Op-Ed Writer Calls Her Phd 'Fraudulent' …
Bizarre Comments Ignite Outrage
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Posted By: earlybird,
12/12/2020 4:59:52 PM
Joe Biden's wife, Jill Biden, should stop insisting on people calling her "Dr." because her PhD is meaningless ... so argues an op-ed writer, who's getting destroyed over his hot take.
Essayist Joseph Epstein penned a bizarre piece for the Wall Street Journal this weekend that's being called sexist, misogynistic, belittling ... (Snip)because he publicly asks the future First Lady to "drop the doc.” (Tweet)The op-ed is titled "Is There a Doctor in the White House? Not if You Need an M.D." -- and his opening graph is a doozy (in a bad way). Epstein writes, "Madame First Lady -- Mrs. Biden -- Jill -- kiddo:
Reply 1 - Posted by:
earlybird 12/12/2020 5:01:43 PM (No. 630084)
Epstein’s whole opener:
Madame First Lady—Mrs. Biden—Jill—kiddo: a bit of advice on what may seem like a small but I think is a not unimportant matter. Any chance you might drop the “Dr.” before your name? “Dr. Jill Biden” sounds and feels fraudulent, not to say a touch comic. Your degree is, I believe, an Ed.D., a doctor of education, earned at the University of Delaware through a dissertation with the unpromising title “Student Retention at the Community College Level: Meeting Students’ Needs.” A wise man once said that no one should call himself “Dr.” unless he has delivered a child. Think about it, Dr. Jill, and forthwith drop the doc.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/is-there-a-doctor-in-the-white-house-not-if-you-need-an-m-d-11607727380?fbclid=IwAR0CCD_R8xhXUopilFvgJwQZ0uPTqX6LegTQecmNLkauj4wVZyamVR6Fcmk
But be forewarned: The WSJ piece is behind a paywall..
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Newtsche 12/12/2020 5:07:06 PM (No. 630085)
The Biden name has become synonymous with fraud and facade, perfect democrats.
Mrs. Jill Biden will be needing a doctor when she freaks out over the inevitable Joey ouster from the White House.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
lakerman1 12/12/2020 5:20:56 PM (No. 630089)
DDementia Jo's adulterous second wife, Jill, was a special ed reading teacher. And she taught remedial reading in a community college.
Her 'doctorate' is in Educational leadership, an academic degree invented / tossed together beginning in the 1980s, to credential h.s. principals and school superintendents who needed the title.
Doctoral dissertations are minimally important. Giving happy talk to community college students is nice, but, don't present Dirty Jill as Doctor Jill. She is not too bright.
(I hold a Ph.D. from a prestigious program, and almost never felt the need to present myself as 'Doctor' although I certainly earned the degree.)
Dirty Jill is an embarrassment to all academics.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
sparky joe 12/12/2020 5:25:39 PM (No. 630093)
She’s Technically Correct to be addressed that way, but one of the Funniest- Most Uninformed moments of the year, by one of the Least Funny, Most Uninformed and Pretentious bloviators on TV, was when Whoopi Goldberg suggested that Pretend-President-Elect Biden appoint her to be
Surgeon General because “SHE’S AN AMAZING MEDICAL DOCTOR”
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
NeverForget 12/12/2020 5:35:47 PM (No. 630099)
I earned a Juris DOCTORATE -- certainly harder than a Phd in Education (among the most meaningless doctorates). I guess I should make people call me "Doctor".
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Strike3 12/12/2020 5:35:55 PM (No. 630100)
She's certainly no Michelle Obama.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
earlybird 12/12/2020 5:38:10 PM (No. 630101)
One I’ll never be able to forget was the commenter somewhere who said Jill sounds like Edith Bunker...
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
tsquare 12/12/2020 5:42:16 PM (No. 630104)
Jill Biden is a real doctor, not an md. And normally, real doctors do not hide behind their titles except in professional contexts.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
HerbVA 12/12/2020 5:44:04 PM (No. 630106)
I’ll be a bit more expansive than Epstein than referring to someone as “doctor” if you have delivered a baby: if you can write a prescription, then I’ll confer that title on you. A Ed.D is a horses#*t title for someone not smart or diligent enough to earn a Ph.D.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
earlybird 12/12/2020 5:46:51 PM (No. 630109)
#8 puzzles me. When did a EdD become a “real doctor” while an MD is not?
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
MA Radical 12/12/2020 5:48:19 PM (No. 630112)
Actually it's an EdD which is inferior to a PhD.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Lawsy0 12/12/2020 6:02:15 PM (No. 630121)
Once I worked with a man who had so many university degrees we could have called him Doctor Fahrenheit. He'd say it was easier just to call him by his first name, and his last name if needed. The rule is, ''if you can do it, it ain't bragging.''
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Rama41 12/12/2020 6:29:55 PM (No. 630132)
She's as phony as Lieutenant Colonel Vindman, using a title solely for unwarranted respect.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
JunkYardDog 12/12/2020 6:32:14 PM (No. 630135)
Jill BIden's doctorate came from a Crackerjack box. It is that meaningless.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Rumblehog 12/12/2020 6:52:17 PM (No. 630149)
I recall the hilarious exchange on the original CNN "Crossfire" show between Pat Buchanan and the old curmudgeon (& true liberal), Tom Braden. Somehow they got on the subject of Education Degrees and Braden injected how worthless such things were. He offered up and example of a Dissertation someone he knew wrote to earn such a "prestigious" title. It was, "On the Use of Plastic Trays in Cafeteria Lunchrooms." It had Buchanan, and I, in tears!
She ain't no DOCTOR! PhD's get to be called, "Professor," if that!
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
OhioNick 12/12/2020 7:21:25 PM (No. 630169)
When growing up, I held teachers in high esteem. Not now. They push a leftist agenda, they're more interested in keeping teachers employed than in educating students, they're the cash trough for the Democratic Party, and thanks to powerful unions it's nearly impossible to fire an inept teacher.
And whenever I meet a teacher, I can't help thinking about the fact that in nearly every state, education majors have the lowest SAT and ACT scores of any field. Sure, there's smart teachers. But most of are intellectually average, and that's who is teaching our children.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Vesicant 12/12/2020 7:30:06 PM (No. 630172)
"Doctor, doctor, will I be able to read after the surgery?"
"Why are you asking me? I'm a teacher."
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
anniebc 12/12/2020 7:46:12 PM (No. 630184)
Fraudulent is real in the leftists' world.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
jdh 12/12/2020 7:50:40 PM (No. 630187)
Dr. Biden deserves the same respect as Dr. Bill Cosby, EdD.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
jar 12/12/2020 8:06:26 PM (No. 630190)
In college, most of my professors had Ph D degrees. We always called them Mr., Mrs., or (in those days) Miss so-and-so. When I once referred to a classmate, who had since been awarded a Ph D, as "Dr.," she told me it was bad form to use the title in that manner, so please drop the doc. I've since heard many professionals laugh at the designation "Dr. Jill Biden," and figure the Bidens are just too ignorant to know.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
NorthernDog 12/12/2020 8:13:55 PM (No. 630197)
I once heard Jesse Jackson referred to as the Honorable Doctor Reverend Jackson. All three titles were false. But liberals embrace phoniness.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
snakeoil 12/12/2020 10:00:08 PM (No. 630214)
Bet The DJ could palaver at length on why Jack and Jill went up that hill. My preferred title would be El Supremo.
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It’s racist to call Jill Biden Doctor and not Bill Cosby Doctor. He has the same type of Ph.D as she does.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
Highlander 12/13/2020 6:43:59 AM (No. 630301)
I will call her “Doctor Biden” if she puts forth her hand and tells me to turn my head and cough.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
5 handicap 12/13/2020 7:40:11 AM (No. 630340)
The one title she's earned and deserves to be called is Trollope. First Trollope Easy Jill.
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
F15 Gork 12/13/2020 8:16:23 AM (No. 630377)
Madame First Lady? Naw make that Lady in Waiting or Clown Princess.......
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
earlybird 12/13/2020 10:00:21 AM (No. 630473)
Re #9, nurse practitioners and physician assistants can now write prescriptions.
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
earlybird 12/13/2020 10:04:37 AM (No. 630476)
PS. Someone needs to tell the TMZ staff that Jillie’s degree is NOT a PhD. I doubt that they know the difference.
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
kewmac 12/13/2020 10:35:01 AM (No. 630529)
Back in the 1970's, the AP Style Guide proscribed using the title 'doctor' for any other than a medical doctor. It was certainly appropriate to append the title PhD, JD, EdD, PharmD, etc. as appropriate. This was brought to my attention by a friend who was a newspaper editor after I had earned a PhD in chemistry and while I was working on an MD. I wonder what the current guide has to say on the matter?
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Reply 30 - Posted by:
Strike3 12/13/2020 10:58:56 AM (No. 630555)
Joe and Jill Biden are the kind of fodder that real comedians love. They will be the subjects of ridicule now whether they make it to the White House or not. Donald Trump just dished it right back. The Bidens will get angry and cry for respect. The Obamas remained sacred cows to most of them because of their extreme sensitivity and near one hundred percent support from hollywood but every now and then there was a good shot.
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Reply 31 - Posted by:
Bison65 12/13/2020 11:07:14 AM (No. 630567)
My neighbor in Maryland held a pHd in physics from Norte Dame. To all at work and the neighborhood he was just Terry. Taught for awhile at West Point. Completely unassuming, a remarkable man, no pretense. The whole Biden family is a complete fraud much like the jug ears family.
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Reply 32 - Posted by:
Strike3 12/13/2020 11:08:30 AM (No. 630569)
If you want to see a group of horrified teachers, challenge them to drop their union and work as independents. I had a whole room in shocked silence when I was running for a school board. I did not get elected but the democrats had to cheat to make sure of that.
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JHHolliday 12/13/2020 11:48:52 AM (No. 630614)
A late relative of mine had a PhD in some obscure religious major. His emails to the family were signed "Dr" so and so. I hope he never found out how amused the rest of the family was about his pretentious signature. He was entitled to it but those 'Dr.' titles should mainly be used between academics unless you are a medical doctor.
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I thought this was pricelss, though a paywall at WSJ blocks much of original piece. But here is much of it…. along with expected reactions from the usual suspects. Epstein goes on - in what amounts to an open letter - to advise that he taught at Northwestern for 30 years with just a BA.