Twittering GOP at the Address to a Joint Congress

Dear GOP, MSM, and many blogs,

Others may have made this point, but I haven't drilled down far enough through the noise to find them.

Twittering during the President's address to Congress and the Nation was plain, old fashioned, inexcusably RUDE, CHILDISH, and PASSIVE AGRESSIVE. Such behavior tells me who you really are.

When I teach, whether in a lecture or discussion session, students I observe texting/twittering or Gods-forbid letting their phones ring in class, quickly find the room silent and The Prof standing next to them. I confiscate their mobile communication device. Class does not resume until the device is surrendered to my temproary proprietorship. It's all very embarassing for the student, but highlights the severity of the distraction, and then it never happens again.

In movie theaters, classrooms, churches and temples, court rooms, public spaces devoted to shared experience requiring full attention, One Does Not Text or Twitter.

If the GOP can't even manage basic mature politeness, then they should be treated accordingly. I suggest the guards present be empowered to appropriate MCDs at such events.

I mean really. The Dems often looked angry or bored when your guy was "speaking," but they did not just up and tune out. They sat and listened because that is the respect due the office if not the man.

That the MSM and lots of bloggers neglected to comment on the sheer hubris of these meaningless "twitters" (their very meaninglessness embedded in the metaphor of their name) is equally disappointing.

Lead, follow, or get out of the way. Those are your choices. Twitttering/pouting because you lost your monopoly on political power is not one of them. Deal. with. it.