What started with Charlie Sykes lamenting that likely retiring Senator Ben Sasse was not NeverTrumpy enough, culminated in ‘historian’ Dr. Glenda Gilmore making herself look rather foolish.
Rumor is that Sasse will step down, leaving four years left in his term, to become the president of the University of Florida. Sykes, who was very, very disappointed in Sasse’s failure to succumb fully to Trump Derangement Syndrome, says Sasse’s real test to earn Charlie’s approval will be whether he takes on Ron DeSantis in Florida.
(NeverDeSantis does not flow nearly as well, but it’s coming.)
Sherrilyn Ifill then weighed in to dump on Sasse, besmirching the university he was president of, simping for China, and revealing that the Merrick Garland wounds are still fresh.
Enter the heroine of our story: Dr. Glenda Gilmore.
As a member of his dissertation committee, "keen" is not the word that comes to mind. https://t.co/t2VbMz3raM
— Dr. Glenda Gilmore @[email protected] (@GilmoreGlenda) October 7, 2022
It’s Twitter. People step on rakes all the time. It happens to the best of us.
This rake was decorated in a glowing pink neon sign that read ‘Don’t step here, Glenda!’
Nevertheless, she persisted.
"That dissertation that I passed and that won two different dissertation prizes at Yale that year was bad, actually" isn't a reflection on Sasse.
— Damin Toell (@damintoell) October 8, 2022
‘Dr. Gilmore, report to the burn unit. Dr. Gilmore to the burn unit.’
This was one of the more severe self-inflicted burns we’ve witnessed in some time.
Dr. Gilmore, why do you think it’s appropriate to mock in public a former student for a dissertation that you advised and approved?
— Eric Columbus (@EricColumbus) October 8, 2022
It’s not a good look. Students generally assume their professors have their best interests in mind (naïve, we know).
https://twitter.com/njhochman/status/1578603490074849280?s=20&t=C-3xlas_GdxTJlU3XL9GgQ
There’s Dr. Gilmore’s real problem. You know it. We know it. Everyone knows it.
Yikes! Having been on a dissertation committee myself, it would never occur to me to publicly defame my former student if for no other reason than it would make me look petty, disloyal, hypocritcal, and unprofessional.
— Linda Mittermaier (@lmitterm) October 8, 2022
Predicted effect confirmed.
quasi-anonymous Connecticut wine mom weighs in for the twitter likes
— Guy Benson (@guypbenson) October 8, 2022
You know you’ve messed up when you get this response from Guy Benson. LOL.
Classless
— Chaim Katz (@ChaimKatz7) October 8, 2022
She may be, eventually, if she keeps dissing on former students.
https://twitter.com/Heminator/status/1578766999995367425?s=20&t=C-3xlas_GdxTJlU3XL9GgQ
Just reading between the lines, it appears he’s questioning Dr. Gilmore’s sincerity.
As a member of his dissertation committee, she should avoid dangling modifiers. https://t.co/vYva1xvhsj
— Christopher J. Scalia (@cjscalia) October 8, 2022
Ha! Dangling modifiers have entered the chat! The gloves are officially off!
https://twitter.com/IzaBooboo/status/1578714173805977600?s=20&t=C-3xlas_GdxTJlU3XL9GgQ
(Please talk amongst yourselves for a moment. This editor is processing internal conflict.)
Things weren’t going well for Glenda. They were about to get decidedly worse.
You didn’t even remember that you were on it, lady. https://t.co/WRCFk1Sv9U pic.twitter.com/i5DESO6u0N
— Noam Blum (@neontaster) October 8, 2022
She didn’t remember she was on Sasse’s dissertation committee in 2017! Five years later and she suddenly recalls that he was a great big dummy. Yikes.
https://twitter.com/charlescwcooke/status/1578711011829616652?s=20&t=C-3xlas_GdxTJlU3XL9GgQ
Not keen, Glenda. Not keen at all.
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