'This didn't age well': Chris Hayes' tweet about what he said during the Tea Party protests gets torpedoed by flashback video

Doug P. | 2:22 PM on August 29, 2020

The morning after Sen. Rand Paul and his wife (and others) were attacked, harassed and intimidated by an unhinged mob after President Trump’s acceptance speech Thursday night, Chris Hayes defended that behavior and claimed to have said something similar during the Tea Party protests:

I remember saying this during the Tea Party protests, and I"ll say it now: screaming at elected officials is quite literally one of the blessings of liberty and living in a free society.

— Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes) August 28, 2020

Yep, that’s exactly what Hayes said during the Tea Party protests at the start of Obama’s first term.

Wait, no it isn’t:

sure. pic.twitter.com/9CzZDFMAqf

— tsar becket adams (@BecketAdams) August 29, 2020

Not shockingly, Hayes’ take back then was not quite like the one he remembers:

I think this is a poor description of what happened with Paul. Someone threw a bike at him and shoved a police officer at the ground to try to get to him. But let's see what else Chris Hayes was actually saying during this time. Make sure you check out my next tweet. https://t.co/V3g457J9Ma

— Zaid Jilani (@ZaidJilani) August 28, 2020

Chris Hayes on Tea Party protests in 2009: "I can imagine that it`s difficult to sort of conduct any kind of public discourse, any kind of…democratic politics in the face of this sort of implacable, bullying, braying and intimidation" pic.twitter.com/QwcYnFQwym

— Zaid Jilani (@ZaidJilani) August 28, 2020

They are ALWAYS guilty of what they accuse others of doing. If they scream about anything (cheating, racism, lying, spying, collusion, stealing, sexism, rape) they have already done it. You can stake your life on it. Remember we already know @POTUS stole the 2020 election.

— Brooklyn Mom aka Crooklyn Mom (@JoanneR10) August 29, 2020