Posted on 10/21/2017 6:11:40 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
Democratic Rep. Frederica Wilson claimed Friday that White House Chief of Staff John Kelly used a “racist term” when he described her as an “empty barrel.”
Kelly made the remark during a press briefing Thursday while defending a phone call that President Donald Trump made to the widow of a fallen soldier.
Verdict: False
The Daily Caller News Foundation could not find any instances where “empty barrel” has been used as a racial epithet.
Fact Check:
During an interview Friday on CNN, Wilson claimed she had looked up the term “empty barrel” in the dictionary and found it to be a racist term.
“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.”
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.
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I assumed the phrase was a polite way of saying the woman was all mouth, no brains. That can apply to fools of any colour....it’s a very non-discriminating phrase lol.
Is Insane Liberal RAT Traitor a racist term?
Sure you can.
They did it on Mythbusters.
Even polished, in the end it’s still a turd.
Every definition in the “urban dictionary “ eventually will become racist if whitey utters it. We’re not allowed to speak at all, cuz RACIST!
Dumb fvks
No. What is wrong though is that Frederica has committed cultural appropriation of white culture by wearing cowboy hats!
I submit Mizz Wilson, that a bit more judicious racial profiling in this country, would have insured your voters knew you were a racist anti-American ingrate who under any other circumstances would never have even considered running for public office much less being elected by constituents suffering from guilt, stupidity, and the same anti-American disease you suffer from.
God help us to still treat those with the disease as human beings suffering under such delusions and so in need of help.
I remember asking my teacher how to spell something and she’d always say “Look it up in the dictionary”. How do you look something up if you can’t spell it? Ergo, there’s no way the clown from Congress looked up anything.
What a Dirt-bag she is.You could almost Guarantee she does Not live in that district.
Maybe he meant “Empty the barrel”, as in fire the cannon.
My wife recalls her 5th-grade teacher using the phrase “empty barrel makes the most noise” in the middle of the 20th century, so she’s been familiar with it for a pretty long time. Since all of her noisy classmates to whom the phrase was directed were white, there was no racial component to it at all.
After doing some research, the following terms may be deemed to be non-racist:
Race card - rejected?
Oh, dear! The democrats have nothing else going for them.
For F Wilson who is profoundly intellectually challenged, any reference to her obvious inability to think is a reference to her race. Her racism is on display, not the General’s. IOW she claims the “empty barrel” epitaph is racist because she believes all black people are just as stupid as she is.
Unfortunately, President Trump made an error (IMHO) by even acknowledging the Moron.
At best his Spokeswoman should have made a very nuanced statement that the POTUS has and always will have the greatest admiration and respect for the Families of the Servicemen who have made the ultimate sacrifice in service to our Nation.
After that, the empty barrel Urban Cowgirl would look like she was beating a dead horse.
Wilson's racist demagoguery created the BLM movement in the aftermath of Zimmerman's exoneration. This was followed in short order by Furgeson where the same scurrilous deceptions were applied.
Misleading Initial Narrative of Zimmerman-Martin Case Applied in Ferguson
“foolish people are always the most talkative.”
Socialists
Liberals
MSM
Slackers
Democrats
Hollywood
“Representative Wilson as the spokesperson...”
Spokesbarrel.
It was the word “barrel” that she had to look up.
I think Gen. Kelly should have used the phrase “an empty wagon makes the most noise”. Then again, maybe he meant that the Congress critter’s skull was my of any brain material, such as an mt barrel is.
1) Any term determined by any black person or any white liberal to be racist, is, by definition, racist.
2) Any term uttered by a conservative toward or in regard to a black person that criticizes on any level, even imagined ones, is, by definition, racist.
3) Any term used by a white person who a black person or a white liberal chooses to impugn, is, by definition, racist.
I could go on, but you get the point
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