Reminder: The left had no problem labeling the Tea Party a ‘mob’
John SextonPosted at 1:01 pm on October 10, 2018
Hot Air alum Noah Rothman pointed this out on Twitter this morning and I think he’s really onto something. While various hosts at CNN are engaged in arguments to defend the honor of left-wing protesters running people out of restaurants, it was pretty common to see the Tea Party described as a mob 7-8 years ago. Here are some examples:
Sep. 2010 – Rolling Stone’s Matt Taibbi: “Beneath the surface, the Tea Party is little more than a weird and disorderly mob, a federation of distinct and often competing strains of conservatism that have been unable to coalesce around a leader of their own choosing.â€
https://hotair.com/archives/2018/10/10/reminder-people-left-no-problem-labeling-tea-party-mob/
