From last evening’s “Hardball w/ Chris Matthews” comes 
    this bizarre bit: Shortly after New York Times columnist 
    Bob Herbert condemned the US for forcing democracy on 
    Iraqis “at the point of a gun,” 

    Democratic strategist Hillary Rosen had this to say: 
    “There’s another word for ‘insurgents’ in Iraq, and 
    that’s ‘residents.’” 

    Not to be outdone, Matthews himself (channeling Brian 
    Williams) then added: “‘Insurgents’ are what the British 
    called us in the Revolutionary War. It’s true” — an 
    observation which, if I didn’t know better, might lead me 
    to conclude Chris was trying to draw some sort of 
    parallel or something.