San Diego ( CNN ) -- Some people see a silver lining and go looking for a cloud . They just ca n't feel good about the world they live in , even when they 're presented with a feel-good story . Instead of rejoicing in a positive development , they 're critical and cynical and mean . You 'll find these folks in both political parties , and all across the ideological spectrum . This includes the left-leaning media and the liberal blogosphere , where they seem to have a tough time praising a Republican for doing something right . And some on the right would probably say that about me . I 've spent plenty of time in the last quarter century writing about things that Republicans do wrong . But criticizing Republicans when they deserve it does n't stop me from giving credit where it 's due . So let 's give credit to Josh Romney , the 38-year-old son of the 2012 Republican presidential nominee , who , police have confirmed , helped four people -- a husband , wife , and two teenage sons -- after a car crash in Holladay , Utah . It all happened on Thanksgiving night . After dinner with his parents and family , Romney was driving home with his wife and children when , he told reporters , he saw a car speed by him and crash into the kitchen of a home . He rushed to the scene of the crash . He said that he helped the four passengers out of the wreckage of the car and , police confirmed , he walked them to the front lawn so they could get medical attention . An adult male was in the basement of the home at the time , and he was n't injured . And the family was n't seriously injured . That 's good news . Afterward , Romney went to Twitter -- the modern-day town square -- and tweeted about the experience . He included a photo of himself standing next to the wreckage . This being a photo , he was smiling . The tweet simply read : . `` Was first on scene to big accident , see pic of car in the house . I lifted 4 people out to safety . All ok. Thankful . â€ ” Josh Romney ( @ joshromney ) . '' That 's it . Not exactly a victory lap , is it ? Yet , for his trouble , the hero of this story got hammered by the left and other Twitter users . `` Why are you smiling like a tourist at such a horrific scene ? '' wrote Twitter user Laila Yuile in reaction to Romney 's tweet . Others wrote that Romney 's post constituted a classic `` humblebrag , '' a kind of sneaky boast where someone uses 140 characters to show off without letting it show . We are told that some consider `` humblebragging '' to be an even worse breach of etiquette than plain ol ' generic bragging because it tends to be served up with a side of fake modesty . # Seriously ? This is what we 've come to ? We now go hunting for bad behavior , even when someone does a good deed . Is this sort of thing a result of boredom or poor manners ? ABC News Blogs reported that the term `` humblebrag '' was coined in 2011 by American comedian Harris Wittels . It noted the blowback this way : . `` Josh Romney , Mitt Romney 's son , is drawing some flak after rescuing four people from a car crash on Thanksgiving . It was n't the act itself that sparked the ire of so many on social media , but rather the tweet he posted in the aftermath of his self-acknowledged heroism . '' United Press International reported this : . `` Josh Romney says he helped rescue victims of a car crash in Utah , but now he 's getting grief for talking about it on Twitter . '' I admit that posing in front of wreckage from an auto accident is a little creepy . And , even in the age of Twitter , it should be possible to render aid to those who need it without feeling compelled to broadcast it all over the Internet . And yet , it 's hard to detect any amount of gloating either in the text of Romney 's tweet , or in the statement he issued the day after the accident , part of which read : . `` My family and I are grateful that no one was seriously injured and glad to have been able to help those affected by this terrible accident . What I did to help the people involved in the accident is what anyone else would do who witnessed such a potentially dangerous situation . '' This young man sounds like a class act . Which is more than I can say for those petty souls who , in this case , went out of their way to cast a good Samaritan in a bad light . The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Ruben Navarrette .
Navarrette : Some look for gloom even in feel-good stories , like that of Seriously tweet . Romney tweeted picture of himself , saying he was first on scene of crash , helped victims . He was slammed online for `` humblebragging '' ; Navarrette : Really ? Helping a bad thing ? Ruben Navarrette : He sounds like a class act -- more than the haters deriding a good Holladay .