Representative Frederica Wilson (D-Fla) is a serious rival to Sheila Jackson Lee as the dumbest person in Congress. Why she hasn’t been noticed before, considering her dress maker is Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey, is puzzling. Wilson (aka FredeREEKa, aka Fraud-erica) popped onto the scene two days ago harrumphing about a call President Trump made to a widow of a fallen Green Beret.

Trump had consulted with General Kelly, Chief of Staff and Gold Star father, about what to say to Sgt. La David Johnson’s wife. Gen. Kelly said to say something along the lines of what nearly every service member has said him or herself at one time or another, “I know what I signed up for.” The point is that they signed up anyway – knowing that they may be called to pay the ultimate sacrifice they willingly stepped forward. That action is to be applauded – no exalted – and honored, and their death must be held sacred.

In this video, Wilson addresses the controversy. She accuses fellow soldiers of just leaving Sgt. Johnson, accuses Gen. Kelly of using a racist term, parses the words of exactly what she did – brag about what drew Gen. Kelly’s criticism – and proves how good she is at getting things named by saying that is how she plans to honor Sgt. Johnson – naming a street after him. First, Wilson starts to question the motives of why Sgt. Johnson’s body was found two days after the firefight – implying that his fellow soldiers left him for dead (later she says he was abandoned). (With that comment, she is currently ranking #1 on my Top Ten Most Disgusting Individuals to Have Ever Lived list, and Harvey Weinstein drops down to #3, Hillary #2). Wilson also says she didn’t brag about getting the money to build the FBI building in Miami, she only bragged about getting the building named. Oh, ok. Then she holds up a very powerful “Bring Back Our Girls” sign in her very courageous fight against Boko Haram via poster board and magic markers. Then she says Sgt. Jackson was killed, and they killed her son. Who’s the liar now, if we’re splitting hairs? His NAME is Johnson, and he is not literally your son. She doesn’t like Trump’s vernacular of “your guy” to refer to Sgt. Johnson. Whatever.

Frederica Wilson tromped all over the heartfelt actions of President Trump to accuse him of being insensitive. She used this occasion to make hay for her own self-aggrandizement, something Gen. Kelly remembered that she had a knack for. Gen. Kelly called her an “empty barrel.” Since Wilson has little use for nuance and subtlety (just one look at her style ensembles can tell you all you need to know) she says she had to look up the term “empty barrel” in the dictionary to find out what it meant. She then accused Gen. Kelly of lying about her literal self-aggrandizement of getting an FBI building named, and proceeded to proclaim that the term empty barrel was racist.

“That’s a racist term,” said Wilson. “We looked it up in the dictionary because I had never heard of an empty barrel. And I don’t like to be dragged into something like that.”

What dictionary did you find that in, Frederica? The one next to your copy of Rules for Radicals? Or maybe Politics for Dummies? If you even have a library? It’s hard to imagine that you are much of a reader, or you would have already known from whence the term derives: Try Plato! Good lord you are stupid. The woman is also deplorable: calling Gen. Kelly a liar, when she’s the biggest blowhard liar on the airwaves.

From The Daily Caller:

But TheDCNF found no evidence that the term has racial connotations. The phrase originated from the proverb “empty vessels make most noise” that dates back to at least the 15th century.

According to the Oxford Dictionary of Word Origins, the proverb means that “foolish people are always the most talkative.” Similarly, the Oxford Dictionary of Proverbs defines it this way: “Shallow people with nothing valuable to say are the most talkative or noisy.”

TheDCNF also found no informal use of the term that would suggest a racial connotation. Even Urban Dictionary, a crowdsourcing website for slang terms, did not list any definitions of “empty barrel” or “empty vessel,” as of Friday morning.

Famous writers have used the expression over the centuries. Playwright William Shakespeare used it in Act 4 of “Henry V.” “I did never know so full a voice issue from so empty a heart: but the saying is true ‘The empty vessel makes the greatest sound,’” wrote Shakespeare.

The famous author Jonathan Swift wrote, “I have always observed that your empty vessels sound loudest.”

Writers have even attributed the phrase to Plato, although there’s no evidence he actually said those words. “An empty vessel makes the loudest sound, so they that have the least wit are the greatest babblers,” Plato allegedly said.

We shouldn’t give her any more attention, but anyone calling Gen. Kelly racist must be pummeled. She doesn’t have two brain cells to rub together and yet the lame stream media is more than happy to blow her up just to nudge Trump. They must really want another four years.