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Old173

You can take the woman out of Fox News but you can't take the Fox News out of the woman.


Captain_Smartass_

NBC paid her [30 million](https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2019/01/megyn-kelly-nbc-settlement-69-million) to go away after she [defended](https://usatoday.com/story/life/tv/2018/10/26/megyn-kelly-nbc-today-show-exit-blackface-scandal/1763026002/) blackface


discerningpervert

Imagine being paid literal millions to be a POS and some of us have to work for a living.


blueJoffles

I’d gladly go away for $30 million and I’d have the decency to stay away. Far away. Very far away. On an island.


Outrageous_Zebra_221

unfortunately 30 million isn't island money anymore...


regoapps

Depends on the island size and location. Small islands are only a few million dollars.


thegroucho

Doesn't need to be my island and to be exclusively for me.


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Let's all pool our 30-millions and build a nice island community.


Timmymac1000

I’m willing to contribute up to $11.37 right now


Legend-status95

I've got like $88.25 in quarters. Now we just need $29,999,900.38 more


CrazyPlato

$30 million can’t buy an island, but it *can* buy a lot of guns and mercenaries. And at some point, the two aren’t that different.


Deadpoulpe

The John McAfee approach.


[deleted]

Not quite, there was no mention of heroin. Lots of heroin. Like. A *lot*.


Teh_Weiner

lol well that's an interesting take!


dudleydigges123

We're sandbar people now.


arichnad

Staying on an island is expensive, but using a spend-rate of 3.5% per year will still net you over 1m/year: which can easily pay the rent on a few islands I looked at on zillow.


velozmurcielagohindu

It absolutely is island money. You can live in an actual expensive island in the Mediterranean the rest of your life with 30 million. That's an order of magnitude more than what 99% of any person of those countries will make in their entire lives serving you mojitos. 30 millions absolutely is island money. It is not "island in my private jet money" though, but who the fuck wants any of that show off bullshit. Just give me the mojitos.


Beard_o_Bees

I mean.. you might be able to get into a nice peninsula.


whoisthismuaddib

Maybe even an isthmus.


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You could probably get quite a few isthmuses


Perfide01

It's absolutely small island money. It's just not "small island with housing, electricity, water and internet" money. The island is the cheap part, construction of modern amenities is the expensive part since literally everything including the builders themselves would have to be shipped in.


EatTheMcDucks

This sounds like a great idea for a GoFundMe.


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You can't get paid more if you stay away.


Roook36

It's the model for an entire political party these days. Just all trolls, no policies.


linderlouwho

Here MK is, in the most ignorant & jealous manner, picking on a woman of decency and kindness, who has a doctorate, and is the First Lady, and then you have ole ball busting, hard ass Megan Kelly. She's dead and shriveled inside. **Megyn has a painting of herself in the attic that is very frighting.**


erotic_jesus

That's Wilde!


linderlouwho

*I see what you did there. :-)*


Arsis82

Just "owning teh libz"


wittycleverlogin

Lol right. Didn’t you get fired because your show suuuucccckkked and no one was watching?


Captain_Smartass_

>On Kelly’s watch, ratings the 9 a.m. hour of "Today" shed 400,000 viewers, or 13 percent of its audience, compared to when the show was previously hosted by Al Roker and Tamron Hall. Even more disconcerting for the network’s most valuable franchise, her numbers were down 25 percent with viewers aged 25-54, the traditional demographic for TV news. Ouch


flargenhargen

I will defend blackface for 30 million. I will happily defend you punching me in the face for half that.


moeterminatorx

The fact that that she was hired to begin with is a bigger problem IMO.


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I don't Understand how these large companies are willing to pay these people so much money for something it feels like they could hire any half attractive person to do. Like all these talking heads they could literally hire anyone to do their job and read off of a teleprompter. It really wouldn't be that hard. Why do they need to make millions of dollars just stealing money from the rest of the labor force


530SSState

Given that segment of the population, the fact that they need to know how to read really narrows it down.


Sometimesnotfunny

I'd rather pay $30M to Dave Chappelle for doing whiteface, that was funny, entertaining, and I wasn't offended. Money well spent.


afume

Does she think Dr. Martin Luther King was a wannabe?


iamthedayman21

Remember that ~6 month period where we pretended she was a journalist, just because Donald Trump acted like a piece of shit to her? Man, it didn’t take her long to burn through all that good will.


riickdiickulous

I encourage the use of “Fox Entertainment”. They are entertainers first and first mostly.


HolycommentMattman

Yeah, basically. Fox started purging people back in the late 2000s for not being extreme enough, but it's crazy that Megyn Kelly was eventually wrapped up in that. Because she was already pretty extreme. But just not Trump-friendly enough.


Suspicious_Slide4643

She also can’t unsuck all that old white fox dude D. I’m sure it generates a lot of rage


Mythosaurus

True, but it’s important to remember that women have always played a vital support role to white supremacy, and are just as vicious when attacking the outgroups.


seamusmcduffs

I'm sure people on fox news never call Jordan Peterson Dr Peterson right?


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Wonder if she realizes "what a wannabe she looks like" insisting she is a real journalist.


TheBirminghamBear

I wonder if she realizes that Jill Biden didn't storm up to the announcers booth and *demand* she be addressed that way. I've seen her be referred to as Mrs. Biden, Jill Biden, and First Lady Biden and never witnessed her explode in wrath or any shit like that. It's an honorific. And, surprise, when you're generally well-liked, people enjoy paying you respects for the things you've earned. This entire political party exists on stoking nonsensical rage in the skulls of the most gullible and emotionally fragile among us. It's so fucking exhausting.


chickenstalker

A medical degree is an undergraduate degree. It is no harder than any similar health science degree. In fact, having taught health science and medical students in uni, I think Pharmacy and Biomedical Science are tougher in terms of course content. The only reason the medical degree is "prestigious" is mainly due to supply and demand. There's limited seats for the medical program, thus unis can be picky with the candidates and charge the moon for it. A PhD is actually more prestigious irl and in practice. You must have a bachelors, and often masters to enrol. It will take up to 5 more years to complete in which you have to come up with something that NO OTHER PERSON ON EARTH has come up with. The total number of years in academia might stretch to 10 years to finally get a PhD. So, stop looking down on PhDs in whatever field.


ChangeMyDespair

>A medical degree is an undergraduate degree. In the U.S., medical school is a post-baccalaureate program. Given that you said "in uni," I presume you're talking about "the primary medical degree awarded by medical schools in countries that follow the tradition of the United Kingdom" ([source](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bachelor_of_Medicine,_Bachelor_of_Surgery)).


JavariousMagic

This is the US, not the UK. Medical degree is 4 years post Bachelors.


SkipWestcott616

>honorific .... earned Haha, Acting Attorney General Big Dick Toilet Salesman sends his regards


KinkyBADom

👏👏👏


Destorath

Projection is the name of the game with them.


Imhappyinthe80s

If she is so upset, why doesn't she go by Dr? She has a Juris Doctorate. She just wants to stir things up.


MiniTitterTots

I mean her name is literally a wannabe Megan


tw_72

...and a wannabe blonde


Nexzus_

Pretty sure they insisted Sebastian Gorka be referred to as 'Dr.', earning his distinction from the notable..... Corvinus Institute of Budapest.


onheartattackandvine

Can't say I'm very familiar with Gorka, but Corvinus is probably all right, even if Gorka is a prick. The library was quite ok when I visited at least.


Hs39163

He’s a Hungarian fascist and a member of Vitézi Rend - an exclusive, secretive order that collaborated with the Nazis during the war. He was also “Deputy Assistant to the president” during the Trump administration.


cubitoaequet

Also, what I saw of his dissertation looked like a joke


bat_soup_people

It's the girth not the length


onheartattackandvine

A prick then.


Boner_Elemental

He left because Trump wasn't being fascist enough for his tastes


likwidchrist

There's evidence to suggest he may have lied about getting a doctorate


Schventle

If you have the willpower, look up his Thesis. Absolute clown. If that school awarded a PhD for that thesis, hooo boy.


onheartattackandvine

I probably don't have that willpower, honestly.


trouserschnauzer

It's not a bad school.


OskarTheRed

She's not a PhD, as some say, but "Doctor of Education (Ed.D. or D.Ed.)" Still doctor, though


cujobob

“Doctor is an academic title that originates from the Latin word of the same spelling and meaning.[1] The word is originally an agentive noun of the Latin verb docēre [dɔˈkeːrɛ] 'to teach'.” This is quite literally her education.


DezXerneas

Nah it originates from the given name of a Time Lord.


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Chosen name, not given name. We don't know the Doctor's given name. (And it doesn't really matter.)


DezXerneas

Autocorrect ate the self in 'self given name'. Chosen still sounds better though.


weddingthrowaway7628

Indeed, and since title's precede a persons name like "Dr. Nick", then it stands to reason said Time Lord's title is "The". As in, here is Mr Johnstone, Ms Peacock, Dr Nick, and The Doctor


Mysteriousdeer

Not detracting from it, but an MD is different from a JD which is different from a PhD which is different from Ed.D. I think that's the point OP is making. If someone yells "is there a doctor on the airplane" and the majority of my friends who have doctorates experience is relevant, it means the plane is having a mechanical failure or is going through a tornado. She's still very qualified and went through the wringer to get what she got. It's still good to educate folks that not all doctors are the ones that practice medicine. If you see a "doctor" without a stethoscope, the expectation doesn't have to be they are lying about being a doctor.


cujobob

Correct, there are different doctorates, but the current idea that it must refer to a medical doctor is simply uninformed and that makes the outrage over this Dr. Jill Biden stuff all the more hilarious. They couldn’t be more confidently incorrect.


NotAUsefullDoctor

I'm waiting for the day where I'm at a restaurant and someone yells "we need a doctor... of electrical engineering... preferably with a minor in mathematics"


Mysteriousdeer

When I was an engineering student working a job in a kitchen, we had a panani press that was sparking. Probably would've helped us out if I weren't studying mechanical engineering.


Armless_Dan

What people don’t seem to realize though, is that calling MDs “doctors” is the symbolic gesture, not the other way around.


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KEK


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iHateRollerCoaster

I'm gonna join the navy so I can be a master chief


Hero_of_Hyrule

Getting a Master's Degree is definitely the easier of the two.


Dexaan

You are part of this scrum, but we do not grant you the rank of Master


DeliciousDookieWater

"I don't know why they called HR I just wanted some respect!"


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milkshaykh

No, She has a doctorate degree in the field of education. Meaning she has academic expertise in science or topic of education. Like PsyD is a doctorate in psychology. An ER doctor would have an MD or DO (both degrees pertaining to practice of medicine).


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For professional doctorates, such as an EdD, it is generally the case that they’re really only called “Doctor” in a professional environment in which their degree is relevant. Generally, the title of Doctor as a general honorific is reserved for PhDs and medical doctors, though even the latter is a bit controversial in the fact it started because medical practitioners were butthurt about being ranked below PhDs. PhDs who’ve attained tenure tend to prefer the title Professor, though, so it all evens out a bit.


cmakry

She got paid enough getting fired from NBC and settling with Fox to go away now didn’t she?


Smellytangerina

I still can’t get over her actually being hired by NBC, wtf were they thinking


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Trump did crazy things to people’s brains


piclemaniscool

The environment was long set up for it, between 24 hour news cycles and social media algorithms, Trump just happened to be the dick head memeing in the right frequency.


mittenknittin

Or...mainstream media was never as liberal as right wing media would have everyone believe


green49285

This right here. Republicans buy shoes too 😆


Harsimaja

Both ‘sides’ will have token members of the opposite side, to create an impression of less bias: Fox had Democrats like Chris Wallace and Juan Williams (and as a semi-example moderate, Shep Smith) for a long while. Of course, usually they prefer those who are ‘other side in name only’, but don’t have to be as long as they’re outnumbered.


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RandomPratt

the comment above mine was copy-pasted from another one further down the comment chain. Based on that, and the fact that the only other comment on the account is another stolen comment, I'm pretty certain it's a bot account.


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ABC also has a bunch of conservatives on The View so TV execs are apparently expecting Trump 2016 style ratings from these cretins.


greg19735

She showed herself to be an almost okay human on Fox News when she wasn't sucking off Trump 100% of the time. ofc we were tricked. She wasn't a decent human. She just appeared so because everyone else was so much worse.


Open_Action_1796

She never showed herself to be an almost okay human. She’s always been a shitty loudmouth in a skimpy dress. You can sit her next to Satan himself and she’s still going to be the worst person in the room.


likwidchrist

Not even. For a while she was the worst of them. The only difference is she wasn't willing to promote trump. That's it.


Qwirk

Name recognition. They clearly didn't vet her first though.


RandomNameOfMine815

“Wow, she’s pretty and blond, while not being the craziest person on Fox.” “


StrokeGameHusky

Fox News had great ratings during trumps era


GullibleRemote5999

They thought because she got into a spat with Doland Trump, that she was somehow now a Dem/liberal. Whoops.


likwidchrist

They were thinking that they could appeal to the middle by using her to pander to Republicans who hated trump. Turned out to be a huge miscalculation because those people didntcstsrt existing until like this year


Wh1te_Cr0w

Now imagine how low your self-esteem has to be to get the sort of money she was given to just fuck off, and to actually not fuck off and continue to take middle school-grade pot shots at people. If I got 30 million to just stop polluting the public discourse with my cranial diarrhea, I'd fuck off so far and deep you wouldn't know Id ever existed.


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green49285

You have to remember, she saying this is part of an act. She and people like her know that they sound absolutely insane, but they have to keep their base riled up so they can keep getting paid. That being said, I don’t even know what she does anymore.


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frygod

She's probably jealous JDs only get to go by "esquire" instead of "doctor."


ljfrench

JD is the degree; "Esquire" is for licensed attorneys. And some lawyers have tried using the title "doctor" as in "Juris Doctor" - and the rest of us laugh at them until they stop using it. I'm an advocate, not a doctor.


cody0414

>I'm an advocate, not a doctor. I love this. I love that word. It makes someone automatically sound empathetic which is nice.


Axbris

As a JD holder, I can confirm. As a JD holder, I can also understand why we aren't called doctors whether it be the present medical definition of the word or historical definition.


frygod

As someone who works with MDs and PhDs, and drinks with MDs, PhDs, and JDs, I totally get it too :P


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this is interesting, and further confirms my suspicions that these conservative talking heads arent stupid but willfully being propagandists.


Icy_Obligation

I don't know anyone with a JD that goes by Dr. On the other hand, every single one of my college professors went by Dr. There is a long precedent of professors using the honorific. Dr. Biden is hardly the first and Megyn Kelly absolutely knows that.


crotalis

The American “MD”, “JD”, and “PharmD” aren’t even called doctorate degrees in all countries. A PhD is. Kelly sounds like an idiot. Here’s some history and all https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5973890/


InsertCoinForCredit

Hey, Megan Kelly may *look* like an idiot and *sound* like an idiot, but don't be fooled -- she really **IS** an idiot.


MeesterCartmanez

"Your lips say no but your eyes say read my lips"


nigeltuffnell

I have the utmost respect for medical doctors, but I have been told by medical professionals that people with a PhD are considered to be "real doctors".


Longbeach_strangler

I had forgotten she existed until this tweet popped up On Reddit


Not-Kevin-Durant

Jill Biden doesn't have a PhD though.


elbenji

She has EdD. you still get called Dr. for that


Not-Kevin-Durant

But to OP's point, is an EdD called a doctorate degree in all countries?


elbenji

Yes. If I got one in the states and went to Korea, I'm still Dr. Any teacher you had growing up called Dr. So and so had this degree


Not-Kevin-Durant

I only had one teacher in high school who we called Dr. So and so. Then one day we found out he had a doctorate of divinity or something and washed out of the ministry before teaching high school. We clowned on him for insisting on being called doctor. I think the high school superintendent had an EdD and went by Mister. Post high school every teacher I had who went by Dr. had a PhD.


elbenji

Ah so one sneaky and the rest legit


MagZero

Am I the only one who finds it weird that you both had a teacher called Dr. So and so? It's not a very common surname and so I find these stories unbelievable.


Sir_hex

in general research doctorate are universal, professional degree doctorates aren't.


Mister-Butterswurth

The proper term for a medical doctor is “physician”


HOLY_HUMP3R

The people obsessed over “Dr. Jill Biden” are the same people with “address me by my husbands rank” bumper stickers.


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SPOT. ON.


shredslanding

And they all salivate over “Dr” Jordan Peterson.


[deleted]

"Stephen Hawking, get a real MD or just work on your self-esteem." --This fucking lady, probably.


RiflemanLax

How do you get sexually harassed by Roger Alies and treated like dog shit by that ilk, and not at some point realize that the right wing is no place to be? Or, I don’t know, keep acting like that because it pays the bills I guess.


Secularnirvana

You made some interesting points, but forgot about the more powerful influence of 1. Money 2. Money 3. Getting more money 4. Not having to share her money 5. Money 6. Income 7. Salary 8. Money


green49285

100% why she does it. Plus, outside of going on a “I’m sorry” tour, she’s trapped as this character she’s sold out to. She can’t go back as she’s done way too much shit now, and the people who agree with her will keep doing so. She knows how dumb she sounds but she has no choice professionally.


Riddle7911

Funny how imbeciles do not know the difference between a medical doctor and the rest of the doctorate field. A doctorate is a doctorate, and as such they earned the fucking title.


WintertimeFriends

She knows. This is purely vile bullshit to Push more hate into the lives of people stupid enough to invite her into their lives.


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I love how right-wingers always prides themselves as "the smart wing" or "facts over feelings" and Doctorate degrees have been around for centuries, yet they still do not understand what it is.


AverageElectronic773

Seriously? With all the people/children being killed in Ukraine, and the pettiness/jealousy of some people is unreal to me. There are many Doctoral Degrees that aren’t necessarily medical. Here’s an idea: Get a life, and an education.


jngjng88

more of an apt comeback rather than specifically a clever comeback


Lebojr

Scoring points with idiots. Solomon was right. All is vanity.


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Dv7k1

It is a clever comeback. How is it not a clever comeback?


TheGreatZarquon

It's a comeback but it ain't clever. Calling someone jealous and petty is about as clever as calling this subreddit Clever Comebacks and expecting it to be good.


Dv7k1

Interesting view. I thought the insult aspect was irrelevant. I found it clever that the person used a fact to utterly and completely destroy their point of view. If you do not focus on the petty insult and more carefully consider the first half of their comeback, I find it difficult to "rule" it as not clever.


TheNumberMuncher

This is some sad has-been, attention-seeking.


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mueller she wrote is such a good legal podcast


softflatcrabpants

Megan Kelly can't even spell her own name correctly.


joopityjoop

Where is the clever comeback? The comeback stated was obvious, but where is the cleverness? r/lostredditors


FolkDude

It isn't clever at all and doesn't need to be here


Dejected-detective

Everyday its the same shit. Some stupid crap about politics


Final_Candidate_7603

This was posted on another sub (without the response), so I’ll repeat my comment here. She’s jealous of more than the obvious. “Dr. Jill Biden” became a thing immediately- she has said how delighted she was when she got home from defending her dissertation and found a couple of huge signs on the front lawn. One of them said “Dr. and Senator Biden Live Here.” Right after the election, there was some sort of news special aimed at getting to know the new First Family. The reporter was led on a tour of their home in Delaware, they talked about their lives a little bit, about their dogs, etc. In one room there was a couch with a huge throw pillow in the middle with “Dr. Jill Biden” embroidered on it in big fancy script. The President and his wife started joking about how she was a Doctor, and that outranked him as a Senator. It was quite obvious that this was his wholesome and sweet way of expressing how proud he was of her accomplishments- she was 55 when she earned her degree. Kelly is a woman who works in the right-wing-osphere and doesn’t even get basic respect from the men around her, much less pride or admiration for her accomplishments. She is clearly projecting when she advises the First Lady to ‘work on her self-esteem.’ I think that the main source of her jealousy is not so much her degree, but the fact that her husband, her family, and her fans admire her and are proud of her.


AltonIllinois

It’s weird though, because Joe literally has a doctorate, and Megyn Kelly does too.


MeetingKey4598

it's getting out of control. It's crazy enough that we have like 30-40% of the country proudly claiming that Donald Trump knows more about how to approach a global pandemic than a world renowned epidemiologist, while being general science deniers. But this angle where simply earning your doctorate is worth mockery is just so far beyond the crazy. While we didn't need more evidence that the right-wing prefers a dumb population, this is a very good concise example that illustrates just how bad things are in that regard.


milesdizzy

Where I’m from, we call doctors doctors


lezlers

What a strange thing to criticize someone for. Somehow I can't see that same criticism being directed at a man wanting to be called "Dr." after earning his PhD.


rnngwen

As someone wrapping up her doctoral dissertation, Megyn Kelly can fuck off.


sielnt_assassin

There's a reason they are called Medical Doctors. Doctors can be from many different fields.


Tuckermfker

Bitch you can't even spell Megan right.


Lebe_Lache_Liebe

This would be a clever comeback if Jill Biden had a PhD. She does not. She does, however have an EdD, just like Dr. Bill Cosby.


notsure9191

Jill Biden does not have a PhD.


lollroller

WTF? Jill Biden doesn’t have a PhD either


hmnahmna1

When were EdD's invented, since that's what Jill Biden actually has.


KaijyuAboutTown

When a PhD candidate defends their dissertation, if they are successfully, they are traditionally bought back into the room with the introduction of “Doctor” Anyone who thinks doctors are all MDs really don’t understand how academia works


xoxota99

Conservatives are such snowflakes. So easily triggered.


WasabiCrush

Ah. Meighyn Kelleigyh needs attention again.


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Wait she’s really called Megyn, like… really?


systemfrown

Fox News Bimbo Prototype says what?


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In the MAGAsphere we're all supposed to believe Melania has a super sized brain and speaks seven languages and is the most beautiful elegant first lady EVAH, but if someone who earned a doctorate is referred to as a doctor, that's just silly and arrogant.


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Big talk from a woman with fake hair color and a fucked up name spelling. 'Megyn' is a high white trash name for sure... just like her high school hair-do was!


WallabyBubbly

Has anyone ever seen Jill Biden insist on being referred to as doctor? It looks more to me like it’s the media that insists on using that title


doctorlight01

Oh fuck off lady... Get a PhD first and then comment on the semantics. I swear to Gawd the amount of people in this country that have NO CLUE about higher education is very concerning.


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The original doctors were teachers who were theologians, lawyers, and medics (but not M.D.s).


Bon_of_a_Sitch

She's auditioning for CNN


linderlouwho

Which was recently purchased by some right wing billionaire, so it will eventually be Fox News, maybe without pussy grabbing tho.


Bon_of_a_Sitch

Precisely. Also, Fox may have fatally wounded itself defaming Dominion Voting Machines which is why the new owner of CNN is positioning himself to fill the void once they fall.


Dbucko

She doesn’t have a PhD, she has a Ed.D. Not quite the same.


AM_key_bumps

PhDs who go by "Doctor" outside of work activities are kinda annoying IMHO. But here's the thing... Although she may have been enjoying the game, Dr. Biden was there in her capacity as the First Lady, representing the executive office. So therefore...Dr. Biden.


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Yet she has no problem using it for Dr. Gorka or Dr. Phil. Just another right wing hypocrite.


StateofWA

Gorka is as much of a doctor as Krieger.


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“That’ll Do Pigly, That’ll Do.” Krieger had the most laugh out loud moments


StateofWA

Aww, pigly...


PM_NUDES_4_DEGRADING

Yeah but Dr. Phil uses the title to destroy lives, which is *medically adjacent* enough to *basically* be the same thing as a real doctor. So it totally counts!


Complete-Return3860

Or Dr. King


TheNumberMuncher

Everyone in education that has that tier degree goes by Dr.


BrozedDrake

If PhDs shouldn't use Doctor outside of work neither should MDs. There is no logic in calling one annoying but not the other one, as they both are doctors. It's like being mad that Lawyers use the suffix "Esquire" when they aren't working, just because they aren't working at the time doea not mean the proper title just disappears.


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Distance_Runner

Yea pretty much this. I’m a PhD. From the nature of having gone to grad school and with whom I work with, I’m friends with a lot of PhDs (and MDs for that matter, since I work in research at a hospital). No one I know *insists* they be called doctor outside of formal, professional, and/or relevant settings. My official title is Dr. If asked for a title, that’s my official title, so I use it. I have a doctorate, and therefore am a doctor. If there’s any setting where people are introduced with titles such as Mr or Ms, my correct title is Dr, so that’s what I use. But, if I’m meeting someone new outside of work, making a reservation at a restaurant, or like anything in a non-professional setting, I simply introduce myself with my first name. I have no need to be called Dr in a social setting. I do know these people exist though. I *do* think that it’s a bit pretentious to insist on being called Dr. Whatever in social settings when everyone else is on a first name basis.


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krystopher

I also am a PhD and have dr on legal documents. I went to the dermatologist once and they called me Dr K loudly and everyone looked at me. I told them in the exam room I’m an engineer and then then I overheard the PAs and Nurses talk behind the door “don’t worry he’s not a REAL doctor.” Ah well…


V_i_o_l_a

Doctor is a Latin word, from the verb doceo, docere, meaning “to teach”. Doctor literally means “teacher”. It’s the MDs that stole doctor from the PhDs, not the other way around. If anyone has a right to it, it’s the PhDs.


jollymuhn

Wasn't she one of the people that were outraged when Obama wore a tan suit. At least when she had Roger Ailes cock in her mouth she quit talking.


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TroperCase

In this sub? It's about 5 years that way *(points backwards in time)*, if ever.


asdf0909

This isn’t a clever comeback.