The selection of black faces to front for reactionary Republican ideology is not a new strategy, nor is it meant to win over blacks to a right-wing-agenda. We are not stupid. It's a sop to right-white sensibilities so they can then say, "See...a black man said it".
Oh, my!
Charles Blow recently took a look at this phenomena in Blacks, Conservatives and Plantations, and I've frequently profiled other discordant black right-wing talking heads in the past.
Murdoch's choice of Jason Riley as the black trojan horse co-signs Republican Party ideology to penetrate and tear down the walls of Democratic Party liberalism has been interesting to watch.
Jason Riley is a member of The Wall Street Journal Editorial Board. He joined the paper in 1994 as a copyreader on the national news desk in New York. He moved to the editorial page in 1995 as copyreader and later became a copy editor. In April 1996, he was named to the newly created position of editorial interactive editor and maintained the editorial and Leisure & Arts section of WSJ.com. He was named a senior editorial page writer in March 2000, and member of the Editorial Board in 2005.Riley has the added advantage of being married to a white woman, Naomi Schaefer-Riley, also a Murdoch minion, and their inter-racial couplehood gives her cover, from her current position at the New York Post to launch racist screeds, and then have the defense to hide behind—"But... but...but...she can't be a racist. Her husband is black." She has the added advantage of being able to take on feminists, of course, because ... she's female.
Yawn and chuckle.
As if we, who watch, aren't familiar with the game.
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