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Jill Biden’s Doctorate Is Garbage Because Her Dissertation Is Garbage
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| 16 Dec 2020
| Kyle Smith
Posted on 12/17/2020 6:51:51 AM PST by Rummyfan
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My friends, I have read this document in its entirety and it is so equally lacking in rhetorical force, boldness of conception, and original research that it amounts to a triple null set, a vacuum inside a blank inside an abyss. If Ingmar Bergman were alive and hired to make a film about this paper, he would say, “I can’t do it, there’s so much emptiness even I cannot grasp it,” and it would sound so much worse in Swedish that suicide hotlines would have to hire extra staff. Gene Simmons has a better claim to be a Doctor of Love than Jill Biden to be a Doctor of Education; after all, Simmons has spent a lifetime demonstrating mastery of his field. As for Biden, she has spent a lot of time teaching remedial English to slow learners in community colleges. Which is like being a rock musician who’s in a bar band. That plays covers. At mixers. Held in assisted-living facilities. Mrs. Biden’s dissertation emits so much noxious methane the EPA should regulate it, Greta Thunberg should denounce it, and Hollywood celebrities should hold a telethon to draw awareness to its dangers.
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posted on
12/17/2020 6:51:51 AM PST
by
Rummyfan
To: Rummyfan
Okay this is a stupid argument. There are many different types of doctorate. A lawyer is actually a JD (Doctor of jurisprudence). A chemist or physicist is a PhD (Doctor of philosophy) A doctor of education is an EeD.
Get off this topic already. Who cares about Jill Biden.
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posted on
12/17/2020 6:55:35 AM PST
by
Mr. K
(No consequence of repealing obamacare is worse than obamacare itself)
To: Rummyfan
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posted on
12/17/2020 6:56:07 AM PST
by
PghBaldy
(12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
To: Mr. K
What do you call a doctor with a “C’” average in med school?
Doctor...
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posted on
12/17/2020 6:58:52 AM PST
by
Mathews
(It's all gravy, baby!)
To: Rummyfan
As if we needed another article about this. This article in particular comes across as mean and vindictive. “Dr. Jill Biden” is a joke, everyone knows it, like “Dr. Phil” and Dr. Gorka. Its pointless.
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posted on
12/17/2020 6:59:43 AM PST
by
Paradox
(Don't call them mainstream, there is nothing mainstream about the MSM.)
To: Mr. K
I hear you, but I think any opportunity to point out the vacuity of these people is fair game. She’s a poseur. BTW, I’ll bet I worked a lot harder for my JD and learned a lot more than she did for her Ed.D, but it’s thought pretentious to use the title doctor for a JD, and universally is t done
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posted on
12/17/2020 7:04:03 AM PST
by
j.havenfarm
(20 years on Free Republic, 12/10/20! More than 3700 replies and still not shutting up!)
To: Mathews
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posted on
12/17/2020 7:04:40 AM PST
by
Mr. K
(No consequence of repealing obamacare is worse than obamacare itself)
To: Mr. K
I wholeheartedly agree with the author’s observation(s) cause I hated it, utterly, when my student’s called me Dr.
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posted on
12/17/2020 7:04:51 AM PST
by
cranked
To: Rummyfan
...who doesn’t even hold a Ph.D. but rather a lesser Ed.D., something of a joke in the academic world.I'm not defending anyone named Biden, but this is an insult to my dad who held an Ed.D. He retired as Professor Emeritus, something a whole bunch of Pd.D.s didn't.
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posted on
12/17/2020 7:05:14 AM PST
by
real saxophonist
(Yeah, well, you know that's just like, uh... your opinion, man.)
To: cranked
I keep telling my kids that when I grow up I’m gonna finish my PhD in physics and then I’m gonna MAKE them call me “Doctor daddy”
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posted on
12/17/2020 7:07:35 AM PST
by
Mr. K
(No consequence of repealing obamacare is worse than obamacare itself)
To: Mr. K
A doctor of education is an EeD... short for ED :-) !!
Seems fitting !!
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posted on
12/17/2020 7:07:41 AM PST
by
maddog55
((the only thing systemic in America is the left's hatred of it!))
To: real saxophonist
PS - He never cared if anyone addressed him as Doctor or not.
He got his Doctorate back when one had to do actual research, there was no Google in the late '60s.
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posted on
12/17/2020 7:07:41 AM PST
by
real saxophonist
(Yeah, well, you know that's just like, uh... your opinion, man.)
To: Rummyfan
A doctorate in ‘education’ is garbage. Any teacher wanting a real doctorate can get one. The education system created this idiot participation trophy to try to elevate their standing.
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posted on
12/17/2020 7:09:15 AM PST
by
CodeToad
(Arm Up! They Have!)
To: Mr. K
Heh. For me, being called Dr was cringeworthy stuff, really dunno why, but yeah....
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posted on
12/17/2020 7:09:34 AM PST
by
cranked
To: real saxophonist
“He retired as Professor Emeritus, something a whole bunch of Pd.D.s didn’t.”
That’s a political appointment, especially for a doctorate in ‘education’. A Professor Emeritus 75 years ago would have been an accomplishment. Today, it means someone who raised enough funds for the school.
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posted on
12/17/2020 7:11:03 AM PST
by
CodeToad
(Arm Up! They Have!)
To: Mr. K
I earned my doctorate at a well known prestigious university. On my first day of grad school I was told that “the only ‘doctors’ here are in the hospital.” All professors, even the great names, were addressed as “Mister.”
To: Rummyfan
what you think of her dissertation is irrelevant. the institution who awarded the phd to her accepted it as sufficient. you have no voice in the matter. there are many more concrete reasons to criticize the bidens other that this seemingly petty matter.
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posted on
12/17/2020 7:12:02 AM PST
by
camle
(keep and open mind and someone will fill it full of something for you)
To: Mr. K
People with Doctor of Education degrees are most insistent upon the title “Doctor” because theirs is the weakest doctoral-level degree.
To: cranked
The only ones who call me that are Hillsdale people.
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posted on
12/17/2020 7:12:56 AM PST
by
Don Corleone
(The truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth)
To: Rummyfan
Whether she wants to call herself doctor, (I shrug my shoulders), but I looked it over. She had a very weak topic to begin with and she only did about 80 pages of a body. The rest of it was appendix info - that is where you provide info to support your thesis. The appendix is usually supplying information from another person, not plagiarism but still somebody else's work. Half of her dissertation was in her appendix.
What she wrote should have been at least 150 pages of original thesis work.
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posted on
12/17/2020 7:14:24 AM PST
by
Slyfox
(Not my circus, not my monkeys )
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