Fox News host Tucker Carlson joined the right-wing media pile-up, begun on Friday by Wall Street Journal columnist Joseph Epstein, who criticized Jill Biden for preferring to use her full title, “Dr. Jill Biden,” for her doctorate in education.
“Just don t ask her to commit surgery, don t ask for advice in your coronary artery disease, because she s not actually a physician,” Carlson said during the December 14 edition of
Tucker Carlson Tonight. “She s a doctor of education, which means basically nothing.”
But while Carlson also ridiculed the incoming first lady for having purportedly suffered from “a very bad case of status anxiety” and solving it “with another pointless title,” it turns out Carlson has had no objection to honoring the title of “doctor” for non-physicians when it served his own agenda that is, when their titles might boost the credibility of the conservative narratives he sought to advance on his show.