For a party with an elitist superiority complex problem, supposed First-Lady elect Jill Biden is not helping. She’s been getting publicly pissy about the proper form of address if and when you are forced to address her. It’s not Jill Biden; it’s Dr. Jill Biden. Is it now?
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Kyle Smith, writing at NRO, drops the MOAB on the pretentious Jill, and it’s beautiful.
Insisting on being called “Doctor” when you don’t heal people is, among most holders of doctorates, seen as a gauche, silly, cringey ego trip. Consider “Dr.” Jill Biden, who doesn’t even hold a Ph.D. but rather a lesser Ed.D., something of a joke in the academic world. President-elect Joe Biden once explained that his wife sought the degree purely for status reasons: “She said, ‘I was so sick of the mail coming to Sen. and Mrs. Biden. I wanted to get mail addressed to Dr. and Sen. Biden.’ That’s the real reason she got her doctorate,” Joe Biden has said.
Smith notes that Jill’s Ed.D came rubber-stamped from the University of Joe Biden (DBA: University of Delaware). He uses many more words, but Jill getting a “doctorate” from Deleware would look a lot like Ukraine getting a billion dollars. Picture Lunchbox Joe staring down the barrel of a grant funding howitzer.
Mrs. Biden could have turned in a quarter-a**ed excuse for a magazine article written at the level of Simple English Wikipedia and been heartily congratulated by the university for her towering mastery. Which is exactly what happened.
Wait for it.
Jill Biden’s dissertation is not an addition to the sum total of human knowledge. It is not a demonstration of expertise in its specific topic or its broad field. It is a gasping, wheezing, frail little Disney forest creature that begs you to notice the effort it makes to be the thing it is imitating while failing so pathetically that any witnesses to its ineptitude must feel compelled, out of manners alone, to drag it to the nearest podium and give it a participation trophy.
Boom!
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.
Be it known that none of this matters. You will henceforth be required to call her Dr. First Lady Jill Biden, or something, even if Congress meets in early January to unseal the electoral votes and Trump somehow manages to win re-election.
Jill is not a medical doctor, and by the look of it, is not even a real Ed.D. But we’ll be expected to not only call her Dr. Jill (we respectfully decline), we shall enhance the presumption that this somehow qualifies her as an expert on something (COVID, HealthCare, Whatever sells a narrative) other than staying married to Joe.
I think she deserves credit for the latter but not much else.
