaser. You can't argue politics in America. You can't question power, because if you question it you're going tobet drummed out of acceptable society. You're going to called an appeaser. These magic words are used for one purpose... to shut you up... so they can continue with a policy."

And then later:

Arguing over policy... arguing over our place in the world shouldn't be seen as unpatriotic. In most cases it should be the essence of patriotism... We didn't have (a real debate) when we went to war in Iraq. To some its the media's fault. To some its just that people are intimidated to challenge this President.

And then keep going:

The shutting up of opposition is critical to running a country in an undemocratic way. Let's put it that way.

See, now I'm that guy in a cartoon who does a triple take, his eyes and his lips in several places at once due to  the fact that his face is moving so fast, because while I stand and applaud every word Chris Matthews is saying, please, correct me... HE IS NOT SOME NEW PUNDIT ON THE AIR IS HE? Hardball was on the air in 2001 and 2002 and 2003 and 2004 and 2005 and 2006 and 2007 and earlier this year, correct? And he sat across the desk as he hosted pundits in an endless picnic line of ants who did JUST EXACTLY WHAT HE IS NOW DECRYING and he said FUCK-ALL-OF-NOTHING.

At one point he shakes his head and talks about how he "hates" the phrase "WMD" because it links a whole myriad of different weapons under a banner of fear.

Mmmmmkay, Mr. Matthews, you wanna bet I could go through thetranscripts in early 2002 and find Andrea Mitchell or Judith Miller or Christopher Hitchens or any number of a thousand people spout on about WMD while you nod and look concerned?

Look, I'm not a grudge holder and I'm tempted to say nothing and just enjoy the conversion of the talking heads who see the crumble and decay that is the agenda of the Republican Party and start to scramble to be on the side of "right", but one small vindictive part of me can't do so without wanting to pound my fists on the table and scream.

To some its the media's fault.

You, you huge-headed-prattling-cheese face, ARE the media.

The words are "...which I suppose would include myself".

To some its the media's fault... which I suppose would include myself.

At that point... I suppose we're all good.