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.
The Department of Defense has announced its intention on Monday to appoint several Trump loyalists to join the Pentagon s Defense Policy Board, an independent advisory group that was established to provide advice and recommendations on defense policy matters to the secretary of defense and the deputy secretary of defense.
Appointees include former Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives Newt Gingrich, former U.S. ambassador to the International Civil Aviation Organization Thomas Carter, military historian Edward Luttwak, Trump adviser, corporate executive and former naval officer Thomas Stewart, former Republican Virginia Rep. Randy Forbes, former Republican New Hampshire Sen. Robert Smith, former U.S. Ambassador to El Salvador Charles Glazer, and former fighter pilot Scott O Grady, who was Trump’s nominee for assistant secretary of Defense for international security affairs.
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COVID-19 vaccine shipments begin in historic US effort
PORTAGE, Michigan (AP) The first of many freezer-packed COVID-19 vaccine vials made their way to distribution sites across the United States on Sunday, as the nation’s pandemic deaths approached the horrifying new milestone of 300,000.
The rollout of the Pfizer vaccine, the first to be approved by the Food and Drug Administration, ushers in the biggest vaccination effort in U.S. history one that health officials hope the American public will embrace, even as some have voiced initial skepticism or worry. Shots are expected to be given to health care workers and nursing home residents beginning Monday.
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Newt Gingrich and loyalists tapped for Defense Policy Board as Henry Kissinger is ousted December 14, 2020
From right, former U.S. Secretaries of State Madeleine Albright, George Shultz and Henry Kissinger testify before the Senate Armed Services Committee on Jan. 29, 2015. (Win McNamee/Getty Images) WASHINGTON ― The Trump administration continued efforts to replace Pentagon advisers with loyalists as it tapped former House Speaker Newt Gingrich and others Monday to replace ousted members of the Defense Policy Board, an independent outside body. Weeks after former Secretaries of State Henry Kissinger and Madeleine Albright were removed in a sudden purge of longstanding experts, Gingrich and nine others have been named as intended replacements, the Pentagon announced. The administration made similar moves with the Defense Business Board last month.