'Dr.' Jill Biden? Critics of Op-Ed
Often Omitted the Title
Real Clear Politics,
by
Kalev Leetaru
Original Article
Posted By: NorthernDog,
12/16/2020 9:39:28 AM
Last week an opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal by Joseph Epstein provoked a heated debate over the use of the honorific “Dr.” by future first lady Jill Biden when the writer suggested that only medical doctors should use the courtesy title, rather than anyone with a doctorate. The op-ed drew considerable backlash, with widespread support expressed across news outlets and among the punditry for her use of the prefix. Yet, a close examination of media coverage of Jill Biden over the course of this year suggests that for all their outrage, some of the very media outlets most
Reply 1 - Posted by:
planetgeo 12/16/2020 9:50:41 AM (No. 633488)
I would be good with compromising and calling her "Doctorette."
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
lakerman1 12/16/2020 10:05:18 AM (No. 633511)
I spent 45 minutes this morning reading her 'dissertation.'
It was awful, in style, content, and analysis - 80 pages of mush, full of inductive leaps, commas from out of nowhere.
The University of Delaware and the members of her dissertation committee should be publicly shamed.
Jill, herself, is probably not bright enough to feel shame for her sham 'research.'
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
smokincol 12/16/2020 10:05:29 AM (No. 633512)
after reading some portion of her Ed.D. thesis, I think I know how she got her degree.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Doc1 12/16/2020 10:10:01 AM (No. 633516)
She is legitimately called doctor because she has a doctorate. It doesn't matter if your doctorate is in medicine, philosophy or education the title doctor is appropriate. Most people are only familiar with their medical doctor so using the title for others seems strange. I have a PhD and an MD. After receiving my PhD I taught in a state medical school for eleven years in the basic sciences. I was call doctor by medical students and fellow faculty members, including MDs, I eventually completed the requirements for the MD, so I have two doctoral degrees. Either one is accompanied by the title doctor. As a side, the PhD is a higher academic degree than MD. That's why I put MD, PhD, in that order, behind my name.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Captleemo 12/16/2020 10:40:14 AM (No. 633562)
I have a feeling that Jill Biden is about to get a taste of the crap they threw at Melania Trump for the last four years and she won't be able to take it.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
seamusm 12/16/2020 10:43:35 AM (No. 633568)
Guarantee she gets her way.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
lakerman1 12/16/2020 10:45:52 AM (No. 633573)
#4, that presumes Jill holds a legitimate doctorate.
Read her 'dissertation' and then get back to me.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
czechlist 12/16/2020 10:52:29 AM (No. 633578)
And Barbara Boxer insisted upon being called Senator.
Is it Mexican American, Hispanic, Latino, Latina, Latinx? Womyn? Black, African-American , Person of color? Hx, shx,wx, thyx...? Et tu, Brutx?
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
earlybird 12/16/2020 11:09:30 AM (No. 633605)
Silly woman who doesn’t know any better does something that is inappropriate (talk to others with doctorates), gets smacked for it, and the media go crazy because they don’t know any better.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
earlybird 12/16/2020 11:11:50 AM (No. 633608)
Those who have to brag about their doctorates don’t understand that real scholars don’t usually have to brag. They are known by their work.
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As a Ph.D., I seldom use the title, but my local clinic always uses it. Recently, visiting there with my wife, I was paged as Dr. and a nearby woman asked her, "What sort of Dr. is your husband?" Amused, she replied, "He's not the sort of Dr. who does anybody any good." Her questioner responded, "Oh, he must be a psychiatrist!"
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
wangbuster 12/16/2020 11:21:13 AM (No. 633616)
Dr. Joke.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
skacmar 12/16/2020 12:39:45 PM (No. 633696)
Was Jill Biden ever called Dr. Biden before Joe ran for President or is this a recent thing cooked up by the media to make her seem more special? How about Jill Bide, EdD or Jill Biden, PhD. This recognizes her educational credentials and stops the confusion about her being a medical "doctor" which seems to me what all the fuss is about.
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I have no problem with anyone being called 'Dr.' if they earned a doctorate, whatever the area of their doctorate. But the rule for journalists is that one only calls someone a doctor if they are a take-two-asperin- and-call-me-in-the-morning doctor. Of course journalism ain't what it used to be: journalists no longer contact someone for comment, they 'reach out' to them. (Yuck...)
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
nhveritas 12/16/2020 12:50:11 PM (No. 633714)
I worked around piled higher and deeper (PhD) types for many years. The bright ones had no need to put their PhD out their as they were credible. The ones that always had to put that up as a front were just gas bags. I think it is clear which category Jill falls into...
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
udanja99 12/16/2020 12:56:16 PM (No. 633728)
#3, I think that would be the same way she got Joe.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
stablemoney 12/16/2020 1:18:11 PM (No. 633748)
I will never be calling Joe "President" either.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
snakeoil 12/16/2020 1:20:26 PM (No. 633752)
Not to go off topic but the game show participant Dorothy Kilgallen (What's My Line) was made an honorary Admiral in the Nebraska Navy. Many universities bestow honorary doctorate degrees to wealthy and/or famous people. Does Oprah deserve to be Dr. Oprah? Should you address a plumber know as "The Leak Doctor" Doc Leak or would Hey You suffice? I've picked up some degrees in my time I'm happy with Sir or Mister.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
MickTurn 12/16/2020 1:47:26 PM (No. 633786)
After reading her pathetic Disertation for her 'title' it appears that a 5th grader took statements from Media outlets and put them together with silly putty...What a piece of Drivel...and THIS makes her a 'Doctor'? I certainly my MD took more courses and understands HIS Job better than this sad excuse of a 'Teacher'!
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
Krause 12/16/2020 2:05:40 PM (No. 633809)
If you were PhDLgBq you'd be really cool with the left, I bet.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
Philipsonh 12/16/2020 3:30:12 PM (No. 633893)
I thought the Dr. preceeding her name meant Director (of Biden politics).
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
JHHolliday 12/16/2020 4:12:31 PM (No. 633913)
I had a late relative who had a Ph.D. in some obscure theological degree. He signed all his emails as "Dr." even to us relatives. A nice guy even though a leftist and I hope he never learned that the rest of the family was laughing behind his back at the pretentious signature.
And since January is coming up and MLK Jr. day we might as well get used to the media's overuse of 'Dr' for MLK. It is always non-stop Doctor King this and Doctor King that on and on and on. Never a mention of the fact that he plagiarized his dissertation and really isn't entitled to his Ph.D.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
karo 12/16/2020 4:36:17 PM (No. 633943)
I'm chuckling, folks. I found said dissertation online, and in the SECOND sentence of the introduction I see this:
"The needs of the student population are often undeserved, resulting in a student drop-out rate of almost one third."
I believe she means "underserved" as in inadequately met, yet she writes "undeserved" as in not deserved. She uses the correct word on page 6.
Who lets a typo like that go out on page vii of a dissertation? LOL! Get an editor, DOCTOR!
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Almost every media outlet has a policy of Not using the title of Doctor unless it's a medical professional.