Megyn Kelly blasts first lady after Fox calls her Dr. Jill Biden: ‘Get a real MD’

NY Post ^ | January 30, 2023 | Ariel Zilber

[dennisw]

Megyn Kelly blasted the first lady after she was introduced on Fox as “Dr. Jill Biden” during the NFC Championship Game on Sunday, calling her a “wannabe” for not having a “real” degree and for “insisting on this fake title.”

Biden was sitting next to NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell in a luxury suite at Lincoln Financial Field in Philadelphia, where the first lady was rooting for her beloved Eagles during their decisive rout of the undermanned San Francisco 49ers on Sunday.

When Fox cameras showed Biden and Goodell in the box, the television network’s graphics introduced her as “Dr. Jill Biden — First Lady of the United States.”

“Announcers for this Eagles-49ers game just spotted the First Lady in a box and of course call her ‘Dr. Jill Biden,'” Kelly tweeted. “Wonder if she realizes what a wannabe she looks like insisting on this fake title.”

Kelly added: “Get a real MD or just work on your self-esteem.”

In 2007, Jill Biden earned a doctorate of education from the University of Delaware. When her husband, President Biden, served as Barack Obama’s vice president, Jill Biden taught English full-time at Northern Virginia Community College.

Jill Biden’s insistence on using the honorific even though she’s not a physician triggered widespread debate about which PhD recipients should be called “doctor.”

In December 2020, the Wall Street Journal published a much-discussed opinion piece by Joseph Epstein, who urged the first lady to do away with the title, “which feels fraudulent, even comic.”

[Mr. K]

Correct. Although at my school we had some amazingly brilliant teachers, for which I am eternally grateful.

My point was that Meghan was petty picking THIS to criticize her, because she actually is a Doctor.

Does Meghan not know that? Does she think only MD’s are doctors? She’s pretty dumb, but...???

She is now opened herself up to ridicule for not knowing that, and for being so petty.

I mean, saying “you’re not a real doctor” was the least of our complaints about the Biden’s.

[gloryblaze]

... My point was that Meghan was petty picking THIS to criticize her...

And your are right.

[ladyjane]

.you’re such an intellectual idiot to believe PhD studies are more rigorous than MD studies, testing, licensing.

Medical doctors are practitioners. You want them doing the surgery. When it comes to generating knowledge, doing research, you want Ph.D's even if it is medical or drug research. Look at all the editors of the New England Journal and see all the M.D. Ph.D's and those with just the Ph.Ds in statistics. Same with the reviewers at the journal. Your research wouldn't get through the first review without a statistician as an author.

[Albion Wilde]