Some in the news media are helping Rep. Frederica Wilson and other Democrats paint White House chief of staff John Kelly as a bigot, by fleshing out her argument that calling her an “empty barrel” who “makes the most noise” was racist.

At the now highly scrutinized White House press briefing last week, Kelly criticized the Florida Democrat for making public details about a personal phone call from President Trump to Myeisha Johnson, whose husband, Sgt. La David Johnson, died in an ambush earlier this month while on operation in Niger. He also complained that Wilson used a 2015 dedication ceremony for a new FBI building in Florida to claim credit for securing the funding for that building.