On Wednesday, MSNBC host Alex Wagner continued the “Lean Forward” network’s tradition of vilifying Israeli Benjamin Netanyahu by comparing him to a “Scooby Doo” villain who has just pulled off his mask “revealing himself to be who he is actually.”

The MSNBC host began her anti-Netanyahu rant by declaring him to be “President Obama’s greatest frenemy” before she offered up some free publicity for a Washington Post blog attacking the prime minister’s opposition to a two-state solution with the Palestinians.

Wagner opined that "maybe as the Washington Post Plum Line blog puts it, 'The newly honest Netanyahu government isn't such a bad thing. With Netanyahu's journey from the far right to the far, far right, we can be less concerned with his opinion about Iran's nuclear program or anything else and treat him like what he is: an ideologically radical factional leader.'"

The MSNBC host then introduced liberal Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank by gleefully comparing Netanyahu to a villain from the popular Scooby Doo cartoon:

I see some wisdom in what the Washington Post suggests that perhaps Netanyahu pulling off his mask ala Scooby Doo and revealing himself to be who he is actually frees this president up to have more of an aggressive position counter to him, to not have to protect Israel with the U.N. veto on the issue of Palestinian statehood. To be able to pursue an aggressive, or to pursue period, a nuclear deal with Iran.

Unsurprisingly, Milbank completely agreed with Wagner’s analogy and agreed that Netanyahu’s new policy position will actually liberate President Obama and allow him to pursue his desired foreign policy agenda:

[I]t may, in fact, liberate the president since he’s clearly getting no support in any sense from Bibi whether it is on Iran or whether it is on the Palestinians so he's got a whole lot less to lose now.

See relevant transcript below.