So writes Alexandra Jacobs in "Jill Biden’s New Memoir Shows Off a Sharp Eye, if Not a Sharp Elbow/Beyond a few pointed digs at her husband’s successor, 'View From the East Wing' largely sticks to the head-spinning details of first lady-hood" (NYT).
Speaking of "no ideas but in things," we're told that, in her new memoir, her second, Jill Biden "marvels at the perks of the office, the masses of flowers, attentive staff and fine art, such as 'Morning on the Seine, Good Weather,' the oil painting that Angela Merkel said Trump called 'my Monet.' ('Our Monet,' Biden corrects, meaning the American people’s.)"
I looked it up. Here's "Our Monet":
Oh! The derangement! An odor so sour and pungent....
ADDED: Did Trump say "my Monet"? It's hearsay — at least double hearsay. Jill Biden is asserting that Angela Merkel said that Trump said something. There's room for mishearing, misquoting, misinterpreting, and lying from Merkel (supposedly hearing Trump) and Biden (supposedly hearing Merkel) and from anyone else who's passed this statement along.
Interestingly, Trump has used the phrase "my Monet," but not to refer to an artwork by Claude Monet. Trump has called one of his golf courses "my Monet": "I have friends who buy Monets. Turnberry is my Monet and it’s far more beautiful." But that quote too is hearsay. Eric Trump wrote it in a book, it says here: "Donald Trump: Turnberry is my Monet — and it’s more beautiful/US president ‘obsessed’ with details about his golf courses in Scotland and continually makes suggestions to improve them, according to his son Eric’s book" (London Times).
Googling for more reporting of Trump's use of the phrase "my Monet," I got a good laugh:
I'd like to hear the "Apprentice" theme song with "Monet!" taking the place of "Money!":
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At least mentioned is John O'Hara, a sadly forgotten but amazing author. About the only fiction I'm interested in reading again.
It must be tough being a ghost-writer.
"An odor so sour and pungent,"
Like when Biden soiled himself in public. Now, Jill, err DOCTOR Jill (w/the pathetic doctorate in education), tell us about all the private episodes.
A starry-eyed thumbsucker about how a woman with a PhD has a greater than average understanding of her field…and yet, for all the worshipful coverage, maybe 5 people will pay full price for this “memoir.”
Dr. Biden can likely clear up something I have been wondering for years, then. I have considered this my favorite word to describe the Biden admin, but I have a problem with the spelling.
Is it spelled caddywhompus or cattywhompus? If I'm wrong, it'll be the only thing they talk about.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cattywampus
Are we supposed to be impressed about Dr.Jill Biden?
Who the heck is reading that book?
Not going to bother reading the book. But since it addresses art, what does it say about Hunter’s contributions to the Biden crime family fortunes.
Is being an artsy pretentious twit a requirement to write for the NYT?
speaking of "correct" terms..
the correct term for an instructor at a community college is:
INSTRUCTOR
not "professor"
"doctor" Jill didn't receive her EdD "degree" until 2007,
she retired the next year. For the majority of her "career" she "taught" at high schools, not even starting teaching at the community college until 1993 (at which time she had a MA in el ed.. just like my high school teachers did).
And What did she "teach" at community college?
"remedial writing, with an emphasis on instilling confidence in students"
in other words.. High School English for people that flunked English
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jill_Biden#Education_and_career,_marriages_and_family
One of the reasons that people hate AI is that it makes it hard to tell who is really educated and cultured, and who is heading over to Grok for the right word or quote or historical incident. We should compare this text to the text of the paper she wrote to get her "doctor" title, because, IIRC, it wasn't exactly a literary masterpiece.
but let's give "dr" Jill her credit where the credit is due.
as an attractive high school student, got a job as a cocktail waitress..
as that cocktail waitress, secuced the bar owner..
forced the bar owner to marry her (over fake pregnancy claim?)
babysat for a young politician the bar owner was supporting
seduced the young politician..
causing his wife to commit suicide by truck..
divorced the bar owner, Nearly winning half of the successful bar..
MARRIED the young politician
rode the young politician's career for the next FIFTY years.
pretended to Like the (now old) politician for much of that time
ALL young girls in highschool, should aspire to BECOME "dr" Jill
"Casually..." I bet. That "casually" is doing a lot or work.
The problem with Jill Biden’s book is the fantastic lies made the headlines undermining any credibility the rest of her (did she really write it?) rememoir, my term for a memoir that is constructed of reimagined “memories.”
What a perfect post from Ann: A beautiful picture in which I see a dance of literature and political commentary with a skip and hop of witty insights…
Jill Biden is a complete idiot. While trying to continue the cover story that Joe was sharp as a tack, she reminds the country before the midterms of his disastrous presidency and the insane idea that he could have served another four years. Jill is helping the GOP and that’s why the Dems are so mad.
If Biden would have been re-elected, Iran would have a nuclear weapon today.
Let’s hear a big round of applause for this overcredentialed English instructor who, after 70 years of daily practice, can “casually” use English words in a sentence! As reported by a superfan! Who may or may not know who really wrote the phrase he quoted.
Thanks Douger.
I don’t see Trumps. Instead, I see Bluto and the Grinch. Ugh, thanks for ruining a beautiful painting for me…;)
Let’s not forget brain dead Whoopi Goldberg wanted Dr. Jill to be the Surgeon General of the United States.
…the whole episode is crafted so the reader gets that little hit when jill corrects the president. I suspect it’s fake though it reminds me of the time Martha Coakley called it the ‘Kennedy seat’ and was corrected by her opponent, who went on to make it his own…
Why hasn’t Jill Biden had plastic surgery like Hillary Clinton?
Alexandra Jacobs is wrong about murmuration. It is not just a collection of starlings, which on the ground would be a flock, but an aerial mass movement of starlings, where they swirl together. That's what happens when literary folk attempt to feign knowledge of biology. It's not clear from the quote how Jill used the word, so I won't cast aspersions there.
Remember to Count de Monet.
Her skinsuit is showing
I think Melania gives a better picture of being the First Lady in our time. First, I think the details it focuses on are the things high fashion focuses on and that tracks with Melania's true interests. Second, I think it shows fashion being done right and that tracks with Melania's successful career. Third, I think the way it slips in the reality of the ever-present danger and the swarms of protectors is the way things are these days, especially if the President is not senile or lazy and being hidden at beach houses or resorts.
A true account of Jill Biden as First Lady would show her hiding her knowledge of a President's decline - the how and the why. It would be interesting in sour and pungent way. This book, (as described by Althouse and the NYT) is faux realism - but then so was that President and that First Lady. Is a lie rooted in a lie twice as false or, by being true to falsehood, does it become falsehood's mirror truth? "Mirror mirror on the wall - who was falsest of them all?" Dr Jill - and still is.
Taking on airs while airing out takes.
Show me teh Monet…
Meanwhile her ex bill stevenson in a wilmingto courthouse facing a rigged murder charge
I wonder how the author knows that J. Biden meant "the American people." It's nice, I guess, that the mind reading goes both ways, but it's less nice that Trump's mind is always assumed to be filled with evil and brutish thoughts whereas any Democrat's mind is a wonderland.
I casually use "huzzah" in everyday speech. Does that make me noteworthy in some way?
I looked at that list of authors Dr. Jill supposedly quoted and then i saw the name "James Salter". I thought why James Salter. The author of "The Hunters"? The fomer Korean War air ace?
And then I looked up Salter's bio and saw he was Jewish. OK, so she included Salter because she could hit all the notes in the diversity songbook. Giovanni is black, and female. Camus is Catholic and foreign, and the other Guy is just a plain ol' American. So its PC.
BTW, "The Hunters" is a great book.
Angela Merkel = always reminds me "Mr. Merckle Please dont squeeze the Charmin". Anyway, she's an awful person, a traitor to Germany and Europe. And no doubt hates Trump.
Miss jacobs has an East German mindset
Dr Jill marvels at the perks of the office, but to Melanie the White House was a comedown. She was living in a mansion and married to a billionarie.
I would rather watch Melania the movie AGAIN than read the fake doctor’s fake memoir.
You know who loved Merkle? George Bush. He loved that she "Spent her political Capital" aka "told her voters to go fuck themselves", and let large numbers of foreigners and Syrians into the country.
Is the appropriate appellation still Doctor Jill or is it Saint Jill now?
"Angela Merkel = always reminds me "Mr. Merckle Please dont squeeze the Charmin"."
Huh?
Here's my response to "Huh?" - Huh?
Shes fat like a roll of charmin
BTW, Salter had a long successful career as a novelist, but like most 2nd rank writers wrote only 1 great book. His first. That's seems to be the pattern. Most writers just write what they know, and their entire life experience goes into their first novel.
That's not an original thought from me, I listened to E. Waugh say it in a BBC interview. He added "maybe two". He said the rest of a writers career was just "Professional Craftmanship". He claimed Dickens just kept writing the same characters after 1840 and just changed the names. I dunno if that's true.
Waugh's unusual in that his greatest book "Brideshead" came after he'd been publishing novels for 15-20 years.
“Long-time college professor”…..
The media left always has to elevate its people beyond what they actually accomplished and in the end it diminishes their subject.
Jill Biden had an ordinary education career, but the left has to elevate her to intellectual scholar status. For what purpose? Politically, it would be better for Dems to have her relate to ordinary people, they have the college faculty set locked up already.
Now a big part of this is Mrs. Biden’s Texas-sized ego in a Delaware-sized pond. But the media left always does this and all it does is make them more of a joke.
Is Althouse’s claim that Eric Trump wrote a book hearsay or a lie? The actual writer of Under Siege was Mike Loomis.
Bill Biden. William in transition.
Jill Biden love u longtime
Angela Merkel said Trump called 'my Monet.' ('Our Monet,' Biden corrects, meaning the American people’s.)"
By "our Monet," she likely meant "us Presidents and First Ladys," not the "American People" It was donated not to the Smithsonian, but to the White House collection, and it is held from view in the White House (when it is actually displayed, can't say for sure that all Presidents have had it up).
“Si se padre!”
—— Jill Biden
Per Jill Biden, Latinos are “as unique as the breakfast tacos here in San Antonio -- is your strength."
Si, se padre!
Ay dios mio
The phrase "his son Eric's book" is a direct quote from the London Times subhead, not our hostess's characterization.
But accuracy doesn't mean shit to Lefties.
This great post is SO associative but cogent. The Althouse Weave.
Angela Merkle brings to mind Mr Whipple. Mmmkay.
Having read Jill's Ph.D thesis, and heard her talk, I can confidently assert that any evidence of wide reading or deep thinking in her book is attributable to the ghost writer.
Many people here are unaware that the correct porn term for a woman masturbating is "jilling'. It's a play on words: Jacking off versus jilling' off.....I don't know why, but that just occurred to me when reading about this memoir.
Here she comes now, say Monet Monet
Wow wilbur, at least you wrote two sentences.
And Wilbur reminds me of Mr. Ed.
Murmuration is a process, a flying movement that birds will do. Starlings fly like that it in massive numbers but other birds do it as well. It is really impressive!
While really beautiful, that painting by Monet makes me think that he probably had some significant cataracts and viewed the world through blurry lenses.
Also while being silly....In my mind: Monet (the name as pronounced) will be forever associated with Harvey Korman in Mel Brooks History of the World Part 1....His name was often mispronounced as Count de Money. And it really made his character irritated 🤣.
“I looked it up. Here's "Our Monet"”
My second-grader could do better than that. (Someone had to say it.)
(Not that kind of Doctor), "Jill Biden "marvels at the perks of the office...". That rings true. In fact it appears she apparently loves those perks so much she would watch her husband die of a stroke in front of a nationwide audience. And that after four years of ignoring the public humiliation at his rapidly declining abilities.
I'd like to hear the "Apprentice" theme song with "Monet!" taking the place of "Money!"
C’mon and take a flea ride! yah yah yah…
The are lots of videos of murmurations but this one is by far the best. Two girls that were out canoeing filmed it. Almost no talking, and just a quick smile and giggle at the end. I think they were so amazed they couldn't speak. The music is perfect.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRNqhi2ka9k
Korman (Kings Lackey) Sire, the preasants are revolting
Brooks (King Louis XIV) I'll say - they stink on ice.
For some reason, after looking at that image, the algorithm figured I needed to seen image of John Candy water skiing, and there was something of a similarity.
If you want to see something truly amazing, you should see a cyclone of thousands of snow geese rising off of the ice pack of a half frozen lake.
Reminder: this woman made the military band create a special song for the First Lady, that was basically a version of Hail to the Chief.
"the Marine Corps band composed and debuted a similar, personalized entrance theme for former First Lady Jill Biden titled "Fanfare for the First Lady""
More about the Kennedys' Monet here:
https://lacrank.blogspot.com/2017/01/the-5-monet.html
Is it really a Monet?
Of course she didn't write the book herself. And of course we can't rely on the Times reviewer when she tells us the book doesn't have "sharp elbows."
In Band of Brothers, there’s a scene right after the liberation of Holland. Troops are marching through and being mobbed by grateful citizens and beautiful women are throwing them selves at them. A couple of minutes later, one of the Easy guys looks over and there’s a woman being stripped of their clothes and their hair is being cut out in chunks. Then another. And another. Most look like they’ve physically had their asses kick for good measure. Just sayin.
“Iss Althouse’s claim that Eric Trump wrote a book hearsay…“
I wrote “Eric Trump wrote it in a book, it says here.” That’s only an assertion about what was written in the article I linked to. I never assert it as true. I simply assert that it was written. That’s how careful I am.
Groups nouns are 90% fraudulent, invented in the 18th and 19th C's to show off. They are fun. The real description is "terms of venery." Jill Biden doesn't know the "correct" group noun because she's an English professor, she knows something that claims to be accurate because she's a dabbler. I don't fault Jill Biden for that; we are all mostly dabblers in such things. I do fault Alexandra for being breathlessly impressed. Do some f-ing research when you are a professional writer, dammit! You aren't at a school lunch table.
I wonder how many Biden fans who just heard John McWhorter explain this this week nonetheless made excuses for her and sent it down the memory hole.
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