CNN Mocked Conservative ‘TeaBaggers,’ But Now Decries Incivility

[NewsBusters for more.] CNN on Monday lamented the coarsening of the culture and a tone of incivility only getting worse with each day. Network analyst David Gergen blamed the President for “putting the country on a boil.” Yet, this is the same CNN that mocked Tea Party members in 2009 with vulgar and disgusting jokes. During Newsroom, Gergen responded to aggressive comments by Donald Trump, Maxine Waters and others on the left and right. He blamed: “We have never had a President who is — lit the fire and put the country on boil more than this one.”