MSNBC’s “Hardball” host Chris Matthews joined in on the mainstream media’s criticism of President Donald Trump’s summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin last week.

He opened the show asking his panel “Is the collusion continuing?” and encouraged an anti-Trump feeding frenzy.

But critics were quick to point out that not so long ago, Matthews was laughing in the face of former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney when he suggested that Russians were meddling in the 2012 presidential election.

Watch as Matthews laughed at the “dumb” Russia meddling warning —

What has changed over the last six years?

In 2012, Matthews was brushing aside Romney’s warning because he wanted to make the then-GOP presidential candidate look like a fool.

Matthews pounced on Romney after he supposedly “stepped on his own message” and called Russia “our number on geopolitical foe.”

Matthews slammed the then-GOP presidential candidate and said “I don’t know what decade this guy is living… It’s not Stalin over there. It’s not Khrushchev. It’s not Brezhnev. It’s Medvedev… It’s another country in the world. It’s no longer the Soviet Union. Is he trying to play Ronald Reagan here or what?”

He and his panel went on to mock Romney and say the comment made him “look dumb.”

In 2018, though, MSNBC is in a full hysteria over Russia and their election meddling.

Another case of mainstream media hypocrisy.

When former President Barack Obama was in charge, the story was laughable.

Now that Trump is in the White House, though, Russia is the cause of mass hysteria?

Talk about “fake news.”

–The Horn editorial team