CNN hosts are upset that anyone would refer to left-wing protesters as a ‘mob.’ Do they not remember the media’s coverage of the Tea Party?

CNN’s Don Lemon and Brooke Baldwin made headlines this week with separate outbursts aimed at a guest who characterized left-wing activists as a “mob.”

But the thing about their reactions is that they feel a bit ... over-the-top. Do they not remember how the press treated the Tea Party? Judging by their shocked — shocked! — reactions, you'd think both Lemon and Baldwin were out of the country between 2009 and 2012.

“Oh, you’re not going to use the ‘mob’ word here,” Baldwin said this week after guest Matt Lewis used “mob” to refer to the people who chased Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, and his wife from a restaurant in the nation’s capital on Sept. 24.

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