To tweet, or not to tweet, that’s the question NBC’s Andrea Mitchell should have asked herself before her smug attempt to put down Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) on Twitter.
During a Wednesday appearance on Fox News, Cruz invoked Shakespeare to summarize the second impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump.
"It's reminiscent of Shakespeare that it is full of sound and fury, and yet signifying nothing," said Cruz, referencing the play "Macbeth."
Mitchell, with her degree in literature, decided her role as a “journalist” meant she should try to demean Cruz on social media.
"@SenTedCruz says #ImpeachmentTrial is like Shakespeare full of sound and fury signifying nothing. No, that’s Faulkner," Mitchell tweeted.
Other media personalities, like Jennifer Rubin of the Washington Post, wanted in on the action and quickly joined in the tweeting.
“and it says volumes about his lack of soul. That's Any Thinking Person," Rubin tweeted.
However, these comments say volumes about the state of the media and their lack of thinking however.
"Methinks she doth protest too much," Cruz tweeted, adding, "One would think NBC would know the Bard. Andrea, take a look at Macbeth act 5, scene 5: '[Life] struts & frets his hour upon the stage, And then is heard no more. It is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound & fury, Signifying nothing.'"
Cruz added one more tweet.
“Between NBC & the Washington Post, you’d think somebody would have read Macbeth."