Tingles: “Homeland” Is A “Totalitarian” Code Word Used By Neocons To Drag Us Into War

Monday on MSNBC’s “Hardball,” host Chris Matthews became pointed offered his thoughts on the word “homeland” after playing a clip of President Barack Obama using the term.

Matthews launched into a rant saying, “I’m uncomfortable with the phrase homeland. It strikes me as totalitarian. It suggests something strange to me. Like who else are we defending except America? Why don’t you just say America? As if we’re facing some existential armageddon threat from these people. Do you buy the phrase homeland? I never heard it growing up, never heard it in my adulthood. It’s a new word. Why are we using it? Is there some other place we’re defending? what are we talking about when we say homeland? it’s the language of the neocons to get us further into wars.”