Posted on 01/30/2023 10:40:24 AM PST by 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.”
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After plowing thru the flatulent bio on wikipedia, I confirmed she has an Ed.D aka “doctor of education”. Both are terminal degrees but the Ed.d is practice-based and thus easier to get than a research-based PhD. But she is entitled to use the honorific.
Here is one brief item on EdD.
https://www.uagc.edu/blog/edd-vs-phd-whats-the-difference
Even the worst school leaders love to call themselves doctor
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https://headinthesandblog.org/2017/06/ed-d-school-leaders-demand-called-doctor-please-get/
She is as much a “Dr.” as Dr. Dre.
Howinthehell does spell-check come up with that?
Most universities recognize the PhD as the highest degree offered. Bill Cosby, like Jill Biden, holds an Ed.D. degree.
Remember callers would call Michael Savage Dr. Savage?
I have two brothers with PhDs.
One in a hard science (hydrology) the other in “Education”.
(The rest of my brothers have a Masters. My sister and I just have a Bachelors)
They both agree that is it impossible for anyone with a degree in “Education” to be a ‘real’ PhD. The issue is lack of a deep mathematics education...
The funny part - to me - is that the Edu brother learned German to be able read/understand the primary source for much of his math studies. Turns out, Statisticians don’t make as much as teachers.... so, he turned to the dark side.
*Dr Jill* is an outright joke. I am reminded of the phrase “Pretentions twit”
Elena Ceausescu: Greatest Scientist Ever — except she was a fraud
https://paperpile.com/blog/elena-ceausescu-scientist-fraud/
...seated next to Dr. Roger Goodell, watching all the Philadelphia Doctors play.
Uh, make that an EdD. Very little philosophy learned in her case.
LOLOL!
“Nothing fake about a PhD.”
what always is missing is an adjective, such as medical.
astrophysics, or educational, et al.
Takes a lot of time and effort to get a PhD, I respect that, but acting like something you are not is not ethical. Much of our population are stupid and easily taken in.
She does, too. Haven't you noticed that zombie that is always following her around?
Reminiscent of Maya Angelou, who referred to herself as Doctor, based on an honorary Doctor of Letters by some university or other.
But she is not even good enough to lick the shoes of this guy: Harold Ramis teachs English (youtube).
“LOL! That’s like calling PedoJoe, PRESIDENT!”
or Hunter an artist?
why can’t we call the PhDs Philosophers as in Philosopher Biden. And call MDs doctors as in Dr Seigle
“Son of beech....Sheet!”
“A PhD is a doctorate degree but is not the same as a medical doctor.”
Neither of which she has.
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