Mocking Katherine Kersten has become such a lazy person’s game that you need an extraordinarily silly, high-concept premise to indulge the itch. But today’s column, “New black leaders replacing tired Old Guard and its legacy of failure,” certainly qualifies.

Read the headline again. Now consider that Kersten doesn’t name a single “new black leader.” Not one. To buttress her comment that “A new generation of African American leadership is on the rise,” Kersten cites a 2004 speech by 71-year old television star Bill Cosby and a 2006 book by 54-year-old Fox News commentator Juan Williams.

The only local name Kersten could come up with to validate her view is Peter Bell, a literal graybeard who was named an “ABC Evening News Person of the Week” back in 1989. Currently head of the Metropolitan Council, he has been the Black Republican du jour for decades now, and served with Kersten on the board of the directors for the conservative think tank Center of the American Experiment back in the late 1990s. Back in 1995 — 13 years ago — Bell co-founded and served as vice chair of a nonprofit organization known as The Center For The New Black Leadership.” Its website is now defunct and its phone disconnected.

Could the headline of Kersten’s column be any more ironic?