MSNBC’s Chris Matthews agrees with U.S. News & World Report’s Susan Milligan that it’s "unfair" to hold Hillary Clinton to a "double standard" about her lack of accomplishments. After all, "Obama didn’t have a big accomplishment before he was elected," said Matthews in Hillary's defense. One thing he does fault her for during her accomplishment-free time as Secretary of State, however, is that she wasn’t "tougher" on Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu, which he said "would have been good for the country."

The comments came last week on "Hardball" during a discussion with Milligan and the Washington Post’s Perry Bacon about a focus-group survey by Bloomberg TV in which Clinton's supporters were unable to name a single accomplishment during her time as Secretary of State. When Bacon mentioned that she really needed to come up with some talking points about her accomplishments, Matthews and Milligan came to her defense.

MATTHEWS: Hey, Obama didn't have a big accomplishment before he got elected.

BACON: Exactly. You already know what she's for.

MILLIGAN: Most secretaries, you know, most people, when they ask what accomplishment did she have as secretary of state, I think most people could not look at a secretary of state and point to an accomplishment. Frankly, mostly what a secretary of state does is keep something from, you know, becoming a massive crisis. So that, in a way, wasn't, you know, a terribly fair question.

MATTHEWS: I wish she hadn't left it to John Kerry to stand up to Netanyahu, though.

MILLIGAN: Yeah.

MATTHEWS: A little tougher on him would have been good for the country.

Transcript, video via MRC.